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SAP trials meeting-free Fridays

CIO Business Intelligence

Many companies encourage employees to set aside blocks of time each day for “deep work,” and some even automate that process using tools such as Microsoft Outlook’s focus time feature, part of Viva Insights. However, CIOs leading teams from home should ensure that meetings do not prevent staff from working.

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5 key mistakes IT leaders make at board meetings

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s not uncommon for CIOs, CISOs, and sometimes their direct reports to be called on to participate in board meetings or to present IT strategies and plans to their boards of directors. Best practices for board meetings abound. But when I think about my own board presentations and meetings, it’s the simple mistakes I remember most.

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How to hire the right product manager for your IT needs

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As a result, many corporate leaders who are used to hiring for IT now have to learn what makes a good product manager as they seek to fill these roles. We spoke to a host of experts, including product managers and those who supervise, hire, and mentor them, about what you should be looking for if you’re hiring a new PM for your team.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

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The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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JLL reinvents itself for the AI era

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We have a very diversified portfolio,” says Morin, who oversees roughly 1,000 IT employees within the company’s technology arm but estimates that between 2,000 and 3,000 employees in total are developing, selling or servicing JLL’s software. “We Generative AI and LLMs are changing all that.

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Scale and Speed with Cyber Security

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Bureaucracies exist to ensure continuity of purpose within a construct of organizational processes and since they are filled with and designed by people, aren’t able to radically evolve to meet new threats or fill new operating environments. Secondly, automation: every process that deals with software must be ruthlessly automated (i.e.,

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

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But despite such challenges, CIOs say they’re meeting them head on. McKee, tech founder and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies, acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe. IT organizations can save substantial amounts on SaaS contracts by lowering service levels, CIOs say.