There’s been no shortage of new tools, claims, and ideas about what generative AI can, cannot, and should not do over the past year. And despite the hype, there are only a handful of successful real-world enterprise projects applying the technology. The healthcare industry is the exception, with a breadth of generative AI use cases…
US government agencies will need to provide human oversight to AI models that make critical decisions about healthcare, employment, and other critical issues affecting people to comply with a new policy from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The AI use policy, announced Thursday, requires agencies to hire chief AI officers and…
Cyberattacks on utilities more than doubled from 2020 to 2022. It’s likely the case that the rapid growth of connected assets is outstripping security capabilities. One analyst firm predicts that by 2026, industrial organizations will have more than 15 billion new and legacy assets connected to the cloud, internet, and 5G. Security and IT leaders…
NetSuite is expanding on the generative AI capabilities added to its SaaS-based ERP offerings in October last year. The new capabilities, which include incremental feature additions to its Text Enhance offering and two new connectors for its analytics warehouse and point of sale (POS) offerings, were announced on Thursday at the company’s SuiteConnect event in New York.…
Leading a technical workforce requires a rapidly changing skillset. Gone are the days when your title allowed you to boss everyone around, rule with an iron fist, and expect a successful outcome. The mood of leadership now is all about collaboration, mutual elevation, and leading without authority. Even if you have a job title where…
Railway construction couldn’t be more laborious than in Switzerland, as the country consists almost exclusively of mountains, most of which are now spanned with bridges and riddled with holes, like the famous local cheese. The rail network is also the densest in Europe to the point where it can no longer be expanded because all the necessary…
It seems every week I’m on the phone with a CIO or other technology executive who’s either contemplating, on the verge of, or has recently gone through the process of retiring. Most struggle with it. They’ve been so heads-down doing the work that they’ve failed to properly and intentionally prepare themselves for this next chapter. …
Le aziende italiane investono in infrastrutture, software e servizi per la gestione e l’analisi dei dati (+18% nel 2023, pari a 2,85 miliardi di euro, secondo l’Osservatorio Big Data & Business Analytics della School of Management del Politecnico di Milano), ma quante sono giunte alla data maturity? Il Data Strategy Index incluso nel report rileva…
Michael Fagan, former chief transformation officer at Village Roadshow, examines the proposed changes to the Privacy Act and what CIOs in Australia need to be aware of. I received 7 unsolicited CVs and resumes in the last 12 months, from well-educated and qualified people, seeking to join the organisation where I was working. Unbeknownst to…
One of the few certainties in this world is that customers will always expect more from their service providers, and that whether they remain customers depends greatly on whether that expectation is met. And it isn’t just customers whose expectations are rising. Employees have witnessed what modern technology can do to enhance internal services and…