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Ford’s high-tech business transformation, fueled by cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

s wholesale pivot to technology has transformed not only the automaker’s business operations but its corporate identity. “We We have become much more of a software company than we were 10 to 20 years ago,” says John Musser, director of engineering for Ford’s commercial division, Ford Pro. Ford Motor Co.’s

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IT as a catalyst for business transformation: Strategies for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Yet, as organizations transform, CIOs and their teams are being asked to manage the optimal mix of infrastructure, platform, software, database, storage, and more to meet these new strategic objectives—while also creating sustained value and positioning the organization for the future. The challenge?

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McDermott data innovations fuel business transformation

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These were products built for internal use but now software customers are asking for it so that has become a revenue stream for us,” Dave says, noting this internal shift to sustainability is enabling his customers to move away from gasoline.

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JLR revs up AI and intelligent automation initiatives

CIO Business Intelligence

JLR’s move to electric drive trains is part of a wider business transformation the company calls Reimagine, under which it also plans to halve greenhouse gas emissions from its supply chain and operations, compared to 2019 levels, by 2030, and to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2039. It’s been a great success,” says Battle.

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SAP to buy LeanIX to advance process optimization with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP has agreed to buy German enterprise architecture management specialist LeanIX, hoping its early adoption of AI will help with the massive task of migrating customers still using SAP’s legacy software on premises to the more modern S/4HANA in the cloud. Demand for the process mining software is still strong in 2023.

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Why CIOs should invest in digital through economic headwinds

CIO Business Intelligence

Approximately 34% are increasing investment in artificial intelligence (AI) and 24% in hyper-automation as well. The firm also calls on CIOs to implement software composition analysis to get visibility into software supply chain vulnerabilities, and leverage maturing threat intelligence platforms to prioritise and fix them.

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Generative AI won’t automate your way to business model innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI is already starting to power the day-to-day tools we use, inspire a new wave of intelligent applications, and even reimagine the world of enterprise software and the world of IT. She compared AI to the purpose of art, which made me think differently about the role then of AI and creativity in business transformation.