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DECEMBER 5, 2024

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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DECEMBER 3, 2024

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 The technology is too novel and evolving,” he says. “As

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

Generative AI has been hyped so much over the past two years that observers see an inevitable course correction ahead — one that should prompt CIOs to rethink their gen AI strategies. Operating profit gains from AI doubled to nearly 5% between 2022 and 2023, with the figure expected to reach 10% by 2025, she adds.

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MAY 22, 2024

Experimenting with the novelty Despite the heavy adoption, CIOs’ concerns about the value of AI doesn’t surprise Ryan Kane, owner of IT managed services provider Soaring Towers. I have found very few companies who have found ROI with AI at all thus far,” he adds. Most companies are simply playing with the novelty of AI still.”

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APRIL 25, 2024

Since IBM’s software business has been on the rise in recent times and its consulting business is not doing that great, this (HashiCorp’s acquisition) makes a right fit there,” said Techarc’s chief analyst and founder, Faisal Kawoosa.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Most recently, in June, it spent $650 million to buy Casetext, a 104-employee company that offers an AI assistant for legal professionals powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4, the same large language model (LLM) behind ChatGPT. But that’s not the only big bet the company is making on generative AI. We see huge value unlock in that.”

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CIO

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the rush to establish technical strategies for making good on the promise of generative AI, many CIOs find themselves running headlong into what may be their most challenging task yet: preparing their organization’s end-users — from knowledge workers and assembly line laborers to doctors, accountants, and lawyers — to co-exist with generative AI.

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CIO

JULY 1, 2024

When Morgan Stanley announced its new generative AI support tools for financial advisors last week, it talked about gaining efficiencies from its notetaking abilities. Morgan Stanley needs to have a strategy in place,” and to discuss it publicly, said HP Newquist, the executive director of AI consulting firm The Relayer Group.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2023

With that in mind, we asked tech leaders in various roles and industries to list what technologies they think are overhyped and to put a more realistic spin on each one’s potential. Generative AI Perhaps not surprisingly, generative AI tops the list of today’s overhyped tech. Here’s what they say on the topic.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

And online education company Pluralsight conducted a survey of IT professionals in the US and UK and found that 74% worried AI tools will make many of their daily skills obsolete. For the rest, gen AI will greatly augment the power and value of the role of the CIO, he says. I like driving the business forward.”

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Steve Ross, director of cybersecurity for the Americas at S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting, says gen AI can reduce a day’s worth of research to a single hour, but not without a catch. “It The AI can go deeper than a Google search.” After all, today’s generative AI tools are general-purpose, and in their early stages.

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CIO

APRIL 8, 2024

“Technology such as AI is redefining business models, requiring organizations to make the seismic shift from a novice technology organization to a mature and trusted leader,’’ says Raj Sharma, consulting vice chair at EY Americas. “As This work is critical and feeds directly into how the company uses AI.”

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CIO

JANUARY 3, 2024

Other respondents said they aren’t using any generative AI models, are building their own, or are using an open-source alternative. Putting aside the fact this is an astronomically high adoption rate for a brand new technology, it’s also an indicator of how risky this space is. And the AI writing assistant category grew by 177%.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The rate of companies that have either already deployed generative AI or are actively exploring it is accelerating to the point where, combined, there are very few holdouts. The use of gen AI in the enterprise was nearly nothing in November 2022, where the only tools commonly available were AI image or early text generators.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AIs, a form of technology designed to run specific functions within an organization without human intervention, are gaining traction as enterprises look to automate business workflows, augment the output of human workers, and derive value from generative AI. Kumar adds.

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CIO

MAY 14, 2024

Officials from the White House, the US Department of State, and the US Department of Commerce will meet Chinese representatives in Geneva for the talks, which are aimed at exchanging views on understanding and addressing the risks of advanced AI systems.

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2024

His goal is to surface answers to those big questions and to “ensure all departments within our organization understand how AI assists with their day-to-day tasks and how to use it properly and safely.” Achieve aggressive AI goals That’s not to suggest CIOs are slowing down their AI work. We’re piloting, PoC-ing.

