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What video and team collaboration tool are you using now?

Zoom

Microsoft Teams

Skype For Business

Go To Meeting

Other

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Which of these potential solutions for supply chain resiliency are you using? Select all that apply.

Risk Management IT Strategy & Roadmap Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Bitcoin

Blockchain

IoT

Digital twin control tower

Natural language processing (NLP)

Machine learning operations (MlOps)

Data fabric

Web crawling

DevOps

Containerization

Process mining

Behavioral analytics

AR/VR

Other (please specify in the comments)

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What data services do you plan to keep at the edge?

Distributed data center

Distributed cloud (AWS Outposts, Azure Stack)

Data Processing or analytics

Data collaboration

Data ingest or streaming

We're 100% public cloud

We're 100% on-prem or at the edge

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Do you track/measure employee happiness?

Employee Engagement KPIs, Metrics & Reporting Talent Management & Performance

Yes, regularly

Yes, but not regularly

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Predict the Future: Which of the following tech is expected to see the highest growth in 2023? (Select all that apply)

Cloud Data & Analytics Disruptive & Emerging Technologies

Adaptive AI

Metaverse

Superapps

Sustainable technology

Wireless value Realization

Industrial clouds

Digital immune system

AI TRiSM

Applied observability

Composable software platforms

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Should the business information security officer (BISO) report to the CIO or CISO?

Team & Organizational Design Business Relationships Security Strategy & Roadmap

CIO

CISO

Both the CIO and CISO

Neither (share your alternative in the comments)

Unsure

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Agree/disagree: Recurring meetings with more than three people hurt productivity.

Team & Organizational Design Talent Management & Performance Culture & Values

Strongly agree

Agree

Neutral

Disagree

Strongly disagree

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How often / when do your teams write automated tests?

Engineering Testing Automation+5 more

No automated tests, and no intention to ever write them

No automated tests, but have an intention to write them in the future

Writing automated tests after big feature releases

Writing automated tests after several sprints

Writing automated tests at the end of the sprint

Writing automated tests at the end of each user story

Ensuring each commit has automated tests

Test Driven Development

Other (please comment)

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How important would you say cyber resilience is to your org’s tech leadership?

Security Strategy & Roadmap Resilience

Very important - it's top priority

Important - it's a priority but not #1

Sort of important - it's a consideration

Not very important - it's sometimes considered

Not at all important - it's rarely considered, if ever

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Do you think Elon Musk will be successful in turning Twitter/X into an "everything app?"

News

Yes

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When do you think Gen AI will break even from cost invested perspective? Today the cost of GPU, cooling, etc. has a large impact on the cost of AI but as and when adoption increases the cost should come down. I would like to understand when will that inflection point come.

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Somak BanikAssociate Director Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture8 months ago

It's challenging to predict precisely, but as AI adoption increases, we can surely expect a gradual reduction in costs associated with hardware components like GPUs and cooling. I'd say the exact timing of the inflection ...read more

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CrowdStrike outage: Any quick advice for orgs affected? What immediate actions are your IT and other teams taking to mitigate the effects of the outage?

Crowdstrike Outage 2024 IT Strategy & Roadmap Crisis Management+2 more

Somak BanikAssociate Director Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture2 months ago

Right now, communication is key!

We have invoked a passphrase protocol to protect our users from social engineering attempts to gain unauthorised access to our users computers or systems by claiming to be from IT support ...read more

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