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Organised data holds the key to successfully adopting AI while improved asset management emerges among top drivers of transformation

COMPANY NEWS: AI is at the forefront of digital transformation in the utilities sector, with 82% of executives recognising it as essential to their strategy. However, despite widespread recognition of the importance of emerging technologies, only a fifth (20%) of companies have completed their digital transformation journey, with respondents split on where ownership should lie (22% reference CFO, while the same percentage cite the CTO).

GUEST OPINION by Lee Hawksley, President, Asia Pacific and Japan, UiPath: As Australian organisations grapple with high inflation rates and productivity woes, there is a strong focus on ramping up revenue generation and expanding business growth by deepening customer relationships, acquiring market share, and achieving operational efficiencies.

In a worrying sign for general employment levels, the demand for executives has fallen across the country, according to the latest Executive Demand Index from E.L.Blue, the Human Resource outsourcing firm and part of the E.L Consult group .

The demand for Australian executives has levelled out thanks to ongoing and agreed projects continuing to operate, according to the E.L. Executive Demand Index from executive search firm EL Consult.

Seventy-percent (70%) of executives believe that generative AI will enable organisations to widen the scope of the roles of knowledge workers, according to a new technology industry research report.

Data platform provider Teradata has announced the integration and general availability of Google Cloud’s Vertex AI with Teradata VantageCloud and ClearScape Analytics, the “complete cloud analytics and data platform”.

Is some of the rise in employment because employers must now enlarge workforces to off-set the massive drop in productivity caused by working from home?

Executive demand in Australia has “charged to a record high”, climbing 8 per cent in February, according to the E.L.Consult Executive Demand Index.

Render Networks has appointed two key executives and ‘doubled its headcount’ in less than a year.

Palo Alto Networks research find Australians blame executives more than tech workers when their organisation is attacked.

Cybersecurity company Virsec has announced four executive appointments to help lead the company through its next growth phase.

The number of new jobs on offer to Australian executives increased in July despite the severe and continuing lockdown in New South Wales and occasionally other states, according to a new report from human resources firm EL Consult.

The Ericsson Unboxed virtual is on next week, offering live demonstrations of the latest 5G innovations, market research and case studies.

Executive job creation in Australia has slowed right down - with the IT sector dropping into negative territory - since the beginning of the pandemic, but things are “not that bad and certainly not as woeful” as it is for skilled and semi-skilled workers, according to executive search firm EL Consult.

Employment demands for Australian executives are at historically low levels despite a rise of 14% in demand for August, as advertising for executive positions continues to rise post lockdown and “cracks appear” in the working from home alternative, according to a new report from the chief of executive search firm EL Consult, Grant Montgomery.

Three quarters of Australian executives acknowledge collaboration between humans and machines will be critical to innovation in the future – but only one-third are currently using human-centric design - according to a new technology report from management consulting and professional services firm Accenture.

Australian executives believe 5G will benefit society as a whole, not just smartphone users, according to new research that reveals businesses also believe 5G will be the “most revolutionary” network development, and create new opportunities for monetisation of the technology.

Telstra is cutting an additional 280 jobs as it continues culling its workforce as part of the program announced in 2018 that it would effect a net reduction of 8000 employees and contractors by 2022 - and reduce two to four layers of management, with one in four executive and middle management roles to go.

Executive employment in Australia is in a “golden age”, according to one search firm which reveals an increase of 15% in demand for executives in August – with IT executive demand second only to the management sector.

There are signs Australia’s “booming economy" might be hitting a flat spot, according to recruitment firm EL Consult, which says its executive demand index for October showed the Information Technology sector was the smallest supplier of executive-level jobs for the month.

Ericsson has announced three changes to its executive team, shaking things up with two executive vice-presidential departures and one new appointment.