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

CIO Business Intelligence

This increased complexity means more companies will be relying on IT consultants to help navigate the changes and develop short-term and long-term strategies. As a result, making the shift to IT consulting can be a lucrative path to a fulfilling IT career. What is an IT consultant?

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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

She previously worked at Iron Mountain, where she was Executive Vice President and CTO. Second is furthering diversity, equity, inclusion, and development for my teams. She co-founded Trend Micro in 1988 and has been leading the company ever since; first as executive vice president, CTO in 1996, and CEO since 2005.

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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. 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?

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. In a November report by HR consultancy Randstad, based on a survey of 12,000 people and 3 million job profiles, demand for AI skills has increased five-fold between 2023 and 2024. Other surveys found a similar gap.

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Six steps to creating a successful IT strategy: A guide for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Understanding the company’s competitive position allows IT leaders to mindfully act to implement technology for competitive advantage. If competitors are using advanced data analytics to gain deeper customer insights, IT would prioritize developing similar or better capabilities. Contact us today to learn more.

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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. One opportunity is for CIOs to help their marketing departments improve brand loyalty.

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

Software development and IT Cognition released Devin, billed as the worlds first AI software engineer, in March last year. But there are already some jobs specifically in the software development lifecycle poised to be aided by AI agents. Weve developed our own agentic AI for code management, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre.

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