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UK Power Networks gets smart about cloud transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

UK Power Networks was created following a merger of three licensed electricity distribution networks brought together under one roof in 2010 by EDF Energy Networks, where Webb served as head of enterprise data management.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

And when Geely bought the company in 2010, it led to a geographical expansion, but until now there’s never been such a thorough and comprehensive effort to modernize the digital landscape, according to Altehed. Even when a new factory is built in Slovakia, for instance, you don’t start over from scratch with only new systems,” he says.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO Business Intelligence

People aren’t going back and decluttering because there’s no cost to that — except in your risk profile and your decreased search performance,” says Buckley. The same issues were revealed when Microsoft launched Delve, and before that when the FAST integration brought powerful search to SharePoint in 2010. But it was.

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CDO Deepak Sharma on banking IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

As chief digital officer of Kotak Mahindra Bank, Deepak Sharma has been instrumental in driving the bank’s digital transformation, future-ready initiatives, and business model innovation strategies. As I was setting up the NRI banking and remittance platform in 2010, I started getting involved with technology.

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Leadership in Times of Digital Disruption

CIO Business Intelligence

By 2010, Netflix had grabbed a 20% share of North American viewership while Blockbuster was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and filed for bankruptcy. A global McKinsey survey suggested a seven-year increase, on average, in the rate at which companies were developing digital solutions. Blockbuster, then valued at US$4.8

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

Even though Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to shake up enterprise computing by acquiring chip designer ARM has fallen apart, the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom of 2021 looks set to continue in 2022, perhaps matching the peaks of 2015, according to a report from risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson.