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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 company also provides access to the tech learning platform O’Reilly, where team members can attend live conferences, and access books and content.

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MegaTrend Update: Dramatic and broad shifts in models due to software ("software eats the world")

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Then perhaps the government contracting world (we have previously written about software eating the government contracting world and DoD command and Control ). Analysis Big Data CTO DoD and IC Anki Apple DoD Facebook Google iTunes Marc Andreessen Netscape Spotify Twitter' Seems like education. Then healthcare.

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Fed Tech News Roundup

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Don’t Hire A Chief Data Officer Unless You’re Serious About Becoming A Data-Driven Company TechCrunch (Today) - There’s a lot of discussion in the business world right now about chief data officers (CDOs). It’s centered primarily around two questions: When should a business hire a CDO? (sv1ambo / Flickr).

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Survey On DoD Cybersecurity Rules: And book on The Cyber Threat for all organizations taking the survey

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We know you are very busy and as a token of appreciating for your thoughts we are providing all respondents from covered companies with an Amazon Gift Certificate for our book The Cyber Threat. This best selling book outlines the nature of the threat facing businesses and steps you can take today to mitigate threats.

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‘Convoy Mafia’: Alumni from trucking marketplace company lead new startups in Seattle

GeekWire

“I attribute the entrepreneurialism of so many alums to the culture and high hiring bar in the early days of the company,” said Ryan Soskin , the 15th employee at Convoy who is now CEO of trucking software platform GoodShip. Former Convoy employees point to several factors that made the company a hub for future entrepreneurs.

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7 IT leadership hacks that deliver results

CIO Business Intelligence

We sought technology leaders who could advise on succeeding fast, along with creating a strong organization, developing team leaders, leveraging the support of peers, and specifically how to streamline day-to-day management of a technology group. Bad hires happen, and sometimes, promotions don’t work out.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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