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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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The ‘last mile’ generally constitutes the biggest headache for e-commerce operators,” he says. In order to gear up for the continued surge in e-commerce demand, GMG deployed an expanded omnichannel ecosystem that enhances customers’ accessibility to leading sports brands through digital and mobile-commerce platforms,” 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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Is Big Data Necessary For Creating A Successful Online Business?

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In affiliate marketing, you need to select a profitable niche for your e-commerce business and then hunt for an affiliate partner who has the products available related to your niche. With this form of e-commerce business, you need to sell products for sale. Big data can help in many ways, beyond just automating the funnel.

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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.” So the SAP Sports One solution, a cloud-based sports management suite that makes it possible to visualize in real-time team performance, was developed in close relationship with the club in 2014.

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CIOs grapple with the ethics of implementing AI

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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 Here is a look at how CIOs are addressing ethical AI in their organizations.