Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the power to completely transform the way we do things, personally and in business. We have seen many cases of small businesses that have used AI to deliver exceptional services and products that go on to outshine the competition, or examples where businesses have completely revolutionised an internal process.

Businesses have entered an era of eternal data-harvesting, making data an extremely valuable commodity. And for that reason, as with any other high-value asset, it is vulnerable.

A generation of executives uncomfortable with technology spell trouble for business longevity. While CIOs have ascended the ranks, many failed to translate technology’s benefits to business value.

New January jobs data from the United States Labor Department shows that women now outnumber men in the workforce (50.04%) for the first time since the Great Recession. Driven in part by the country’s lowest unemployment rate since the mid-1960s, every industry – even traditionally male-dominated ones – must now aggressively compete to attract and retain female employees.

The last quarter of 2019 saw a big jump in demand for a bundle of jobs that could dominate the future, per an index tracked by the IT services firm Cognizant.