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RIP (finally) to the blockchain hype

CIO Business Intelligence

A recent criticism of blockchain comes from Jim Fowler, CTO at insurance carrier Nationwide. While insurance carriers were an early example of potential users , Fowler talks about blockchain as an example of how to avoid getting distracted by shiny, new technologies.

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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. Why should CIOs bet on unifying their data and AI practices?

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

In October, Microsoft announced that 100,000 organizations including Standard Bank, Thomson Reuters, Virgin Money, and Zurich Insurance are using Copilot Studio, double the number just months earlier. Weve developed our own agentic AI for code management, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre.

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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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South Africa’s King Price Insurance moves to cloud as business grows

CIO Business Intelligence

Insurance companies are no longer only there for their customers in times of disaster. Modern approaches to insurance and changes in customer expectations mean that the insurance business model looks very different than it used to. For many insurers, this means investing in cloud.

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‘Boomerang’ CIOs: IT leaders level up by coming back

CIO Business Intelligence

When Matt Postulka left Arbella Insurance Group as deputy CIO at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he didn’t intend to look back. These boomerang CIOs have every reason to be as successful as a more traditional external new hire, but not more so, according to Martha Hello, CEO of Heller Search Associates.

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7012 Regs and Cyber insurance on collision course with small business

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The regulations themselves are a part of, and a driver to, a set of complex problems for industry — presently, with risk being transferred away from DoD to its contractors who will find risk rebounding to them via their “cyber” insurance policies. We’ll start by peeling back the onion layers around the regulations themselves.