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Turning the tide in STEM career roadblocks at Synchrony

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Roughly 26% of tech jobs in the US are held by women, a decrease from about 33% in 2019, according to CompTIA’s 2023 State of the Tech Workforce report. Minding the workforce gap Supporting women through all stages in their learning and career development can help reduce this gap. Launched a Veterans Leadership Program.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

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The balance between software and hardware in cars is also changing dramatically since software is increasingly developed internally and built into the cars. The cloud journey completed Even before the system landscape is changed, Volvo Cars has made its cloud journey — one of the big, ongoing programs when Altehed started his role in 2019. “We

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5 key mistakes IT leaders make at board meetings

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They assume their board lacks technical expertise In 2019, MIT reported that only 24% of US boards of companies with over $1 billion in revenue were digitally savvy. So too is the case for many IT leaders I speak with. With that in mind, here are five common mistakes IT leaders make when participating in board meetings.

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6 smart practices for better business-IT alignment

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Typically, their responsibilities include providing tier-one support to business users, developing reports, and meeting the analytical and data needs of their users,” he says. That person is now a Scrum master at a major insurance company. So far, about 1,000 Liberty Mutual executives have taken the program since it began in 2019.

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Broadcom Software Return to Face-to-Face Customer Engagements

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Talk about timing: just as we completed the acquisition of Symantec in November 2019, a global pandemic hit. Vitality is a skills development program designed to cultivate next-gen mainframe talent. It’s been great to see people returning to face-to-face meetings in recent months – for us at Broadcom Software, a little more than most.