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8 ways to detect (and reject) terrible IT consulting advice

CIO Business Intelligence

Taking any consultant’s guidance at face value is risky and potentially enterprise and career damaging. Before embracing any external advice on any IT or business issue, check out the following eight ways to determine whether a consultant is truly on track.

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5 common consultant negotiation tactics and how to protect your interests

CIO Business Intelligence

To execute a successful digital transformation initiative, you are likely to establish consulting provider relationships. Unfortunately, many organizations find themselves susceptible to the tactics used by consultants to manage their risk and optimize a commercial arrangement to their benefit. This takes planning.

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Application Development Consulting Helps Companies Get the Most of AI

Smart Data Collective

The market for AI is growing due to its obvious benefits. Many of them have utilized many management programs but finding the most best application without the assistance of an experienced consultant can be a challenge. Some new consulting agencies specialize in helping companies select the best applications.

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IBM and Tata Consulting Services collaborate to drive hybrid cloud adoption with IBM Power Virtual Server

IBM Big Data Hub

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a global information technology services and consulting company with headquarters in Mumbai, India. Since its founding in 1968, TCS has been providing world-class services and consulting to clients, consistently delivering transformational results.

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How IBM helps clients accelerate app modernization and control costs

IBM Big Data Hub

To accelerate the hybrid cloud journey and control costs, it is critical to prioritize specific execution and transformation steps. IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator understands complex program interactions in the current state of applications and microservices and can perform a what-if analysis of possible target states.

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CIOs not entirely sold on generative AI copilots

CIO Business Intelligence

A new breed of AI assistant has set its sights on the enterprise user in recent months, with Microsoft and other vendors promising huge productivity gains that offset the cost. Its Copilot for Microsoft 365, a high-profile offering among the growing list of AI agents, costs $30 per seat per month, with a 300-seat minimum. No,” he says.

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3 areas where gen AI improves productivity — until its limits are exceeded

CIO Business Intelligence

But the biggest benefit was to new and lower-skilled workers, who saw a 34% improvement. In February, McKinsey released the results of a survey showing that 84% of telcos using gen AI for customer services were seeing cost savings, and 45% of them reduced costs by 6% or more.

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