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Bunch adds $1M to its seed round to flesh out its leadership learning app

TechCrunch

The company’s product, a mobile app , focuses on teaching leadership skills to the younger generations more accustomed to learning in smaller chunks, often on the go. Gutnick told TechCrunch that her company has partnered with academics to detail different leadership style “archetypes” as part of its foundation.

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

TechCrunch

. “At Valence, we believe that one of the most important skills people can build is the muscle of working better with a wider range of people, so we create tools that allow team leadership to improve and for people to work better with colleagues and teammates.” But, as with rival performance management systems (e.g.,

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO

Kirkland, a founding member of SustainabilityIT.org, an organization to drive global sustainability through technology leadership, says Choice was the first hospitality company to make a strategic commitment to developing a cloud-native and sustainable platform on AWS. It is the brains of everything — our core system.

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Resilience, an introduction.

Xebia

This make sense making for leadership within organizations very challenging. An organization or an IT system is in difficulties when an event results in a decrease of its value output. The decline in the value is the period of time a system absorbs the stress, and recovery is when the value output is on the rise. See figure 1.

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5 Obtrusive Blockers to Avoid as a Servant Leader

Perficient

We’ve all heard of servant leadership. Instead of diving deep into the theories, practices, and benefits of servant leadership, I will focus on a specific, related principle or mind-set: being unobtrusive. Deloitte reported in 2017 that payroll accounts for 50-60% of Fortune 500 spending. Everyone prefers unobtrusive!

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO

In November 2021 it turned on a new ERP system intended to support international growth with improved operational visibility and financial reporting capabilities. The company was forced to develop new processes to keep information flowing around the business, and hire a third-party consultant to sort out the ERP system at a cost of $3.8

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The Ohio State University Assumes Leadership of Cybersecurity Canon

Palo Alto Networks

At the same time, Palo Alto Networks, which has been the project’s primary sponsor since it was started seven years ago, passes primary leadership of the project to The Ohio State University. . Altogether, the project has named 36 books to its Hall of Fame and published some 90 book reviews. I am very proud of this effort.”.