The Heller Report: In the Midst of Breathless AI Expectations, a Need for Digital Accuracy

In this excerpt from his new book, Enterprise Coherence in the Age of AI, technology executive Jim Chilton, explains how reliable data serves as a foundation for achieving value with AI. “Leaders need a way of seeing their organization that is precise enough to support intelligence and honest enough to reveal where intelligence will fail. That foundation is digital accuracy,” Chilton writes.

Your resume is more than a list of your skills, accomplishments, and positions. It is a critical piece of marketing collateral, writes Martha Heller, in this article that’s part of a series on seeking a new CIO role. “How you present your experience is almost as important as what experience you present. Hiring managers want to read about how you used your technical expertise and your leadership skills to advance your company’s strategic goals.”

An online research repository is working to stop the posting of work that relies too much on large-language models. ArXiv (pronounced “archive”) “has become a source of data on trends in scientific research,” TechCrunch reported. At the same time, some authors are letting AI do all the work. “If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can’t trust anything in the paper,” wrote Thomas Dietterich, chair of arXiv’s computer science division. Violators will be banned from the site for a year.

Heller was recently retained to recruit a Vice President, Information Technology Infrastructure for Meijer, a privately owned, family-operated retailer. Meijer pioneered the one-stop shopping concept and currently serves customers at more than 500 supercenters, grocery stores, neighborhood markets, and express locations throughout the Midwest. For this role, we identified Travis Chavous, who most recently served as Senior Director, Cloud and Infrastructure for Ulta Beauty. Chavous holds a B.S.B.A. from the University of Central Florida and an MBA from Northern Illinois University. Best of luck, Travis!