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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

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Generative AI is revolutionizing how corporations operate by enhancing efficiency and innovation across various functions. Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact.

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How Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

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Facing the possibility of an economic recession, one of the world’s leading professional services companies felt the urgency to improve its grasp on spend management – the practice of fully understanding and managing supplier relations and company purchasing. With 738,000 employees and $3.8

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6 best practices for better vendor management

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To ensure vendor relationship help their organizations achieve their goals, IT leaders should establish a comprehensive technology vendor management strategy focused on maximizing fit and value. A few years ago, supply-chain snags had CIOs looking for new technology,” Beasley says.

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In a Time of Environmental Disruption, DSM ‘Does Something Meaningful’

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It’s a lofty ambition in a volatile era in which global businesses are impacted by ongoing inflation and restrained economic growth. With much of the burden placed on buyers, category managers, procurement project managers, and procurement professionals, the substandard purchase-to-pay process meant potential pay delays, among other risks.

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How Foodstuffs North Island’s IT team weathered recent NZ storms to keep stores operational

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Simon Kennedy , the company’s CDO, says his team performed “minor miracles” to maintain operational flow and provide access to essential supplies for affected communities. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) contacted Foodstuffs after the cyclone made landfall in the region.

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Think you can ignore quantum computing? Think again.

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Dustin Moody, leader of PQC at NIST NIST According to Moody, several countries — including the UK, Germany, France, and the Netherlands — have already announced their intentions to use the four PQC solutions approved by NIST, and the International Standards Organization (ISO) will add them to their own list of norms.

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IT leaders tackle the high price of talent

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Since the onset of the pandemic, IT has risen in prominence as an engine for business sustainability and growth across all industries. As companies strive to transform their business models specifically in manufacturing, supply chain, project management, and sales, the uptick in hiring IT talent was seen as a natural progression.”

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