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Step 1 to becoming a business-savvy CIO

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Business alignment is often heralded as a key tenet of successful IT strategies. Popular ways of ensuring IT efforts align with business goals range from co-developing strategic plans with executives on the business side of the company to actively collaborating with business users on projects aimed to derive more value from their efforts.

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How to create an effective business continuity plan

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The tumultuous events of the past several years have impacted practically every business. And with the number of extreme weather events, cyberattacks, and geopolitical conflicts continuing to rise, business leaders are bracing for the possibility of increasingly more frequent impactful incidents their organizations will need to respond to.

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Exposure to new workplace technologies linked to lower quality of life

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The researchers discovered that workers who used three of these technologies — AI and machine learning software, wearable trackers for surveillance, and robotics — reported a lower level of health-related well-being, according to a widely used standardized measurement. That means it’s key to the business’s survival.

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UPS delivers customer wins with generative AI

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Bala Subramanian, chief digital and technology officer at UPS, sees the company’s foray into generative AI as not only a winner for its customer contact center agents but something to be introduced to other business processes in the near future, he says. As a result, UPS is investing in training the model on its corporate data set.

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Microsoft and Cognizant team up to boost enterprise Copilot adoption

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But the partnership seeks to go beyond Cognizant’s internal use, with Microsoft and Cognizant teaming up to promote generative AI use across Cognizant’s global client base through the advisory and digital transformation services arm of Cognizant’s business.

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

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These leaders and other stakeholders came together into a gen AI governance community and included the institute’s privacy officer, business leaders, communications, HR, members of the clinical side — “Everyone from physicians to philanthropy,” she says. People use it for general research, too. “We Can our staff use this?

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What is a project manager? The lead role for project success

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Each phase emphasizes a different mix of project management skills and knowledge areas, including integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk procurement, and stakeholder management. Essentially, any business that has projects needs project managers.