Why CIOs Have A Big Stake In Data Success

AI (Artificial Intelligence) concept. getty I was recently thumbing through a new book that I was reading, titled The Quiet Americans by author Scott Anderson, about the origins of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It was then that I came across an interesting item.

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Developer Velocity at work: Key lessons from industry digital leaders

Even before the COVID-19 crisis greatly accelerated corporate digital transformations, the importance of software development to business performance had already grown significantly. Early last year, we researched more than 400 companies to quantify this importance and found a clear link between unleashing the full potential of developers and business success.

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How CIOs Can Avoid Making The Wrong Data Decisions

If you’re a CIO looking to make your mark in your company’s digital transformation journey, 2021 could be your year. As a growing number of organizations see that their CIO’s scope can go beyond the safe and sane operation of technical infrastructure, CEOs have started to turn to their “Chief Technologist” for business critical and strategic decisions that directly impact the company’s bottom line.

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The Next Decade Will Be a Leadership Game Changer

Leadership is contextual. Successful leaders set agendas and choose strategies in accordance with opportunities and risks posed by the external environment. The ability of leaders to understand and interpret the vagaries of the moment for their organisations is crucial in today’s rapidly changing world. 2020 brought that point home all too emphatically.

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The Future of Team Leadership Is Multimodal

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a shift to hybrid work models, requiring a fundamental change in leadership skills. Team leaders need to operate effectively across virtual coordination and face-to-face collaboration modes. Enriching the traditional leadership skills, future leaders must adapt four new roles for multimodal leadership in a post-pandemic world – Conductor, Catalyst, Coach, and Champion to effectively manage a hybrid workforce.

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How to Explain AI, ML, and NLP to Business Leaders in Plain Language

Your ability to explain artificial intelligence and its components to business leaders could mean the difference between acceptance and resistance. Here’s how to do it. When I visit with non-IT corporate executives and ask them about artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP), they tell me that they have initiatives underway.

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Webinar: How Digital Transformation Disrupts Legacy Leaders

Digitalization has won, but has leadership lost? Our research strongly suggests that ongoing digital transformation fundamentally challenges how leaders are seen, experienced, and understood by their workforce. Effective leadership must be better balanced with affective leadership that openly embraces greater purpose, transparency, and authenticity.

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An Appetite for AI at McDonald’s

Craig Brabec, the fast-food giant’s chief data analytics officer, discusses how the organization is using AI to boost customer experience and optimize internal operations, among other successes. As one of the most recognizable brands in the world, McDonald’s is always seeking ways to provide faster, better service to its loyal customers—and data and AI may offer an opportunity like none other.

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The CEO agenda for companies in advanced industries

CEOs and corporate leaders are awash with uncertainty due to the persistent transmission of COVID-19, shifting regional dynamics, fluctuating customer demand, and transformational technology disruptions. For industrial companies—those within advanced electronics, aerospace and defense, and automotive and assembly—the decisions made today about their strategy, products and services portfolio, and sustainable performance transformations could have widespread economic repercussions.

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