How Pearson’s CIO manages technical debt

A company that’s been around since the 1840s, Pearson has witnessed significant shifts in the education world and customer expectations. Modernization, therefore, is part of its DNA, and according to CIO Marykay Wells, making technical changes to an organization’s IT infrastructure is an ever-changing discipline that needs to be meticulously managed. “If we don’t do…

Nvidia’s advanced chips have no trouble getting into China, despite US restrictions

Despite extensive efforts by US authorities to keep Nvidia’s most advanced generative AI chips out of China, there is “a barely concealed network of buyers, sellers and couriers bypassing the Biden administration’s restrictions,” according to an investigative report published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. “More than 70 distributors are openly advertising online what they…

Empower your workforce to embrace AI

AI. It’s a technology that’s seemingly everywhere and that everyone’s talking about. So why isn’t AI already widely adopted for work? And how can you engage your workforce to embrace AI in their jobs? Read on for insights from the “2024 HP Work Relationship Index” that decode the common challenges to AI adoption and show…

5 best practices to successfully implement gen AI

What makes generative AI implementations so challenging? As a disruptive technology, it’s being felt in terms of both its magnitude and frequency of change. So many vendors, applications, and use cases, and so little time, and it permeates everything from business strategy and processes, to products and services. One of the unusual challenges with gen…