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5 key metrics for IT success

CIO

IT leaders are drowning in metrics, with many finding themselves up to their KPIs in a seemingly bottomless pool of measurement tools. There are several important metrics that can be used to achieve IT success, says Jonathan Nikols, senior vice president of global enterprise sales for the Americas at Verizon. “To Here they are.

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The ‘IT Business Office’: Doing IT’s admin work right

CIO

They want to focus on delivering, integrating, and managing the company’s applications portfolio, and on making sure IT’s infrastructure is fully available and delivering proper performance. Add to that the reporting systems IT managers need so their metrics are more than just ad hoc statistics computed via unaudited spreadsheets.

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How to improve retention, growth marketing’s golden metric

TechCrunch

Whether you’re a construction company, software startup or Fortune 500 company, retention is a key metric across customers, employees and partners. These are just some of the examples of the tests that the growth and product teams should be performing. Imagine having a specific funnel for visitors who are net-new versus re-targeted.

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How to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding

CIO

In contrast, traditional organisations use a project-based approach to delivery, with temporary teams created on an as-needed basis for a specific purpose with budgets based on up-front funding estimates. If the scope is clear and easy to define up-front, it’s a great way to keep everyone on track and ensure teams are delivering to budget.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Optimizing dev teams, O-1A visa criteria, growth’s golden metric

TechCrunch

“High-performing IT teams — which could deploy and push code to production faster than their peers — experienced 60 times fewer failures and recovered from them 168 times faster,” he writes in TechCrunch+. How to improve retention, growth marketing’s golden metric. Have an excellent weekend, Walter Thompson.

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Reinforcement Learning for Budget Constrained Recommendations

Netflix Tech

by Ehtsham Elahi with James McInerney , Nathan Kallus , Dario Garcia Garcia and Justin Basilico Introduction This writeup is about using reinforcement learning to construct an optimal list of recommendations when the user has a finite time budget to make a decision from the list of recommendations.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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