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High-growth startups should start de-risking their path to IPO now

TechCrunch

Carl Niedbala is COO and co-founder of Founder Shield, a commercial insurance broker. However, there is no better time than the middle of a market downturn to start planning for the leap from a private to a public company. De-risking the path to going public requires strategic planning, which takes time. Carl Niedbala.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

But partnering for expertise, experience, and strategic insight demands a different approach than old-school outsourcing. IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance.

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Perficient Quoted in Two Forrester Reports Exploring How Health Plans Can Better Engage Members

Perficient

We often hear from our payer clients that, due to the highly matrixed nature of health insurance organizations, no one group feels that it truly owns the entire experience of its members. Rather, we see the greatest success when organizations define desired business outcomes then approach technology as a strategic enabler of those goals.

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The Number 1 Tip to Ensure Returns on Your Firm’s Digital Strategy

N2Growth Blog

Indeed, it is not enough to have a vivid and compelling business strategy. But, it is wise to dig deeper than the strategy list because the digital technology implications of each initiative may not have be well understood and additional inferences will need to be made in order to translate strategic aspirations into digital plans.

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IT leaders face reality check on hybrid productivity

CIO

At insurance company National Life, CIO Nimesh Mehta says his IT team saw productivity increase 26% during the pandemic “because I think people didn’t have anything better to do than work,” Mehta says. “It comes down to finding a balance” of what can be done effectively remotely and what needs to be done in the office, he adds.

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Ceiling breakers: Women IT execs shake up the status quo

CIO

Like other business leaders, Koinig also discovered the appeal of working on strategy. “I And I wanted an opportunity to work on strategy.” Recognizing that “you won’t become an executive as an auditor,” Scott leaned into her strategic skills, plotted a path forward, and eventually moved into a technology position.

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How Mapfre gets cloud to coexist with its tech model ambitions

CIO

With 90 years of history, Mapfre is one of the giants of the Spanish insurance sector. And in charge of the group’s technological strategy and digitalization processes is global CIO Vanessa Escrivá. And in what state is the execution of this strategic plan? This year is when the plan begins to extend to these territories.

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