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Lexmark International’s Vishal Gupta on next gen tech leadership

CIO

As software and data move to the center of a company’s products and services, the background and skills of the executive leadership team must evolve. Our history is being a leader in the imaging market, but with people printing less, we knew we needed to shift our strategy toward a growing market,” says Gupta.

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BCBSNC builds a better IT workplace through DEI

CIO

For companies looking for an edge in the tight talent market, a solid DEI strategy and employee engagement often go hand in hand, creating a balance that fosters an inclusive work environment. BCBSNC’s Ladder program addresses this issue by fostering leadership relationships for BIPOC IT workers. BCBSNC also ranked No.

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7 traits of inspirational IT leaders

CIO

Following are seven qualities to target as you begin your journey to leadership glory. Build a strategy around developing future-ready talent.”. Team members must feel empowered to do great things, such as by sharing innovative ideas to serve customers in the ways they want to be served. “We

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. This should secure our business strategy for the next five years and longer.”

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New world, new CIO: How emerging realities are shaping the CIO’s job

CIO

In a relatively brief time span, technologies like cloud, edge computing, artificial intelligence, and IoT have taken center stage, and new innovative technologies keep emerging. Transportation. IT Leadership Based on this information, they can then plan maintenance and work schedules more intelligently.

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Covariant, MassRobotics and The Engine discuss the road from lab to market at TC Sessions: Robotics

TechCrunch

And even though robotics is weathering the current slowdown in venture funding better than other tech sectors, it’s still too easy for innovative inventions to remain stuck in the lab. Milo Werner is a general partner at The Engine, a VC firm that helps deep tech companies bridge the gap between discovery and commercialization.

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What is Six Sigma? Streamlining quality management

CIO

Lean adds a stronger focus to defects, overproduction, waiting, nonutilized talent, transportation, inventory, motion, and extra-processing. Analyze the process to establish root cause of variations and defects to identify issues with the current strategy that stand in the way of the end goal.

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