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

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For Neeraj Kumar, CTO of Arkreach, the speed with which AI technologies are being developed itself poses a threat. It is time to shift away from the launch first, think later, mentality and concentrate on creating the future by not repeating yesterday’s mistakes, even if it leads to a delay.”

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Meet the latest Techstars Seattle cohort: 10 startups on how they’ve adapted to the pandemic

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Pradyut Paul (left), CEO, and Avinash Kunaparaju (CTO) of Bild. Founders: Pradyut Paul (CEO) and Avinash Kunaparaju (CTO). Renato Vieira da Costa (left), CTO, Dmitry Litvinov, CEO, of Brite. Founders: Dmitry Litvinov (CEO) and Renato Vieira da Costa (CTO). Nick Chua (left), CEO, and Kevin Arifin (CTO) of Edith Labs.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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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. for this year, resulting in a net gain of more than 300,000 new jobs. growth rate, which resulted in about 117,000 net new hires.)

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.”

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

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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?

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JLL reinvents itself for the AI era

CIO Business Intelligence

We do a lot of paperwork in leasing and contracts, pages and pages of legal documents in multiple languages,” which has thus far been challenging to incorporate, the CTO says. One analyst says the commercial real estate industry is adapting and changing its business model to meet post-pandemic demands and emerging technology needs.

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How this startup CEO adapted to the pandemic, economic downturn and his own fatigue

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GEEKWIRE AWARDS: Meet the five finalists for Startup CEO of the Year. In 1989, the family relocated to Seattle after Kumar’s father was hired as an engineer at Boeing. “I always felt a safety net with her there. As interest rates rose, many large tech companies started hiring freezes. where Kumar was born.

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