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How Levi’s uses AI to accelerate its design process and digital transformation

Venture Beast

As a company that has been producing jeans and other denim apparel since 1853, Levi Strauss & Co. seemed to be doing just fine without the intervention of neural networks and machine learning algorithms.

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3 certification tips for IT leaders looking to get ahead

CIO Business Intelligence

Typically, CIOs consider certifications as a means for training up IT staff on vital skills around key initiatives such as cybersecurity, data analytics, AI, or the cloud. For instance, a lot of IT leaders don’t know that data today has three streams — sciences, visualization, and engineering.

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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

CIO Business Intelligence

For others such as Brian Ferris, chief data, analytics, and technology officer at loyalty, marketing, and data analytics consulting firm Loyalty NZ, leading IT abroad was about “gaining huge value in seeing different issues and learning different ways of approaching problems, something that can’t be learnt out of a book.”

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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

GeekWire

Prior to Amazon, Sharma co-founded LifeLemon, a consumer apparel e-commerce startup, led marketing at Flipkart, and was a developer at Oracle. Max Schmeiser , an Amazon vet and former head of research and data science at Seattle startup Convoy, is now head of data science at Twitter. Saykara Photo). Redmond, Wash.-based

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Data mining for B2B churn and loyalty management in India and South Asia

TM Forum

B2C telecoms markets have illustrated the importance of churn prediction and the use of data mining to understand customer behavior. There have been several studies using data science approach to solve the customer churn prediction problem: Cutting the Cord: Predicting Customer Churn for a Telecom Company. Data analysis.

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The Amazonification of the American workforce

Vox

million people now work directly for Amazon in the US , with some in its offices and the majority in its ever-expanding network of more than 800 warehouse facilities in North America alone. Take Amazon’s home-delivery network, which makes the company’s same-day shipping speeds possible. Amazon is contesting the citation.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

That’s more than 8% of Microsoft’s total revenue for that time period, and three times the annual revenue of Palo Alto Networks, the largest publicly traded standalone IT security company by market value. Working closely with other security vendors and partners on cybersecurity. The company also works on election integrity.

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