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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

From a company standpoint, you minimize turnover and search and recruiting costs.” Broadening the talent pool through training While not driven by science, the pace of technology change has fueled Synchrony’s wide-ranging effort to build out its IT skills pipeline, including recruiting and developing talent from nontraditional pools.

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Mapping China by the Numbers: Ambitions and Threat Vectors

The Cipher Brief

It is pursuing a large, state-sponsored strategy which – in the words of the best book on the subject – seeks to “circumvent the costs of research, overcome cultural disadvantage and ‘leapfrog’ to the forefront by leveraging the creativity of other nations.” Unpicking PRC activity is challenging.

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

TechCrunch

Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. There is an incredible, thriving entrepreneurship culture that breeds fascinating companies weekly. by about 12-18 months.