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

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprise infrastructures have expanded far beyond the traditional ones focused on company-owned and -operated data centers. 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. What is an IT consultant?

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

In todays rapidly evolving business landscape, the role of the enterprise architect has become more crucial than ever, beyond the usual bridge between business and IT. In a world where business, strategy and technology must be tightly interconnected, the enterprise architect must take on multiple personas to address a wide range of concerns.

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Building a better future: The enterprise architect’s role in leading organizational transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

With C-suite leaders under increasing pressure to align technology with strategic objectives, many experience that roles — whether CEO, CFO or even CTO — lack the deep technical insight needed to bridge the gap between business and technology. The CTO and CIO handle IT management and technological innovation.

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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

CIO Business Intelligence

We may look back at 2024 as the year when LLMs became mainstream, every enterprise SaaS added copilot or virtual assistant capabilities, and many organizations got their first taste of agentic AI. AI at Wharton reports enterprises increased their gen AI investments in 2024 by 2.3

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IBM closes Hashicorp buy, looks to boost enterprise multicloud and AI automation technology

Network World

With the deal, which was 10 months in the making , IBM plans to further integrate HashiCorps automation technology into its Red Hat, watsonx, data security, IT automation, and consulting businesses. IBM uses Hashicorp technology in its cloud offerings already.

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The lazy CIO’s guide to better IT investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Youre under this pressure unless youve given up and relinquished responsibility for formulating the organizations technology vision to a chief digital officer, chief technology officer, or some other titled individual whose job is to make promises you as CIO are supposed to keep. Dont do that.

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10 AI strategy questions every CIO must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

The 2024 Enterprise AI Readiness Radar report from Infosys , a digital services and consulting firm, found that only 2% of companies were fully prepared to implement AI at scale and that, despite the hype , AI is three to five years away from becoming a reality for most firms. Is our AI strategy enterprise-wide?

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