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2024 DataIQ Awards – Transformation with Data and AI (Brand): EDF

[…] transformation EDF UK had ambitions for years to use data, analytics and AI to become a customer-centric organisation and help Britain achieve Net Zero. However, a legacy technology stack that was restricted the team. Last year, the vision of ICE (Intelligent Customer Engine) was formed with three core principles: simplicity, progress over perfection and […]

2024 DataIQ Awards – Grand Prix: EDF

[…] transformation EDF UK had ambitions for years to use data, analytics and AI to become a customer-centric organisation and help Britain achieve Net Zero. However, a legacy technology stack that was restricted the team. Last year, the vision of ICE (Intelligent Customer Engine) was formed with three core principles: simplicity, progress over perfection and […]

2024 DataIQ Awards – Data-Enabling Solution of the Year (Brand): Burberry

[…] and AI-generated captions, enhancing product discovery and SEO. This strategic innovation streamlines operations and accelerates market readiness and sets new industry standards, showcasing Burberry’s commitment to combining technology with fashion. Merging fashion and tech Burberry has harnessed the power of data and AI to innovate the product launch process, transforming the way the […]

2024 DataIQ Awards – Best Place to Work in Data (Brand): Specsavers Optical Stores

[…] The leadership team prioritise welfare and happiness through great benefits and a positive, supportive culture where data professionals are offered remote working, experience and training in cutting-edge technology, and career mobility across the data community. Creating a data community The GD team, alongside business analytics teams, at Specsavers are driving a data transformation […]

2024 DataIQ Awards – Best Data Graduate Employer: Sigma Labs

[…] success. After an initial training period, the leadership team embed the graduates into enterprise businesses on a two-year programme, providing invaluable commercial experience working in data and technology teams. Furthermore, this model allows clients to hire consultants permanently, providing career opportunities that may not have been available without Sigma Labs. The 16-week programme gives […]
DEI is an essential part of success and needs to be embraced.

The decline of DEI in data in 2024: The bell tolls for thee

[…] female talent,” Ali challenged. This crisis reaches all the way to tech, too. “The tech sector is facing a debilitating talent crisis (The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) estimates a shortfall of over 173,000 workers in the UK STEM sector),” says Ali. On course for AI catastrophe Diversity of thought leads to […]
AI Awards 2024 - Grand Prix – Ally Financial

AI Awards 2024 – Grand Prix: Ally Financial

[…] into one warehouse, and updating network security. The shift from having disparate locations for data and applications to a consistent strategy where everything is centralized, allowed the technology organization to operate smoothly and embraced an internal AI revolution. “Ally’s development of a proprietary, scalable, and secure platform for enterprise-wide usage of artificial intelligence, including […]
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The 11 Core Functionalities of a Successful Data Strategy

[…] complexity of achieving a customer experience that matches or exceeds ever-increasing expectations grows by the day. The foundation upon which all experiences are built, no matter the technology or team, is data. In a sea of point solutions with overlapping and disparate capabilities, it’s essential to have a unified data foundation with certain critical […]
A keynote speech at the 2024 DataIQ 100 Summit.

Essential learnings from the DataIQ 100 Summit

[…] doing so, they tied emotional responses to business outcomes, and are using this data to inform the future of their content strategy. Being able to scale the technology hinges on setting up strong foundations to scale first and getting all the data engineering and management in order, which NBCU did with the support of […]

How to get a slice of the PIE

[…] is that when you add personal to information, the value starts to really accelerate,” said Ruff. He explained the underlying platform for self-sovereign identities – distributed ledger technology, similar to the blockchain technology behind Bitcoin. The technology allows self-sovereign identities to be technically possible as it breaks up identification data into small pieces (“blocks”) […]

Internet of Things brings big (data) changes for businesses

[…] it is estimated that these devices will have captured more by 1.6 zettabytes (1.6 billion terabytes) of data by then, with use cases as diverse as wearable technology, beacon-based sensors and industrial CNC (computer numerical control) machining tools. But what does this mean to the average business? Why should they care about IoT and […]

Myth-busting the dangers of a “big data algocracy”

[…] of the customer. Most recently, the new chair of the Financial Conduct Authority issued stark warnings of the dangers of a new “algocracy”, referring to how new technology could harm consumers of financial services. In his first public speech in London, Charles Randell claimed that a data algoracy exacerbates social exclusion and worsens access […]
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Effective strategies for customer data maturity revealed – New study

[…] companies reported lower support for these key business goals. There are six key dimensions to data maturity: Strategy Organisational structure Data practices Analytics/Measurement methodology Supporting processes Integration/Activation technology Only 16% of surveyed companies are able to excel across every category, with strategy and integration technology being the most common areas where firms fall short. […]

Join the dots for the perfect journey

[…] going on holiday with your family and have decided to visit Capri. You think of yourself as an independent traveller and have a lot of knowledge of technology and social networks. So you decide to book the whole thing yourself – flights, hotel, car. Then just before your set off, it occurs to you […]