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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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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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The CIO’s guide to smarter vendor negotiation: 10 tips

CIO

Pricing models and metrics can also be complex, making it difficult to understand when additional costs might kick in, Alexander says. Deals done by business users alone may be technically unsound. Peterson advises creating a team with representation not just from IT, but also users, operations, finance, procurement, and legal.

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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. Another aspect of Baymiller’s tech strategy is having a tight core of tools rather than several instances of ERP systems, for example, which also reduces cost complexity.

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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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7 enterprise data strategy trends

CIO

Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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Layoffs spell opportunity for some fintech startups

TechCrunch

On February 15, Lightspeed Venture Partners’ Ansaf Kareem published a very detailed blog post titled “The Alchemy of Fintech Valuations,” in which he summarizes fintech sectors, the closest public comps, the key metrics to pay attention to and where multiples are today. Check it out here. And so they don’t really want small accounts.

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