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AI meets M&A: How these former management consultants are upending due diligence

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Wokelo co-founders Saswat Nanda, left, and Siddhant Masson, both worked previously as management consultants. That’s the premise behind Wokelo , a Seattle-area startup co-founded by two former management consultants, Siddhant Masson and Saswat Nanda. ” Funding: The company, founded in 2022, has raised $1.5

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. The only sustainable way for us to prove this is break the barriers for underrepresented groups as they enter the tech world,” she says.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Cera Group appoints Manish Chandegara as group CIO. Manish Chandegara has joined Cera Group as group CIO. Prior to that, he worked at Maahi Milk Producer, KSP solutions, Magna Seatings, and Adani Group. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO.

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Transforming IT for digital success

CIO Business Intelligence

One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Strategies to transform IT for digital success include the following.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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3 forces shaping the evolution of ERP

CIO Business Intelligence

The challenges of the past two years “are tipping the scales toward speedier adoption of next-generation ERP systems,” noted a team of analysts led by Neveen Awad in a report published by Boston Consulting Group. “It The HR component of ERP systems will need to account for rapid onboarding, unpredictable hours, and frequent turnover.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. The best arrangement is to have a full chargeback of cloud costs to the business unit or group requesting those resources.” Whether agile should include FinOps or not is a matter of debate,” he says.

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