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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. But CIOs are also working with niche consultancies and startups for skills in areas such as cybersecurity, AI, cloud, analytics, and DevOps. D ue diligence pays off.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

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The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.” And you have to partner with your vendors.”

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO

But there’s also the downside: the possibility gen AI will take companies down. The phrase “existential risk” is now everywhere—not in the sense the AI would destroy humanity, but that it would make business functions, or even entire companies, obsolete. This is the largest change management project in history,” says Greenstein.

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Cognitio’s Roger Hockenberry Cited in BizTechReports

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To give us a perspective on this question, we had the opportunity to speak with Roger Hockenberry , CEO and founding partner of Cognitio , a strategic consulting and engineering firm established and managed by a team of former senior technology executives from the U.S. All three were really good, viable companies.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO

In mid-November, OpenAI’s board fired the CEO of the company, Sam Altman, the guy who put ChatGPT on the map and ushered in a new era of corporate AI deployments. Within the next three days, nearly all of the company’s employees said they’d walk out the door, and the fate of OpenAI looked extremely uncertain.

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Empowering Engineering Excellence: Achieving a 26% Reduction in On-call Pages at Amperity with Modern Observability for Logs

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That’s the power of Amperity’s customer data platform (CDP), and the company has been driving customer data innovation for nearly a decade. We had this persistent feeling that we wouldn’t be able to scale that constant oversight as our company grew.” Book a consultation with our sales team. Interested in learning more?