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The cyber security challenges in fintech and neobanking’s rise

CIO

While accelerated collaboration and sandboxing between traditional businesses and fintechs will drive innovation and competitive advantage, the start-up culture that underwrites this progress will prioritise growth and enhance capabilities over cybersecurity. Unfortunately, this puts their clients, their companies, and partners at risk. “The

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5 Obtrusive Blockers to Avoid as a Servant Leader

Perficient

The concept of “being a servant” to your teams and treating employees as critical individuals to be cultivated and empowered, has strong merit. This can help managers support their teams, clear the path, and improve productivity by stepping out of the way as much as possible. Poor Communication – You’ve seen it before.

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Quality Assurance outsourcing in the World of DevOps-Best Practices for Dispersed (Distributed) Quality Assurance Team

Trigent

With outsourced QA being expedited through teams distributed across geographies and locations, many aspects that were hitherto guaranteed through co-located teams have now come under a lot of pressure. Best practices for ensuring the effectiveness of distributed QA teams. The challenge is to find the right skill mix.

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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

I studied indigenous Amazonian languages and Ethnobotany in college and managed to avoid taking any math, science or business courses (yes, I went to Brown University). My business partner, Dan MacCombie, studied Marine Biology, so he was equally inexperienced in the art of management (unless we decided to employ invertebrates).

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. By 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article by Thomas Davenport and D.J. History, such that you can emphasize and not misinterpret signs of cultural significance. A dexterity with tools.

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The Sobering Truth About the Impact of Your Business Ideas

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In what follows, we flesh out the three assertions above with the bulk of the content explaining why it may be difficult to improve the poor success rate for business ideas. That is, the team responsible for doing the analysis often is motivated either implicitly or explicitly to find evidence of success. The results are humbling.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Lordstown Motors’ woes, how co-CEOs work, Brian Chesky interview

TechCrunch

“But there’s more to the Lordstown mess than merely a single bad quarter,” writes Alex Wilhelm. As I described in Part 2 of this EC-1 , that staffing efficiency is partly due to its culture and who it hires. You can’t go 80 miles an hour, slam on the brakes, and expect nothing really bad to happen.