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Salesforce certification guide: Roles, paths, exams, cost, training, requirements

CIO

The role involves consulting with clients to understand their needs, customizing Salesforce to meet those needs, providing training and support, and ensuring that the platform is being used effectively and efficiently to support organizational goals.

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What is a project management office (PMO)? The key to standardizing project success

CIO

Debra Chin, a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and program manager/consultant with ROC Implementation & Management Group (ROCIMG), describes the PMO more succinctly, saying, “It’s a centralized point that helps manage projects.”

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A comparative assessment of digital transformation in Italy

CIO

The CIO has to add value to the business; he isn’t just the IT manager, managing servers and networks and associated costs,” Roero says. The CIO is an information and innovation officer, driving implementations that have direct value for business growth.

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Novanta’s Sarah Betadam on transforming the IT model status quo

CIO

A self-confessed data analytics and research junkie, Betadam wrote a thesis presented to George Washington University a few years ago that outlines a contemporary model for IT program management that challenges many existing models, which she calls ‘overly subjective’ and less viable in today’s world.

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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO

As CIOs prepare for the next wave of digital transformation, they must demonstrate shorter-term business impacts from technology investments and achieve larger innovation goals that evolve the organization’s business model. Transformations that emphasize more building than buying can also be at issue here.

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3 key digital transformation priorities for 2024

CIO

Here, the State of DevSevOps in 2023 report highlights several gaps CIOs should focus on closing in their 2024 digital transformations, including inadequate security training, shortages of application security personnel, and lack of transparency in development and operations workflows.

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‘AI-powered’ VC firm Vela emerges from stealth with $25M under management

TechCrunch

Six years ago, Yiğit Ihlamur, a former senior program manager at Google, observed that AI was surpassing human capabilities in certain areas — at least by his estimation. “I perceived delivering capital to innovation as a math problem and started coding and hacking my way in.”