TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote. With that in mind, SaaS startup Wingback made a fractional head of remote its first hire, “and it was the best decision we made,” said Yann Leretaille, co-founder and CTO. Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

According to The State of the CIO Survey,24% of CIOs view “reinventing infrastructure/applications to meet new requirements” as a challenge holding IT back. Cybersecurity Another significant challenge: Addressing security threats, which was cited by 43% of CIOs responding to the State of the CIO survey. 1 challenge listed.

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CIO

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

According to IDC’s July 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending (FERS) survey of 856 senior IT and business managers in large enterprises, the IT line items most affected, in addition to rising tech salaries, include SaaS and PaaS costs. They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Sealock also advises conducting regularly scheduled anonymous team surveys, designed to reveal a budding toxic culture. Sealock believes that such a survey is “a great way to identify culture issues and to track the effectiveness of remediation efforts to improve culture.” Culture is a function of leadership execution.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

When it comes to growth marketing, ‘so much of CRO is psychological’: Growthcurve was recommended to us through our growth marketing survey. When it comes to growth marketing, ‘so much of CRO is psychological’ Software consulting. Tap your community and the K factor to drive viral growth.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For a qualitative view, employee surveys that measure engagement or information from front-line managers can be used. Focus on transparency and alignment An effective leader clearly communicates organizational goals that align with the overall enterprise mission, says Sandeep Angra, CTO at commercial aviation services provider Unifi Aviation.

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GreenBar

OCTOBER 8, 2017

​CTO Favorites and Contenders ​During previous research I conducted a survey of fellow CTOs to quantify their use of cloud services. Also published on CTO Craft. But sometimes it's nice to hear about what's new or popular a little more serendipitously.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Anything that falls into the category of IT management tools is often cast aside, but these are the workhorses of IT,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas. What does that really mean and what does it take?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

To get a look at how Intent tailors its approach to client needs and how the company helps clients get their products from inception to the market, we spoke with Wojciech Borkowski , its head of business development, and CTO Peter Tuszynski. Help TechCrunch find the best software consultants for startups.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It found that 53% of the organizations it surveyed reported that their directors are among the main decision-makers for emerging technology investments, coming in just behind their CIOs and chief technology officers. Consider, for example, findings from tech research and advisory firm Gartner. Flying solo.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A 2022 survey of 850 IT leaders by Foundry found more than two-thirds were accelerating their cloud migration and nearly three-quarters (72%) were defaulting to cloud-based services for upgrades or new IT purchases. Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2023

Consider some recent survey findings. The anticipation and fear of the impact of generative AI in particular, and its relationship to artificial general intelligence (AGI), makes it overhyped,” says Daryl Cromer, vice president and CTO for the PCs and smart devices division at Lenovo.

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. Like anything, the hard work is the initial assessment,” says CGI director of business consulting and CIO advisor Sean Sadler.

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CIO

JULY 28, 2022

That is backed up by a 2021 survey by industry analysts at Forrester, which showed that, of 2,329 data and analytics decision-makers worldwide, 55% want to hire data scientists. Gary Jeter, executive vice president and CTO, TruStone Financial Credit Union. Focusing on team building. TruStone Financial Credit Union.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Bola Bardet founded the company with Laurent Leconte (CTO) and Sandrine Egron (COO) after losing her father to complications from a chronic health condition due to poor management. “My Having worked in a luxury firm, as an investment banker at JP Morgan and her own consulting firm, Bardet decided to start Susu in 2019. Susu founders.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 22, 2022

During COVID period, we conducted a software architecture metrics survey and found that there is strong demand for software architecture metrics resources, yet very few are available. Before joining Thoughtworks, Neal was the chief technology officer at the DSW Group Ltd., Rene Weiss is a CTO at Finabro.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

In a 2019 Vanson Bourne survey, enterprises said that they’ve been held back by legacy database technologies — specifically relational databases systems. Relational databases weren’t designed with newer apps or the cloud in mind, the respondents said — making them sometimes difficult to adapt and work with.

