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RIP (finally) to the blockchain hype

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A recent criticism of blockchain comes from Jim Fowler, CTO at insurance carrier Nationwide. The crazy hype around digital art NFTs turned blockchain into a bit of a joke, adds Trevor Fry, an IT consultant and fractional CTO. Many organizations havent found other uses for blockchain, he says.

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

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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

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Examples include scanning invoices, extracting basic contract information, or capturing information from PDF forms. Michael Beckley, CTO and founder of Appian, says document processing is a boring gen AI use case with significant business potential. One opportunity is for CIOs to help their marketing departments improve brand loyalty.

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What is a CTO? The exec who sets tech strategy

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What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Unfortunately, [the role] means many things to different industries and organizations,” Stephenson says.

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

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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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3 promises every CIO should keep in 2025

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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. The CIO has to be an evangelist, educator, and realist all at the same time, says Fernandes.

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