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How A Headless Architecture Helped Unilever Reimagine The Customer Journey Around AI
As AI reshapes commerce, Unilever's Prashaant Huria talked to CIOnews about building an AI-centric shopping experience, the importance of APIs, and the CPG giant's data transformation.
Safe, Measurable, And Sustainable: UF Health’s CDIO On The Importance Of An AI Control Plane
CIOnews talked to UF Health's Craig Richardville about the importance of a digital foundation in healthcare, deciding when to build and when to buy, and the new mandate for technology leaders.
How Target’s Tech And Product Chief Is Helping Build The Retailer’s Next Chapter
Chief Information and Product Officer Prat Vemana on why technology leaders are the backbone of organizations, and turning internal excitement over AI into elevated experiences for customers.
From Dresses To Data: How David’s Bridal Moves At The Speed Of Modern Shoppers
With a career spanning oil and gas, retail, IT infrastructure, and consumer packaged goods, CIO News spoke with Scott about what it takes to morph a heritage retailer into a technology company.
Why AI Demands Business and IT Come Together
As AI thrusts technology even deeper into enterprise operations, IT can no longer just be an order taker. In the past, technology teams typically worked in a silo, and often built or invested in solutions without understanding the specific problems users were trying to solve. This greatly undermined
Enterprises Lead on AI, but Strategies are Changing to Maximize Results: Report
Fintech Ramp's latest spending figures indicate U.S. corporate AI deployment stalled in May, following nearly a year of consistent growth, suggesting businesses are becoming more measured in their AI rollouts: The 41% stall: Ramp's AI Index , analyzing expenditures from over 30,000 U.S. businesses,
The Next Wave of E-Commerce Startups are Rethinking Real-Time Personalization with AI
It's e-commerce's greatest irony: Brands invest heavily to pinpoint their ideal customers, only to greet them with the same generic storefront as everyone else. The chasm between intelligent acquisition and cookie-cutter experiences sabotages conversion funnels and deflates marketing ROI. Maju Kuruv
The Backlash Against Walled Gardens in FinTech Has Arrived
Fintech’s rush to bundle everything into sleek, API-driven platforms gives developers a faster path to market. But with every all-in-one solution comes a tradeoff: Convenience often comes at the cost of control. What looks seamless can quickly turn into a walled garden—easy to enter, hard to leave.
Tupperware’s Disciplined Post-Bankruptcy Comeback Centers On Scalable AI Efficiency
Gabriel Uranga Betancur, Global CTO at Tupperware, on how disciplined, scalable AI strategies are driving the company’s post-bankruptcy comeback.
From AI to Table-Stakes IT: How Caterpillar’s CIO Keeps the Focus on Value
While for some companies AI seemed like an overnight sensation, Caterpillar has been using the technology in some capacity for the last three decades, according to Chief Information Officer Jamie Engstrom. Now, the company is only accelerating its use of advanced analytics, automation and orchestrat
P&G’s CIO on the Drawbacks of RPA in the AI era, and the Benefits of an ‘AI Factory’
As one of the leading consumer goods companies for the last several decades, Procter & Gamble started its AI journey years ago. And now, under Chief Information Officer Seth Cohen, the efforts are intensifying. Notably, P&G’s new “AI Factory” is giving employees in the company access to the cross-fu
How Goldman Sachs’ CIO is Preparing for AI Agents
Few investment banks have been able to stay at the forefront of the industry in the same way as Goldman Sachs. Now, the Wall Street icon is taking an early lead in the AI race, one that promises to reshape the industry and potentially challenge the dominant status of many leading financial instituti
Leading CIOs Prioritize Cultural Readiness As AI Compounds Organizational Behavior
Eli Potter, VC/PE Executive Advisor and CIO, on why culture and accountability are hard systems inputs to AI transformation, not soft leadership considerations.
The Org Chart Is Lying To You: A Systems Theory Case For Rethinking EA
Christoph Wargitsch, CEO of Wargitsch Transformation Engineers, on why the boundaries between business and IT exist on paper but collapse in practice.
Why The Traditional CIO Job Is Becoming The Chief Integration Officer
Jeff Brzycki, former CIO at Autodesk and VeriSign, on why the integration and control layer that IT has long owned by default is becoming the strategic foundation of the agentic enterprise.
