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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. Encourage technical decisions based on wildly optimistic expectations of scale. Pick vanity metrics with little or no correlation with business value and high amount of noise.

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6 tips for launching a blockchain startup

TechCrunch

In addition, analyze the market situation from a technical standpoint: The bear market is an attractive time to launch, but it’s also a time to go heads-down and focus on building your product. In so doing, they give their team, investors and advisers the right to certain assets such as retirement and stock options.

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Episode 2: How to get your recruiting metrics right in 2020 ft. The Crown

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Welcome to the second episode of #NetflixandHire where we learn some great ways on how you can get your recruiting metrics right! Through the seasons, you realize that as a constitutional monarch, Queen Elizabeth, though not having any political power, is always in a position to advise the Government. Source: Pop Culture Times.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Optimizing cloud investments requires close collaboration with the rest of the business to understand current and future needs, building effective FinOps teams, partnering with providers, and ongoing monitoring of key performance metrics. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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The CIO’s guide to smarter vendor negotiation: 10 tips

CIO

Pricing models and metrics can also be complex, making it difficult to understand when additional costs might kick in, Alexander says. Deals done by business users alone may be technically unsound. Peterson advises creating a team with representation not just from IT, but also users, operations, finance, procurement, and legal.

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Social Chat launches with $6M to bring brands closer to their customers

TechCrunch

That was done with machine learning engineers, but when I left Wish and was advising brands, I found that what we had at Wish was rare. Though it is a fairly new company and too early to see concrete growth metrics, Social Chat is already working with customers like HTC and 10 other brands and seeing some early traction.

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