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GeekWire 200 rankings update: E-commerce, virtual event, fintech startups heat up

GeekWire

Also unique: record breaking investment and M&A activity across the country and in Seattle, as companies take advantage of pandemic-driven trends such as virtual experiences, at-home healthcare, remote education and more. The latest GeekWire 200 rankings highlight these trends, especially among newer startups. The biggest movers.

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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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Seattle area boasts 10 fast-growing unicorns: Can you name the billion dollar startups?

GeekWire

And while the Seattle area still represents a fraction of the estimated 502 unicorns operating around the globe, Seattle venture capitalist Sheila Gulati isn’t surprised by the recent spurt. GeekWire story from July 2019 : Contract management startup Icertis hits $1B valuation with massive $115M funding round. Founded : 2015.

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Five areas where EA matters more than ever

CIO Business Intelligence

He recommends expanding EA to map not only a business’ technology assets but all its processes that rely on vendors as well as part-time and contract workers who may become unavailable due to pandemics, sanctions, natural disasters, or other disruptions. .

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Announcing Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum: Sydney, 19 February 2008 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Web 2.0 in Australia: The birth of Silicon Harbour? - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

David Backley, Chief Technology Officer of Australian banking giant Westpac, said that risk aversion in corporations means both that they are less likely to try new technologies, and to by them from smaller vendors rather than the software giants. Another key theme was the application of Web 2.0 in the enterprise.

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7 challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2020

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

photo credit: geralt via pixabay cc What is the biggest enterprise technology trend right now? The fact is, I’ve heard arguments made that each of those is the biggest trend. I’m sure there are other trends not mentioned that could lay claim to that title as well. Now, I’m not trying to start an argument about trends.