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Coaching IT pros for leadership roles

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I spoke to IT executives and leadership coaches for tips on how to develop the leaders on your team. Start coaching You can teach someone to code, manage money, and complete the tasks of being a manager. But the transition from teacher to coach can be challenging. “I I switched from teaching to coaching,” he says. “I

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

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Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. Nothing clicked until she spoke to Trainline, the international digital rail and coach technology platform, headquartered in London.

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IT leaders go small for purpose-built AI

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SLMs and other traditional non-LLM AI technologies have many applications, particularly for organizations with specialized needs, says Dave Bullock, CTO at UJET, a contact-center-as-a-service provider experimenting with small language model AIs. It could be a very, very low barrier to entry.”

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Getting infrastructure right for generative AI

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Running in a colocation facility, the cluster ingests multimodal data, including images, text, and video, which trains the SLM on how to interpret X-ray images. We expended a lot of human resources to maintain the systems, so the savings weren’t really there,” he adds. At that point, Papercup decided the cloud was needed.

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6 signs an IT manager is struggling — and how to help

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Work with their manager or mentor to establish short-term goals that are clear and achievable,” Clark says. Their abilities and confidence can be improved by providing mentorship programs, training sessions, and professional development opportunities.” That suggests why they’re struggling.” What can be done to help?

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5 steps we can take to address the cyber skills shortage

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Where can we find them and how can we make sure they are properly trained, especially those that come through the nontraditional tertiary education path? Mentorship is not only about recruiting new talent; it is also a major factor in connecting, nurturing, training, and retaining.

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NCMS CIO exploits ‘Great Resignation’ to slash costs, streamline IT operations

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But for Kapil Mehrotra, group CTO at National Collateral Management Services (NCMS), high turnover presented an opportunity to cut costs of the IT department, streamline its operations, and find a long-term solution to the perpetual skills scarcity problem. The applications had been transformed into SaaS and PaaS environment.

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