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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.” It’s made our BI department a lot more effective, not only in managing the IT side, but they’re able to effectively speak to business users in a language they understand,” Hsiao says.

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Mapping China by the Numbers: Ambitions and Threat Vectors

The Cipher Brief

Aspects are highly systematized (patent and standards exploitation, civilian and military open source procurement, ‘talent’ spotting and recruitment) while much – as might be expected in a large and diverse state – is disorganized and duplicative. Extra-licit Transfers (organisations). 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. Many of our companies are continuing to recruit and hire. Our founders are resilient and are finding creative means to succeed.