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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

CIO Business Intelligence

With stints at Procter & Gamble, HPE and DHL, Jaime González-Peralta landed at Radisson Hotel Group four years ago as CIO for EMEA and then became global CIO in April 2020 — a particularly complex moment due to the paralysis that the pandemic inflicted on the world of travel. How many people, then, make up Radisson’s IT area worldwide?

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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

CIO Business Intelligence

For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. Moreover, IHG’s cloud backbone enables it to take advantage of emerging SaaS offerings, such as Speakeasy AI conversational chatbots, and deliver its own IHG Voice Cloud AI service to help guests and reception desk clerks at hundreds of hotels.

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CIOs set their agendas to achieve IT’s ultimate balancing act

CIO Business Intelligence

A business-aligned technology strategy is built on architecture and agility, the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of better alignment,’’ he explains. Truly listening to what the business wants and needs and asking questions while empowering his team to experiment is of paramount importance, agrees Eben Hewitt, CIO of Hyatt Hotels. “My

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The Art of the Possible: Meeting Innovation Demands in the Public Sector

CTOvision

Agile innovation requires a unique blend of mission engagement, commercial partnerships, and creativity in procurement. Build reference architectures and allow for customization. At Cognitio , we advocate a simple set of guiding principles for agencies seeking to institute a culture of innovation: Do not focus on fixed solutions.

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Are you ready for networking in 2025 and beyond?

CIO Business Intelligence

The hyper-distributed workforce Post-pandemic, people in many industries will continue to work in a flexible way as they move between their homes and their workplace, or sign on from hotels, trains and other locations. Multicloud adoption Migration to a multicloud architecture is becoming a critical strategy for many organisations.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

But it is not just Dutch entrepreneurs who build their business in the cloud, also traditional Dutch enterprises are moving to the cloud to improve their agility and cost-effectiveness. In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand.

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Kubecon Liveblog: Opening Keynote

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the opening keynote at the inaugural Kubernetes conference, Kubecon, taking place this week at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. He says that Kubernetes wasn’t really about containers, or scheduling; it was really about making reliable, scalable, agile distributed systems a CS101 exercise. discussion.