by CDO Review Staff | Jun 24, 2019 | CDO Insider
Fashion platform Farfetch has made big changes in this management team starting with the recruitment of Kshitij Kumar from rival Zalandoas the company’s first Chief Data Officer (CDO). Other new hires were Holli Rogers as Chief Brand Officer and Kelly Kowal as EVP of...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 24, 2019 | AI, CDO Insider
A recent Pactera Technologies report titled Artificial Intelligence Localization Winners, Losers, Heroes, Spectators, and You claims that over 85% of all AI projects fail because of lack of support from upper management. Alison DeNisco Rayome filed this report in Tech...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 24, 2019 | CDO Insider
Intelligent data management is opening up more and more use cases for copies of backup data. But using data for more than just backup and recovery purposes may run into an ossified company culture that resists change. Johnny Yu filed this report for TechTarget: The...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 24, 2019 | CDO Insider
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may know much more about his company’s data privacy scandals than he lets on, reports the Wall Street Journal. Another public relations disaster may be in the offing for the social media giant. Here is an excerpt from a report filed in...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 24, 2019 | CDO Insider
Munich RE is a global reinsurance company with over 40,000 employees and an intensive focus on AI applications for its operations. To make sure those thousands of employees make the “right” decisions on complex questions, Munich RE formulated common AI principles as a...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 24, 2019 | CDO Insider
Many companies hoard their data. But in trying to comply with the strict requirements of GDPR, some organizations have switched to the other extreme: They are now deleting too much data, which could be useful in the future, in order to minimize risk of damaging data...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 24, 2019 | CDO Insider
Rob Casper, CDO of JP Morgan, made it his mission to shrink the company’s 390 million petabytes of data in storage. Together with Jeff Macmillan, now CDO of Morgan Stanley, Casper established a data governance framework that replaced the old taxonomic system with...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 24, 2019 | AI, Asset Management and Trading, Chief Data Officer
Data mining is the primary reason why US financial firms are diving deep into AI and its applications say 36% of those surveyed by Broadridge Financial Solutions. Another 20% said they used AI primarily for post-trade processing while 13% said market analytics. Here...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Over a two day-span in June, three US universities reported that they were hit by data breaches this year. Graceland University, Oregon State University, and Missouri Southern State University have all notified the individuals affected by the data breaches one of...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
While we all worry about which entity Facebook next sells our data, a bigger snitch is lodged in our smartphones. These ever-present mobile apps ask for all sorts of permissions most of which is unrelated to what service they actually perform. And they represent the...
