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7 enterprise data strategy trends

CIO

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Here’s a quick rundown of seven major trends that will likely reshape your organization’s current data strategy in the days and months ahead.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

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. World Insurance’s Corrigan advises asking what skillsets, certifications, and personality types they look for when hiring.

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6 tips for launching a blockchain startup

TechCrunch

Having a solid roadmap, real-world use cases and a war chest are only a small part of a blockchain startup’s survival strategy. Founders also need to be aware that while non-crypto startups can offer useful and transferrable launch strategies, the road to achieving success in the blockchain industry is paved differently.

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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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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. Key to these efforts are advances in Century’s automation strategy and forays into generative AI. It’s rigor and commitment to the strategy.

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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. That helps me plan.”

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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.” How do you convince decision-makers to collaborate on linking IT strategy with business strategy? Also spotlight the other side of ROI (return on ignorance).