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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Former Google VP raises $10M for new startup building AI agents for retail businesses

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The Polana AI co-founders, from left: CEO Maria Zhang, Chief Scientist Steve Liu, and CTO Tim Howes. Polana Photos) A onetime Seattle startup founder who went on to lead engineering teams at Google, Meta, Yahoo, Tinder and LinkedIn, is heading up a new startup called Palona AI that builds customer-facing AI agents for retail businesses.

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Cost concerns put CIOs’ AI strategies on edge

CIO Business Intelligence

Pay-as-you-go pricing is a way to reduce financial risk by not locking into long-term contracts. The platform is being used, for example, by FedEx to streamline operations and by Saks Fifth Avenue to answer customer questions about retail items. Such advanced capabilities may not be affordable for all businesses for some time.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

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 Canadian Tire CIO & CTO balances lessons learned and leading with purpose

CIO Business Intelligence

And with his dual titles at the company—CIO and CTO—Rex Lee is in the driver’s seat to support digital transformation and implement shared knowledge across teams and management. I moved from telco to tech, high tech to retail, but didn’t think I’d make that jump, nor thought retail would be invigorating,” he says.

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Massive modernization: Tips for overhauling IT at scale

CIO Business Intelligence

Its a very long and painful process, notes Don Henderson, CTO at BetaNXT, a wealth management company that provides tech services to clients. With customer behavior evolving alongside the rise of omnichannel shopping, the countrys largest beauty retailer was under pressure to keep up.

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CTO Dwayne Allen on delivering transcendent business impact

CIO Business Intelligence

Equipped with experiences across a range of industries, a healthy dose of self-awareness, and a passion for learning and people, Allen is redefining the art of the possible as a strategic and innovative CTO. I’ve been in four industries, but while I was at Microsoft, I served several more — healthcare and retail, for example.

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