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CIOs in financial services embrace gen AI — but with caution

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Conscious of the recent history of disruption to financial services, the sector’s technology leaders are already looking for opportunities in AI. Generative AI is starting off a new age of exploration in IT,” says Frank Schmidt, CTO at insurance firm Gen Re. We’ve issued guardrails for the use of AI,” says Schmidt at Gen Re.

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CDOs’ biggest problem? Getting colleagues to understand their role

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One possible definition of the CDO is the organization’s leader responsible for data governance and use, including data analysis , mining , and processing. In many cases, CDOs focus on business objectives, but in other cases, they have equal business and technology remits, according to the authors.

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CTOs vs. Attrition: Tips To Keep Tech Employee Churn Low

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Culture misfit. This is where as a CTO you need to ensure that your team is not burning out by avoiding repeat work through automation. Culture fit. CTOs world over need to understand and acknowledge that ‘culture’ as we knew it is now dead. The quality of work being lesser than expected. Allow me to demonstrate.

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Better, faster decisions: Why businesses thrive on real-time data

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In Foundry’s 2022 Data & Analytics Study , 88% of IT decision-makers agree that data collection and analysis have the potential to fundamentally change their business models over the next three years. Nichol ( @PeterBNichol ), Chief Technology Officer at OROCA Innovations.

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8 pressing needs for CIOs in 2024

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“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. Your employees in every department are your first line of defense,” he says. “So

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

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Her comments tallied with the BCS/CBF research, which found that Black women rarely advanced into more senior technology roles, with women of all ethnicities poorly represented at IT director (17%) and programmer/software developer level (16%). Editor’s note: BCS did not have figures for Black women in these roles. ]

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Attend the 6 Feb @Cloudera Federal Forum: For the Analyst, Data Scientist, #BigData Technologist in DC

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The speakers are a world-class-best mix of data and analysis practitioners, and from what I can tell the attendees will be the real action-oriented professionals from government really making things happen in Big Data analysis. Mike Olson – Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Bob Gourley, Editor, CTO Vision.

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