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Transforming IT culture for business success

CIO

Back in the day, IT culture was all about the perks. The evolving role of IT, coupled with new pandemic-era work models, has sifted the culture conversation away from in-office trappings. The evolving role of IT, coupled with new pandemic-era work models, has sifted the culture conversation away from in-office trappings.

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DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

CIO

It gets costly very quick,” says Jim Ducharme, CTO of ClearData, a cloud security posture management (CSPM) and managed detection and response (MDR) SaaS provider for the healthcare industry. “It And that’s all before considering the need to fuel new AI initiatives , which can push cloud costs up further.

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Buying advice for CIOs as low-code/no-code spending rises

CIO

The predictions about the future of software development are contained in IDC’s “ Worldwide Low-Code, No-Code and Intelligent Developer Technologies Forecast, 2022-2026 ” report. That componentization is key, says Andrew Peterson, CTO of executive search firm Riviera Partners, a longtime user of low-code development tools.

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Chief Product Officer: Background, Skills Required, and Whether You Need One

Altexsoft

Why and when do companies need another C-level executive — a chief product manager or CPO? How does this position facilitate business growth and how is it different from a CTO or VP of Product? Who is a Chief Product Officer? What makes a great CPO? And what does it take to find the right person for the job?

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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

Erik Bernhardsson

Many fellow CTOs, some went for the other side of the spectrum: bootcamps and campus recruiting are great recruiting grounds for them. Let’s say the CTO is absolutely adamant that they need to grow the engineering team by 2x in a year. I don’t mean an engineer just hammering on the keyboard shipping code at light speed. I’ve seen it.

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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

Erik Bernhardsson

Many fellow CTOs, some went for the other side of the spectrum. In a typical engineering hiring process, a CTO (or high up person) figures out roughly how much they need to get done compared to how many engineers they have, then goes to the CFO and haggles a bit, then gets assigned a headcount number and a salary range for those people.

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How Retailers Use Artificial Intelligence to Innovate Customer Experience and Enhance Operations

Altexsoft

For this article, we discussed current and potential applications of AI in retail, as well as the state of the industry in general, including factors that drive adoption of cognitive technologies. In December 2016, Amazon introduced the ‘Just Walk Out’ shopping experience with the first Amazon Go store in its Seattle office building.