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Fractional CTO Services Explained

Valerian Tech

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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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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Buying advice for CIOs as low-code/no-code spending rises

CIO Business Intelligence

Faced with a long-running shortage of experienced professional developers, enterprise IT leaders have been exploring fresh ways of unlocking software development talent by training up non-IT staff and deploying tools that enable even business users to build or customize applications to suit their needs.

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Scale and Speed with Cyber Security

CTOvision

The number one organizing principle has to be speed and its speed operating at every level within an enterprise: from how software gets built to how it gets deployed to how it evolves to how fast HR can fire and hire people, the speed of light infects everything, it has to be optimized for.

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Fed Tech News Roundup

CTOvision

DHS Launches Federal Government's First FOIA App - Nextgov NextGov (Today) - DHS Launches Federal Government's First FOIA App Nextgov The Department of Homeland Security has released a new mobile app to make it easier for the public to submit Freedom of Information Act. sv1ambo / Flickr). This is a 1965.

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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

CIO Business Intelligence

The proper use of unstructured data will become of increasing importance to IT leaders,” says Kevin Miller, CTO of enterprise software developer IFS. “It They also need to establish clear privacy, regulatory compliance, and data governance policies. Data Governance, Data Management

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TechNet Augusta 2016 “Cyber in the Combined Arms Fight”

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As an example, he discussed how Army countered the IED threat thought a whole government approach, looking at it holistically. Source selection (contracting) methodologies: Government needs to figure out what they are willing to pay more for; it’s not just about lowest price technically acceptable.

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