CIO

MAY 15, 2023

Retail, entertainment, music, and banking have largely moved online. Tesla, Uber, and many other stories of business innovation have this in common: Their business models have technology at their cores. Tesla, Uber, and many other stories of business innovation have this in common: Their business models have technology at their cores.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as Azure OpenAI have been drawing attention in recent months, and there is widespread consensus that these technologies can significantly transform the retail industry. How can Generative AI speed innovation in retail?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“Ensuring you have a deep understanding of your partners’ business, taking extreme ownership of challenges, and being vulnerable are all tenants of building tight partnerships,” observes Andrew Palmer, CIO for global retail markets at Liberty Mutual Insurance. Failing to align IT and business interests gradually erodes hard-earned trust. “It

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

During the beginning of the pandemic, many businesses went digital, and the retail industry is no exception. Technologies became a crucial part of achieving success in the increasingly competitive market, including big data and analytics. Key advantages of big data in retail. Source: Statista. Staying on top of trends.

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CIO

JULY 7, 2023

They also provide a foundation for unprecedented business innovation and transformative new digital experiences. Technology innovation for our times Even in a challenging global economy, 2023 is poised to be a big year for private 5G in the edge setting. As edge applications grow in significance, so will the emphasis on private 5G.

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CIO

JULY 26, 2023

The future of retail is “phygital,” as every retail and ecommerce publication on the internet is screaming right now. If you’ve never heard the term before, it’s a portmanteau of “physical” and “digital” – and represents the merging of the two forms of retail and shopping. How do they do that? With data of course.

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CIO

JULY 20, 2023

Few verticals have undergone as massive a change as retail in the last couple of years. Driven by cutthroat competition and significant shifts in customer expectations, retail companies are striving to align themselves with the changing landscape, with IT playing a crucial role in their ability to achieve this.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. 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.

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CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Leading CEOs are using it to create new processes and competitive differentiation. Respondents represent 12 industries, among them banking, investment and insurance, manufacturing, automotive, retail, healthcare and the public sector. The report identifies that most CEOs view GenAI as transformational.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

However, the company faces intense competition in the cloud computing market, particularly from Microsoft, which has emerged as a formidable rival. These numbers underscore the intensifying competition in the cloud computing sector and hint at Amazon’s drastic decision to reduce its workforce to maintain profitability.

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CIO

JULY 17, 2023

At the hub of affairs is Dhaval Mankad, Vice President of Havmor’s IT operations running like a well-oiled machine as its 72,000 retail stores dispense sweet goods in 18 states and 5 union territories across India. Could you tell us how digital innovation works in the backend of a customer-facing business like Havmor?

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CIO

JULY 12, 2024

About six years ago, Ulta Beauty formed a dedicated innovation team to identify technologies that resonate to improve the customer experience. In a fiercely competitive industry, where CX is critical to differentiation, this approach has enabled them to build and test new innovations about 10 times faster than traditional development.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To achieve its vision, Henkel laid down a five-year strategic roadmap that involved reshuffling the IT organization, creating a new digital unit, consolidating CIO and CDO venture activities under one roof, and building global innovation centers in hubs like Berlin, Shanghai, Bangalore, and the US.

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CIO

MARCH 27, 2024

Jeff Wong, global chief innovation officer at EY, says even if they’re not yet required to make a change, CIOs can already start planning NIST-approved algorithms into their cybersecurity upgrades. CIOs can also ensure they assign somebody to lead in the transition, and that they have the funding and expert staff they need.

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CIO

OCTOBER 9, 2022

More competition and more manufacturers will lead to economies of scale and innovation – the rapid evolution of mobile phones and laptop computers gives us a potential trajectory. This will all be fixed, probably a lot faster than most of us expect. Some are well on their way. What kind of employees would such a brand attract?

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In a perfect world, enterprise IT should be funded at levels that enable existing operations to function outage– and security incident–free with a smattering of investments in a manageable portfolio of competitive advantage–producing innovation initiatives. Is this too much to ask? Vince Kellen, Ph.D.,

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Organizations increasingly rely on these tools as they seek to modernize infrastructure, move to the cloud, automate workflows, and gain competitive advantage. Retail : Support for Amazon returns, and upgrades to the company’s Shopify integration, supporting quantity rules and volume pricing.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Leading technology vendors are either launching their own large language models (LLMs) or leveraging existing LLMs to ensure their customers can transform, innovate, and disrupt their respective industries and not churn to the competition. In the Middle East, AI- and cloud-led business transformation is a top priority for enterprises.

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CIO

JANUARY 24, 2025

Now, however, generative AI (genAI) and other forms of digital innovation are helping drive efficiencies closer to the end customer. Engagement with leadership and upskilling for personnel help develop the conditions for AI innovation and experimentation to take place, she says.

