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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

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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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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. In a countersuit, CrowdStrike blamed Delta for the airlines problems, saying that other airlines were able to recover much faster, and that the contract between the two companies meant Delta wasnt allowed to sue for damages.

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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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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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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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USN Quarterly Industry Day at Charleston: What you need to know to compete

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Call me lazy, but I really like it when I attend a Government presentation and they include some information on exactly and precisely WHAT upcoming opportunities are available for Industry. Contract type? Of course, Government is required to give Industry a forecast so that Industry can be prepared to respond.