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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

CIO Business Intelligence

Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. These are also areas where organizations are most willing to use contract talent. So weve aggressively tried to hire for traits around curiosity, learning, knowledge-seeking, and initiative.

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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

CIO Business Intelligence

The World Economic Forum shares some risks with AI agents , including improving transparency, establishing ethical guidelines, prioritizing data governance, improving security, and increasing education. Examples include scanning invoices, extracting basic contract information, or capturing information from PDF forms.

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3 promises every CIO should keep in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

If a model hallucinates just 5% of the time, thats enough for most users to consider it useless. They couldnt hire people from outside either, because they hadnt anticipated the need early enough to put it in their budgets. Educate the business on AI and educate yourself on the business. Everything happened very fast.

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What is an IT consultant? Roles, types, salaries, and how to become one

CIO Business Intelligence

IT consultants are often hired to provide companies guidance on what technologies they should use to achieve their aims, according to career website Indeed. These include strategy consultants, systems consultants, and security consultants, among others, says Paul Farnsworth, CTO attechnology careers site Dice.

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TBM helps CIOs translate tech spending to business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

IT spending has grown faster than any other corporate function for the last 20 to 30 years, says Matt Guarini, executive director of the advocacy and education group, the TBM Council. More than 90% of IT leaders, in fact, expected their 2025 budgets to increase when surveyed in 2024. IT is getting more complex than ever.

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Unmasking North Korea's Covert IT Army. Before You Hire Them

SecureWorld News

Hundreds of companies around the world, including major American firms, have accidentally hired North Korean employees pretending to be something else. Grimes outlined KnowBe4's own recent experience , in which they identified and terminated an employee who was part of this covert operation. And it's a really big problem."

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CIOs’ lack of success metrics dooms many AI projects

CIO Business Intelligence

The IDC survey results are “alarming,” both that nearly a third of CIOs don’t understand the success metrics and that 90% or more of POCs are failing , adds David Curtis, CTO at RobobAI, a fintech using AI to help companies manage supply chains. We could hire five people.’”