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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. Encourage technical decisions based on wildly optimistic expectations of scale. Pick vanity metrics with little or no correlation with business value and high amount of noise.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Optimizing cloud investments requires close collaboration with the rest of the business to understand current and future needs, building effective FinOps teams, partnering with providers, and ongoing monitoring of key performance metrics. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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Episode 2: How to get your recruiting metrics right in 2020 ft. The Crown

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Welcome to the second episode of #NetflixandHire where we learn some great ways on how you can get your recruiting metrics right! Through the seasons, you realize that as a constitutional monarch, Queen Elizabeth, though not having any political power, is always in a position to advise the Government. Source: Pop Culture Times.

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Generative AI won’t automate your way to business model innovation

CIO

One report estimates that 4,000 positions were eliminated by AI in May alone. But as legendary Apple designer Jony Ive once advised Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky as the company mulled cuts, “You’re not going to cut your way to innovation.” Avoid technical jargon and use concrete examples and case studies.

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Social Chat launches with $6M to bring brands closer to their customers

TechCrunch

That was done with machine learning engineers, but when I left Wish and was advising brands, I found that what we had at Wish was rare. Earlier this year, Grand View Research reported that the global social commerce market was forecasted to reach $3.4 Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web?

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

Yet in the cybersecurity field, women only account for about one quarter (24%) of the overall workforce, albeit, up from 11% in 2017, according to the ISC2 Women in Cybersecurity report. A 2020 World Economic Forum report found that women make up a similar percentage (26%) of data and AI positions in the workforce.

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Savvy CIOs step up to support business hypergrowth

CIO

Delivering for growth Today, McCullen is creating new technical foundations to ensure that adaptability, and further support ongoing business growth. To that end, one of Baymiller’s direct reports also sits on a corporate team to stay abreast of Owen Corning’s growth strategy and ensure IT stays aligned with that strategy.