As much as any big brand, Domino’s Pizza leans heavily on data to improve customer service. But the data science team at the world’s No. 1 pizza maker employs a secret ingredient to augment its decision-making: a machine learning (ML) hosting platform that helps it deliver models to production more quickly.
Tag: IT leadership
Getting to know—and manage—your biggest AI risks
Many organizations are generating significant value with artificial intelligence (AI) and recognize that this technology will shape the future. At the same time, organizations are discovering that AI could expose them to a fast-changing universe of risks and ethical pitfalls that regulators signal they’ll be watching for—and potentially penalizing.
J&J CIO: Embed Data Science Across the Enterprise
Veteran IT leader and early AI adopter Jim Swanson explains how he’s integrated AI and data capabilities with the business to create exponential change. In Jim Swanson’s personal life, AI is omnipresent.
Leading future-ready organizations
In the past year of navigating an unprecedented pandemic, organizations across all industries were forced to pivot their business and operating models to adapt to rapid technological change. Many companies quickly started investing in and practicing Agile development methods.
Four ways boards can shape the cloud agenda
With the mounting evidence of cloud’s ability to drive significant business value , more and more companies are considering cloud’s role in fundamentally reshaping the competitive posture of their business
Seven principles for achieving transformational growth
Growth creates value: companies that outperform their peers on growth post 30 percent higher total returns to shareholders. Growth also benefits organizations and their customers, opening up new opportunities for employees and creating additional resources for innovation.
The CFO’s role in capability building
It’s becoming increasingly clear that one of the most critical responsibilities of CFOs in coming months will be supporting efforts to build new capabilities—the mindsets and behavior an organization needs to reach and sustain its full potential—and raising the bar on talent development.
How IT leaders stay on the right side of innovation with open cloud (VB Live)
Presented by Supermicro With cloud computing accelerating worldwide, companies need to determine what best fits their needs in compute, storage, networking, and the software stack. Join this VB Live event to learn how open clouds reduce latencies, improve innovation, and more.
Three Key Steps to Prepare for Data and AI Leadership
With Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI) transforming business, it is becoming almost certain that every executive will sooner or later need to leverage these technologies to advance their organisation – and their career. However, doing so carries a heavy intimidation factor for most leaders, which is often exacerbated by job descriptions for leadership roles related to data, analytics or AI featuring laundry lists of skills
Attention All CIOs: The 2022 Budgeting Season Is Already Under Way
It’s time to start budgeting for 2022. The annual budgeting season – like death and taxes – is inescapable. Whether you realize it or not, the 2022 budgeting season has already begun. As Ben Franklin so aptly pointed out, the only two certainties in life are death and taxes.
How capability building can power transformation
Picture this: an international manufacturing corporation with thousands of workers is spun off from its parent. In less than a year, its stock price drops more than 80 percent, morale plummets, and measures of the organization’s health drop into the bottom quartile of its sector.
It’s time for businesses to chart a course for reinforcement learning
Leaders looking for new ways artificial intelligence (AI) can provide a competitive edge may have found the 2021 America’s Cup Match as exciting for one team’s groundbreaking use of reinforcement learning as for its radical boat designs and close races.
Perspective Taking: A Brain Hack That Can Help You Make Better Decisions
In business and in life, many of our interactions benefit from perspective taking, or our ability to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes. In a unique corporate partnership with SEB, a leading Swedish corporate bank, The Wharton Neuroscience Initiative, explores the neural basis of perspective taking and its effects on collaboration and business outcomes.
Skills and traits of elite IT automation teams
When it comes to transforming organizations these days, automation is king. Automating IT and business processes took major leaps forward in the wake of the pandemic, and the trend is expected to roll on this year, as organizations navigate a post-pandemic business environment.