Tesla Vehicle Deliveries Tumble After China Factory Shutdown
A string of record quarterly deliveries came to an end in the second quarter, when Tesla handed over 254,695 vehicles to customers.
Category: General topics
Sports in Space Will Be Out of This World
With space tourism growing, extraterrestrial entertainment is the next frontier—visionaries are dreaming up new sports fit for low gravity.
North Korea Suspected of Plundering Crypto to Fund Weapons Programs
A $100 million heist from crypto project Harmony matches tactics from a string of hacks linked to Pyongyang, blockchain experts say.
Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation
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How Cairn Oil & Gas is using IT to overcome one business challenge after another
CIO Sandeep Gupta’s innovative use of technology has enabled the company to cut costs, reduce time to first oil, and manage decline in production.
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Digital twin helps NTT Indycar deliver better race experience to fans
Digital twin, AI, and predictive analytics help put fans behind the wheel of race cars in the NTT Indycar Series, including the iconic Indianapolis 500.
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Digital transformation never stops at IBM’s semiconductor plant in Québec
Exploiting extreme automation, secure operations, and a local talent pool, the computer giant’s largest semiconductor plant’s IT management evolves continuously as it develops new tech.
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JLL source-to-pay transformation proves value of automation
Born of the pandemic, the commercial real-estate company’s global source-to-pay automation system overcame localization and change management challenges to become a blueprint for a new strategic imperative.
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Kimberly-Clark’s business-first approach to digital transformation
Global CIO Manoj Kumbhat is overhauling IT to facilitate a business transformation aimed at bringing the personal-care corporation closer to its customers.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
How to enable cultural change through cloud adoption
Adopting hyperscale cloud can position your organization to react faster to the next “new normal.”
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12 tips for achieving IT agility in the digital era
The pandemic has proved IT agility is an existential imperative. IT leaders versed with agile transformation share tips for speeding up IT’s ability to create business value and navigate change.
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The 10 biggest issues IT faces today
Economic, market, and worldwide turbulence continue to reshape the CIO agenda as priorities shift mid-year.
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Mattel innovation becomes toy maker’s e-commerce core
A startup-like initiative to enrich customer engagement with limited-release collectibles during the pandemic now fuels Mattel’s direct-to-consumer online business, opening new IP-based revenue sources for the company.
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AI in the cloud pays dividends for Liberty Mutual
The insurer’s mature cloud foundation has facilitated extensive use of emerging technologies, in particular machine learning models that help deliver premium service, CIO James McGlennon says.
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Streamlining IT for agility
IT leaders share their experiences and advice for overhauling IT for speed, including cutting down on projects, shifting to product-based delivery, and spurring a cultural transformation.
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McDermott data innovations fuel business transformation
The oil rig contractor is shifting to stay ahead of sustainability trends. New products borne of IT innovations around the company’s data operations are helping it get there, CIO Vagesh Dave says.
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IT leaders take on pandemic tech debt
The past two years have seen CIOs accelerating digital initiatives as a matter of business survival. Now, those services are being reassessed for long-term value, as CIOs finally get serious about ensuring technical debt is no longer a drag.
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National Grid’s energy transformation is fueled by IT
Global CIO Adriana Karaboutis is modernizing the utility’s data stack and digitizing its grid to transform National Grid into an ‘intelligent connected utility’ capable of integrating with a range of energy sources.
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Ciena takes aim at the ‘ticket-less’ call center
The networking services company has turned to Amazon Connect to develop a cloud-based contact center geared for delivering enhanced customer service and reduced costs.
The CIO Whisperers
Veteran CIO Neal Sample: All architecture is wrong
The business executive, technologist, and former champion debater explains why you should go where the data takes you and how to avoid getting too invested in your ideas.
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Reskilling IT for digital success in a tight talent market
IT leaders are upskilling IT staff in sought-after skills to support organizational transformations — and to improve employee retention. Here, CIOs share training strategies and lessons learned.
