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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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Biotech Boom: Executive Search Strategies in Life Sciences

N2Growth Blog

With the constant advancements in technology and research, businesses in this sector require leaders who possess a deep understanding of the scientific landscape and the business acumen to drive growth and innovation. This ability to bridge the gap between science and strategy is crucial in such a highly dynamic space.

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO

Everyone is running around trying to apply this technology that’s moving so fast, but without business outcomes, there’s no point to it,” says Redmond, CIO at power management systems manufacturer Eaton Corp. “We A human reviews it to make sure it makes sense, and if it does, the AI incorporates that into the learning model,” she says.

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Meet the 50 CISOs to Watch in 2024

Lacework

Beyond technology, it’s their adaptability, creative problem-solving, and commitment to progress. Recognizing the increasing challenges yet often underappreciated role of these professionals, we launched the 50 CISOs to Watch initiative last year to celebrate the CISOs demonstrating outstanding technical and leadership qualities.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO

Search engines, machine translation services, and voice assistants are all powered by the technology. Innovations such as the self-attention mechanism and multi-head attention enable these models to better weigh the importance of various parts of the input, and to process those parts in parallel rather than sequentially.

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Johnson & Johnson’s big bet on intelligent automation

CIO

As the global COVID-19 pandemic was beginning to spread, the company, one of the world’s largest suppliers of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer packaged goods, needed to reduce costs, speed up tasks, and improve the accuracy of its core business operations. Generally, J&J prefers everything in billions.” It grew from there.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. That difference in price (and its impact on pharmaceutical company profits) shows the extent of the rent. For example, consider drug pricing.