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

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Among the recent trends impacting IT are the heavy shift into the cloud, the emergence of hybrid work, increased reliance on mobility, growing use of artificial intelligence, and ongoing efforts to build digital businesses. As a result, making the shift to IT consulting can be a lucrative path to a fulfilling IT career.

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

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From obscurity to ubiquity, the rise of large language models (LLMs) is a testament to rapid technological advancement. Just a few short years ago, models like GPT-1 (2018) and GPT-2 (2019) barely registered a blip on anyone’s tech radar. In 2024, a new trend called agentic AI emerged. Do you see any issues?

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CIOs’ lack of success metrics dooms many AI projects

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Combined with an April IDC survey that found organizations launching an average of 37 AI POCs, the September survey suggests many CIOs have been throwing the proverbial spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks, says Daniel Saroff, global vice president for consulting and research services at IDC.

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The new calling of CIOs: Be the moral arbiter of change

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Artificial intelligence has moved from the research laboratory to the forefront of user interactions over the past two years. Consulting giant Deloitte says 70% of business leaders have moved 30% or fewer of their experiments into production. We use machine learning all the time.

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What’s holding back CIO’s AI strategies? Their own AI learning curve for one

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A lack of AI expertise is a problem, however, when other company leaders often turn to CIOs and other IT leaders as the “go-to people” for solving AI problems, says Pavlo Tkhir, CTO at Euristiq, a digital transformation company. “A Until employees are trained, companies should consult with external AI experts as they launch projects, he says.

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7 ways gen AI can create more work than it saves

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One is going through the big areas where we have operational services and look at every process to be optimized using artificial intelligence and large language models. And the second is deploying what we call LLM Suite to almost every employee. “We’re doing two things,” he says.

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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

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Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. Weve been innovating with AI, ML, and LLMs for years, he says. One option is to find employees competent in the general area and interested in learning gen AI, and get them trained or have them learn on the job.