Robust conversations about rebranding enterprise IT miss a larger point, Martha Heller writes in an article for CIO.com. How will AI change the way we do business? Will coping with these changes derail progress? These and other points “are the questions that technology leaders, who ironically have the most power to shape our rapidly changing human society, need to figure out before worrying about a name change,” Heller argues.

Leading this month’s list of appointments: Aerospace company Boeing appointed Dana Deasy, who was most recently CIO at the US Department of Defense, as its chief information digital officer and senior vice president, information technology and data analytics; AIT Worldwide Logistics, a provider of supply chain solutions, named its CTO Ann Nemphos to be its new CIO; TNT Crane and Rigging, a crane services provider, named Sunil Gupta as its new CIO; and Scale Venture Partners promoted Bob Genchi, the company’s vice president of IT, to be its new CIO.

On February 10, 1996, the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue outdueled Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion, in a match in Philadelphia. “Deep Blue’s historic upset came in 37 moves after Mr. Kasparov’s counterattack was easily parried,” The Guardian reported in a 2021 article looking back at the event. The newspaper noted that no computer had ever beaten a human player under tournament rules, in which each contestant has two hours to execute 40 moves. One of Deep Blue’s programmers, Joseph Hoane, told reporters that the computer was analyzing more than 100 million chess positions every second during the game.

Heller Search was recently retained by ASHP to recruit a Chief Information Officer. ASHP is the largest association of pharmacy professionals in the United States, representing 60,000 pharmacists, student pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians in all patient care settings, including hospitals, ambulatory clinics, and health-system community pharmacies. We identified Anil Ravandur for this role, who most recently served as CIO at the American Academy of Physicians Associates. Prior to that, he held leadership roles at the Association for Talent Development and Personify, Inc. Ravandur earned a BE from Bangalore University and an MS from the University of Wyoming. Best of luck, Anil!