StarCIO Drive: Agility, Innovation, Transformation

Category: No Code / Citizen Development

  • Low-Code Development in the AI Era: What CIOs Need to Know

    Low-Code Development in the AI Era: What CIOs Need to Know

    Isaac Sacolick’s experiences with low-code and no-code development as a CTO and CIO, emphasizing their role in empowering citizen developers in the AI era. Highlighting Quickbase’s new AI capabilities and tools like Pave, Isaac advocates for integrating these solutions to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and connect field and back-office functions effectively.

  • Citizen Analytics in the AI Era: What CIOs Need to Know

    Citizen Analytics in the AI Era: What CIOs Need to Know

    CIOs should step up citizen data analytics initiatives to drive their data-driven organizations for the AI era. Domo’s capabilities, showcased at Domopalooza, include integrating workflows with analytics, advanced data integration through “Magic ETL,” and developing AI agents. Domo offers a comprehensive solution for organizations seeking to leverage data and AI effectively.

  • Culture Change: 4 Ways to Overcome Tribal Knowledge and Inspire Developing Expertise

    Culture Change: 4 Ways to Overcome Tribal Knowledge and Inspire Developing Expertise

    Organizations encounter knowledge-sharing issues, often resulting in tribal knowledge and outdated processes. Digital leaders advocate for cultural change, emphasizing expertise sharing to enhance innovation and efficiency. Solutions include dynamic management practices, centralized documentation, AI integration, and incentivizing knowledge sharing. Leaders must prioritize community over documentation for sustained growth.

  • 3 Hidden Workarounds Killing Productivity And How to Spot The Manual Work

    3 Hidden Workarounds Killing Productivity And How to Spot The Manual Work

    Organizations often struggle with gray work—unstructured, manual tasks that hinder productivity. Employees face inefficiencies due to data movement between systems and lack of integrated tools. As software investments rise, many feel overwhelmed, emphasizing the need for dynamic work management solutions. Identifying gray work areas can lead to more efficient workflows and decision-making.

  • From SaaS Sprawl to AI Strategy: How CIOs Consolidate and Gain Agility

    From SaaS Sprawl to AI Strategy: How CIOs Consolidate and Gain Agility

    SaaS sprawl and gray work significantly hinders productivity and collaboration, particularly in sectors like construction and manufacturing. Midsize organizations average 61 SaaS applications, with larger firms using about 200. CIOs are urged to audit their app inventory, reduce redundancy, and invest in low-code platforms to streamline operations and enhance digital transformation efforts.

  • How Appian is Inspiring with AI Agents and Transforming Low-Code App Development

    How Appian is Inspiring with AI Agents and Transforming Low-Code App Development

    The future of low-code app development is evolving with AI code generators, enabling easier, sophisticated, and scalable app creation. Appian emphasizes collaboration with AI agents to develop proprietary processes. Their AI-driven Appian Composer facilitates iterative app design, focusing on outcomes through value-based storytelling, enhancing customer experience and digital transformation.

  • 3 Key Insights on Driving Intelligent Operations in the GenAI Era

    3 Key Insights on Driving Intelligent Operations in the GenAI Era

    Intelligent operations is crucial for executives in construction and manufacturing today. They enhance safety, competitiveness, and growth, especially with the advent of genAI. Emphasizing the human element in operations, leveraging technology, and building trust in AI systems can improve overall performance and attract younger talent, while addressing workforce challenges.

  • How We Redesigned “Drive” With Help From Gen AI

    How We Redesigned “Drive” With Help From Gen AI

    How Isaac Sacolick and team rebrand, redesign, and replatform his 700 post blog with tech assistance from Gen AI like ChatGPT and autimation like Zapier and Quickbase. They enhance the information architecture, establish the StarCIO Digital Trailblazer Community, and launch “Drive,” the redesigned blog for digital transformation leaders.

  • 5 Ways SaaS, Low-code, and No-code Platforms Now Innovate with Gen AI

    5 Ways SaaS, Low-code, and No-code Platforms Now Innovate with Gen AI

    Gen AI is coming to all SaaS, no-code, and low-code experiences. Here’s how these platforms are innovating.

  • 3 Ways Empowering Tech Helps Construction Companies Attract Top Talent

    3 Ways Empowering Tech Helps Construction Companies Attract Top Talent

    Construction companies face an aging workforce and struggle attracting new talent. How commiting to tech, mobile, AI, and safety, turns this around.

  • AWS Reveals Three Impressive Tenents of its Gen AI Strategy

    AWS Reveals Three Impressive Tenents of its Gen AI Strategy

    At AWS Summit New York, Amazon further revealed a more open multimodel gen AI strategy and expanding to no-code and low-code builders

  • Pioneering Digital Transformation: Simplify from Industry 4.0 to Government

    Pioneering Digital Transformation: Simplify from Industry 4.0 to Government

    Example use cases in manufacturing (Industry 4.0), contruction 4.0, and e-government on using low-code to drive dynamic work management.