Tim Crawford

Los Angeles

CIO Strategic Advisor at AVOA

CIO Strategic Advisor @AVOAcom | Board Member | Host of the CIO & CxO In The Know Podcasts | #CIO #CX #EX #Cloud #AI #GenAI #Data #Cybersecurity

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Articles

AI, Integration and Innovation

2 weeks ago | avoa.com | Tim Crawford

This week, SAP held their annual Sapphire conference in Orlando. Sapphire brought together 14,000 people to see the latest SAP has to offer…and the evolution of their thinking. I’ve attended Sapphire for many years, and this year has been one of the more exciting and inspiring. I’ve said it before that today’s SAP is not the SAP of the past when I was a customer. SAP continues to make significant strides to demonstrate a more open, forward-thinking and innovate platform for enterprises.
New Entrants Redefine Markets

2 weeks ago | avoa.com | Tim Crawford

Companies often compete in specific swim lanes or markets. Depending on the market, there are broad implications and more finer details or sub-markets. The default competitors define their space and new entrants work within the bounds set by the stalwarts. That’s the typical approach. Today, those boundaries are getting blurred with some lines becoming incredibly gray. New entrants are stepping into new spaces in the hopes of disrupting a given area of competition.
Insights from Ashwin Rangan

3 weeks ago | avoa.com | Tim Crawford

This week I’m joined by Ashwin Rangan, the SVP of Engineering and Chief Information Officer at ICANN. In our conversation, Ashwin takes a philosophical view of technology that has changed over the course of the pandemic. He shares his perspective on the impact technology has had on people, cultures and business. Ashwin thinks a lot about the Internet and outlines its impact today and going forward.
Insights from CIO Martin Davis

3 weeks ago | avoa.com | Tim Crawford

This week I’m joined by Martin Davis, the managing partner at Dunelm Associates and former CIO for multiple companies. In our discussion, Martin shares his perspective on Industry 4.0 and changes during the pandemic. We discuss the role of data in decision making and opportunities moving forward. Lastly, Martin shares the common threads that apply to companies across industries as they think about transformation and the post-pandemic era.
Insights from David Costar

3 weeks ago | avoa.com | Tim Crawford

This week I’m joined by David Costar who is the Chief Information Officer at Wolfspeed. Coming from a non-IT background, David provides a thought-provoking perspective of the CIO role and how businesses need to rethink how they view IT and the role itself. Now serving as CIO, he outlines specific skills needed for the CIO role and how that impacts the future playbook. David digs into what it really means to understand your business and how curiosity fits in.
Proven Strategies for Effective SEO Success in 2023

3 weeks ago | avoa.com | Tim Crawford

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Preparing for Coming Changes to Digital Certificates

3 weeks ago | bdo.com | Tim Crawford

A digital certificate is a cryptographically verifiable method of conveying identity across the internet. Certificates are issued by a Certification Authority (CA), which is a trusted entity responsible for validating identity. The authenticity of a certificate is able to be verified through a related public and private key pair. This technology is known as public key infrastructure (PKI). The most common use of digital certificates we see are digital certificates in our web browsers.
Leverage Data and AI Insights

1 month ago | avoa.com | Tim Crawford

Enterprise executives are actively looking for novel ways to both accelerate and differentiate their business. To outpace competition and create differentiation, the name of the game is speed. Unfortunately, speed only gets you so far. Enterprises need to increase velocity (speed + direction). To do that, companies need to make more accurate decisions, faster. Sitting at the core of this process is data. Rich in value, data is largely an untapped resource within the enterprise.
Navigating AI, Governance, and Cybersecurity

1 month ago | avoa.com | Tim Crawford

From AI agents to governance chaos to a cybersecurity renaissance—CIOs are no longer just reacting to change, they’re being redefined by it. The first four months of 2025 have been a masterclass in disruption. And if you think you’ve caught up, think again. Here’s what’s shifting, what’s emerging, and why a mid-year Playbook update might be in the cards. We just closed out the first four months of 2025 and…wow! So much change is afoot that is so overwhelming for enterprises.
Maximizing Data Center Efficiency

1 month ago | avoa.com | Tim Crawford

AI, power, and thermal demands are breaking old assumptions — efficiency and smart utilization are now mission-critical. For decades, we operated with a mindset of unlimited resources. Unlimited data center capacity, unlimited cooling capabilities, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited power resources. The only constraint was money. Today, in addition to physical constraints, the explosion of data is driving new pressures for IT organizations.