Vox

JANUARY 30, 2023

Others felt the problems weren’t with the rank and file, but with management and the company’s massive size and bureaucratic structure, which some said made it hard to move quickly on daily work or to give feedback to leadership. Leadership at these three companies is now doing its best to conjure the good old days — the scrappy days.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“Some organizations have been innovating, transforming, and growing so fast that they haven’t had time to clear up older cost structures that start getting in the way,” says Stewart Buchanan, research vice president on Gartner’s CIO team. But it’s not the only one. Each dollar of operational cost reduction drips directly to the bottom line.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

Launching a data-first transformation means more than simply putting new hardware, software, and services into operation. 4x more likely to have high job satisfaction among both developers and data scientists. Key features of data-first leaders. Data-first leaders are: 11x more likely to beat revenue goals by more than 10 percent.

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Future of CIO

JUNE 17, 2019

One of the mistakes that IT even makes is to run IT project as a purely technical challenge without “keeping the end in mind” - the ultimate customer needs and business goals. Traditional IT organizations are often operation-driven, inside-out and monolithic, but the digital era upon us is about people.

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Continually accelerating changes in IT consumption and production require faster responses and better performance metrics. Continually accelerating changes in IT consumption and production require faster responses and better performance metrics. IT metrics have to evolve from being a cost center to becoming a revenue generator.

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Future of CIO

MARCH 19, 2017

By setting the right priority and focusing resources and budget on the most critical areas, IT has the opportunity to not only be responsive but ultimately be the strategic business partner. With increasing speed of changes and overwhelming growth of information, IT can no longer keep static to run as a support function only.

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Future of CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Digital is the age of innovation, any leadership role, especially a CIO, needs to be better-rounded than to have a title of "logical" or "creative." CIOs need to be creative enough to think out-of-the-box for embracing great ideas; and logical enough to plan, engineer and follow through. They should be good at both.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Information systems are business oriented, integrate hardware, software and many other pieces of IT components to help business users accomplish business objectives. However, many traditional IT organizations are still perceived as the cost center and support desk. IT is the linchpin of running a digital organization.

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Future of CIO

MARCH 31, 2013

Here are four views of KPIs, from IT cost breakdown to IT Performance quadrant; from PMO measure to business capability metrics. Performance is measured at many different levels in the hierarchies, by region of the world, country, the line of business, business unit, account, program, senior VP, junior VP and so on.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 26, 2020

Krysta Svore, who leads the Microsoft Quantum – Redmond group at Microsoft Research, explains how quantum computing hardware works at a Seattle science meeting in February. C 2 QA will focus on taking advantage of quantum phenomena for high-energy and nuclear physics, chemistry, materials science and other fields.

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Innovation has a broader definition including process/service innovation, business model innovation, leadership/culture/communication innovation, cost structure optimization, and it’s also tangible and quantifiable. Here’re seven questions to evaluate IT vendor’s innovation capabilities. What exactly do we mean by Innovation?

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That’s how they ended up at the historic Virginia Inn restaurant and bar at Seattle’s Pike Place Market 10 years ago, in the fall of 2013, engaged in a conversation that would ultimately change the course of Amazon’s cloud business. In the realm of AI, these chips provide an alternative to general-purpose silicon.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

We reached out to chief people officers and HR leaders at seven Seattle tech companies to learn more about the biggest challenge they are facing right now with their teams. Research shows that employees feel more connected to their teams right now, but disconnected to their employer. Read on to hear more from the HR leaders.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

While the creatures that make the theme park their home are strikingly realistic, their real-life counterparts became extinct millennia ago. Many believe that the once mighty dinosaur population fell in large part because it failed to evolve with the changing world around it.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

While the creatures that make the theme park their home are strikingly realistic, their real-life counterparts became extinct millennia ago. Many believe that the once mighty dinosaur population fell in large part because it failed to evolve with the changing world around it.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 10, 2021

What is the allure of lockpicking at hacker conferences? In this episode Deviant Ollam explains why these mechanical puzzles remain popular with hackers. Ollam, who was an early member of Toool, The Open Organization of Lockpickers, discusses his career as a physical pen tester and also provides some basic lockpicking hacks. Now look at the numbers.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 9, 2021

What is the allure of lockpicking at hacker conferences? In this episode Deviant Ollam explains why these mechanical puzzles remain popular with hackers. Ollam, who was an early member of Toool, The Open Organization of Lockpickers, discusses his career as a physical pen tester and also provides some basic lockpicking hacks. Now look at the numbers.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I follow my passion and what I’m passionate about, teams I get to work with. On this week’s episode of Decoder with Nilay Patel , I interviewed Phil Spencer, the executive vice president of gaming at Microsoft — or, more simply, the guy in charge of Xbox. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. I do, yeah. That’s quite a rise.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

[UPDATE: We have added 25 additional futurists to the list for a total of 203. Thank you for your help building out the list!]. I find I am frequently asked where all the female futurists are. The discussion on why the profession of futurist appears to be so male-dominated has grown in recent years. Summary list. Tanja Hichert. Geci Karuri-Sebina.

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Vox

AUGUST 1, 2023

Indeed, the US government’s record to date on AI has mostly involved vague calls for “continued United States leadership in artificial intelligence research and development” or “adoption of artificial intelligence technologies in the Federal Government,” which is fine, but not exactly concrete policy. AI is getting seriously good.

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