Decide, Monitor, Adjust: The Governance Loop That Makes AI Ethics Operational
Caroline Carruthers, Chief Executive of Carruthers and Jackson, on why AI governance only works when it changes what people actually do, not what they say.
AI Coding Agents Shift Engineering Value From Implementation To Problem Definition And Decision Ownership
Alex Sasnouskikh, Tech Lead at Picnic Technologies, on why decision ownership is replacing implementation skill as engineering's core signal.
'Just Record Every Meeting' Is The New Norm. It's Also A CIO Headache
A rising trend says companies should record every meeting, call, and interaction. The legal, security, and compliance risks are real.
Control Plane Governance Becomes The Answer To Enterprise AI's Value And Risk Problem
Aaron Weller, Privacy Innovation and Assurance Leader at HP, argued that financial discipline is becoming the most effective AI governance control as enterprises confront token spend, unproven ROI, and accountability gaps created by fast adoption.
Health System Transformations Succeed When Operations Owns What IT Cannot
Pamela Austin, a healthcare IT executive and advisor, on why digital transformations stall on leadership alignment and who has to own the outcome.
Meta Bets $15B on Scale AI and Hires CEO Wang to Support its Superintelligence Push
Meta is reportedly investing nearly $15 billion for a 49% stake in AI data labeling company Scale AI , a move that includes bringing Scale’s CEO Alexandr Wang to Meta to spearhead a new "superintelligence" lab, as first detailed by The Information . The deal aims to accelerate Meta's AGI ambitions a
GenAI is Breaking Evaluation Standards. Here's Why New Trust-Building Strategies are Needed.
GenAI is breaking every IT playbook. As systems become less predictable, traditional methods of ensuring trust and control no longer hold up, and xperts in the enterprise stress it's time for a new approach. Jonathan Shertok , Global AI Group Product Manager and Chief of Staff at EY, has spent years
From $0 to $20M in two months: AI reimagines what's possible for VC-backed startups
VC Mary Meeker's annual report on internet and enterprise trends takes on AI for 2025, and the change it documents is staggering. A key example: AI-native companies are hitting $100 million in revenue in their first couple of years, as opposed to the five-to-seven year average of traditional SaaS. TMeta Bets $15B on Scale AI and Hires CEO Wang to Support its Superintelligence Push
Meta is reportedly investing nearly $15 billion for a 49% stake in AI data labeling company Scale AI , a move that includes bringing Scale’s CEO Alexandr Wang to Meta to spearhead a new "superintelligence" lab, as first detailed by The Information . The deal aims to accelerate Meta's AGI ambitions aGenAI is Breaking Evaluation Standards. Here's Why New Trust-Building Strategies are Needed.
GenAI is breaking every IT playbook. As systems become less predictable, traditional methods of ensuring trust and control no longer hold up, and xperts in the enterprise stress it's time for a new approach. Jonathan Shertok , Global AI Group Product Manager and Chief of Staff at EY, has spent yearsFrom $0 to $20M in two months: AI reimagines what's possible for VC-backed startups
VC Mary Meeker's annual report on internet and enterprise trends takes on AI for 2025, and the change it documents is staggering. A key example: AI-native companies are hitting $100 million in revenue in their first couple of years, as opposed to the five-to-seven year average of traditional SaaS. T
The Secret to AI Adoption? Blending Great Customer Experience with Human Expertise
Any business leader with an intense drive to innovate feels like they should be moving faster, smarter, and more strategically . The subtle art of allowing oneself to feel "behind" or underachieving is the innate value that makes success possible. In the age of AI, it's easy to think that every orga
How AI is Transforming Trapped Data Stores into Engines of Insight
The modern data stack promised a revolution: a data renaissance where insights would flow as freely as oil . Billions were poured into data warehouses and tools to manage it all. But the promise of lightning-fast insights and seamless automation has remained elusive, with timelines still measured in
Leaning into AI's unknowns, and why 'grey box' tech is the future of enterprise
Enterprise AI has a branding problem. It’s seen as a black box—opaque, unexplainable, and risky. In reality, most systems today are grey boxes: transparent enough to build with, trust, and refine. Greg Makowski , Chief Data Scientist at Ccube , sees the “black box” narrative as outdated. With decade