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6 enterprise DevOps mistakes to avoid

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Driven by the development community’s desire for more capabilities and controls when deploying applications, DevOps gained momentum in 2011 in the enterprise with a positive outlook from Gartner and in 2015 when the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) incorporated DevOps. It may surprise you, but DevOps has been around for nearly two decades.

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The end of digital transformation and the rise of business model innovation

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But the call for digital transformation really gained popularity after 2011 when Capgemini, in partnership with MIT, officially coined the term , defining it as “the use of technology to radically improve performance or the reach of businesses.” Generative AI isn’t the last wave of AI disruption. New: Leaders are pivotal in driving change.

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Generative AI sparks family business renaissance: PwC report

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The hardest part of digital transformation is changing the culture of the business to align with new challenges — and that’s even more difficult in a family-owned and operated enterprise,” Enrique Hinojosa, a fourth-generation leader of a family-owned business, Welldex Logistics in Mexico, was quoted in the report as saying.

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GV’s Frederique Dame on product-market fit: ‘You have one chance at a good experience’

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In a fireside chat at TechCrunch Early Stage, we discussed her experience validating product ideas, gathering actionable customer data, creating user-centric work cultures, and handling some of the unique challenges that come with scaling teams from a few dozen people to several thousand employees.

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After the acquisition: 3 startup founders share their exit experiences

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If being acquired means losing the brand and identity you have worked so hard to build — or perhaps worse, losing your cultural identity — it probably will suck. His startup was a member of the YC Winter 2011 cohort, and was sold to Rackspace a year later. The last company, a 72-year-old operation, was the exception.

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Refactoring your IT sourcing strategy for digital success

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From 2011 to 2023, Perkins led technology in various senior-level roles for global property and casualty group Zurich Insurance. Shifting your workforce composition is a major operational and cultural change,” says Perkins. Among such leaders is Barry Perkins.

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Australian startup Pyn raises $8M seed to bring targeted communication in-house

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His co-founder Jon Williams was previously a co-founder at Culture Amp, an employee experience management platform he helped launch in 2011 (and which raised more than $150 million), so the two of them have been immersed in this idea. In a nutshell, we radically personalize employee communications,” Luijke explained.

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