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How Celanese makes people central to its digital transformation

CIO

Sameer Purao, who joined Celanese as CIO and CDO in 2021, is keeping the team and company focused by making change management a core competency of his team, and ensuring a focus on value, agility, and purpose. We decided that change, agility, and value would be key to put people at the center of the transformation.

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Former Myntra chief’s fashion startup Virgio valued at $161 million in new funding

TechCrunch

Fashion startup Virgio, co-founded by Amar Nagaram, former chief executive of Myntra, has raised $37 million in a new financing round as the young firm looks to build “a global fashion brand” from the South Asian market. There is a large underserved market for branded apparel in India currently.

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The fast track to intelligent retail modernization with TCS and Microsoft Cloud

CIO

IT leaders are prioritizing models that are more agile, efficient, and intelligent, allowing them to respond to market changes quickly. The right model facilitates the adoption of new technologies on cloud, provides a framework for collaboration between teams seamlessly, and supports continuous refinements in an agile manner.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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Annual Budgeting and Agile IT, Part I: Why the CFO Isn't Impressed with Agile

The Agile Manager

I’ve been asked by a number of people recently how we can reconcile Agile IT, which shuns long-range deterministic planning, with annual budget & planning cycles, which are dependent on it. CFOs tend to not to like to go hat in hand to credit markets to raise cash, or immediately contract spending across the business.

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Improving your Customer Centric Merchandising with Location based in-Store Merchandising

Cloudera

The four basic pillars of retail founded upon data are based upon personalized interactions, customer-centric merchandising, supply chain agility, and reimagining stores. Product placement within apparel and department stores is well documented in positively affecting upsell and conversion.

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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

CIO

For others such as Brian Ferris, chief data, analytics, and technology officer at loyalty, marketing, and data analytics consulting firm Loyalty NZ, leading IT abroad was about “gaining huge value in seeing different issues and learning different ways of approaching problems, something that can’t be learnt out of a book.”