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United transforms travel experience with Agent on Demand
The airlines’ digital customer service gives travelers access to live agents via the web when flight itineraries go awry, easing uncertainty and stress while driving significant cost savings.
Opinion
What’s next for digital transformation?
Thirty-plus years is a long time to be stuck on something. Is it time we move on?
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Backcountry modernizes for the cloud era
A complete overhaul of its ecommerce stack finds the outdoor recreational retailer poised to offer improved customer experiences and personalization just as it starts a push to open more physical stores.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
The unfulfilled promise of automation: DNA matters
Process automation brings much-needed efficiencies, but enterprise DNA is essential for the long-term strategy, ensuring business resiliency and innovation.
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7 secrets of successful digital transformations
Getting digital right requires more than executive buy-in and financial commitment. It requires a nuanced approach to strategy, implementation, and collaboration.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
CIOs can and should play a pivotal role in ESG strategy
The ability to provide transparent, data-driven insights and measure progress toward objectives makes the CIO critical to the success of any ESG strategy.
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ATD banks on B2B digital transformation
The wholesale tire distributor has overhauled its core integration layer to be 100% cloud-native in preparation to offer slick digital sales channels to B2B buyers tired of traditional call centers.
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Truist CIO Scott Case on adopting a digital transformation mindset
For Case and his team, the pandemic, combined with the company’s merger, forced a focus on serving clients that became the guiding principle of their digital transformation.
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15 most misused buzzwords in IT
The tech industry is rife with overhyped jargon. Here IT leaders discuss buzzy terms all too often misapplied by vendors and colleagues alike.
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Clean Harbors’ CIO: Hybrid approach to the cloud is a win-win
The hazardous waste cleanup giant is deploying AI and RPA in Azure cloud and integrating data with its on-premises Waste Information Network.
Movers and Shakers
At Black & Veatch, a new IT operating model enables digital opportunities
CIO Irvin Bishop says the new model ensures that the company either wins, learns, or fails fast on its digital investments – but never loses.
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SDG&E seeks speed advantage in the cloud
At San Diego Gas & Electric, digital transformation isn’t just a technology refresh but a wholesale change in its business, with speed gains afforded by the cloud being central to its strategy.
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Paul Martin: CIOs don’t retire, they go work on boards
The retired CIO and member of four public company boards knows firsthand the value of technology expertise to corporate boards. Here, he shares an insider’s view from the other side of the boardroom table.
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What is a chief digital officer? A digital strategist and evangelist in chief
A chief digital officer strategically transforms a company’s technological future in a way many CIOs don’t have the bandwidth to do.
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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era
The venerable platform continues to run critical applications while looking toward a future of open source, cloud, containers, AI, and much-needed new talent.
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State of the CIO, 2022: Focus turns to IT fundamentals
CIOs are once again walking a tightrope between innovation and operational excellence—this time, buoyed by strong LOB alliances and a lingering pandemic glow.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
3 trends driving transformation decisions in healthcare IT
At the ViVE 2022 health IT conference, CIOs had plenty to talk about as the industry transforms
Movers and Shakers
How CommScope restructured IT for better business partnership
To enable the global high-tech company’s business transformation, CIO Praveen Jonnala and the IT team asked themselves, ‘Who do we want to be?’ The result is a reimagined IT organization with empathy and humility at the core.
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UAB IT helps fuel genomic breakthroughs
The University of Alabama-Birmingham’s digital transformation is compounding what its scientific researchers can achieve. Systems that work in synergy with scientists is key, says CIO Dr. Curtis Carver.
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CIO change agents: Lessons from the front lines of IT transformations
Leading CIOs from the energy, financial, fashion, and fleet management sectors discuss how they changed their IT organizations to pave the way for business transformation.
The CIO Whisperers
Abbott CIO Sabina Ewing on becoming an IT talent magnet
The technology executive explains how to create a differentiated employee experience to drive 21st century business results.
Interview
How Blackwoods handled its CIO’s health crisis in the midst of a digital transformation
CIO Claudio Salinas was diagnosed with blood cancer in the midst of both a major platform transformation effort and the scramble to adapt to the pandemic. Here’s how he and his team stayed on course at the Australian retailer.
