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JC2 Ventures Partner and Chief Technical Officer Yvette Kanouff
JC2 Ventures
For this week’s issue, I invited Yvette Kanouff, a partner at JC2 Ventures, to share her thoughts on the risks that CIOs have to manage to succeed in the current environment. Here are some of her insights:
The job of a CIO is becoming more difficult, with an expanding list of responsibilities that include:
- Spend frugally while keeping all systems up and running
- Provide better insights with data while doing more to safeguard the integrity and privacy around that data
- Innovate faster while preventing cyberattacks
- Motivate talent and figure out where AI can replace it
- Support the IT needs of the company’s business units
Game-changing technologies, geopolitical issues, financial volatility, supply chain challenges, and the specter of climate change have created some treacherous terrain in which to innovate. Against this backdrop, IT leaders still have to grapple with prioritizing speed, quality, and risk. Back in 2016, Marc Benioff famously said, “Speed is the new currency of business.”…
