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Per Scholas redefines IT hiring by diversifying the IT talent pipeline

CIO Business Intelligence

When CEO Plinio Ayala joined Per Scholas in 2003, he noticed there weren’t enough skilled technicians to fix the hardware the organization collected. Today, the once technology recycling program is now a robust nonprofit focused on offering tuition-free IT training to help diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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3 powerful lessons of using data governance frameworks

CIO Business Intelligence

The first published data governance framework was the work of Gwen Thomas, who founded the Data Governance Institute (DGI) and put her opus online in 2003. They already had a technical plan in place, and I helped them find the right size and structure of an accompanying data governance program.

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The Future of Financial Services - the Indian perspective

Trends in the Living Networks

Public sector banks and transformation to a true market economy. India has 23 public sector banks, which means they are owned at least 51% by the government. The Deputy Governor at the Reserve Bank spoke specifically about financial inclusion. Bank credit has only be used by 4% of the 58 million micro businesses in the country.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

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based security tech company Polyverse , who worked in the role of technical advisor to Gates at Microsoft from 2003 to 2006. ” Miller, who was working at Microsoft as a Windows program manager when Gates issued his memo, said he sees a disconnect in the company’s recent announcements touting its security revenue growth.

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Why JP Rangaswami is arguably the world’s leading Enterprise 2.0 practitioner

Trends in the Living Networks

The article essentially catalogues what JP Rangaswami was doing in his then role of Global CIO at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, and does not mention any other companies innovating internally using web tools. in MIT Sloan Management Review Spring 2006 was the first appearance of the term Enterprise 2.0.

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Notes from the PR and New Media Summit - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Telstra had seen that consumer perceptions of the company had sunk below that of the major banks (extremely low in Australia), so there was little to lose. In response to a question on risk, I said that the bigger risk is not being involved, and the other panelists agreed. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services – #1 Client Sophistication - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

This program established a precedent that has been copied by many other companies, and is highly innovative in how aligns the objectives of the company and its service providers. However the initiative was initially driven by the then-chairman’s drive to cut $1 billion from DuPont’s costs. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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