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8 signs you’ve mistimed a major IT initiative

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Inadequate leadership and poor team engagement can lead to delays and time-wasting errors. Poor planning Defective planning often leads to poor timing, particularly when an initiative conflicts with established business operations. Mistimed initiatives ultimately result in poor adoption, Lively warns. “If

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CIOs rise to the ESG reporting challenge

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Siemens had 365,000 products in its portfolio, from switches to trains (which themselves comprise millions of parts), and more than 65,000 tier-one suppliers. “To To accurately report on the environmental footprint for a train, we need to ensure that every single supplier provides accurate data in a reliable way,” says Karcher.

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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

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Traditional security controls are bypassed in such attacks as bad actors assume a user’s identity and their malicious activity is indistinguishable from routine behavior. Deception Adversaries rely on human error, policy gaps, and poor security hygiene to circumvent defenses and stay hidden as they escalate privileges and move laterally.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: eVTOL takes off, pivoting with agility, when to hire a lawyer

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“I’ve been working in the aircraft development space for decades, but 2021 was different,” Tigner writes. In reality, changing course is usually the smartest bet, because it allows founding teams to leverage new technology and adapt to changing market conditions. Mainstream attention is increasing. What are my best options?

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LinkSquares benefits from the legal tech boom with a fresh $100M

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Demonstrating that there’s a robust market for contract management solutions, LinkSquares , a company developing intelligent software that helps brands maintain and ink new contracts, today announced that it raised $100 million in Series C financing led by G Squared. Modern legal teams need to cement their seat at the executive-level.

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The cyber security challenges in fintech and neobanking’s rise

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“The only solution to this dilemma is to make sure that the development lifecycle of applications become ‘secure by design.’ This effectively creates digital ‘guardrails’ for developers to still run fast, but avoid major accidents or weaknesses in the process,” he says.

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7 key questions CIOs need to answer before committing to generative AI

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Existing generative AI platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Bard, or Stable Diffusion aren’t trained on 3D images of teeth. Then, when that didn’t work, it hired it’s own team to build the proprietary models it needed. Only 1% of companies have no plans to develop plans for generative AI. Teeth are very tricky.