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CIOs contend with gen AI growing pains

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MIT event, moderated by Lan Guan, CAIO at Accenture Accenture “98% of business leaders say they want to adopt AI, right, but a lot of them just don’t know how to do it,” claimed Guan, who is currently working with a large airliner in Saudi Arabia, a large pharmaceutical company, and a high-tech company to implement generative AI blueprints in-house.

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How Southwest’s CIO modernized the airline through turbulent times

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Taking the helm as CIO is a major transition for any IT leader, but Lauren Woods’ experience at Southwest Airlines stands apart. I ended up leaning on my partners in the business and learning so much from them about how our airline worked and what it was like on the operational side,” she says. We’re a better airline for it,” she says.

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5 tips for better business value from gen AI

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What success looks like can vary widely and range from reducing a call centers escalation rates, a food distributors sales order processing time, or a professional services companys new employee onboarding time, to an airline that personalizes customer communications or a media company that provides real-time language translation.

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Time for New Partnership Paradigms to Be Future-fit

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Under the new paradigms, the right partners, with their solid foundation of domain know-how, will enable organisations to access specialized expertise and knowledge to navigate today’s complex business world.

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5 ways AI is showing promise as a decision-maker

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Instead of waiting on hold or navigating through phone menus, customers can instantly get answers from a virtual agent that is far more engaging and knowledgeable than past generations of chatbots. Dynamic pricing Airlines, ride-sharing services, and online retailers have long used dynamic pricing to adjust to changing market conditions.

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Delta takes off with modernized blend of mainframes and cloud

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When it comes to IT, Delta Airlines is climbing higher into the clouds even as it keeps its footing on solid ground. In partnership with AWS, the airlines started migrating many front-end applications and distributed applications that “marry” themselves well to the cloud while retaining traditional back-end workloads on the mainframe. “The

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IBM and AWS Create a Path to Modernization Via Industry-Specific Solutions

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The deliverables could be reference architectures or an industry-specific proof of concept—the goal is to offer institutional knowledge and near-turn-key solutions meant to streamline modernization and accelerate time-to-value. Sometimes it’s best practices or a solution design or some combination,” Varadarajan says. “The

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