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Exploring the digital impact in Northern Ireland’s health and social care system

CIO

The pandemic accelerated the urgency for reform in health and social care around the world, which strained resources to unprecedented levels. Waiting lists have grown and diagnosis and treatments have been delayed or missed due to some of the burden the pandemic brought on the system.

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What is ESG? Environmental, social, and governance commitment explained

CIO

It’s an organizational construct that’s become increasingly important, especially to socially responsible investors who want to invest in companies that have a high ESG rating or score. Some systems, however, rely on a letter-based scoring system where a grade of C is the worst and A is the best.

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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

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With that in mind, Sesamm enables businesses to track textual data from across the web — including news portals, NGO reports and social networks — and convert this into actionable insights. Elsewhere, private equity firms can use Sesamm for due diligence on potential acquisition or investment targets.

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The multi-faceted digital transformation of Barcelona City Council

CIO

And as its CIO, Nacho Santillana Montiel was the central figure of this distinction due to a series of innovative projects including integrating various emerging technologies into daily life at the City Council and for Catalan citizens. “The Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Digital Transformation, Innovation, IT Leadership

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Assembly required: 8 myths about knowledge management debunked

CIO

This knowledge, generated through observation, reflection, study, and social interaction, led to a new companywide policy: “Let the grinder warm up for 15 minutes,” resulting in millions of dollars of extra profit at no additional cost. The mobsters hung out at their private social club, discussing possible crimes to commit that night.

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IT leaders adjust budget priorities as economic outlook shifts

CIO

Analyst firm IDC expects more of a moving target on tech budgets due to market volatility, the strength of the US dollar, inflation rates, and continued slow global growth due to economic drag by China and other key countries. He predicts continued GDP softening over the next three years, with minimal, if any, effect on IT spending.

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The extent Automic’s group CIO goes to reconcile data

CIO

In addition to its technology solution, it has a range of professional services that covers company secretaries, investor and media relations, employees, environment, and social governance, among others. Then we have to make sense of the data, massage it and import it in our system. The first is to reconcile the data.

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