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Project manager interview questions: 5 key areas to prep for

CIO Business Intelligence

Good news: You’ve landed an interview for a project manager job. We spoke to a range of career specialists and coaches, along with folks who’ve supervised and hired project managers, to get insights into the sorts of questions you can expect at a PM job interview — and how you should prepare to answer them.

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Uncommon Thinkers: MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith geeks out over electric aviation

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As an example, she cites Canada-based Harbour Air Seaplanes, which is working to convert its planes to use MagniX’s electric propulsion units. million, five-year contract from NASA to demonstrate electric propulsion technologies for aircraft, and has branched out to build hydrogen fuel cells as well as electric motors.

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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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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO Business Intelligence

McKee, tech founder and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies, acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe. One client cut staff earlier this year, only to discover that another part of the business needed their institutional knowledge for a strategic project.

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Getting Value From Your Data Scientists

CTOvision

Simply hiring expensive data scientists isn’t enough. To create real business value with data scientists, top management must learn how to manage them effectively. ". Neither data scientists nor managers are very good at speaking the other’s language, and executives compound the problem by the way they manage data scientists. ".

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

“FinOps practices provide a significant cost reduction benefit by eliminating unnecessary cloud usage, streamlining needed services, and adopting cloud-native services when appropriate — for example, reserved instances, workload smart parking, and spot market pricing,” he says.

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From the Other Side of the Table — CIO Interview Questions to Employers

A CIO's Voice

Having been on the other end several times, it is important to get a sense that you will be valuable as a CIO and most importantly have job satisfaction. Can you describe your company’s growth (or lack there of) in terms of revenue and hiring over the last 5-10 years? Can you give me an example?

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