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Berlin’s Kaiko Systems nets €2M to help maritime technical operations go paperless

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Maritime shipping, argued Fabian Fussek, CEO and co-founder of Kaiko Systems, is the “last frontier of digitzation.” ” Kaiko Systems is a Berlin-based startup trying to digitize operations on commercial vessels. But some sectors have been left behind.

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#781 Why Disruption Does More Harm than Good with Ashley Goodall, Author & Executive

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I am the co-author, with Marcus Buckingham, of NINE LIES ABOUT WORK: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World (Harvard Business Review Press, April 2019)—which was selected as the best management book of 2019 by Strategy + Business and one of Amazon’s best business and leadership books of 2019.

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Consulting, software boost IBM revenue as it turns to AI

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Strong performances in software and consulting helped IBM’s profit and revenue increase in the first quarter, even as a post-pandemic slowdown hit much of the technology industry. year on year; within the Hybrid Infrastructure business, z Systems revenue was up 7%. IBM’s software and consulting revenue both rose 3% year over year.

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United Airlines gives employees the digital tools to make customers happy

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Our goal is to improve the entire travel process from when you plan a trip to when you plan the next trip,” says Birnbaum, who joined the airline in 2015 and became CIO last July. That was our story, and we worked very diligently to change the narrative.” In that model, no one was looking out for the end user.

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Kenya-based aquaculture tech Victory Farms nets $5M funding to expand into new markets

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Joseph Rehmann founded Victory Farms in 2015. In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. The company recorded a 130% CAGR between 2017 to 2021.

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Unpacking Murray & Roberts’ turbulent journey to the cloud and back again

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Hilton Currie: Up until 2015, we were 100% on-premises and we had no major issues. We had everything from our big ERP systems to smaller, bespoke systems running in the cloud. We had third-party independent consultants come in to analyze certain systems and licensing. Hilton Currie. We did a lot of consolidation as well.

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Inside track: Chris Bedi on his evolving CIO role at ServiceNow

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For Chris Bedi, who joined ServiceNow as CIO in September 2015, a lot: the company recently gave him a new title, chief digital information officer, and rebranded his IT team as “digital technology.” “The We toyed around with the name: digital brain, central nervous system — for the organization,” he says. “We What’s in a name?