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Examining Mr Price Group’s search to modernize

CIO

For modern CIOs, it’s essential to have a healthy balance between innovation and mainstream tech, says Kim Sim, Mr Price Group CIO. This ability to maintain perspective of two different worlds is critical for Sim, who inherited a highly complex legacy environment and is currently in the process of modernizing these systems.

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO

To keep up, Redmond formed a steering committee to identify opportunities based on business objectives, and whittled a long list of prospective projects down to about a dozen that range from inventory and supply chain management to sales forecasting. “We We don’t want to just go off to the next shiny object,” she says. “We

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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

CIO

With lots of Indians here and not much of a time difference, change management is less, too.” The challenges of managing IT in a foreign land Adjusting to a new environment, motivating team members, and earning trust are challenges all expat CIOs confront.

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Book review: Accelerate

Henrik Warne

The change fail rate is the percentage of times a change to the system (such as a deploy or a configuration change) fails. The change fail rate is the percentage of times a change to the system (such as a deploy or a configuration change) fails. Software Delivery Performance. Improvement Drivers.

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Overcoming COVID-19: 5 Tips for Managing Change in Education

PowerSchool

Prior to joining the Agency, Bill was at the financial services company National Live Group during the 2008 economic crisis and later spent 5 years as a change management consultant. It’s been challenging,” Bates says about managing change in education during ongoing school closures. “But,

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Don’t queue for the ski jump if you don’t know how to ski

The Agile Manager

Deploy some fintech and get these people off the payroll already. I keep a record of what I do on individual stones, on how I configure machines and the maintenance I perform on them, and for the totality of activities I do in the workshop each day. Sometimes it goes fantastically well. But mistakes are expensive. We learn through experience.

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The CIO and M&A, Part I

The Agile Manager

M&A is a great process for creating fees for bankers, and for destroying the value held by shareholders." -- John Authers, writing in the Financial Times Industries tend to go through waves of deal-making. This is something H-P did in the late 1990s , and is about to do again. IT is at the center of deal synergy.