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5 pitfalls to avoid when partnering with startups

CIO

Enterprise technology leaders are actively partnering with startups to help make their organizations more innovative and agile. Co-creating with startups can help kickstart innovation , provide CIOs with access to hard-to-find skills in emerging technologies, and round out digital transformational strategies.

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Salesforce earmarks $250 million for AI startup investment

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CRM giant Salesforce today said that it would commit $250 million to investments in startups focused on generative AI, even as the company warned of the dangers of the technology. The second, Cohere, is a natural-language processing startup which, it said, aims to make language AI accessible to a much broader range of companies.

Startups 699
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Il cliente al centro: come i CIO potenziano la customer experience mentre trasformano il business

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“Siamo stati il primo negozio digitale del settore ferramenta in Italia con il nostro canale e-commerce, lanciato come estensione del punto di vendita fisico nel 2002. Il marketplace ci permette di fare onboarding dei seller e generare vendite e, in questo contesto, l’IT assume un ruolo sempre più strategico”.

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A comparative assessment of digital transformation in Italy

CIO

The CIO is an information and innovation officer, driving implementations that have direct value for business growth. The goal is not true e-commerce, which is very difficult for the type of product we sell,” Roero says, “but a more effective model of online channel management.”

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

CIO

SAP has appointed a new global head of artificial intelligence, Walter Sun, after the previous post-holder quit to found her own AI startup. As for Xu, after leaving SAP, she co-founded Nyonic, a Berlin-based startup that aims to build industry-focused, multilingual AI models that meet European ethical and legal standards.

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Digital transformation: nei progetti a tutto campo la chiave è il change management

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Il digitale è riconosciuto come forte leva di business”, conferma Alessandra Luksch, Direttore dell’Osservatorio Digital Transformation Academy e dell’Osservatorio Startup Thinking del Politecnico di Milano, che dal 2016 mappa i trend della spesa ICT delle organizzazioni in Italia.

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What is digital transformation? A necessary disruption

CIO

Executives know that if their businesses don’t continually evolve through digital transformation they risk being overtaken by competitors or shut down by startups that are more efficient, more effective, and more engaged with their customers. Next, “Horizon 2 is about innovating business models.