Applied Intelligence News: CIO / CTO Focus
Welcome to FICO® Applied Intelligence News, your weekly update on innovations, ideas and success stories from the Intelligence Revolution. Here are this week’s highlights.
CIO.com: 5 Business Concepts IT Leaders Should Master
CIOs have heard for years that they can no longer be only technology leaders. They must be business executives, too.
CIO.com’s 2025 State of the CIO survey found that CEOs expect their top IT execs to help the organization achieve revenue growth objectives, identify data-driven business opportunities, reduce spending, enable new plans for customer acquisition and retention, among other objectives.
This article from CIO.com features interviews with several CIOs including FICO CIO Mike Trkay, discussing how they speak the language of business and get to grips with business fundamentals.
Blockchain’s Crucial Role in Taming Agentic AI
From CoinGeek: Artificial intelligence needs blockchain for the same reasons all data systems need blockchain, and those are security, transparency, and accountability. If you’re still unsure why, we have two words for you: Agentic AI.
Adding blockchain’s trust to agentic AI’s uncertainty sounds like a great idea. At the recent London Blockchain Conference 2025, several speakers and panelists also agreed it’s a great idea. Far fewer people, however, can tell you exactly how it should be implemented, and even fewer have integrated blockchain into AI model development. Once again, it’s a job for those with understanding and experience spanning both technological domains to lead the way.
FICO Chief Analytics Officer Dr. Scott Zoldi gave a keynote at London Blockchain Conference 2025, and reveals his thoughts on blockchain and AI in this CoinGeek article, alongside comments from Sebastian Thrun and Anthropic Bug Bounty Program participant Cüneyt Eti. “I think blockchain will be critical to every AI model moving forward,” said Zoldi.
Leveraging Generative AI in Enterprise Optimization: An Analysis across the Optimization Workflow
Enterprise optimization continues to evolve as organizations seek more efficient ways to solve complex business challenges. The integration of Generative AI into optimization workflows presents practical opportunities to enhance both development productivity and user accessibility. At FICO, our analysis of current market trends, customer needs, and the state of the development of the technology reveals two specific areas where GenAI can deliver measurable value when implemented thoughtfully.
The application of Generative AI in optimization requires careful consideration of where it can provide genuine business value versus areas where traditional approaches remain more effective. Rather than pursuing AI integration for its own sake, our approach is on helping organizations focus on specific use cases where GenAI’s qualities and risks best complement traditional technology in the Enterprise Optimization Workflow.
This post from the FICO Optimization Community explores:
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