O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 16, 2024

ChatGPT was released just over a year ago (at the end of November 2022), and countless people have already written about their experiences using it in all sorts of settings. (I And by “chat” I mean the original sense of the word—to hold a back-and-forth verbal conversation with it just like how you would chat with a fellow human being.

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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 23, 2024

They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. They start to collect robber baron rents. It’s not the price of the services we purchase from them—they give those away for free. That difference in price (and its impact on pharmaceutical company profits) shows the extent of the rent. It’s not our data.

Advertising 252

Advertising Cost-Benefit Marketing Risk 252

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

Innovation is essential, especially in the contact center as the tip of the spear in customer experience, but how do you activate your modernization plan? You really don’t know how to navigate everything, you are scared, and processes can be complicated. We recognize a special need for those customers,” she explained.

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Metrics Digital Transformation Interactive Technology 121

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2024

“It’s been known since the 1990s that a large-scale quantum computer will be able to break many of the crypto systems we rely on for security,” says Dustin Moody, leader of Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland. Companies may not be talking about it out loud,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 23, 2024

With AI poised to transform work today, we all have some degree of fear that our jobs will go the way of the Pony Express. But we miss the full story when we focus only on the fate of the famed riders. The level of change these technological revolutions bring about is monumental. We can see patterns emerging.

Uncertainty 93

Uncertainty Enterprise Technology Manufacturing 93

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change. They now use what they learn about a program to help build unit tests. The second is the tools go beyond coding assistance.

Enterprise 119

Enterprise Testing Digital Transformation Software 119

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

Dan Eddie, director of customer service at Simplyhealth, says the company’s AI-enabled email responses focus on three frequently asked questions: how do I change dentist, how do I change my direct debit date, and how do I change address or personal details? We want to ensure we have very engaged customers,” he says. “We

Interactive 128

Interactive Technology Strategy Consulting 128

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2024

But what’s most interesting, says group CIO Graham O’Sullivan, is it’s also a mutual, which means its over two million customers across the UK are also members, so they have a strong voice in how it operates as an organization. It’s about the journey, so for me, master the job in front of you because that’s where the conversation begins.

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Data Quality Digital Transformation Enterprise Marketing 100

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Take, for example, how IT’s strategic planning process paved the way for smoothly deploying personal computers throughout the enterprise. Marketing knocked on IT’s doors, IT figured out how to feed the web-based orders into the company’s order processing systems, and brochureware gave way to ecommerce. 2: “Start small.”

ROI 119

ROI Data-driven Strategy Marketing 119

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Previously, we didn’t have access to all the data about our customers because we didn’t have the direct customer contact,” says Altehed. But now we take it over, which enables us to have a relationship with our customers throughout their use of the car that they buy or subscribe to.”

Software 126

Software Testing Digital Transformation Management 126

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

When we were taken private in 2015, we were a traditional software vendor, but the market was starting to embrace the cloud. Many of our customers had already started to move their applications and it made sense they would want to transition to data management in the cloud as well. Today, we’re a $1.6

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Modeling Management IT Metrics 110

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As AI pilots move toward production, discussions about the need for ethical AI are growing, along with terms like “fairness,” “privacy,” “transparency,” “accountability,” and the big one —”bias.” The real ethical concern lies in how companies safeguard against misinformation. As McIntosh sees it, bias is fundamentally a data problem.

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Modeling Risk Strategy Software 128

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2024

Back in the day, IT culture was all about the perks. Giving people access to free pizza or dry cleaning is not about building culture — it’s a way of getting people to stay in the building for long hours and to do a hard job,” contends Tim Wenhold, chief innovation officer, COO, and partner at Power Home Remodeling.

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IT Insurance Digital Transformation Technology 124

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Before we adopted value stream management and our sophisticated processes, we actually had no idea what work was being done in each of our organizations,” Lynda Van Vleet, Boeing’s portfolio management systems product manager. In our first two years, we saved hundreds of millions of dollars. But that wasn’t our goal.

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Management Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit ROI 144

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2024

Ask your average CEO what the biggest risks of artificial intelligence are and they’ll more likely talk about missed opportunities — of AI-based business capabilities competitors are able to deploy sooner than they can. Here’s how to go about it. It’s what “digital” was all about and is even more the case now.

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Ontotext

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Excel spreadsheets Often, after we’ve brought together data that was isolated, and we are either showing something in a novel way, or just recreating something that already existed, but is now in a knowledge graph, one of the first questions is, “Can I export that to Excel?” How do you measure its utility?