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Shell sees AI as fuel for its sustainability goals
The energy giant’s dual-cloud transformation includes a data lake architecture that AI chief Dan Jeavons says is catalyzing business efficiencies and will prove key in cutting carbon emissions over time.
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Rolls-Royce CIDO Stuart Hughes on leaning into IoT
The engine manufacturer is leveraging IoT data to tailor maintenance and overhaul to the individual engine rather than the product family.
Interview
Anadolu Efes CIO drives AI-fuelled data, analytics strategy
Murat Ozkan, chief information and digital officer at Anadolu Efes, the Turkey-based international beverages company, talks about how a data management strategy comprising AI and analytics will sustain further growth.
Movers and Shakers
3 IT initiatives fueling business transformation at Zebra Technologies
Who says a zebra can’t change its stripes? CIO Deepak Kaul explains how a hub and spoke data model, along with cloud-based ERP and infrastructure, are at the heart of Zebra’s changing business model.
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JLL CIO Edward Wagoner on leading change
What worked in the past isn’t going to work in the future, says Wagoner. His advice: engage and welcome the different ways of thinking that are so critical for transformation.
News Analysis
What is ServiceNow Impact? An app to keep digital transformations on track
ServiceNow is offering to help CIOs get more value from their investment — if they’ll pay just a little more.
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Disney data clean room helps advertisers leverage audience analysis
Aiming to give advertisers access to a vast quantity of audience data while protecting users’ privacy, Disney Advertising Sales has taken a data clean room approach to data governance.
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Papa Johns IT turns to Splunk for Super Bowl spike
The pizza delivery and carryout chain has established a real-time monitoring system in the cloud to ensure its pizza-making operations go smoothly, even under high demand.
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Walgreens Boots Alliance gets personal with AI
The pharmacy chain is leveraging its cloud-first digital transformation to better serve its customers, thanks to a data foundation retooled for speedier analytics and the latest machine learning technologies.
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Generac CIO Tim Dickson: Why CIO reporting relationships matter for digital transformation success
The 62-year old Fortune 1000 manufacturing company is transforming into an energy technology solutions provider, with IT at the forefront. CIO Tim Dickson shares his thoughts on how data is creating new business opportunities and how reporting to the CEO elevates IT.
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Reimagining IT at Liberty Mutual
Like many IT leaders, James McGlennon has been on a journey to transform IT to support a new era of business productivity, a move accelerated and shaped by the pandemic.
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US Xpress goes digital for the long haul
Digital transformation positions the freight carrier well in a tight market for truckers, paving the way for improved operations and data-driven decision-making.
Movers and Shakers
A platform model drives digital innovation at Zoetis
As CIDO of the global $6.7B animal health business, Wafaa Mamilli’s job is to find new areas of revenue generation.
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8 top priorities for CIOs in 2022
2022 promises to be both exciting and challenging for IT leaders. To get the most value from IT in the year ahead, tech chiefs should focus on the following key initiatives.
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Camira Fabrics weaves together EDI and API integrations
What began as a move to bring EDI management in house led to the creation of new APIs for shipping, and has opened the door to future infrastructure modernization.
The CIO Whisperers
FedEx EVP/CIO Ken Spangler on enterprise agility as an enabler for innovation
The FedEx business leader shares why the strategic operating principles of competing collectively, operating collaboratively, and innovating digitally matter more than ever.
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AI/ML at scale: The next horizon for PPG’s data strategy
At PPG, data is key not only to IT strategy, but to enabling business strategy, says Jeff Lipniskis, global IT director. With a solid foundation in place, his focus now is on being AI ready.
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Top 7 challenges IT leaders will face in 2022
Facilitating hybrid working environments and ensuring a skills match for future success top the list of tough, ongoing issues IT leaders must navigate this year.