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2024

I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said. The consulting giant said it was buying the 29-person, London-based company to help clients articulate and activate their vision and change strategies.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

For example, he took on the CTO role at Rodan + Fields because he “liked the appeal of being part of the product.” Srini Koushik, EVP and CTO, Rackspace Technology Rackspace Technology Koushik credits all his past positions for preparing him for where he is now and the AI role specifically. Second, be intentional.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

On the one hand, artificial intelligence has helped both technology departments and the business units to work better, faster, and cheaper. We had to drop some critical projects to all of a sudden deal with AI as it came to the forefront very quickly.” It hit us all and kept us from looking at the things we were working on,” he says.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As technologies evolve, CIOs still need to build mutual commitment and support for IT initiatives,” says tech consultant and author Gerald Leonard. To help mitigate these risks, it’s necessary for IT leaders to increase their profile and visibility across the organization, and make sure they educate all potential users. “As

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Agentic AI is having a moment, as proponents see the benefits of using autonomous AI agents to automate manual tasks across organizations. Agentic AI, which Forrester named a top emerging technology for 2025 in June , takes generative AI a step further by emphasizing operational decision-making rather than content generation.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Caldas says that innovation today includes the adoption of promising new technologies, such as generative AI and open frameworks. Caldas has no doubt that technology is a key differentiator. “We We have aligned our technology strategy to be a business strategy,” she says. Projects that really excite our teams.”

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. Delayed decision-making Bhadresh Patel, chief digital officer at global consulting firm RGP, sees organization’s showing more caution than usual.

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MAY 5, 2023

Find out how to use generative AI to enhance customer experience at a presentation from Marci Maddox, research vice president for IDC’s Persuasive Content and Digital Experience Management Software Program. The daylong event kicks off with a workshop on persuasive communication.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

CIO packages often include stock options, relocation expenses, and hiring bonuses, says Victor Janulaitis, CEO of consulting firm Janco. The strategic importance of technology leadership has never been greater, especially as organizations attempt to tackle information security, artificial intelligence, cloud transformations, etc.,”

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AUGUST 2, 2024

Jim Warman, vice president of infrastructure architects and engineers at Myriad360, a data center and cybersecurity consulting firm, sees the same trend. The demands of AI make for a compelling reason to consider hardware upgrades, adds Rob Clark, president and CTO at AI tool provider Seekr.

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JUNE 12, 2024

To help alleviate the complexity and extract insights, the foundation, using different AI models, is building an analytics layer on top of this database, having partnered with DataBricks and DataRobot. Some of the models are traditional machine learning (ML), and some, LaRovere says, are gen AI, including the new multi-modal advances.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

What they are finding is that the line between advancing technologically and ensuring AI doesn’t result in detrimental outcomes is thin. Here is a look at how CIOs are addressing ethical AI in their organizations. Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, Generative AI, IT Governance, IT Leadership, IT Strategy

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JULY 18, 2023

The biggest challenge is finding talented team members at the market rate,” says Patrick Isaac, CTO at Accuro Solutions, adding that the current environment demands more intensive recruiting efforts. These include not only cyber, but also cloud and generative AI, he says. S&P Global, for example, is entering its AI 2.0

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CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

“Organizations often get services and applications up and running without having put stewardship in place,” says Marc Johnson, CISO and senior advisor at Impact Advisors, a healthcare management consulting firm. Dirty data or poor-quality data is the biggest issue with AI, Impact Advisor’s Johnson says.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Additionally, the cost of cyber disruption will increase next year as businesses experience downtime due to cyberattacks and scramble to implement defenses fit for the AI-enabled attacker era. In 2025, attackers will begin developing and testing generative AI technologies to use over the next 3-5 years.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AI, the more focused alternative to general-purpose generative AI, is gaining momentum in the enterprise, with Forrester having named it a top emerging technology for 2025 in June. Vendors could also charge a small price per audio input or output. However, some experts see other price models emerging.

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MAY 20, 2024

Tech services provider Logicalis found in its 2024 Global CIO Report that 89% of CIOs reported “actively seeking opportunities to incorporate AI capabilities into their companies,” making it the No. First, the C-suite is turning to its CIOs to implement the technologies needed to track and record ESG data that stakeholders want to review.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Generative AI touches every aspect of the enterprise, and every aspect of society,” says Bret Greenstein, partner and leader of the gen AI go-to-market strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In a recent report, he estimated that gen AI software revenues will grow from $3.7 Then gen AI came out.

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