CIO

JULY 22, 2024

The widespread disruption caused by the recent CrowdStrike software glitch, which led to a global outage of Windows systems, has sent shockwaves through the IT community. For CIOs, the event serves as a stark reminder of the inherent risks associated with over-reliance on a single vendor, particularly in the cloud.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Turner helps drive that success by wearing two hats for the company: He oversees a product-driven organization that must develop and deliver innovative services out to hotel owners and guests continuously even as his teams continue to build out IHG’s internal technology stack and services. The company’s Speech AI managed more than 3.6

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

If you love watching “period pieces” based on life in the 16 th , 17 th , and 18 th centuries (like I do), then you’ll be familiar with sherry as the storied Spanish wine imported by the British that traveled on sailing ships to be enjoyed worldwide. However, it was easier said than done.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Mark Read, CEO of global advertising giant WPP recently told shareholders: “AI will also offer the ability to develop new business and financial models.” Jacknis agrees, noting that “It will be one of the great legal debates of this century” but reassures CIOs that this is a well-traveled path for technology adoption.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

Companies across verticals were ramping up digital functions with the increasing demand for innovation in products and service offerings, especially since the onset of the pandemic,” says Sachin Alug, CEO of talent solutions company NLB Services. “As The travel industry has lots of legacy applications and APIs.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2024

With stints at Procter & Gamble, HPE and DHL, Jaime González-Peralta landed at Radisson Hotel Group four years ago as CIO for EMEA and then became global CIO in April 2020 — a particularly complex moment due to the paralysis that the pandemic inflicted on the world of travel. A challenge for any CIO or company is to maintain focus.

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CIO

MAY 22, 2024

For CIOs seeking new sources of innovation and support in a rapidly globalizing commercial scene, regions that used to be too remote are now going toe to toe with the more established dominant players. This is impressive and important because Vietnam believes it holds a place in innovation, not just offshored services.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In response to the global Coronavirus pandemic, businesses are adopting a series of new, innovative digital technologies. Of course, adopting these data-driven solutions can make you more resilient in the face of a global pandemic or any other significant threats. Document Sharing & Collaboration Tools.

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CIO

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Multicloud is becoming a reality because big enterprise does not want to be locked into a single cloud or face huge fees to move workloads efficiently, says Stardog CEO Kendall Clark, acknowledging that the additional complexity, especially for AI, is real and expensive but maintains that demand will drive innovation for interoperability.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

We’re looking for partners who have IP and know-how they’ve built with a global perspective, so we want to have that balance of local investment but global IP,” he says. We’re starting to think of Air New Zealand as a Petri dish for innovation where we can solve some long-standing challenges in the airline industry.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

Discovery Holdings also offers financial services such as online and investment banking, medical aid, car and home insurance, and travel services to customers worldwide. Having a single view of all cloud activity makes it quick and easy to identify these issues on a global scale. Keeping pace with rapid digital innovation isn’t easy.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2023

More than 150 countries now have regulations to control how data travels across national borders, meaning that meeting data residency requirements alone is no longer sufficient. 2 These restrictions have forced some companies to change their business practices and could potentially limit where they can operate. Overall multiple major U.S.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Most CIOs recognize the advantages of cloud, the global reach it provides, and the ease with which services can be scaled up and back down again. It enables us to free our people so they can innovate and create lasting competitive advantage.” A growing number of IT leaders treat compute and storage as they would the utility grid.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Optimizing treasury management In line with the company’s innovative and technological approach, and anticipating the profound transformation of the hotel finance industry, Minor Hotels’ finance and treasury team planned an ambitious change and improvement project about 10 years ago, focused on Kyriba’s SaaS platform.

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CIO

JANUARY 18, 2023

Kim Huffman, CIO of global travel expense management platform TripActions, learned firsthand that not having a framework for what the return to the office would look like meant employees did not get the benefits of the in-person experience. Innovation efforts can also falter when collaboration experiences are uneven.

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CIO

AUGUST 16, 2024

John Lyotier, CEO and co-founder of TravelAI, recommends pondering this question by reading The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. The book explains why companies miss out on waves of innovation because managers don’t know when to abandon practices that are holding them back. Christensen.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2024

“We ask people why they leave, and they answer, ‘My boss never really knew me, never really knew the things I loved doing and working on,’” explains Kaye, who points to the complaints she once heard workers voice as they were traveling to an event, a trip they had been given as a reward for their great performance yet they didn’t want.

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CIO

MARCH 17, 2023

Although household names such as DIRECTV (television broadcasting) and Sirius XM (satellite radio service) represent concrete examples of satellite comms in the mainstream, continued investment is giving rise to more innovative and forward-looking space-based comms.