Movers and Shakers
Digital product factories enable a new business model at Toyota Financial Services
Chief innovation and digital officer Vipin Gupta and his team turned transformation logic upside down to create a mobility-finance-as-a-service platform that TFS now offers as a white label service to other mobility companies.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Healthcare leaders: Don’t let telehealth be a pitfall
Virtual healthcare has proven its value – now, it’s time to expand and improve upon that foundation.
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10 IT resolutions for 2022
IT leaders share their visions on how they hope to transform their teams, their organizations, and themselves in the new year.
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CIOs spell out top tech priorities for 2022
AI and automation will take center stage, as cloud and collaboration continue to impact IT agendas — and IT leaders keep apprised of disprupive technologies on the horizon.
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ParkMobile’s cloud transformation paves way to new business
The parking service provider turned a business downturn at the beginning of the pandemic into an opportunity to accelerate an infrastructure shift to the cloud.
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Avery Dennison CIO Nick Colisto on enabling business innovation
The manufacturing company’s VP and CIO, and 2021 inductee into CIO’s Hall of Fame, discusses creating a culture that “can ignite creativity and agility” in a video interview with CIO contributing editor Julia King.
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What is a digital twin? A real-time, virtual representation
Digital twins are real-time representations of objects, processes, and systems that can help organizations monitor operations, perform predictive maintenance, and improve processes.
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Cross-functional teams: The new IT imperative
Blending IT and business professionals in agile teams with autonomy over outcomes is fast becoming a key factor for digital success.
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IT takes on a product mindset
The need to co-create with the business has many CIOs shifting away from IT projects in favor of a product-based approach that, like so much else in business, is a journey that takes time to nurture and succeed.
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7 digital disruption myths
Myths play an important role in history and culture, yet when it comes to digital disruption, believing in fables can be both destructive and career crippling.
Building IT Relationships
4 trends disrupting managed infrastructure services
As providers adapt their go-to-market strategies, customers must plan ahead.
Movers and Shakers
The Hanover CIO Will Lee: Our architecture must have optionality built in
The P&C insurance market is changing so quickly that Will Lee, CIO, is asking his team to focus both on near-term and long-term transformation. Critically important to the second horizon, says Lee, is an architecture that can allow the business to pivot.
Managing Innovation & Disruptive Technology
10 strategic tech trends for the infrastructure industry in 2022
The time has come for digital transformation in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Here are 10 technology trends that will shape the future of infrastructure.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Three concepts to embrace for effective digitally driven innovation
As digital transformation moves from buzzword to business priority, understanding three critical concepts – and the subtle differences among them – will help you make the right adjustments to strategies and mindsets.
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The Library of Congress goes digital
CIO Judith Conklin discusses the ongoing cloud migration and digitization of the world’s largest library — a massive endeavor to make more of its 170 million assets available to all.
Movers and Shakers
Air Products CIO overhauls IT to support business transformation
To enable the $9 billion industrial gas provider to deliver new “mega projects,” CIO Brian Galovich has put self-service at the center of the target architecture, moved infrastructure to the cloud, digitized key business processes, and updated the IT operating model.
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Winter 2021: Supercharging IT innovation
As organizations seek to accelerate their digital transformations, time to market, and development of new customer engagement channels, CIOs must find ways to sustain innovation. Read on for advice for upping innovation velocity and more.
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Lexmark’s Andy Kopp on democratizing data
The printer manufacturer’s Director of Transformation Products discusses the business impact of providing data-as-a-service with CIO.com’s Thor Olavsrud.
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Wells Fargo lays foundation for public cloud transformation
The financial firm is poised to launch a 10-year journey to overhaul its operations around a hybrid private and public multicloud architecture powered by Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
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Cushman & Wakefield dials up property sales and services with digital twins
The commercial real estate firm’s innovation mindset positioned it well to handle a business surge driven by the pandemic.
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8 tips for streamlining legacy IT
Whether for stability’s sake or to support vital business processes, most CIOs still have to retain legacy apps and infrastructure. But that doesn’t have to mean hobbling along.
