Rob Cain

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Fortune or fiction? The real value of a digital and AI transformation in CPG

Oct 3, 2024 | mckinsey.com | Jessica Moulton |Rob Cain |Roger Roberts

The narrative surrounding generative AI (gen AI), a moon shot, once-in-a-generation innovation, is that it could utterly reinvent how businesses—consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) companies among them—are run. CPG leaders are heeding the call. In a 2024 survey of CPG leaders, 71 percent said they adopted AI in at least one business function of their organizations (up from 42 percent in 2023), while 56 percent said they were regularly using gen AI.
Shared accountability and adaptability: Keys to a successful CIO journey

Sep 18, 2024 | mckinsey.com | Rob Cain

September 18, 2024 | InterviewCostco’s chief information and digital officer details how technology leadership is expanding—as businesses increasingly rely on technology. The enormous shifts in technology and its increasing importance to business have increased attention and pressure on the chief information officer (CIO). Managing the technology estate is now table stakes, with businesses relying on CIOs and tech officers to guide strategies and generate value. Technology on its own isn’t enough.
A new dawn for the technology officer | McKinsey

Sep 11, 2024 | mckinsey.com | Aamer Baig |Jeffrey Lewis |Klemens Hjartar |Sven Blumberg |Rob Cain

As companies strive to create value from gen AI and other evolving technologies, technology officers will make fundamental shifts in the way they operate.
Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera Book Review

Feb 9, 2024 | thecainagecritique.com | Rob Cain

Released: 26th January 2024Genre: History, Society, PoliticsNumber of Pages: 247 (Excluding bibliography and notes)The subject of imperial colonialism has been a thorny subject in the UK, especially in recent years with many trading shots over whether our history was beneficial or detrimental to the world.
This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends by Nicole Perlroth Book Review

Aug 30, 2023 | thecainagecritique.com | Rob Cain

Released: 2021Genre: Non-Fiction, Technology, Geopolitics, SocietyNumber of Pages: 406Based at The New York Times, Nicole Perlroth is a dedicated and stalwart journalist when it comes to technology. With over seven years of investigating and at least three-hundred interviewees, “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends” delivers an excellent look at cyber-security and the dangers that hang over our modern society.