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CIO

JULY 24, 2023

CIOs in recent years have created the bandwidth they need to focus on revenue and growth, by offloading application and infrastructure management to software-as-a-service and cloud vendors, says Shankar Narayaran, president and global head of retail, CPG, travel, and hospitality at Tata Consultancy Services. Seek out opportunities. “IT

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2024

Securing the network One major aspect of Cathay’s cloud optimization plan is embracing Aryaka’s unified secure access service edge (SASE) converged networking, security, and observability platform across its global network, Nair says. Cathay is also an early innovator in making use of blockchain’s digital ledger technology.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As a 159-year-old family business, Dutch brewing company Heineken owes its longevity to a steady stream of innovation. Ing Yan says it’s already helped detect and resolve customer churn, and improve sustainability by reducing sales travel by 30% through optimal routing.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2022

By investing and innovating in infrastructure software and VMware’s broad portfolio — including multi-cloud and cloud-native capabilities — we will bring our customers greater flexibility and deliver new solutions to help them connect, scale and protect their IT infrastructure. My priorities for Broadcom are very much aligned with customers.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Kim Mackenroth is vice president and global CIO of Textron, a Fortune 302 multi-industry company with around 33,000 employees worldwide. Her global IT organization comprises five business-segment CIOs, as well as shared services provided by the CISO, CTO, and the leader of enterprise business systems. I love the talent philosophy.

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CIO

MAY 18, 2023

Ross was Senior Advisor for Innovation to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and traveled the world, visiting startup hubs and R&D labs, to uncover the latest advances that are emerging from every corner of the globe. Ross also looks at how the global economic future will be shaped and the trends that will drive the way we live.”

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Netbasequid

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Frequent reminders of the rising global temperatures call to mind an important thought: What is the effect of heat on business? Others prefer to go to the stores later in the day to avoid traveling when it’s too hot. The post How Heat Affects Global Consumer Behavior appeared first on NetBase Quid.

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Netbasequid

MARCH 3, 2021

Some brands are even innovating ahead of the consumer curve to set the pace for tomorrow’s trends. And here are some technology stats to keep in mind: By the end of 2021, global technology is predicted to worth five trillion dollars. The global AI market is expected to reach $89.8 How do they know which direction to go?

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CIO

MAY 22, 2023

With an actual quantum annealer, it is possible to map a problem like the traveling salesperson or a portfolio optimization to real qubits and use quantum tunneling to find the lowest energy state or answer. Read the results of our new Global IT Executive Survey: The Innovation vs. Technical Debt Tug-of-War.

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CIO

APRIL 28, 2023

Regulations, compliance, and how data is controlled and managed is becoming more of a critical factor globally, with more than 157 countries around the world having some form of data privacy laws, and thus putting a spotlight on sovereign clouds.

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CIO

MARCH 23, 2023

Regulations, compliance, and how data is controlled and managed is becoming more of a critical factor globally, with more than 157 countries around the world having some form of data privacy laws, and thus putting a spotlight on sovereign clouds.

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Happy Market

JULY 31, 2020

In this episode, we’ll hear from Orion Brown, founder of the Black Travel Box & Brand Management Consultant on her opinion and experiences about diversity in consumer insights. My guest today is Orion Brown, founder of The Black Travel Box and brand management consultant. Twitter: [link]. 00:00:29] Orion Brown: No problem.

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Engage3

MAY 22, 2024

Before joining CoolerX, where he currently serves as President of this innovative in-store retail media tech startup, John was the President and Chief Executive Officer at KKR owned Cardenas Markets, where he led the effort to double the size of this $1B+ Hispanic food retailer. I like the simple breaded steak with rice and beans.

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Engage3

MAY 22, 2024

Before joining CoolerX, where he currently serves as President of this innovative in-store retail media tech startup, John was the President and Chief Executive Officer at KKR owned Cardenas Markets, where he led the effort to double the size of this $1B+ Hispanic food retailer. I like the simple breaded steak with rice and beans.

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Engage3

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Scott received his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his BA in Global Business from Arizona State University’s W.P. To introduce them to new products, to focus on innovation, to help solve new problems. Carey School of Business. It’s just quick, quick decision making. EB: I love that.On SM : Any time, Ed!

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 19, 2021

Whether it is due to the environment or human innovation, life progresses. A time that world leaders and innovators refer to as the fourth industrial revolution. With the stock market also hitting record highs, decentralized and centralized investments seem to be doing well during the global pandemic.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 22, 2021

When you think about tech innovation, the construction sector probably doesn’t come to mind immediately. That’s starting to change, though, and construction firms everywhere are embracing innovations like big data. The industry is notoriously slow and expensive, costing the global economy an estimated $1.6 Sustainability.

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Timo Elliot

MAY 17, 2023

See the SAP Innovation Awards and the SAP Better Together series of customer interviews for more great real-world innovation examples! They set out to better understand their global fanbase, reaching out to people in 20 different countries. This led to three main shifts in the company’s approach.

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Zoominfo

JULY 6, 2021

As technology continues to advance and commerce continues to globalize, the Toms of the world are dwindling as the Kates multiply. Inside sales became prevalent in the 1980s when companies wanted to sell large volumes of their products without having to travel. The Rise of Global Commerce. The Old World vs. New World of Sales.

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