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Modern CTO

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We discuss Tori’s idea of the Digital Employee Bill of Rights, the surprising survey question that 90% of respondents agreed on, and how their biggest research finding is shedding new light on traditional organizational hierarchy. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Appetiser ‘s site lists three factors for app success: Technology, marketing and design. And while the Australian agency was recommended to TechCrunch via our our survey to identify software development partners for startups , it could just have well have come through our survey to recommend growth marketers, which you can answer here.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

Delayed decision-making Bhadresh Patel, chief digital officer at global consulting firm RGP, sees organization’s showing more caution than usual. 2023’s State of the CIO survey found 70% of IT leaders anticipate an increased involvement on their part in cybersecurity operations going forward.

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CIO

JANUARY 26, 2023

global inflation rate, an ongoing talent squeeze, and persistent supply issues as a triple threat to CIOs’ ability to realize time to value for their tech investments this year, according to its 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey , which gathered data from 2,203 CIOs in 81 countries and all major industries.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey , conducted by PwC, predicts that one in five workers worldwide may quit their jobs in 2022 with 71% of respondents citing salary as the major driver for changing jobs. Just like big software companies, CIOs also must hire, train, and retain freshers. IT Skills

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Organizations that scored in the top quartile for EA maturity in a recent Bizzdesign survey were three times more likely to report having organizational agility, which has been crucial during the past few years with the COVID-19 pandemic. Enterprise architects often go on to work as a CTO, software engineering or development director, or CIO.

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. “IT leaders should expect increased competition in many talent pools and that the cost of IT talent will continue to rise.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

To his point, a 2022 survey found that — among banks and credit unions who believe they’re at least three-quarters through a transition to digital — less than 25% have seen a meaningful increase in revenue. The problem Savana solves pertains to architecture, Sanchez tells TechCrunch.

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CIO

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A 2023 survey of more than 1,300 respondents from around the globe who either influence or manage their organization’s risk and compliance programs found that only 53% rated their programs as mature. Governance is who does what, how, and based on what data,” says Tilcia Toledo, senior managing director with FTI Consulting.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The world has flipped since 2022,” says David McCurdy, chief enterprise architect and CTO at Insight. You now have the ability to jump over processes that have existed for years, sometimes decades, because of generative technology.” Then gen AI came out. It’s transforming some of our workflows.”

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CIO

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s no surprise, then, that according to a June KPMG survey, uncertainty about the regulatory environment was the top barrier to implementing gen AI. If I’m an energy company, I want to make it possible for folks to leverage geologic surveys and reports that are miserable to go through.” AI is a black box.

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Honeycomb

MAY 5, 2020

A quarter of the survey respondents exhibit advanced observability practices . Observability is the key to enabling teams to operate at a consistently high-performing level, resulting in far less technical debt, a faster time to recovery, and swift, predictable deploys,” s aid Charity Majors, CTO and co-founder of Honeycomb.io.

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Honeycomb

MAY 5, 2020

A quarter of the survey respondents exhibit advanced observability practices . Observability is the key to enabling teams to operate at a consistently high-performing level, resulting in far less technical debt, a faster time to recovery, and swift, predictable deploys,” s aid Charity Majors, CTO and co-founder of Honeycomb.io.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

She was an associate partner at Mckinsey & Company responsible for opening their Addis Ababa office. Her prior experience includes Oracle, Bain & Company, and Princeton Consultants. Melalite Ayenew is the firm’s tech partner. Selam Kebede is the firm’s director and leads operations.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, the demand for qualified individuals has soared,” Chan says. CIO.com’s 2023 State of the CIO survey recently zeroed in on the technology roles that IT leaders find the most difficult to fill, with cybersecurity, data science and analytics, and AI topping the list.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

But Adept’s co-founders, CEO David Luan, CTO Niki Parmar and chief scientist Ashish Vaswani, boil their ambition down to perfecting an “overlay” within computers that works using the same tools people do. ” It’s lofty stuff. ” Luan told TechCrunch in an interview via email. billion in 2020 to $19.6

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