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CIO

JUNE 27, 2024

Typically associated with startups and small developer teams, hackathons are becoming increasingly popular with enterprise CIOs as a means for jump-starting innovation. So actually, we want to spark IT’s passion for innovation through hackathons,” Tsai says. It was] the same in our company.

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Engage3

JANUARY 15, 2025

In the fast-paced world of retail, staying ahead means leveraging Retail Competitive Intelligence to craft strategies that drive profitability and customer loyalty. At the forefront of this innovative approach is Engage3 , a leader in pricing intelligence and Price Image Management. Heres how they do it: 1.

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2024

Choose the overall experience At the same time, e-commerce is moving more toward ultra fast fashion, a development led by Chinese fashion retailer Shein. Now we’re looking at code development, and how we can come up with innovative ways to use generative AI in our product development and marketing, but that’s more exploratory.”

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CIO

JULY 16, 2024

“The gap between genAI usage and implementation reflects the varying depths of organizational AI maturity and integration,” Kowski said, adding that organizations should prioritize their specific needs over geopolitical competition between the US and China.

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CIO

MARCH 2, 2023

Pick n Pay’s bold plan to modernize infrastructure and drive efficiency is beginning to pay dividends as its migration to AWS was successfully completed last year, signaling the digital ambitions of this retail giant. year-to-date, with on-demand year-to-date growth in excess of 100%. That was really the catalyst.” billion ($5.3

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CIO

MAY 23, 2024

In its latest MarketScape on worldwide SaaS and cloud-enabled large enterprise ERP, IDC says, “The pace of innovation is increasing, and ERP vendors focused on AI, ML, natural language processing (NLP), chatbots, robotics process automation (RPA), and genAI are critical partners to consider for the digital future.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

An omnichannel retailer, for example, would want a team organized around order fulfilment, an area where retailers are constantly challenged to do better to meet customer expectations and best their competitors at doing so. It’s a common scenario. How much time do I have to be successful?

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CIO

MARCH 31, 2022

To date, many of those appointments have been concentrated in the insurance, banking, media and entertainment, retail, and IT/technology verticals. Capital One appointed the first CDO in 2002. Only a few organizations followed suit in the decade that followed. Chief data officer resume. Landing a CDO job requires a strong resume.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2023

The survey found tension between business leaders seeking competitive advantage, and IT leaders wanting to limit risks. Those in retail or financial services were most likely (62%) to report active use of it, closely followed by manufacturing, production, and distribution (59%), and technology (56%).

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CIO

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Enterprises are looking to AI to boost productivity and innovation, and one-third of organizations with an interest in the technology have hired or are looking for a chief AI officer, according to new research from Foundry, publisher of CIO.com. Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Strategy

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Engage3

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Why Accurate Competitive Pricing Data is Critical for Retail Success In todays hyper-competitive retail landscape, staying ahead means understanding your competitors pricing strategies with unmatched precision. However, traditional methods often fall short, leaving retailers with incomplete, outdated, or inaccurate data.

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Intelligence Node

MAY 28, 2024

Today’s digital retail landscape is increasingly competitive, and the ability to predict and proactively respond to market changes has become the need of the hour. The post Driving Retail Innovation with AI-Powered Predictive Pricing appeared first on Blog. Traditional pricing strategies, which are.

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CIO

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Dutch insurance and asset management company Nationale-Nederlanden, part of the NN Group, has a presence in 19 countries and serves several million retail and corporate customers. In this context, technology must be seen as an ally that improves people’s work, and develops more complete and competitive services for society.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Creative Village was also built in downtown Orlando to serve as an urban innovation center complete with mixed-income residential buildings, student housing, office and creative space, and more. The city also built the Central Florida Research Park, a campus-like environment for businesses located nearby the University of Central Florida.

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CIO

MAY 1, 2023

Technology innovation is happening at breakneck speed, creating new opportunities and threats for companies of all sizes and industries. In this new reality where a bank can go under in two weeks, and new innovations are fundamentally changing our ways of life (e.g.,

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

Retail stores and smart homes can use AI at the edge technology to personalize user experiences. You can learn about more use cases that are finally in the realm of possibility within retail here. Great innovation begins with great data; learn more about how you can capitalize on your edge. Personalization.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

Oracle’s crown jewel, its Autonomous Database technology, represents a pinnacle of innovation in the cloud space,” says Paul Lee, co-founder and CEO of patent software company Patlytics.ai. The vendor’s database expertise is also a major plus for the cloud. These days that includes generative AI. That’s not the case today.”

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CIO

MAY 27, 2024

For CIOs and other tech leaders, this means a shift in mindset to not only keep tech costs in check, but adopt a more entrepreneurial approach to explore how to drive business revenue and competitiveness. A rigorous analysis will invariably reveal that technology has fundamentally altered how they should think about their competition.

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