Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. These executives can help lead their organizations toward increased efficiencies and improved performance through strategic implementation of the right products and services. They are among the most important hires organizations are…
Anthony Battle is leaning heavily on AI and IA — artificial intelligence and intelligent automation — to deliver digital transformation at luxury auto maker Jaguar Land Rover. Battle joined JLR as group chief digital and information officer in February 2022, after a long career managing IT for a succession of oil companies. The auto maker,…
I first heard the phrase, “Find a need and fill it,” some years ago at an “art of selling” presentation by a super salesman. Why was I at this presentation, you ask? Because as a young CIO, I was struggling with obtaining budget approvals for a range of IT initiatives. Sitting in this selling seminar,…
Nell’era della data economy e della democratizzazione dell’Information Technology c’è un cambiamento epocale che si prospetta per il CIO: occuparsi specificamente di data governance e fornire agli utenti aziendali gli strumenti tecnologici per gestire e analizzare i dati in autonomia. Come afferma Luca Seravalli, CIO di Duferco Energia (commercio di energia elettrica e gas nel…
Austria’s technology and AI landscape is located in much smaller places than the typical international hubs. The capital of Upper Austria, Linz, is the perfect example. At the core of the Linz AI ecosystem is the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT), where Austrian AI pioneer Sepp Hochreiter and his team…
I’m sure you’ve heard this before: “Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away.” Well, when it comes to a nationwide automotive group in the world’s largest automotive market, that proverb about a hundred could be hundreds of thousands. Founded in 2006 and based in Shanghai, China Grand Automotive Services Group Co., Ltd. (CGA) is China’s leading…
The EU has emerged as the first major power to introduce a comprehensive set of laws to govern the use of AI after it agreed on a landmark deal for the EU AI bill. The bill will turn into an EU law once it is approved by the European Parliament at a vote scheduled for…
AI has whet the appetites of organizations across nearly every sector. As AI pilots move toward production, discussions about the need for ethical AI are growing, along with terms like “fairness,” “privacy,” “transparency,” “accountability,” and the big one —”bias.” But ensuring those and other measures are taken into consideration is a weighty task that CIOs…
AI is increasingly being embraced for workplace enhancements across every industry — and that includes the legal world. Pittsburgh-based global law firm Reed Smith has enlisted AI to facilitate resource management, improve employee engagement, and reduce imbalanced workloads among lawyers across the firm. The resulting Smart Resourcing earned Reed Smith a 2023 CIO 100 Award…
Barely a year after the release of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, 75% of surveyed companies have already put them to work, according to a VentureBeat report. But as the numbers of new gen AI-powered chatbots grow, so do the risks of their occasional glitches—nonsensical or inaccurate outputs or answers that are not easily…