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Warner’s last mile on a long cloud journey
For more than a decade, Warner Music Group has been orchestrating an all-in cloud transformation. Its adoption of networking as a service may be the final note.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
How foresight enhances strategic planning in times of uncertainty
The future cannot be predicted, but strategic foresight enables leaders to embrace uncertainty by better understanding, anticipating, and preparing for change.
Movers and Shakers
At Ingram Micro, digital change starts with the customer journey
The technology distributor’s entire digital transformation is “geared toward creating a single pane of glass for the lifecycle of customer engagement,” says CDO Sanjib Sahoo. His recipe for success includes establishing the right mindset, creating a balanced execution plan, and architecting technology to anticipate pivots.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Why gamification is a great tool for employee engagement
The rewards a gamer gets for completing levels or collecting points can be replicated in a workplace environment to improve engagement, motivate personal growth, and encourage continuous improvement.
The CIO Whisperers
5 questions with Dow’s Melanie Kalmar
Learn how this top CIO drives real business value through IT and how she fosters innovation at the 125-year-old company.
Movers and Shakers
Developing a digital culture at U. S. Steel
At one of the world’s largest steel companies, digital success springs from solid business cases, a culture of innovation, and diligent change management, says CIO Steve Bugajski.
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ADM takes process-oriented approach to IT modernization
Food ingredients supplier Archer Daniels Midland is consolidating IT systems as part of a transformation that includes standardizing many of its business processes worldwide.
Movers and Shakers
How Johnson Controls is going ‘digital to the core’
As the multinational conglomerate transforms to bring cutting-edge digital products and services to customers, CIO Diane Schwarz ensures that it is digital on the inside as well.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Why Big Tech can’t crack healthcare
Technologists cannot disrupt healthcare without a complete understanding of the operating model. Co-creation is the best path forward.
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10 impediments to IT innovation
From inefficient IT operations to an inability to upskill at pace, innovation is often undercut by ingrained organizational issues that IT leaders must change.
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7 hot digital transformation trends — and 3 going cold
The pandemic has seen organizations doubling down on true transformation. Here’s how digital initiatives are reshaping technology strategies and revolutionizing how work gets done.
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8 tips for improving customer experience
CX is the new IT imperative. Here’s how IT leaders can staff up, get agile, and spearhead tech initiatives that deliver experiences that win over customers.
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Carhartt ups its sales prospects with AI
The apparel company has developed an AI-driven tool that helps its go-to-market divisions take a coordinated data-driven approach to expanding their footprint in the marketplace.
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Fall 2021: Digital’s tipping point
Learn how IT leaders in award-winning organizations are reimagining products and services for a new era of customer and employee engagement.
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Digital twins: 4 success stories
These four companies are using digital twins to monitor operations, plan predictive maintenance, improve customer service, and optimize their supply chains.
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Customer experience: The new IT imperative
CX has become a key factor for company success, and CIOs are rethinking operations and organizational culture to ensure customers remain squarely in focus with everything IT does.
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Brown-Forman ‘digital shelf’ provides top-flight e-commerce
Amid pandemic shutdowns, the Jack Daniels purveyor doubled down on digital asset management to sell its spirits online, earning CIO Tim Nall a seat at the executive table.
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Pfizer drives digital operations overhaul
With the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst, the pharmaceutical company has accelerated its digital transformation to manage its operations and supply chain more effectively.
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7 skills of successful digital leaders
Effective digital transformation requires strong leadership. Here’s how to helm your company’s digital journey through considerable organizational change.
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4 digital customer experience success stories
Walmart, Ally Financial, and Raytheon are among the wide range of companies that have moved rapidly to build out new digital services to accommodate customer preferences.
Movers and Shakers
CVS Health puts customers at the center in product management shift
CIO Roshan Navagamuwa explains how a software engineering culture and four-layer architecture are helping $268B CVS Health become the world’s leading health solutions company.
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Papa John’s serves up AI for more efficient ordering
The quick-service chain rolls out AI-assisted call center software to help humans focus more on making and delivering its pizzas.
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