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Briefing the board on AI: Educate to tee up investment

CIO

Still, a 2023 McKinsey report corroborated this need for boards to be briefed on AI, finding that while 33% of businesses were already using AI and 40% were planning to aggressively invest in it, only 25% had AI on their board agendas. What are the competitive and operational headwinds the company is facing that AI can address?

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Embracing neurodiversity in IT for competitive advantage

CIO

So each neurodiverse professional’s experience is unique, but speaking for myself, being neurodiverse has been a huge competitive advantage in my technology career. At the same time, at least here in the US, mental health and diversity, neuro or otherwise, have seen a massive increase in education for both managers and employees.

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Why Flexibility Is Driving the Future of Business Success

CIO

During the past few years, business leaders experienced a crash course of invaluable lessons. The businesses with the resilience to roll with the punches have fared measurably better than those lacking a fast-acting ability to protect operations, technology, and employees from crisis and chaos. It boils down to higher expectations.

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What business executives don’t understand about IT

CIO

IT was looked upon as a group of techies that performed some unexplainable job that was supposed to revolutionize the business. Beyond that, the senior executives across the business knew little of us nor did they want to know. Ever since then, IT has been accused of being too technology-oriented. But much has changed.

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Fortifying the bridge between tech and business in the C-suite

CIO

Historically, the relationship between technology and business leader has tended to be transactional: a business leader has an objective they want to meet, and they’ll ask their technology leaders to figure out how to achieve their goals. Need to embed a tool on your website to collect emails for lead generation?

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How to use LinkedIn for Competitive Intelligence

Aqute Intelligence

Competitive intelligence analysis helps businesses maintain or gain a strategic market advantage. LinkedIn, with its network of over 750 million users worldwide, is an indispensable competitive intelligence tool, and no competitive intelligence research is complete without it.

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How can businesses prepare their workforce to have the digital skills of tomorrow’s AI-powered workplace?

CIO

While the past few years have left us with a business landscape scarred by the impact of economic and geopolitical uncertainties, the current AI movement has become a rocket ship for significant transformative changes set to accelerate new opportunities. That’s why business and tech leaders must build for the future now.

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