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

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The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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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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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

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Consider consumption-based contracts One of the best ways to align IT costs with value-generating outcomes is with consumption-based pricing, although it may seem like a higher-cost option. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan. IT leaders may also find that some work can be insourced more cheaply.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

And while CIOs are working to train internal candidates within IT and the business units for tough-to-fill tech jobs or are using contractors to fill in staffing gaps , Sengupta says those practices create talent challenges, too. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says.

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CIOs press ahead for gen AI edge — despite misgivings

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We’re seeing lots and lots of pilots,” says Gartner AI analyst Arun Chandrasekaran, who notes content creation, document summarization, sentiment analysis, and enterprise search chief among the initial use cases. Morgan explains that the gen AI is not performing the analysis to determine suspicion of financial crimes.

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What is a chief digital officer? A digital strategist and evangelist in chief

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According to compensation analysis from Glassdoor , the median chief digital officer salary is $212,811 per year, with total pay, including bonuses and profit share, ranging from $96,000 to $491,000 annually. Chief digital officer vs. CIO vs. CTO. The chief digital officer becomes an orchestrator who sets the vision and goals.”. “The