Today’s CIO can feel like a circus performer, simultaneously juggling multiple projects while making sure that none crash to the ground. The pandemic has placed added urgency to this issue, with work-from-home mandates colliding with the need to accelerate digital transformations. Soon, however, when the world begins emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, the juggling will…
Certifications for business analysts are still emerging, but there’s already a number of organizations offering exams to certify business analytics skills. Business analysts help organizations make the most of the data they collect by finding trends, patterns, and errors that might otherwise go unnoticed. Successful business analysts have the skills to work with data, the…
In spring of 2020, as the pandemic took hold in the U.S., most companies switched some or all of their employees to remote work out of necessity. What they may not have known at the time is that doing so will likely change the American workplace forever. Regardless of whether remote work was part of…
BIPOC workers, women and LGBTQ+ employees still face an uphill battle in the tech industry when it comes to representation, pay equity and workplace discrimination. According to data from CompTIA, men hold 80% of executive roles in the tech sector compared to 20% for women, and the industry employs a higher share of white workers…
In this episode we’re circling back to one of the key themes to emerge from our debut two-part episode on AI, being natural language processing. We begin talking to Hannah Sakai, director of analytics strategy innovation division with IAG, Australia’s largest general insurer, about a powerful NLP solution her and the team developed inhouse to…
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Competing with data is nothing new. Startups and industry incumbents have long known that harnessing the power of proprietary data sets can be a sustaining source of competitive advantage. However, as many data sources become commoditized and the tools to manipulate data at scale become cheaper and more accessible, the rules of competition are shifting.…
Companies have harnessed human-centered design and design thinking to craft more engaging digital experiences, the better to remain competitive in an era dominated by snazzy websites and slick mobile applications. But as enterprises embark on this journey many fail to make their products accessible for users with disabilities, thus opening themselves up to risks, including…
Replatforming is never easy – not for sales, product, marketing or engineering. The journey is peppered with Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my. Pooja Brown is VP of Engineering at Stitch Fix, and was previously the VP of engineering at Docusign, where she led a major replatforming project. Pooja is also one of the…
For Gary Brantley, the road ahead is paved with innovative technologies, and to get there, the CIO of the City of Atlanta has moved full throttle to attain operational efficiencies since the pandemic began. This has included a move to “collapse several different tools” such as redundant CRM and permitting software packages that various departments…