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5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

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CIOs and other executives identified familiar IT roles that will need to evolve to stay relevant, including traditional software development, network and database management, and application testing. Hafez recommends connecting with mentors who are from a different team or division.

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CEO of Salesforce AI Clara Shih has left

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Before that, she ran the AI company she co-founded, Hearsay Systems, a company that uses AI to help investment advisors. SalesforceIQ, a software development company he co-founded in 2015, was acquired by Salesforce in 2018, while his next venture, low-code platform vendor Airkit, was swallowed up by Salesforce in October 2023.

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Beyond the hype: 4 use cases that show what’s actually working with gen AI

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According to experts and other survey findings, in addition to sales and marketing, other top use cases include productivity, software development, and customer service. Registered investment advisors, for example, have to jump over a few hurdles when deploying new technologies. We have a ton of documents we can talk about.

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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. Gen AI-related job listings were particularly common in roles such as data scientists and data engineers, and in software development. There are data scientists, but theyre expensive, he says.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

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The fields of customer service, marketing, and customer development are going to see massive adoption, he says. He expects the same to happen in all areas of software development, starting with user requirements research through project management and all the way to testing and quality assurance.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

It was like having a bunch of mini- Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions all in one room. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm doing as a Part-Time CTO or Technical Advisor for startups. There are two kinds of advisors that are commonly needed. Strategic Technical Advisor. Tactical Technical Advisor.

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The best way to grow your tech career? Treat it like an app

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As CTO, Raj Yavatkar is responsible for charting Juniper Networks ' technology strategy through the execution of the company’s innovations and products for intelligent self-driving networks, security, mobile edge cloud, network virtualization, packet-optical integration and hybrid cloud. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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