In this episode, Brick Thompson hosts CIO John Manzanares, a seasoned IT leader and a board member for PE-backed field services, construction, transportation, and logistics companies, as well as the Society for Information Management. “What’s the foundation, if you’re doing anything around AI or ML in your organization today? Data. The foundation is data.” -CIO John Manzanares 4:10 - How a PE-Backed Midmarket Commercial Services Company Monetized Their Data 16:28 - How to Minimize Business Intelligence Project Delays 24:30 - How Data Lakes are Key to the Buy-and-Build Strategy 31:37 - How Microsoft’s 365 Copilot Will Likely Change Data Reporting 38:57 - How to Wrangle ChatGPT in the Wild West Days of AI
