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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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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLennan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. But the CIO had several key objectives to meet before launching the transformation.

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AI-Enabled Contingency Planning is More Accessible Than Ever

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

We live in a time of uncertainty, not unpredictability. Each business unit plans as appropriate but in a connected fashion that achieves better alignment with strategy and objectives and better coordination in executing the plan. Or, at least enduring the least amount of damage.

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Marsh McLellan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLellan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. But the CIO had several key objectives to meet before launching the transformation.

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Escaping POC Purgatory: Evaluation-Driven Development for AI Systems

O'Reilly on Data

They also realized that, although LlamaIndex was cool to get this POC out the door, they couldnt easily figure out what prompt it was throwing to the LLM, what embedding model was being used, the chunking strategy, and so on. They used some local embeddings and played around with different chunking strategies.

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Dell cuts jobs amid growing economic uncertainties

CIO Business Intelligence

Medium to long-term strategy Analysts point out that while several tech companies are reducing their workforce, Dell is one of the few who has recorded weak financial performance. There are primarily two points to consider here,” said Pareekh Jain, CEO of EIIRTrend & Pareekh Consulting.

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Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s no surprise, then, that according to a June KPMG survey, uncertainty about the regulatory environment was the top barrier to implementing gen AI. So here are some of the strategies organizations are using to deploy gen AI in the face of regulatory uncertainty. We’re still in the pilot phases of evaluating LLMs,” he says.