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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. The only sustainable way for us to prove this is break the barriers for underrepresented groups as they enter the tech world,” she says.

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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Seattle-based home services technology company Porch Group added two new board members : Imagination Capital co-founder and Managing Partner Rachel Lam , and former Aviva plc Group CEO Maurice Tulloch. Read the story. Lisa Nelson. Microsoft Photo). Athira Photos). Lessen Photo).

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Oracle touts AI as major driver of Q3 gains

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle’s latest financial report boasts substantial increases in revenue, net income, and earnings per share, largely thanks to cloud sales, which the company was quick to credit to the rise of AI. Despite the fact that we are opening new and expanding existing cloud data centers very, very rapidly.”

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CIOs eager to scale AI despite difficulty demonstrating ROI, survey finds

CIO Business Intelligence

After years of IT expanding into non-traditional responsibilities, we’re now seeing how AI is forcing CIOs back to their core mandate,” Ken Wong, president of Lenovo’s solutions and services group, said in a statement. For Neeraj Kumar, CTO of Arkreach, the speed with which AI technologies are being developed itself poses a threat.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

Ryan Downing, CIO of enterprise business solutions at Principal Financial Group, saw how this challenge impacted his organization. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. for this year, resulting in a net gain of more than 300,000 new jobs. Last year saw a 1.2%

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

“Some organizations have been innovating, transforming, and growing so fast that they haven’t had time to clear up older cost structures that start getting in the way,” says Stewart Buchanan, research vice president on Gartner’s CIO team. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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10 most difficult-to-fill IT roles — and how to address the gap

CIO Business Intelligence

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. The net result? S&P Global, for example, is entering its AI 2.0