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

CIO Business Intelligence

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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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO Business Intelligence

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. December 2021. February 2022. Goel has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry.

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Juno’s lasting legacy: How the cell therapy juggernaut influenced biotech in Seattle and beyond

GeekWire

billion in venture capital 2021, more than twice the amount in 2019, according to real estate firm CBRE. of Juno at its IPO, and the institution’s research budget fattened with the company’s success. We’re hiring and we’re growing.”. Life science companies in the Seattle area raised a whopping $1.11

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

CIO Business Intelligence

But as I aged, had project successes, earned budget and decision-making authority, and gained more confidence, power, etc., I recognized discrimination based on me being Black was happening to me and the fight for racial equity was and remains real,” he says of his time working his way up to IT director roles.

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Meta is facing the test of its lifetime

Vox

In a memo to Meta’s staff also posted on social media, one of Meta’s top executives, CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, reflected on Monday about the difficult moment the company is in. This year, Facebook also reported its first ever decline in global users in the final quarter of 2021 as it faces increasing competition from TikTok.

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12 tips for achieving IT agility in the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

The work that is not repetitive is changing at a remarkable pace,” says Jon Walden, Blue Prism’s CTO for the Americas. Talent is another key to agility, IT leaders say, making the hiring and retention of IT pros vital to any organization-wide efficiency and transformation efforts. Much of IT work is repetitive. Reinforce and reward.

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