This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Caterpillar has plans for artificial intelligence (AI) enabled features in its construction equipment; autonomy at scale and machine learning with computer vision, sensors, and edge computing; and Cat AI Assistant, which enables customers to engage with the company's machines. The bigger story, however, may be the years of transformation, data preparation, and technology infrastructure leading up to Caterpillar's big CES 2026 splash.
Rimini Street's first act took 20 years, but the second one will move much faster as the company aims to layer agentic AI over legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. The strategy: enable enterprises to accelerate their automation and artificial intelligence (AI) plans while relegating reliable yet legacy systems to plumbing.
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Public sector technology executives laid out a series of takeaways and best practices at the Google Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C., in October. The takeaways ranged from focusing on your data foundation to use cases for artificial…
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When Abrigo, which provides compliance, credit risk, and lending software for financial institutions, launched a series of new capabilities to its Abrigo AI suite in September this year, the effort was more than a product launch. The additions were…
Introduction
AWS re:Inforce 2025 illustrated how the company’s security approach is differentiated from the pack and how its security built-in approach will resonate as agentic AI scales. Yet, AWS’ security story is a bit challenging to…
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Hitachi Digital Services is looking to leverage its ability to integrate operations technology (OT) and information technology (IT) combined with industry domain knowledge, data and artificial intelligence
(AI) know-how, and cloud expertise to…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) agent projects are just starting, and many are in the proof-of-concept stage. What’s clear is that your boardroom is about to ask for an agentic AI plan, if it hasn’t already.
With…
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Facing a massive transition to open banking in Brazil, enterprises with risk and fraud offerings shed their legacy systems in the country. By partnering with FICO to deliver an artificial intelligence (AI) decisioning platform—FICO Platform—they were able to…
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Lowe’s is betting that AI agents powered by Google Cloud can become do-it-yourself home improvement companions and offer personalized customer experiences.
Neelima Sharma, SVP of omnichannel and ecommerce technology at Lowe…
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Lloyds Banking Group is building its next-generation machine learning (ML) platform on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI in a move that will replace legacy systems.
Ranil Boteju, chief data and analytics officer at Lloyds Banking Group,…
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When your company is responsible for delivering licensed and unlicensed medicines across five continents, it’s critical to have resilient infrastructure.
FarmaMondo is a Swiss pharmaceutical group that provides patients access to…
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Delta Air Lines has migrated most of its technology infrastructure to the cloud and is starting to leverage generative AI (GenAI) for personalized pricing, digital concierge services, and optimizing the customer experience.
The 100-year-old…
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Lowe’s has laid the groundwork and is starting to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) throughout its operations, including instore experiences across multiple channels and back-end supply chain processes. The plan is to invest in…
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Scotts Miracle-Gro’s three-year strategic plan aims to drive an average of 3% annual growth, with retail expansion and direct-to-consumer channels playing a big role. Consumer and user experience at the world’s…
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Rivian has new models planned and a $5 billion partnership with Volkswagen Group that may enable the electric vehicle maker to emerge as a top software-defined vehicle provider. The journey for Rivian’s integrated vehicle stack…
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For Ian Cole, chief innovation officer of Give Kids The World Village (GKWV), returns on technology investments are measured in smiles. GKWV is an 89-acre nonprofit “storybook” resort in Kissimmee, Florida, that…
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Virginie Nowak, Group Chief Customer Experience Officer at Access Bank PLC, had an interesting problem to solve: How do you maintain and improve customer experience (CX) at a bank with multiple touchpoints and employee turnover in an emerging…
Executive Summary
Magnox, a subsidiary of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, is responsible for decommissioning first generation legacy nuclear power plants, managing waste removal and complying with a bevy of regulations. But the…
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Soccer (or football) is the most popular sport in Germany, Europe, and the planet. Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB) has more than 7.5 million members. The highest class of competition is the Bundesliga, which is operationally and commercially managed by…
Secil was founded in 1918, operating a small natural cement plant that had been in service since 1904. In 1930 Secil underwent a major merger with Companhia Geral de Cal e Cimento. The merger shaped the existing group of almost 40 companies that currently operate in…
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Organizations that don’t have the right people or enough people in place can’t execute effectively. Talent gaps—whether in sales, customer service, technical positions, administrative roles, teaching posts, or…
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This case study describes the creation and rollout of critical low-code/no-code applications at Homebase, built on the Neptune DXP. Thanks to the new automation from these applications, Homebase was able to operate successfully during the COVID-19 pandemic by…
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Customer loyalty and customer relationships often are thought of as programs or campaigns to be launched and automated. But for teams spread thin by complex marketing technology stacks that fail to deliver the automated, relevant, connected customer engagements…
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This case study describes the rollout of more than 70 low-code/no-code applications at Infraserv Höchst, built on the Neptune DX (digital experience) Platform (Neptune DXP).
Thanks to the new automation from these applications, Infraserv can better…