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Due diligence is ever more critical as the battle for cloud sovereignty intensifies

CIO

After Google’s cooperation with T-Systems and the “ Delos ” offer from Microsoft, SAP, and Arvato, AWS now follows suit. A pledge is forward-looking, something that has not been performed or delivered yet. Otherwise, why would it be a pledge? Also, shouldn’t an announcement like this ideally be backed up with a roadmap?

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Performance Review: How to respond to frustrating or lazy performance feedback

Let's Grow Leaders

Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review. A few years ago, I wrote “Avoid These Infuriating Phrases in End-of-Year Feedback” to encourage managers to stop making stupid comments when giving a performance review. How to Respond to the Most Infuriating Kind of Performance Review.

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Due diligence is Ever More Critical as the Battle for Cloud Sovereignty Intensifies

CIO

After Google’s cooperation with T-Systems and the “ Delos ” offer from Microsoft, SAP, and Arvato, AWS now follows suit. A pledge is forward-looking, something that has not been performed or delivered yet. Otherwise, why would it be a pledge? Also, shouldn’t an announcement like this ideally be backed up with a roadmap?

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Explainer: Building a high-performing last-mile delivery software

CIO

The staff monitoring the logistics management systems are at their wit’s end, trying to compensate for the lost time. Since the last mile process is highly agile, CIOs must ensure the software systems have built-in deep learning capabilities to make in-the-moment decisions. Call confirmation to the back-end team. #5

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DTN’s CTO on combining IT systems after a merger

CIO

Over the years, DTN has bought up several niche data service providers, each with its own IT systems — an environment that challenged DTN IT’s ability to innovate. “We Very little innovation was happening because most of the energy was going towards having those five systems run in parallel.”. The merger playbook.

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Revere is creating a ratings system for the venture capital industry

TechCrunch

The startup, launching publicly today, is building a rating system for the venture capital industry. It’s doing due diligence, and to date, Revere has written over 80 reports. 3 views: How due diligence will change in 2022. The 11-person startup currently takes around two weeks to whip up a report.

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Valence raises $25M to track team performance with continuous reviews

TechCrunch

Valence lets managers track team performance by certain metrics and, if they deem it necessary, intervene with “guided conversations.” And it offers personality assessments, allowing team members to see which colleagues prefer structure, for example, versus more flexibility and adaptability. Image Credits: Valence.