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Slope brings on new CFO, customers, capital as it rises to offer businesses buy now, pay later

TechCrunch

One of the areas where Murata says Slope is differentiating itself from other financial providers is its focus on a developer-centric approach, where others are taking a finance-centric approach, and “integration and underwriting have been so bad as a result,” he added. The new investment gives the company total funding of $32 million.

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Computer vision transforms tennis coaching at Billie Jean King Cup

CIO

You didn’t know whether that was a good shot or a bad shot or any other context around what was going on when you played it,” Capel-Davies says. The technology made its debut at the Australian Open in 2003 and Wimbledon in 2007, and it provides the foundation for electronic line calling for the sport.

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3 powerful lessons of using data governance frameworks

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The first published data governance framework was the work of Gwen Thomas, who founded the Data Governance Institute (DGI) and put her opus online in 2003. Poor data quality leads to poor decisions and recommendations. How does your framework help teams work together? Who gets involved in defining frameworks?

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On Exactitude in Technical Debt

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

As Martin Fowler described in 2003 : Technical Debt is a wonderful metaphor developed by Ward Cunningham to help us think about this problem. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. The emphasis of the former is misaligned and the latter is a category error.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

The 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO Award is a list curated by a panel of N2Growth team members ( co-led by Jeffrey Cohn and Mike Myatt ), as well as outside advisory members to ensure objectivity and rigor in our selection process. Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce.

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The State of Security in 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

We had 1,322 complete responses, of which 419 (32%—roughly one-third) are members of a security team. 903 respondents aren’t on a security team, although 19% of that group hold at least one security-related certification. Our goal was to understand the state of security: What challenges do security teams face? That gives us 27.9%

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5 rules that transform outsourcing outcomes

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It is the product of nearly 20 years of research at the University of Tennessee, beginning with a deep-dive funded by the United States Air Force on outcome-based outsourcing in 2003. painshare/gainshare contracts often at a fixed scope/fixed price) have emerged to solve the weaknesses of transactional contracts.