How to win the race for IT talent

Your weekly round-up of the questions asked by readers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, and Network World. Smart Answers to questions around How to win the race for IT talent; how to use FinOps to find savings beyond the cloud; and what competitive advantages come from hiring a Chief AI Officer (CAIO)?

Tempting Talent

With the pace of gen AI adoption accelerating across all business sectors and functions, required skills are increasingly in demand. This week we reported on how IT leaders are tackling this issue when the people out there able to meet needs are in such short supply. 

This sent the readers of CIO.com rushing to Smart Answers to seek insight into how to win the battle for IT talent. The answer, gleaned from decades of human reporting, centers around rethinking job descriptions to elevate human roles with AI capabilities, rather than simply replacing humans.  

That plus focusing on skill assessment and gap analysis and developing talent rather than rigid adherence to traditional roles and career paths. There’s much more, but for that you need to ask Smart Answers yourself: 

Find out: How can IT leaders address the AI talent shortage?  

Making Savings

Also this week we reported that FinOps is expanding into optimizing outcomes for private cloud, SaaS, licensing, AI, and even traditional data centers. Thus, FinOps is no longer confined to being a key methodology for cost control and workload optimization of public cloud services. 

Everyone likes saving money, right? 

Readers of CIO certainly do, and they were keen to ask if they can use FinOps to make savings beyond the cloud. According to Smart Answers they can indeed. Large organizations are using FinOps to manage spiraling AI costs and Smart Answers can show you how. 

Find out: Can I use FinOps for IT cost savings beyond the cloud?  

H-AI-l to the Chief

The only constant thing is change, and CIOs are learning to accommodate the new role of Chief AI Officer.  

This week we wrote about how many organizations might assume that newly minted CAIO’s responsibilities should fall under those of the CIO, but the reality of the role likely calls for a different approach.  

But is it a good thing to have a CAIO? How does that role play with the CIO position, and do CAIO’s add value? You asked, and Smart Answers has the facts. 

Find out: What competitive advantages come from hiring a Chief AI Officer (CAIO)? 

About Smart Answers 

Smart Answers is an AI-based chatbot tool designed to help you discover content, answer questions, and go deep on the topics that matter to you. Each week we send you the three most popular questions asked by our readers, and the answers Smart Answers provides.  

Developed in partnership with Miso.ai, Smart Answers draws only on editorial content from our network of trusted media brands—CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World—and was trained on questions that a savvy enterprise IT audience would ask. The result is a fast, efficient way for you to get more value from our content. 

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