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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

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CIOs feeling the pressure will likely seek more pragmatic AI applications, platform simplifications, and risk management practices that have short-term benefits while becoming force multipliers to longer-term financial returns. Examples include scanning invoices, extracting basic contract information, or capturing information from PDF forms.

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

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Weve developed our own agentic AI for code management, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. The key challenge in our area is there are hundreds of tasks that might not be particularly well automated, says CTO Paul Gaskell. You hire us to evaluate some vendor you bring on board, says Sinclair Schuller, principal at EY.

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Cengage Group CTO Jim Chilton on the P&L difference

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After the show, we spent some more time talking about Chilton’s experience as a P&L leader and how that has contributed to his success as a CTO. Jim Chilton: When I was at the enterprise software company Coda Financial in the ’90s, I was asked to be the professional services leader. I don’t buy into that paradigm.

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CIOs’ lack of success metrics dooms many AI projects

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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. A lot of financial services companies that I work with don’t have a risk culture,” he says. “If

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SAP restructures board to emphasize AI-first, suite-first strategy

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SAP is starting the 2025 financial year with a new executive board.The German software company announced that 39-year-old Sebastian Steinhuser will be promoted to the executive board. SAP introduced a new CTO and two new chief revenue officers. We see him as an important leader and architect of SAPs future.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

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The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

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Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. There’s a reported international expansion on the horizon, government contracts to win and a new CDO, hired from Meta, now reporting into Nikolic. “I

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