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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

Technologies such as AI and processes such as agile make it more difficult to know what commitments to seek. 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.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

A lot of people focus on the metrics of diversity, but when you really look at it, inclusion is that sense of belonging, that trust in wanting to work at a place. There’s a stereotype of what security looks like, but the technical stuff is the easiest to pick up,” Lee says. It’s death by 1,000 paper cuts. That’s the real issue.”.

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Savvy CIOs step up to support business hypergrowth

CIO

Delivering for growth Today, McCullen is creating new technical foundations to ensure that adaptability, and further support ongoing business growth. To better support business growth, Baymiller advises IT leaders to build connections with the heads of their business units and become part of their teams.

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7 enterprise data strategy trends

CIO

Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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Agile Outsourcing Success Part 2: 5 Steps for Evaluating Agile Software Partners

Gorilla Logic

In Part One of Gorilla Logic’s blog series on Agile software development, we provided recommendations for how you can realize stellar results when leveraging an Agile outsourcing model. In Part 2 of this series, we share five steps for evaluating Agile software partners that set you up for success. .

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Project Success: Time To Get Your Metrics Right

Mentormate

Detailed functional and technical documentation is handed off upon release. …. Descriptive criteria include metrics and/or targets to reach at delivery. To achieve efficiency, the whole team should be involved in defining the measurement map (metrics – frequency – roles). Project team satisfaction level is reached.

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