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Harnessing the Power of Analytics For Direct-to-Consumer Businesses

Smart Data Collective

Data can feel like an inaccessible word for small businesses. You want to use business intelligence effectively, but you feel that you don’t have the resources at your disposal to do so. Competitor analysis: You can also use data to analyze the larger market, helping you to stay informed about what your competitors are up to.

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Storytelling for CIOs: From niche to bestseller

CIO Business Intelligence

Storytelling is as old as humanity itself and it’s core to the fundamentals of faith, politics, and marketing. I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said.

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The art of selling: IT budget approval made easier

CIO Business Intelligence

Sitting in this selling seminar, my persuasive difficulties with the CEO and CFO became immediately apparent to me. These days artificial intelligence has the full attention of the C-suite and board. I first heard the phrase, “Find a need and fill it,” some years ago at an “art of selling” presentation by a super salesman.

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Pace of Tech Demands a Smarter Learning Approach. Bring On Community-Driven Learning

CIO Business Intelligence

Businesses of all types have fought to solve these problems. Some conduct ever more advanced offsite or onsite seminars and training – but these are costly, take time, and don’t adapt fast enough to incoming needs of the business and teams. Hiring for new skills is expensive and also too slow.

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Stepping up to the challenge of a global conglomerate CIO role

CIO Business Intelligence

To keep myself updated and aligned with the latest in technology I attend seminar, webinars, and the physical events. I am also a part of several CIO groups where I get to know what is happening in the market. We must match the business requirement as per the market trends.

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Upskilling ramps up as gen AI forces enterprises to transform

CIO Business Intelligence

And the marketing department has launched Generative AI University in the marketing team curriculum,” Vuicic says. Marketing takes the lead on gen AI IT services firm Ensono has over 3,400 employees, just 27 of whom are in marketing. But it’s the marketing department that’s been spearheading generative AI.

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The Importance of Identity Management in Security

CIO Business Intelligence

The solution, we’ve seen in discussions during CIO roundtables, seminars, and dinners, is to adopt a privileged access identity management approach. Then there’s the matter of OT and manufacturing systems which may or may not be connected in some way to ordering, fulfillment, sales, marketing, financial reporting, and regulatory systems.