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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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How to hire the right product manager for your IT needs

CIO Business Intelligence

As a result, many corporate leaders who are used to hiring for IT now have to learn what makes a good product manager as they seek to fill these roles. We spoke to a host of experts, including product managers and those who supervise, hire, and mentor them, about what you should be looking for if you’re hiring a new PM for your team.

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

GeekWire

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. He was most recently a general manager at Amazon where he spent eight years and previously a software architect at Microsoft. Lara Rogers.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Information Technology

” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” ” Of course, it’s more complicated than just checking boxes on a question list. The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. How big is the anticipated development team? How will it be structured?

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

CIO Business Intelligence

Growing up as one of the only Black students in his schools, Peter Beasley felt accepted by his peers and didn’t experience a sense of being different as he set his own course for advancement. Soon after founding Netwatch Solutions as CTO, Beasley realized he would face even more barriers when acquiring funding.

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12 strategic tips CIOs can learn from tech vendor CTOs

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs are increasingly doing more software development and technology-focused work as part of their digital transformations, making the adage “every company is a software company” more of a truism with each digital wave. Sometimes, though, agile gets a bad rap, notes Brad Porter, CTO of St.

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JLL reinvents itself for the AI era

CIO Business Intelligence

Pivoting to tech provider JLL’s move to develop facilities management software is part of an expanded business model that has enabled the company to perform well in tough times, says Morin, who is employing a hybrid strategy for software development in which JLL Technologies will both build in-house and partner with other SaaS vendors.