5 Critical Priorities for CIOs to Lead on Generative AI and ChatGPT

I recently shared recommendations with over 100 CEOs and Board of Director members on how they should prepare their businesses for the impacts of ChatGPT and Generative AI.

The Driving Digital Standup video embedded here has some background, including several ways I use ChatGPT today. I tell these executives, “Ignorance is not bliss” because of the major evolutions just over the last six months. In addition to GPT-4’s release, we’re learning every day about Microsoft Copilot, Google’s Bard, and Adobe’s Firefly, and I am certain of many more initiatives from big tech to come.

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Agile Co-Creation: Changing the Mindset from Outsourcing to Winning Partnerships

I’ve led many successful application development, cloud migration, and data/analytics programs over the years, and I staffed most of them with a mix of employees, freelancers, and service providers. Thanks to friends working at Cognizant, DataMatics, Mobius, Synechron, TCS, Wipro, and others through my years of leading organizations as a CTO, CIO, and now leading my company, StarCIO.

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How to Rescue an In-flight Digital Transformation Initiative

It’s fairly common for CIOs and Digital Trailblazers to be handed an inflight program that’s stalled or completely derailed.

Is the DevOps program for modernizing apps and transitioning them to the cloud taking too long? Has a business-led SaaS integration gone awry? Has a machine learning experiment gone through several iterations without any production deployments?

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5 Digital Transformation Experts Share Advice on Turning Detractors to Excited Supporters

You won’t transform a business model, redesign a customer experience, or automate a complex business process without facing some resistance. And if leaders and employees line up to protect the status quo, your organization likely needs a cultural transformation.

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Digital Transformation: How to Drive its Best Practices as Competitive Core Competencies

 I wrote the post the #1 reason digital transformations fail nearly five years ago. I shared, “The number one reason digital transformations fail is because executives fail to embrace that it’s a bottom-up transformation that will require change across the organization over a 3 to 7+ year period.”

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How to Expand Citizen Data Science: From Successful Analysts to Data-Driven Organizations

More companies have embraced citizen data science and have deployed tools like Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Qlik, Domo, KNIME, Sisense, Google Data Studio, Amazon QuickSite, and other self-service BI to business teams.

It’s common to see these tools deployed to individuals scattered across the organization, and each focused on their department’s business objectives. For example, digital marketers are likely to analyze campaign performance, operations managers review supply chain risks, and financial analysts evaluate profitability.

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AI Will Drive Faster and More Powerful Marketing Transformation Than You Think

Over the last few years, we’ve entered a new wave of AI-enabled marketing capabilities. What were easy-to-implement point solutions for generating headlines, prioritizing advertisement keywords, or automating A-Z testing are now mainstream. With generative AI solutions such as ChatGPT becoming available, marketers must consider a new era of digital transformation impacting their branding, lead gen, and other digital marketing efforts.

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