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How sport made CIO 100 winner Joanna Drake a better technology leader

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Responsible for global operations and technology services across company and customer websites, staff technology, and THG’s direct-to-consumer Ingenuity service and hosting business, Drake has looked to support the rapid growth of the Manchester-based firm through IPO, a global pandemic, supply chain instability, and the onset of recession.

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MLSE looks to revolutionize sports experience with digital R&D lab

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Digital solutions and data analytics are changing the world of sports entertainment at a rapid clip. From how players train, to how teams make strategic decisions during games, to how venues operate and fans engage, sports organizations are turning to software engineers and data scientists to help transform the sport experience.

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Edward Jones’ CIO Frank LaQuinta plays to win

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Frank LaQuinta is head of digital, data, and operations at Edward Jones, a role that encompasses responsibility for the financial services firm’s technology, digital, and data leadership, vision, and strategy. He came to Edward Jones in 2016 after a 30-year career in technology on Wall Street and was named chief information officer in 2018.

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Data Analytics Technology is Positively Disrupting the World of Sports

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In recent years, organized sports have been steadily changed by big data. The news programs and sports updates shown on television have been made to be more entertaining, partly because of research conducted and the information analyzed. More sports companies are likely to invest in big data in the future. Sport is no different.

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How 2 Australian sporting brands leverage human-centric digital innovation to drive new fan experiences in and out of the arena

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Creating new revenue streams, identifying untapped audiences and better engaging fans onsite and all year-round are just some of the wins iconic Australian sporting events are chalking up thanks to human-centric digital innovation. A ‘win predictor’ also gave fans real-time predictions as each match progressed.

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Leadership playbook: Michelle McKenna’s winning formula for CIOs

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A 2022 CIO Hall of Fame inductee , McKenna knows what it takes to think differently about the possibilities of technology and how to forge a powerful legacy of digital leadership. So I didn’t get to go to Harvard, but something better came along — this amazing career shift that took me into technology.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

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As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. Spoiler alert: it failed.)