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CIOs contend with gen AI growing pains

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MIT event, moderated by Lan Guan, CAIO at Accenture Accenture “98% of business leaders say they want to adopt AI, right, but a lot of them just don’t know how to do it,” claimed Guan, who is currently working with a large airliner in Saudi Arabia, a large pharmaceutical company, and a high-tech company to implement generative AI blueprints in-house.

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US port strike has CIOs prepping for supply chain implications

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And while analysts expect a somewhat swift resolution to the work stoppage, “CIOs need to stay tuned into what’s happening around the globe and be thoughtful how it might affect their ability to operate,” said Bob McCowan, CIO at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Nate Melby, CIO of Dairyland Power Cooperative in Lacrosse, Wisc.,

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Industry clouds prove their business value

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Perhaps most important, Idorsia taps into Veeva’s evolving knowledge base, which encompasses data from other customers such as major pharmaceuticals giants Merck, Bayer, and Kronos, the CIO says. Compliance is key for us, but industry knowledge is extremely important for a relatively small company.

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The rise of the data lakehouse: A new era of data value

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The giant pharmaceutical chain had put its lakehouse in place to address just such challenges in its quest, to, as Guadagno puts it, “To get the right product in the right place for the right patient.”. Those challenges are well-known to many organizations as they have sought to obtain analytical knowledge from their vast amounts of data.

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How CIOs overcome the challenges of leading IT in smaller cities

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“If we want to beat competition in the pharmaceutical industry, we must make use of next generation of technologies such as cloud, big data, and analytics. However, skilled resources don’t want to shift from a metro to a smaller city as they tend to look at it as demotion,” says Jitender Mishra, CIO at pharmaceuticals company Akums Group.

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6 BI challenges IT teams must address

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“We have more than 100,000 associates in addition to externals working for us, and that’s quite a large user group to serve,” says Axel Goris, global visual analytics lead at Novartis, the multinational pharmaceutical corporation based in Basel, Switzerland. “A And key to this is the metadata management.”

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Generative AI usage gains traction among enterprises: McKinsey

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In contrast, manufacturing-based industries, such as aerospace, automotive, and advanced electronics could experience less disruptive effects due to limitations of the new technology’s usage in these industries as most work requires physical labor, the report said.