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Gloria Lin thinks construction needs to ‘catch the wave of fintech’

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But long before she worked in the technology industry, Lin was the daughter of the owner of a trade contracting business. Construction is one of those large industries that impacts how we all live, but it really hasn’t caught the wave of fintech and cloud computing, and generally hasn’t been as digitized as other sectors.”.

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5 machine learning essentials nontechnical leaders need to understand

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Snehal Kundalkar is the chief technology officer at Valence. I regularly meet smart, successful, highly competent and normally very confident leaders who struggle to navigate a constructive or effective conversation on ML — even though some of them lead teams that engineer it. ML recruiting strategy.

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3 things that make a CIO-CFO dream team

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Thistle, who’s been recruiting C-level executives for over three decades, says that CIO candidates generally prefer not to report to CFOs because it signals that the organization considers IT as more of a cost center. In these cases, it makes more sense for the CIO to be part of the CTO operation.

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Transforming IT culture for business success

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Cultivating a culture of creators Power Home Remodeling’s business model is centered on remodeling the exterior of homes while its IT organization — what it calls the Business Technology (BT) Group — serves as the creative force behind a build-your-own software platform that operates in service to the business.

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Complete helps startups think through the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of employee pay

TechCrunch

Constructing a coherent philosophy around compensation is crucial for a company to stay consistent in the long term and provide transparency to employees — essentially, coming up with the “why” and “how” behind salary decisions. The company just announced it has raised $4 million in seed funding led by Accel.

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Top 10 Automation and RPA Predictions For 2019

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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a growing type of process automation technology within the world of business. Predictions for the next decade show that several big industries will run into talent shortages, which means that the past methods for recruitment aren’t working as well in the present. Top 10 RPA Predictions For 2019.

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We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

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Whether you sell cars, candy, consulting, or construction, software is moving to the center of your business. Martin-Flickinger, who, before Adobe, was CIO of McAfee and VeriSign, became CTO of Starbucks for many years. So congratulations! You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO.