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Generative AI won’t automate your way to business model innovation

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Generative AI is changing the world of work, with AI-powered workflows now slated to streamline customer service, employee experience, IT, and other fields. One report estimates that 4,000 positions were eliminated by AI in May alone. Future-proofing work now becomes a mandate and an opportunity to innovate.

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10 top priorities for CIOs in 2024

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Leveraging technologies, such as generative AI and analytics, promises to make data both more meaningful and more rapidly available in the right context. For her part, Daly is planning to keep pace with, and capitalize on, modest innovation initiatives while maintaining operations and continuing to reduce technical debt.

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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

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One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. With Databricks, the firm has also begun its journey into generative AI.

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CIOs confront generative AI’s workplace X factor

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In the rush to establish technical strategies for making good on the promise of generative AI, many CIOs find themselves running headlong into what may be their most challenging task yet: preparing their organization’s end-users — from knowledge workers and assembly line laborers to doctors, accountants, and lawyers — to co-exist with generative AI.

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EU AI Act: Sensible guardrail or innovation killer?

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While some welcome guardrails for the correct use of AI tools , others warn of a bureaucratic monster associated with it and fear that the rules could slow down further innovation. Read the first comments on the launch of the AI Act here. These must be discussed not only technically, but also in legal, ethical and social terms.

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Can the CIO role prevail over AI?

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And online education company Pluralsight conducted a survey of IT professionals in the US and UK and found that 74% worried AI tools will make many of their daily skills obsolete. For the rest, gen AI will greatly augment the power and value of the role of the CIO, he says. But their role isn’t going away.

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8 ways IT can help supercharge your sales team

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Form a strong partnership Forming an effective IT-sales partnership requires embracing a startup mentality, even at large, long-established organizations, advises Amit Vashisht, assistant vice president at retirement services firm Jackson Enterprise Technology.