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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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CIOs in financial services embrace gen AI — but with caution

CIO

Generative AI is starting off a new age of exploration in IT,” says Frank Schmidt, CTO at insurance firm Gen Re. Cugini at KeyBank agrees, and adds that the exploration has to include a cross-functional team from all areas of the business, not just IT. “We However, developing and deploying an LLM is costly. Humans get fatigued.

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Meet Super.mx, the Mexico City-based insurtech that raised $7.2M from VCs and unicorn CEOs

TechCrunch

Co-founded in 2019 by a trio of former insurance industry executives, Super.mx’s self-proclaimed mission is to design insurance for “the emerging Latin American middle class,” according to CEO Sebastian Villarreal. That product choice includes property, natural disasters and life insurance. They’re super expensive.

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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

To build a stronger relationship with vendors, “CIOs should bring them into the fold regarding their priorities and potential concerns about what may —or may not — lie ahead, from a regulatory perspective or the general economic climate, for example,” says Kevin Beasley, CIO at VAI, a midmarket ERP software developer. “A

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Bridging the IT leadership gender gap

CIO

Lack of program structure, poor mentor and mentee matching, and inconsistent commitment between participants can impede effectiveness, says Dr. Christie Struckman, a research vice president at Gartner, who argues that these programs often intimate that something needs to be fixed in the women participants.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Unpacking BuzzFeed’s SPAC, curb your meeting enthusiasm, more

TechCrunch

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. Changing your meeting culture is difficult, but given that 26% of workers plan to look for a new job when the pandemic ends, startups need to do all they can to retain talent.

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How to set compensation using commonsense principles

Erik Bernhardsson

Good/bad compensation systems. A bad system keeps people below the salary that you would give them to keep them. A bad system gives raises mostly when people interview elsewhere and get offers. A bad system gives raises mostly when people interview elsewhere and get offers.