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The Fellowship of the Metaverse: CIO, CMO, CCO and CHRO

CIO

Migrate to the cloud, strengthen security, protect privacy, increase agility, advance automation, improve sustainability, optimise the budget … “explore the metaverse” is certainly on the to-do list for most CIOs, along with many, many other competing priorities. What kind of employees would such a brand attract?

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO

In The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (IT Revolution Press, 2013 ) , Bill — an IT manager — takes over a critical project that’s over budget and behind schedule. They returned home to found the SEAL leadership training team. “It The CEO demands that Bill deliver the project in 90 days.

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The Frontiers of AI: Interview with Ben Evans

Apiumhub

” According to Ben, the substantial costs associated with operating large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 can stretch a company’s budget to the limit, which could make them financially unsustainable in the long run. Data Ownership Who owns the data used for internet-based LLM training? And not only this.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO

Protective packaging firm’s profit takes a knock from ERP Packaging firm Ranpak’s SAP migration was far from a disaster — it took less than a year and was delivered on time and to budget — but nevertheless initially led to disappointing results. pony up $260,000 for training courses and support contracts. But things began to slip.

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12 Lessons Learned while Managing Corporate Innovation

Perficient

In 2013, I was working in-house for a large manufacturer. Problem : Despite excitement within the business teams, sometimes the allocation of budget still did not happen at a higher level during quarterly and annual priority meetings. Both the budget and the timing needed to align to be successful.

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Evolution, Not Revolution: Cost Optimization Still Tops Challenges of Cloud Computing

ParkMyCloud

Being a social scientist by training, longitudinal panel type surveys always grab my attention. You do not need to go back to the first RightScale survey in 2013 to see some big changes. But cost optimization can deliver ROI to free up budget to deal with these issues. .

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Brand journalism 101: Tell a Better Story

Women on Business

Otherwise, be prepared to take a lot of heat from its critics who would be elated to escort “brand journalism” out of 2013 STAT. Not every company has the budget to hire a trained journalist, however it is much easier to retain a level of objectivity and identify compelling story lines if your writer is fresh to the team.

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