Creating AI Brain Trust | A Board Director And CEOs – Duty Of Care

I have now written two blogs framing the critical need for a Board Director and CEO to build a focused AI Brain Trust and leadership program to build stronger skills and competencies to advance AI successfully in their organizations. This third blog completes the AI Leadership Brain Trust – Strategy

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Creating AI Brain Trust | A Board Director And CEOs – The Leadership Framework

In my blog last week, I framed the critical need for a Board Director and CEO to build an AI Brain Trust. I also introduced an AI leadership framework. I have now further evolved the leadership framework, based on discussions with other leading AI Experts. The framework identifies 40 leadership

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Creating AI Brain Trust | Required Leadership Skill Sets To Accelerate AI Adoption

AI is advancing in visibility, but the last mile of realizing AI value and sustaining adoption in large enterprises, with demonstrated results, is lagging. Recently I had a lengthy conversation with Howard Pezim, a Managing Partner of The Bedford Group, an executive recruiting firm, and Cathy Cobey, Global Head of

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Keynote Address On Digital Retail Transformation By Fernando Machado Global CMO Of Burger King

Fernando Machado, Global Chief Marketing Officer at Burger King, shared great insights to our attendees during the Digital Marketing – Digital Retail Transformation Assembly Gala Dinner at The Fairmont Dallas. The Millennium Alliance is a leading technology, business, and educational advisory firm. Focusing primarily in areas such as business transformation,

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Health Care’s Digital Transformation Amid Pandemic: The Challenges And Opportunities Of “New Normal”

“At a roundtable, chief information officers from leading health systems agreed that digital technologies must play an important role in meeting the challenges of the post-pandemic world. Because virtual care is now part of the new normal, health systems must construct a stronger support infrastructure that includes organizational, financial, and

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Keynote Address On Digital Marketing Transformation By Steve Robinson Former CMO Of Chic-fil-A

The Retired CMO of Chic-fil-A, Steve, Robinson, delivered the Gala Dinner Keynote Address at The Digital Marketing/Digital Retail Transformation Assembly at The Fairmont Dallas, Tx.  He is responsible for the chain’s marketing, advertising, and brand development, and menu development strategies for all Restaurant concepts. He is a member of the

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The Role Of Culture In Digital Transformation By Nik Puri – Senior Vice Precedent IT At FedEx

Nik Puri, SVP IT at FedEx keynote speech from GDS Groups Technology Insight Summit. Disruption is nothing new. What’s different today is the speed at which disruption is happening – particularly when it comes to technology which is addressed at our GDS Summits. 72% of Fortune 500 CEOs cite the

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Post-Pandemic Digital Strategy – Think Of Employees

When the pandemic hit in March, many companies’ long-term plans and strategies were thrown out the window, as everyone from the frontlines to the C-suite shifted into fire-fighting mode. Many worked around the clock by leveraging remote technology. It’s often been exhausting, as each day seems to bring new challenges

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The Long Overdue Change | Universities Are Going Online

Higher education is being pummeled by the Covid-19 pandemic. This spring’s campus shutdowns led to a quick rush to “remote learning,” exposing the fragmented adoption of high-quality education technology and digital capabilities across thousands of colleges and universities. The tumultuous fall semester, complete with aborted campus openings and widely diverging

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Digital Transformation: Learning Across Industries | A Keynote By Lars Kristian Stråtveit

From shoes to bits – Learning across industries on digital transformation. Lars Kristian Stråtveit, VP Digital Marketing at Telenor speaking at the NG Telecoms Summit. GDS Group is a global events, research and technology services company dedicated to helping clients meet the challenges posed by a fast-moving, disruptive business environment.

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Digital Maturity Is Critical To Business Success

Findings from the Digital Transformation 2020 survey show that companies identified by their executives as well along the road to digital transformation were three times more likely to achieve revenue growth in the last year. This may not seem particularly surprising given the boom we have seen in artificial intelligence, data analytics, and connected technology – all enthusiastically co-opted by industry to drive bottom-line growth.

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