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Transforming IT culture for business success

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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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Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White, Shawn Mendes get behind Shelf Engine

TechCrunch

Shelf Engine ’s mission to eliminate food waste in grocery retailers now has some additional celebrity backers. The company has already helped retailers divert 1 million pounds of food waste from landfills, Stefan Kalb, co-founder and CEO of Shelf Engine, told TechCrunch. This includes a $12 million Series A from 2020.

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New School Foods’ filet looks and tastes like salmon, but it’s actually plants

TechCrunch

One of the biggest venture capital investments into alternative seafood last year went into Wildtype , which raised $100 million in a Series B round for its cultured salmon product. The company’s first product is a plant-based filet that looks, cooks, tastes and flakes like wild salmon. The company has now raised $13 million in total.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

CIOs know that tech issues get the trigger finger of blame when businesses experience operational disasters, but we also know there are culture and process issues that can be primary and often untold contributors — both well within the CIO’s purview. While weather may have been the root cause, the 16,000 flights canceled between Dec.

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO

We don’t want to just go off to the next shiny object,” she says. “We To keep up, Redmond formed a steering committee to identify opportunities based on business objectives, and whittled a long list of prospective projects down to about a dozen that range from inventory and supply chain management to sales forecasting. “We

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Article: Pipedrive Unfixed - Case Study of a Unicorn Company

InfoQ Culture Methods

Pipedrive would not have become a unicorn company by using a standard off-the-shelf agile framework. Instead, the company created its own framework. It makes a distinction between Mission Teams versus Launchpads and relies heavily on dynamic reteaming.

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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

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We live in a world that is more global than ever before and it is important to experience different cultures, customs, and traditions,” he says. Oman offers a good work culture, lifestyle, and the salary is not taxed,” Pant says. “It When Richard Ventre got an opportunity to move to India from the Netherlands, he latched on to it. “We