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Banking on customer experience and security via technology-based innovation

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Customer experience and security But as in most industries, customer expectations and security challenges continue to grow along with technological advances. Banks continue investing in technologies that make the customer experience seamless, including mobile apps and peer-to-peer payments.

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5 pitfalls to avoid when partnering with startups

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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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CIO as enabler: Building an ecosystem of innovation partners

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There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. I would say, right now, I’m a technologist last.

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The Inside Startup: Meet Cisco’s Emerging Technologies and Incubation Group

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Startup” means risk. But despite the high risk/reward framework, these Victory-or-Bust ventures don’t have the market cornered on agility and innovation. But despite the high risk/reward framework, these Victory-or-Bust ventures don’t have the market cornered on agility and innovation. Why not both? Miss a deadline?

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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.

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How to create a culture of innovation

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A shift has occurred and IT is now viewed as an equal partner in driving business growth with CIOs recognized as the de facto leaders of innovation. Here, they and others share seven ways to create and nurture a culture of innovation. Innovation is a double-edged sword: It is critical to growth — but that’s also what makes it risky. “It

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India’s advisory on LLM usage causes consternation

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India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has caused consternation with its stern reminder to makers and users of large language models (LLMs) of their obligations under the country’s IT Act, after Google’s Gemini model was prompted to make derogatory remarks about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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