The Heller Report: How Data Literacy Allows Gen AI to Drive Productivity at Dow

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What does it take to get real ROI on GenAI? The answer, according to Melanie Kalmar, CIO and Chief Digital Officer of Dow, involves strong technology foundations and a commitment to data literacy.

Learn about real GenAI use cases at the $43B global materials science company and how Kalmar and her team are creating AI learning experiences at all levels of the company.

Also in this edition: Kelli Burns, CISO at Accolade, on how effective security leaders collaborate, and how drones are delivering medical supplies to hard-to-reach patients in Africa and elsewhere.

Martha Heller
CEO
Heller Search Associates

1. How Data Literacy Allows Gen AI to Drive Productivity at Dow

Building a culture that embraces AI is a multipronged effort targeting every level, says Melanie Kalmar, CIO and Chief Digital Officer at Dow, in an interview with Martha Heller for CIO.com. From engaging leading executives with an “AI immersion day,” to offering on-demand training courses and setting audacious growth goals for data scientists, Dow has expanded AI applications from predictive maintenance and supply chain to customer experience improvements.

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Collaborating with everyone in the enterprise – not just IT teams – makes a security leader more effective, says Kelli Burns, CISO at Accolade. Burns argues that knowing the business deeply and partnering with tech and non-tech teams alike can help build a more productive sense of co-ownership of security.

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Drones have found a place delivering medical supplies in a range of settings, from emergency surgeries in Rwanda to prescription drop-offs in Utah, the website Reasons to Be Cheerful reports. Among those who benefit are patients in northern Rwanda who require a blood coagulation drug after surgery. “By land, it would take about four hours to reach this region of the mountainous country. Instead, the journey took just 18 minutes,” the article reports.

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Heller Search was recently retained to recruit a Director of Client Services for Oshkosh Corporation. Headquartered in Wisconsin, Oshkosh Corporation is an industrial technology company and manufacturer of purpose-built vehicles and equipment for the access, defense, fire and emergency, refuse collection, concrete placement and aviation ground support markets. For this role, we identified Patrick Waugh, who most recently was Vice President, Head of Digital Workplace Technology for Comerica Bank. Waugh holds a B.S. and an M.S. from Oakland University. Best of luck, Patrick!

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

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How Data Literacy Allows Gen AI to Drive Productivity at Dow

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How Can CISOs Transform the Business?

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Drones Are Whizzing Lifesaving Supplies Across the ‘Last Mile’

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Featured Placement: Director of Client Services for Oshkosh Corporation

The Premier Source for CIO
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

1.

How Data Literacy Allows Gen AI to Drive Productivity at Dow

2.

How Can CISOs Transform the Business?

3.

Drones Are Whizzing Lifesaving Supplies Across the ‘Last Mile’

4.

Featured Placement: Director of Client Services for Oshkosh Corporation

The Premier Source for CIOand Executive Technology Talent

The Premier Source for CIO
and Executive Technology Talent