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Streamlining IT for agility

CIO Business Intelligence

Here, agility is essential, and smart IT leaders are doubling down on efforts to streamline IT, whether that involves reprioritizing projects and realigning the IT portfolio, rationalizing applications and pursuing cloud-native approaches, increasing automation through DevOps or AIOps adoption, or overhauling the structure of IT operations.

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Streamlining IT for agility

CIO Business Intelligence

Here, agility is essential, and smart IT leaders are doubling down on efforts to streamline IT, whether that involves reprioritizing projects and realigning the IT portfolio, rationalizing applications and pursuing cloud-native approaches, increasing automation through DevOps or AIOps adoption, or overhauling the structure of IT operations.

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Tech Moves: Former AMD named Kymeta CEO; GitHub exec joins Twilio; DocuSign security vet joins Proof; Fred Hutch adds VP

GeekWire

Its hybrid cellular-satellite terminals can facilitate communications in hard-to-reach areas — an application that’s been of particular interest to defense customers. Agility Robotics Photo) Peggy Johnson , the former Microsoft executive who stepped down as Magic Leap CEO last fall , is the new CEO of Agility Robotics , the Corvalis, Ore.-based

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CIOs in transition: 5 tips for landing your next IT leadership job

CIO Business Intelligence

Top areas include product management, agile methodologies, design thinking, continuous improvement, and change management practices. Volunteer tech leadership at nonprofits The last priority can be a win-win for CIOs who use part of their time to leverage their expertise on behalf of a nonprofit.

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO Business Intelligence

From hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, to application development and the rollout of software itself, project managers keep your teams on task and productive. Business value-oriented principles (BVOP ) is an agile-based framework that has grown in popularity in the UK. Top project management certifications.

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GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft, OpenAI, and the AI opportunity for startups, with Neo CEO Ali Partovi

GeekWire

Neo CEO Ali Partovi Partovi, who grew up in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, sold his startup LinkExchange to Microsoft in 1998, was an early investor in companies including Airbnb, Dropbox, Facebook, and Uber, and 10 years ago co-founded Code.org with his twin brother Hadi Partovi, who continues to lead the computer science education nonprofit.

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What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency

CIO Business Intelligence

The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), a nonprofit professional association, considers the business analyst “an agent of change,” writing that business analysis “is a disciplined approach for introducing and managing change to organizations, whether they are for-profit businesses, governments, or non-profits.”

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