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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO

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. This costs me about 1% of what it would cost” to license the technology through Microsoft.

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Marsh McLellan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO

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. This costs me about 1% of what it would cost” to license the technology through Microsoft.

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

CIO

An IT consultant is a technology professional who advises and supports business clients in designing, developing, and executing technology projects in service of business goals. As a result, making the shift to IT consulting can be a lucrative path to a fulfilling IT career. What is an IT consultant?

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10 top priorities for CIOs in 2024

CIO

Strike a balance between innovation and operational excellence In an era of creative disruption, Orla Daly, CIO at business and technical skills training firm Skillsoft, believes that IT leaders in 2024 should concentrate on achieving balance among their myriad initiatives, favoring innovation and “keep the lights on” work in turn.

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Chief data officers step into the business strategist spotlight

CIO

Developing and expanding data literacy These CDOs are also leveraging training programs and university-style frameworks to increase data acumen across the enterprise, upskill internal talent, minimize resistance to AI, capture more insights about how AI can be used to drive business outcomes, and more.

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WizeHire lands fresh cash to expand its SMB-focused hiring platform

TechCrunch

The tranche values the company at $250 million post-money, and cofounder and CEO Sid Upadhyay says that it’ll be put toward growing WizeHire’s over-100-person headcount, expanding the company’s hiring resources and “further establish[ing]” relationships with technical partners.

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Generative AI foundation model training on Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Although FMs offer impressive out-of-the-box capabilities, achieving a true competitive edge often requires deep model customization through pre-training or fine-tuning. We discuss how these powerful tools enable organizations to optimize compute resources and reduce the complexity of model training and fine-tuning.