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“Our mission is to build the world’s leading digital airline, and digital in its broadest sense, not just technology, but the experiences we deliver for our customers, the new business models we can put in place, the way we govern the organization, the way we deliver change, and everything in between,” says CDO Nikhil Ravishankar. “At

Digital Transformation 91

Digital Transformation Technology Modeling IT 91

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

Fits and starts As most CIOs have experienced, embracing emerging technologies comes with its share of experimentation and setbacks. We didn’t start with a very clear idea of what an LLM could do.” We wanted [responses] to be factual but also empathetic. How do you agree what is good and bad?

IT 95

IT Experimentation Cost-Benefit Metrics 95

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Today, there is general consensus that we live in an “Information Society” and work in an “Information Economy.” It is high time to get serious about information management. Executive briefings and annual reports are full of “this is how much we are spending on hot new technologies” factoids.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When employees disengage from work — often called quiet quitting — it starts a ripple effect that can damage everything from their career trajectory to your team, company, and the global economy. Unfortunately, only about 23% of the world’s employees are engaged at work. Gallup estimates that this phenomenon cost the economy $7.8

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Measurement Cost-Benefit Management Metrics 130

Cloudera

MARCH 26, 2024

But for many enterprises, the biggest hurdle is getting started. How do you adapt a foundational model to your specific needs? What about security, privacy, and trust concerns? How much is all this really going to cost? Companies must act now in order to stay in the AI Race.

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Cost-Benefit Machine Learning Enterprise Modeling 79

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2024

Previously head of cybersecurity at Ingersoll-Rand, Melby started developing neural networks and machine learning models more than a decade ago. We were positioned correctly. We were trying to take advantage of the technology and make the right moves. We did not realize we were that far ahead.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Mark Booth: We have a growth strategy to improve our business, and to support that, we’re driving a transformation in technology and business processes. But the more challenging work is in making our processes as efficient as possible so we capture the right data in our desire to become a more data-driven business.

Data Lake 127

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Over the summer, I wrote a column about how CIOs are worried about the informal rise of generative AI in the enterprise. So, by asking about a certain company’s research, that data can become part of the public record. AI is evolving faster than any tech wave we have seen in the past.

Enterprise 112

Enterprise Management Risk Uncertainty 112

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2024

Judy Balaban has seen firsthand how stepping into the professional spotlight, even on a small stage, pays dividends. It’s not about seeking the limelight. Visibility to me is about the impact you’re creating, your openness to help others reach their full potential, and your openness to learn.

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IT Strategy Management Insurance 126

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

We need to continue to be mindful of business outcomes and apply use cases that make sense.” We don’t want to just go off to the next shiny object,” she says. “We We want to maintain discipline and go deep.” So far, he says, “We believe it’s a good use case. Production is another area that benefits from AI. “At

Enterprise 132

Enterprise Cost-Benefit Forecasting Strategy 132

Data Science 101

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

“we are stronger if we all share some of our works together than if we all kept everything to ourself.” ” — ben.codes (@bendotcodes) on Threads Today we have @bendotcodes. We are going to start out talking about open source software because that is a topic not yet covered in these interviews.

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Software Visualization IT Technology 111

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

New York-based insurance provider Travelers, with 30,000 employees and 2021 revenues of about $35 billion, is in the business of risk. s unique about the [chief data officer] role is it sits at the cross-section of data, technology, and analytics,â?? But we have to bring in the right talent.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

Yet, CIOs remain both undaunted by that list and expectant about what they can achieve. We asked a representative group of CIOs to share what they’ve resolved to do. “To To adapt to these changes, we are modifying our organizational structure. How might AI change that department’s processes? And we’re learning as we go.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 4, 2023

CIOs who want to take on this role must be willing to take the initiative and speak up about the opportunities and threats they see from their unique vantage point — even in C-suite meetings. How can a CIO use that unique vantage point to help mold strategy for their organization? Start with some of these steps.

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Digital Transformation Strategy Technology Marketing 121

Data Science 101

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

. “I think this kind of technology will be essential for expanding how we interact with the world around us…” — @mad.marchy Let’s get this week off to a good start. mad.marchy What is one area of technology or development that you are most passionate about right now, positive or negative?

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 16, 2024

To address this, today, we are announcing the availability of larger environment classes in Amazon MWAA. In this post, we dive into the capabilities of these new XL and 2XL environments, the scenarios they are well suited for, and how you can set up or upgrade your existing Amazon MWAA environment to take advantage of the increased resources.

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Metadata Metrics Testing Management 92

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2023

With the rise of AI, leaders are re-thinking how they drive productivity and execution within their teams. Leverage the power of asynchronous communication Productivity starts with finding the right tools, eliminating as many meetings as possible, and using documentation as a means of collaboration to work asynchronously.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2023

Instead of putting salespeople on the ground, we pioneered a business model built around mail-order catalog sales. Before long, we expanded into online sales and, today, Digi-Key offers the world’s largest selection of electronic components that are both in-stock and available for immediate shipment. seconds per click today.

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