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How sport made CIO 100 winner Joanna Drake a better technology leader

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CIO 100 winner, sports leadership and being ‘too friendly’ Having featured in the CIO 100 in 2021 and 2020 prior to topping this year’s list , Drake says the award is for her team, not just her. “If If this was about me, as an individual, I’d struggle to do a [CIO 100] submission,” she said.

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Dubai-based GMG invests in next-gen tech to improve customer needs

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In a recent PwC study, retail CEOs in the region cited key factors to achieve this being their ability to manage faster delivery times, support easier product returns, and balance stock volumes. “It The ‘last mile’ generally constitutes the biggest headache for e-commerce operators,” he says.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

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As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. Spoiler alert: it failed.)

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GenAI sticker shock sends CIOs in search of solutions

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We’re getting back into this frenetic spend mode that we saw in the early days of cloud,” observed James Greenfield, vice president of AWS Commerce Platform, at the FinOps X conference in San Diego in June. Storment, executive director of the FinOps Foundation, echoed the concern.

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How Canadian Tire CIO & CTO balances lessons learned and leading with purpose

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And with his dual titles at the company—CIO and CTO—Rex Lee is in the driver’s seat to support digital transformation and implement shared knowledge across teams and management. On digital transformation: The definition back then was to implement e-commerce. It’s actually to help the business in a secure way.

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CIOs grapple with the ethics of implementing AI

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Both executive management and boards must ensure fairness in the use of AI and guard against discrimination.” Making ethical AI a team sport Plexus Worldwide is one organization using AI to identify fraudulent account creation and transactions, says Alan McIntosh, CIO and CTO of the $500 million global health and wellness company. “We

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A perfect match: How tech promoted a small soccer team to the top

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Partnering with a company of this type allows access to cutting-edge technologies and ideas used in the context of football and sports management.” Today, Sports One is used by 80 clubs and federations of different disciplines in 18 countries.

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