CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. But 76% of respondents say theres a severe shortage of personnel skilled in AI at their organization, according to the August report. But not every company can say the same.

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CIO

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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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Operational efficiencies, he says, will be the biggest impact of gen AI in the short to medium term. He’s not the only one who’s bullish on gen AI. According to a new IDC report , 98% of business leaders view AI as a priority for their organization and the research firm expects AI to add $20 trillion to the global economy through 2030.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

While the average person might be awed by how AI can create new images or re-imagine voices, healthcare is focused on how large language models can be used in their organizations. For healthcare organizations, what’s below is data—vast amounts of data that LLMs will have to be trained on. Consider the iceberg analogy.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2025

But t echnical debt can undercut an organizations ability to innovate long term, and the shortcuts taken during initial development likely resulted in a codebase thats convoluted, slow, or difficult for devs to understand. Add outdated components or frameworks to the mix, and the difficulty to maintain the code compounds.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

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 As technologies evolve, CIOs still need to build mutual commitment and support for IT initiatives,” says tech consultant and author Gerald Leonard.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Whether summarizing notes or helping with coding, people in disparate organizations use gen AI to reduce the bind associated with repetitive tasks, and increase the time for value-acting activities. These issues mean many gen AI projects remain stuck at the prototyping stage. However, emerging technology must be used carefully.

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Generative AI has seen faster and more widespread adoption than any other technology today, with many companies already seeing ROI and scaling up use cases into wide adoption. Vendors are adding gen AI across the board to enterprise software products, and AI developers havent been idle this year either.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

And for some organizations, annual cloud spend has increased dramatically. As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs? Where are those workloads going? Hidden costs of public cloud For St.

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

2025 will be the “year of disruption” as organizations experience an increase in cyberattacks that halt business operations and impact end users. 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.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2023

The impact of generative AIs, including ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs), will be a significant transformation driver heading into 2024. Below are several generative AI drivers for CIOs to consider when evolving their digital transformation priorities.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

AUGUST 6, 2024

I explored how Bedrock enables customers to build a secure, compliant foundation for generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock equips you with a powerful and comprehensive toolset to transform your generative AI from a one-size-fits-all solution into one that is finely tailored to your unique needs.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2024

The early bills for generative AI experimentation are coming in, and many CIOs are finding them more hefty than they’d like — some with only themselves to blame. CIOs are also turning to OEMs such as Dell Project Helix or HPE GreenLake for AI, IDC points out.

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CIO

MAY 22, 2024

Finding the return on investment for AI remains elusive for many organizations, even as they rush to adopt the technology. 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.

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CIO

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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AWS Machine Learning - AI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) offer new possibilities, although some businesses might hesitate due to concerns about consistency and adherence to company guidelines. The personalized content is built using generative AI by following human guidance and provided sources of truth.

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CIO

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. Falling behind in the AI adoption race can pose significant challenges for organizations.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Plus, according to a recent survey of 2,500 senior leaders of global enterprises conducted by Google Cloud and National Research Group, 34% say theyre already seeing ROI for individual productivity gen AI use cases, and 33% expect to see ROI within the next year. Companies know what the good scores are for particular contact center functions.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

You can utilize these agents through Copilot Studio to help your organization build and deploy AI agents. Microsoft is describing AI agents as the new applications for an AI-powered world. I am sure that you can imagine the costs associated with running the system for 1 million records, not tokens, records.

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CIO

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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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.

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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

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

APRIL 8, 2024

Customer centricity is hardly a new organizational imperative, but some organizations have gone a step further, instituting new C-suite roles to help lead the charge. Interlace Health is one such entity, having named Maggie Peña as the electronic forms company’s first-ever chief experience officer.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Until recently, technology was often seen as a mere expense rather than a catalyst for innovation and business growth. While this perception persists in many organizations, a shift is underway. In an industry where companies typically relied on third-party consultants to analyze their data, we believed our approach was a slam dunk.

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2024

It requires a shift in cultural mindset, one that alters how the organization functions operationally. The goal is to redesign our organization into interdisciplinary teams. 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

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Winning IT organizations aren’t built in a day. Long-term success is generally the result of leaders who make a committed effort to connect directly with their teams, rather than simply issuing memos, edicts, and other top-down commands. Caldas has no doubt that technology is a key differentiator. “We

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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

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.” But AI was thrust into the corporate world, and they’re now having to deal with it.”

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2024

The AI revolution is driving demand for massive computing power and creating a data center shortage, with data center operators planning to build more facilities. But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

CIO packages often include stock options, relocation expenses, and hiring bonuses, says Victor Janulaitis, CEO of consulting firm Janco. The AI factor The push for AI initiatives is another reason CIO salaries and compensation packages are on the rise. However, CIOs are also held responsible when AI initiatives don’t pan out.

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Innovation, however, is not easy, as CIOs, their IT teams, and their organizations face plenty of obstacles that can slow or stop progress. Fundamentally people don’t understand how their business activities — the processes, services, and customer journeys — are tied to the technologies,” Carandang says.

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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. To guide an organization through uncertainty, IT leaders must help ensure everyone in the company is on the same page, Srivastava says.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

AI has whet the appetites of organizations across nearly every sector. As AI pilots move toward production, discussions about the need for ethical AI are growing, along with terms like “fairness,” “privacy,” “transparency,” “accountability,” and the big one —”bias.”

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CIO

JUNE 12, 2024

And there are organizations ready to bring in doctors and resources — but there’s an information gap between the two, says Joan LaRovere, associate chief medical officer at Boston Children’s Hospital, a professor at Harvard medical School, and co-founder of the Virtue Foundation, an NGO dedicated to solving this information problem.

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