In business, when a trend is forecast to grow by more than 3000% and generate cost savings of $7.3 billion globally over a five-year period, it gets noticed. Those numbers represent the projected growth of chatbot interactions among banking customers between 2019 to 2023 and the cost savings from 862 hours less of work by…
There aren’t many technology leaders who can say they helped their country chalk up their most successful Olympic Games performances to date. But that’s what former Swimming Australia general manager technology, Michael Ciavarella, and his team managed to do in the two years preceding the delayed Tokyo Olympics held in 2021. Ciavarella, who reached No.8…
Cybersecurity is at an inflection point. The move to remote working and the endpoint vulnerabilities that go with it are a permanent part of the new normal. There are multiple factors causing organizations to rethink their security strategies. For example, ransomware is now a successful business model for a new breed of smart, deep-pocketed bad…
New Zealand Rugby Chief Information and Technology Officer Angela Nash on advancing rugby’s technology edge, putting people at the heart of transformation, and learning to talk less and listen more. Watch this episode: #id629f7ffdec65b .jw-wrapper::before { content: “IDG” !important; } CIO, CIO Leadership Live Read More from This Article: CIO Leadership Live with Chief…
The construction industry has been historically slow to embrace emerging technologies, thereby unable to fully tap into new opportunities borne from innovative solutions. And the overarching consensus is that the industry needs to embrace technology to remain relevant. In doing so, the entire construction lifecycle will be transformed, from design and development all the way…
By David Andrzejek, Head of Financial Services, DataStax In construction, arguably the most important component to get right is the foundation. It supports every aspect of a building — rooms, floors, furnishings, inhabitants. The foundation must support both the “dead load” (the weight of the building itself) and the “live load” (the weight of the…
More companies in every industry are adopting artificial intelligence to transform business processes. But the success of their AI initiatives depends on more than just data and technology — it’s also about having the right people on board. An effective enterprise AI team is a diverse group that encompasses far more than a handful of…
From delivering heavy cargo through drones to automating repetitive processes, Shantanu Roy, CIO for the Indian subcontinent at global logistics firm DB Schenker, is balancing innovation with business continuity. In a free-wheeling discussion with CIO India, he throws light on the efficient use of digital technologies in the company and the emerging trends in the…
As organisations pivot to hybrid working models, cloud collaboration tools have proved they are scalable, secure, and resilient – finally dispelling any lingering concerns that the technology is not yet enterprise ready. In fact, one of the key messages from the recent CIO Cloud Transformation Summit was that this technology has dramatically transformed the business…
As CIO of an organization with a global reach, Bob Johnson keeps careful watch on the world’s economic situation. “Whenever there is an ill wind anywhere in the world, it affects us,” says Johnson, CIO of The American University of Paris. It’s not surprising then that he’s already feeling the impact of inflation: With costs…