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

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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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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

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Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs. It is the brains of everything — our core system.

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What you need to know to accelerate your cloud and data strategy

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At Choice Hotels , cloud is a tool to help the hospitality giant achieve corporate goals. Stewart Bond, IDC ’s vice president for data integration and intelligence software, will dissect this foundational element and how it drives strategy as well as answer audience questions about governance, ownership, security, privacy, and more.

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2024 CSO30 Middle East Awards: Nominations are now open

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The ceremony for the inaugural edition of the CSO30 Awards will take place at the IDC CISO Roundtable on May 15 at Dubai’s Jumeirah Mina A’Salam Hotel, June 4 at Riyadh’s Mövenpick Hotel and June 10 at Doha’s Grand Hyatt Hotel & Villas. Europe, ASEAN, Asia/Pacific, India, and a host of other countries.

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Is the Future of Hotels Contactless?

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We talk to the founder of one of those startups, hotel-software provider Mews*, in this episode of Powered by Battery. Mews’ founder, Czech-born Richard Valtr, comes from a family of hotel operators in Europe and has a far-reaching vision of how hotels can offer better service to customers—through technology.

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

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Only 10% of tech executives will be successful at driving long-term growth, according to new leadership predictions from Forrester. Tech leaders must focus on a business-aligned tech strategy to deliver on the competing mandates, Guarini says. “A This is because “a large number of tech leaders … just don’t focus on growth.

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CIOs Discuss how to Enhance the Digital Experience Across the Business

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Both customer and employee experience have seen an accelerated transformation with the introduction of cloud technologies, were significantly affected by the pandemic, and now see a remarkable shift in terms of new approaches in leadership. He will explore how to rethink hybrid work and investigate resilience in leadership.

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