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J&J’s Jim Swanson brings mission-driven leadership to the CIO role

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Jim Swanson’s career path to CIO of Johnson & Johnson didn’t begin in technology, or even healthcare. He started out as a scientist, working his way up the research and development ranks in the pharmaceutical industry, an experience steeped in curiosity that has helped shape his emphasis on continuous learning to this day.

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Accelerating Aerospace Organizational Innovation, Speed, and Resilience with Digital Technologies

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Their products, research, and technologies are changing the way the world works. The impact of space technology, on other industries, is wide and vast, and the innovation ripple of research has spurred many high-profile products, including Teflon and CAT scans, as well as many more developments from NASA.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

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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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#787 The Technology that Makes Cancer Less Scary with Abhimanyu Verma, CTO at SOPHiA GENETICS

Modern CTO

We discuss how their innovative technology is making cancer less scary, the necessary considerations of data in healthcare, and how AI is playing a central role in paving these paths. from the Indian School of Business, a Master of Science in pharmaceutical medicine and is an engineer.

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Life Sciences Executive Search Firms: Bridging Biotech and Leadership

N2Growth Blog

The Importance of Executive Search and Leadership Development to the Growth of the Life Sciences Industry Ensuring that organizations have access to top talent for key leadership positions and that talent is sufficiently supported and developed is critical to the growth of the life sciences industry.

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UK movers and shakers: New CIO and IT executive appointments

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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society announced that it has appointed Avril Chester as its new Chief Technology Officer. In her new role, Avril will have “responsibility for executive leadership of all the technology functions, including technical architecture, software development, operations and product delivery.”

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Unleashing the power of integration to scale industrial equipment sales, manufacturing, and service global channels

CIO

Get ready for an exhilarating adventure as we unravel the incredible story of GEA Group , a global leader in industrial engineering systems for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical sectors. Together, they orchestrated a symphony of technology, simplifying complexity and driving efficiency across the organization. IT Leadership

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