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AI for Science: The Next Big AI Opportunity

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AI for Science: The Next Big AI Opportunity AI's biggest opportunity may not be productivity, but faster discovery. What boards need to know about AI, science, R&D and competitive advantage. AI’s Next Big Opportunity Is Not Productivity. It Is Discovery. 200 million. That is roughly how many protein structure predictions AlphaFold has made available to researchers. A scientific problem that had consumed enormous amounts of experimental time was suddenly attacked at computational scale. That number matters far beyond biology. For most of the past few years, the business conversation around artificial intelligence has been dominated by productivity: write the report faster, automate customer service, reduce coding effort, remove administrative work. All useful. I also think we may eventually look back and conclude that this was the least interesting part of the AI revolution. After three decades around enterprise technology decisions, I have seen the same pattern repeatedly. A ne...

Leadership Sabbaticals: Why the Best CIOs Step Away to Stay Ahead.

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Leadership Sabbaticals: Why the Best CIOs Step Away to Stay Ahead. A powerful executive perspective on why leadership sabbaticals help CIOs stay curious, strategic, and relevant in a rapidly changing business world. The modern CIO operates in a constant state of acceleration. AI shifts markets overnight. Cyber risks evolve by the hour. Boards expect both innovation and operational discipline. In this environment, many leaders confuse activity with relevance. That is a mistake. The strongest technology leaders I have worked with across global enterprises all shared one habit. At critical moments in their careers, they stepped away. Not to disconnect from responsibility, but to reconnect with perspective. A leadership sabbatical is no longer a luxury. It is strategic maintenance for executive judgment. The CIOs who remain relevant over decades are not the ones who stay busiest. They are the ones who stay curious. #Leadership #CIO #DigitalTransformation The Exhaustion Nobody Talks About H...