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CIOs to spend ambitiously on AI in 2025 — and beyond

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Global professional services firm Marsh McLennan has roughly 40 gen AI applications in production , and CIO Paul Beswick expects the number to soar as demonstrated efficiencies and profit-making innovations sell the C-suite. However, the higher value use cases involve new business models, which require widespread organizational change.”

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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

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Salesforce has still not publicly acknowledged Shih’s departure , but it will be hard to ignore now that she’s announced her new role on her LinkedIn profile. Shih is now a vice president at Meta and the head of a new business AI group, she said in a post there.

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AI platforms driving business transformation in the UAE: insights from industry experts

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In the last few years, we opened more international offices, and as part of our five-year strategy, AI is one of our five key focus areas, with a very strong profile and significant investment.” Another expert in the conversation, Manoj Bhojwani, Global CIO at Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank shared his company’s strategic roadmap towards AI. “In

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An archetype-based approach to driving your global workforce transformation

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Step 1: Assess the demand profile By shifting the composition of your workforce, you are bound to affect certain functions, capabilities, or products. As an example, consider the case of a global retail client. Step 2: Create the master set of archetypes After constructing a demand profile for each function, look across those profiles.

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Salesforce to cut 10% of its global workforce in restructuring plan

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Salesforce had nearly 80,000 global employees as of February 2022, up from more than 49,000 employees as of January 2020. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, the company disclosed that its restructuring plan calls for the company to incur charges between $1.4 billion and $2.1

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When voice deepfakes come calling

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Changing account or profile details By cloning customers voices,scammers are able to dupe call center agents into changing the emails, home addresses, and phone numbers associated with the accounts, which then enables them to do everything from accessing customers one-time passwords to ordering new checks or cards.

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Stepping up to the challenge of a global conglomerate CIO role

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But with these high-profile undertakings can also come opportunities for career growth. When Reliance Polyester — a subsidiary of global conglomerate Reliance Industries — completed its acquisition of polyester business Shubhalakshmi Polyesters (SPL) in March 2023, Dr.