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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

Downing and team soon recognized their approach wasn’t adding strategic value, so they identified a preferred partner and created policies to better determine when moving to another cloud for features or functions made strategic sense. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

GeekWire

. — Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. billion and sells its contract management software in 90 countries. He was also previously CTO at network infrastructure and security technology company F5 Networks. Headquartered in Bellevue, Wash.,

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

GeekWire

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Toth was previously VP of people and policy at Slack and head of privacy and policy for Google social products including Google+. Amazon Photo). million seed round.

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What It Means To Be A Leader — EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS

A CIO's Voice

Understands and keeps up-to-date on local, national, and international policies and trends that affect the organization and shape stakeholders’ views; is aware of the organization’s impact on the external environment. Oversees procurement and contracting to achieve desired results. External Awareness. Flexibility.

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2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech

GeekWire

It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. The platform has built-in diversity filters to help reduce unconscious bias; an automated messaging tool; and a search engine that understands past hiring patterns and needs based on job descriptions. .

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

It’s putting some of the brightest engineering minds in the world to work on this project, acquiring virtual reality and augmented reality companies, hiring over 10,000 people to work on it, and backing the initiative with tens of billions of dollars. The company is betting a lot on this concept succeeding.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

Right when the Napster movement, anti Napster pro Napster movement was going on, named him says he went and defaced a bunch of websites and, and that was one of the first cases I was hired from, you know, a corporate corporation that had been defaced asking if I could analyze, you know what happened there. That was really fun. And I agree.