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Spoiler alert: The solution we will explore in this two-part series is generativeAI (GenAI). Current strategies to address the IT skills gap Rather than relying solely on hiring external experts, many IT organizations are investing in their existing workforce and exploring innovative tools to empower their non-technical staff.
Shift AI experimentation to real-world value GenerativeAI dominated the headlines in 2024, as organizations launched widespread experiments with the technology to assess its ability to enhance efficiency and deliver new services. Most of all, the following 10 priorities should be at the top of your 2025 to-do list.
One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. With Databricks, the firm has also begun its journey into generativeAI.
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With the current AI gold rush, companies may be tempted to exaggerate their AI implementations to lure investors and customers, a practice called “AI washing,” but they should think twice before doing so, says David Shargel, a regulatory compliance lawyer with law firm Bracewell.
This role is no longer confined to technical oversight or incremental operational improvements. This includes placing strategic bets on next-generation technologies, cultivating a culture of continuous experimentation, and ensuring that every investment in digital tools delivers discernible business impact.
Leveraging technologies, such as generativeAI and analytics, promises to make data both more meaningful and more rapidly available in the right context. For her part, Daly is planning to keep pace with, and capitalize on, modest innovation initiatives while maintaining operations and continuing to reduce technical debt. “As
Deloitte’s State of GenerativeAI in the Enterprise report for the second quarter of 2024, found that 75% of the nearly 2,000 IT and line-of-business leaders surveyed anticipate changing their talent strategies within the next two years because of generativeAI. Reskilling employees is a crucial step, he adds. “In
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. But their role isn’t going away.
Form a strong partnership Forming an effective IT-sales partnership requires embracing a startup mentality, even at large, long-established organizations, advises Amit Vashisht, assistant vice president at retirement services firm Jackson Enterprise Technology. Yet he also advises proceeding with caution.
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But on the other hand, AI and generativeAI in particular, as well as the speed at which intelligence barreled its way into organizations, have disrupted many IT plans, says Taglienti, chief data officer and distinguished engineer at tech firm Insight. “It 1 challenge listed.
Amazon SageMaker , a fully managed service to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models, has seen increased adoption to customize and deploy FMs that power generativeAI applications. Deploy the models as SageMaker Inference endpoints that can be consumed by generativeAI applications.
With generativeAI now a firm digital transformation priority , 2023-24 will mark the beginning of an AI-driven transformation era. IT loves solutioning and implementing, especially when some underlying technical limitations are rooted in legacy systems and technical debt.
Software incorporating observability technology, enabled by generativeAI, allows an error message to be visually traced back to its source along with recommended steps to address the cause. Many AI systems use machine learning, constantly learning and adapting to become even more effective over time,” he says.
Balter recommends hackathons built around a specific technology, use case, or both, as in the case of Bunnings’ most recent hackathon, which sought to leverage generativeAI to improve productivity or sales. One of the winning ideas used generativeAI to streamline the learning process for do-it-yourself (DIY) home projects.
Responsible AI: Balancing innovation and risk The rise of generativeAI has put a mirror in front of companies, showing them the work they have to do to strategically leverage their data. As the role evolves, Bruman advises putting in the effort to build one-on-one relationships with critical leaders across the company.
I used figures of speech and financial terms they understood, and I kept well away from technical jargon because that wasn’t my audience. She adds that storytelling is also being used increasingly in M&A, and she’s advised on Accenture’s recent acquisition of UK creative change management consultancy, The Storytellers.
A host of new product and feature launches, questions about SAP’s plans for managing commitments to legacy platform customers, and the acceleration of generativeAI in popular products such as SAP RISE are just a few of the major issues enterprise SAP customers will need to keep on top of in the year ahead.
And now, with that cloud foundation, Cushman & Wakefield CDIO Salumeh Companieh is putting that product mindset to work to make the most of AI, including a range of generativeAI platforms aimed at improving workflow outcomes and productivity. It’s also important to start small, she advises.
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But, notes Lobo, “in all geographies, finding well-rounded leadership and experienced technical talent in areas such as legacy technologies, cybersecurity, and data science remains a challenge.” These include not only cyber, but also cloud and generativeAI, he says. The net result?
It’s a good time to invest in generativeAI, as leading companies began to find strong use cases , he says. Stone also predicts IT spending to increase at many organizations as they focus on modernizing outdated systems, reducing technical debt, creating new revenue streams, and building the foundation to adopt gen AI.
Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.
This last category has received a boost as platform vendors explore the potential of generativeAI models such as ChatGPT to create boilerplate application skeletons on which developers can hang their own business logic — or even turn human-readable requirements into machine-readable code. What’s expensive is scale.”
As for Microsoft’s plans for OpenAI’s generativeAI tools, IDC’s Jyoti said she expects some of the most visible changes will come on the desktop. Put a human in the loop,” she advised. It won’t be the CIO’s decision alone because the questions around which tools should be used, and how, are ethical as well as technical.
Maintenance tasks, such as applying security and technical patches as well as maintaining the operating system and applying updates, are all performed by Oracle. She advised CIOs to do the math and weigh the trade-offs. Unlike on premises PeopleSoft systems, there is no hardware to purchase or maintain,” the FAQ noted.
To assure potential employers that they can meet those diverse challenges, CIO candidates must demonstrate that they excel at a wide range of leadership skills and activities, Wald says, including the following: Communications: Today’s CIO candidates much demonstration an ability to engage and gain consensus from business and technical stakeholders.
Schwarz points to generativeAI as a technology that’s suddenly leaped into the IT spotlight. Schwarz says she prizes agile team members who understand business concepts and outcomes, and who have the ability to tell a story that translates technical thoughts into business outcomes. That means you’re learning!”
Therefore, it’s vital to conduct a rigorous impact analysis and have rollback plans in place before proceeding,” Hyzy advises. These guardrails will exist for a reason, including an increase in cybersecurity attacks, risks to intellectual property, and the unknowns surrounding generativeAI.”
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities to build generativeAI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI.
Independent bodies play an essential role in this, not only with regard to the binding requirements, but also in the voluntary AI testing market.” According to Bühler, companies would be well advised to familiarize themselves with the requirements now, especially regarding the transition periods. “It
It noted decreased repatriation plans for engineering/technical workloads. “We IT leaders and advisers say the availability of such options influences CIO decisions to move workloads out of the public cloud. We started to see repatriation from the moment public cloud was mainstream,” Yezhkova says.
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To achieve that, Loura recognized the need to give up time performing the technical work he loved to do more of that decision-making. 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.
She cites the work of the company’s IT Internal Tools team and specifically its creation of company tooling and generativeAI-powered applications. He advises CIOs to join colleagues on sales calls to gain that insight. “If Principal Financial Group CIO Kathy Kay takes a similar approach to Lieberman’s.
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