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Do you trust the data & reports from the big analysts?

Strategy & Architecture

Yes

Sometimes

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Does your organization use vCISOs or CISOs?

Team & Organizational Design

vCISO

CISO

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Do you have scheduled fixed day(s) of a month for downtime to patch each critical system?

Engineering Security & GRC

Yes, 1 day of the month

Yes, 2 days of the month

Others (please specify)

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Who decides how much security risk to take for a specific system?

Security & GRC

Chief Information Security Officer

Chief Information Officer

Chief Risk Officer

Chief Executive Officer

Board

System Owner

Others (Please specify)

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Do you believe cryptocurrency should be regulated?

Cryptocurrency & Bitcoin

Yes

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Is AI going to affect the number of jobs in your company in the next 12 months?

Culture & Values AI & Machine Learning

Yes, more jobs created

Yes, jobs lost to AI

Other (please comment)

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What feels like the most difficult part of starting a company?

Culture & Values

Raising funds

A good idea

A good team

High probability it fails

Other (please comment)

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It’s 2024. Is IT as automated as it should be?

Strategy & Architecture People & Leadership Process Management

Yes. As much as it can be for now.

No way. Not by a long mile.

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Who leads the most AI projects with business impact at your company? The CEO or the CIO?

People & Leadership AI & Machine Learning

CEO

CIO

Other (please specify below).

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Are you using OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)?

People & Leadership Process Management Management Tools

Not using OKRs

Using OKRs within some business units

Using OKRs enterprise wide

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Would anyone recommend a PSA solution for company's that deliver Managed and Professional Services?

Feedback IT Strategy & Roadmap

Phil BrownCTO in Services (non-Government)7 months ago

Not having an end to end solution but certainly linking CRM with our timesheet app, both in Salesforce.

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When i'm looking at ITSM platforms I find that while Service Now is the recognised leader, their modular based licensing and pricing makes purchasing expensive and opaque (in terms of future costs). The main challenge is that business agility is critical for us but I see that the modular licensing and opaqueness is an inhibiter to that. Is this a valid concern or not?

Phil BrownCTO in Services (non-Government)8 months ago

Shouldn't really be a concern if it's well planned and implemented within the organisation. One of the benefits of modular licensing is you pay for what you need which again is more beneficial than paying for everything ...read more

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I'm interested to get perspectives on Cloud platform and software 'lock in'. How do IT leaders view this balance. I find that 'lock in' is perceived as 'bad' and that platform transportability is more important. However I believe 'lock in' can also be viewed as investment into unique capabilities of the Cloud platform or software you purchase, which aren't easily found elsewhere. When choosing to invest in a Cloud platform and software how do you evaluate the pro's and con's of Lock In?

Cloud

Phil BrownCTO in Services (non-Government)8 months ago

I think the whole fear of being "locked-in" by a vendor or a platform isn't justified.
For instance, we've selected 25 years ago to develop in Java. We're kind of locked-in by this decision.
All ...read more

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What do you consider to be the most important best practices for successful application consolidation?

Applications & Platforms Application Architecture

Phil BrownCTO in Services (non-Government)a month ago

Many have touched on the key aspects, but let me add one more—and it's crucial. If you don't have genuine, unwavering support from all levels of the business, stop now. This means not just a Business VP giving their blessing, ...read more

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The use of the lake in the cloud has impacted an increase in cloud costs. I'm considering doing a TCO study to bring some workloads to our datacenter in house. Has anyone gone through or is going through this challenge?

Data & Analytics Data Center Database+2 more

Phil BrownCTO in Services (non-Government)3 months ago

May I ask if there was a TCO comparison of running these very workloads on the cloud vs on-prem? If so, in what ways did the original TCO modelling fail to reflect today’s reality?

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Gen Z is entering the workforce and many companies need to hire them. Would you consider student loan repayment assistance in addition to competitive compensation to help lure Gen Z to your organization? If not, what are you doing to hire and retain them?

Talent Sourcing & Hiring Employee Engagement Customer Engagement

Phil BrownCTO in Services (non-Government)4 months ago

This is a great question. The short answer is yes.

As part of the overall compensation package, I would explore a student loan allowance. Of course, it would have to come with safeguards, and would need to be considered ...read more

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In your opinion, what could cloud providers do to truly address cloud lock-in concerns and give you more flexibility as a customer?

Cloud Asset & Configuration Management Availability & Capacity Management+12 more

Phil BrownCTO in Services (non-Government)6 months ago

Many do provide data out options and open source services which makes it important option to move out. But the cost of moving out is something they could address. Vendor lock in someht most address at least in principle, ...read more

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What is the single most crucial action that you believe a CIO should take during their first 90 days in a new role?

Relationship Management IT Strategy & Roadmap People & Leadership

Phil BrownCTO in Services (non-Government)7 months ago

Among other things, collect feedback.

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I'm interested to get perspectives on Cloud platform and software 'lock in'. How do IT leaders view this balance. I find that 'lock in' is perceived as 'bad' and that platform transportability is more important. However I believe 'lock in' can also be viewed as investment into unique capabilities of the Cloud platform or software you purchase, which aren't easily found elsewhere. When choosing to invest in a Cloud platform and software how do you evaluate the pro's and con's of Lock In?

Cloud

Phil BrownCTO in Services (non-Government)8 months ago

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We are modernizing our on-prem data platform by migrating to a cloud-based DWH solution with best-in-class cloud tools. As part of this migration, we also need to do a one-time migration of 200+TB of historical data from on-prem to the cloud. So, I am wondering what's the most effective way to do this in a cost-effective and less duration. We are exploring the Microsoft data box option and other ETL tools...... Please share your thoughts on which tools or mechanisms you recommend.

Cloud

Phil BrownCTO in Services (non-Government)8 months ago

This depends entirely on how much time and bandwidth you have. You should look in to the AWS "Snow" series (Snowball, Snowmobile, etc.) as those are probably the easy-button answer. If you have a huge amount of ...read more

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