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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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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. Pivot frequently.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers. You worry you don’t have enough capacity, so you overprovision,” he says.

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

CIO

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. One report estimates that 4,000 positions were eliminated by AI in May alone.

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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 better support business growth, Baymiller advises IT leaders to build connections with the heads of their business units and become part of their teams.

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The Power of AI Assistants and Advanced Threat Detection

Palo Alto Networks

We recently interviewed Mike Spisak, technical managing director with the Proactive Services Creation Team at Unit 42. Spisak responded with an overview of essential metrics, emphasizing the importance of fundamental statistics, such as false positive and false negative rates, alongside the successful detection rate.

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Executive Search in Life Sciences: Identifying Leaders Aligned to Innovation and Growth

N2Growth Blog

As an experienced talent leader in professional services and executive search, and having come from years of experience working within and advising in the sector, I know how crucial attracting top talent is for life sciences organizations, especially those at the growth stage.