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Transforming IT culture for business success

CIO

In lieu of integrating and customizing off-the-shelf enterprise applications such as Salesforce or SAP, Power Home Remodeling has constructed its own proprietary NITRO platform used to run and optimize all aspects of the business and customer experience. Back in the day, IT culture was all about the perks.

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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

CIO

The challenges of managing IT in a foreign land Adjusting to a new environment, motivating team members, and earning trust are challenges all expat CIOs confront. When Richard Ventre got an opportunity to move to India from the Netherlands, he latched on to it. “We

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Revolutionizing Business Operations with Future-Fit Software

Tandem

It’s not a surprise then that the discussions in many IT departments center around future-fit software and contemporary application development frameworks. It’s not a surprise then that the discussions in many IT departments center around future-fit software and contemporary application development frameworks.

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

Altexsoft

With product teams becoming as significant as the engineering and marketing departments, the companies start to search for a person to bring a deeper product perspective. No matter the company size or the level of management, the activities of a product team fall into three different types — tactical, operational, and strategic.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as “Best Practices&# I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary. I have actually come to cringe every time I hear a so called expert use the phrase in an authoritarian manner as a justification for the position they happen to be evangelizing.

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Should CEOs Have Term Limits? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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Building a Better Middleman

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In the previous article , I explored the role of the middleman in a two-sided marketplace. The term “middleman” has a stigma to it. Mostly because, when you sit between two parties that want to interact, it’s easy to get greedy. Greed will bring you profits in the short term. Probably in the long term, as well.