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Companies to shift AI goals in 2025 — with setbacks inevitable, Forrester predicts

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Noting that companies pursued bold experiments in 2024 driven by generative AI and other emerging technologies, the research and advisory firm predicts a pivot to realizing value. AI governance is already a complex issue due to rapid innovation and the absence of universal templates, standards, or certifications.

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

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They ensure that decisions are aligned with both short-term goals and long-term sustainability Strategist: The enterprise architect aligns technology initiatives with the businesss vision, ensuring that technology choices drive value and competitive advantage. Observer-optimiser: Continuous monitoring, review and refinement is essential.

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Scaling Startups: The Ultimate Guide For Founders

Luis Goncalves

While launching a startup is difficult, successfully scaling requires an entirely different skillset, strategy framework, and operational systems. Start-up Distinction Before implementing scaling strategies, understand where your company sits on the scale-up vs. start-up spectrum. What Does Scaling a Startup Really Mean?

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How Celanese makes people central to its digital transformation

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At the same time, the company is undergoing a massive digital transformation. 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.

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Freshworks lays off 660 — about 13 percent of its global workforce — despite strong earnings, profits

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The company said the layoffs were part of “realigning our global workforce.” We shifted a number of technical resources in Q3 to further invest in the EX business as part of this strategic review process. The reality is that a lot of companies did over hire at some point. Others echoed Brue’s AI suspicions.

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Why GreenOps will succeed where FinOps is failing

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However, the rapid pace of growth also highlights the urgent need for more sustainable and efficient resource management practices. Capital One built Cloud Custodian initially to address the issue of dev/test systems left running with little utilization. The rapid adoption of AI is making the challenge an order of magnitude worse.

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AI market evolution: Data and infrastructure transformation through AI

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However, many face challenges finding the right IT environment and AI applications for their business due to a lack of established frameworks. Sustainability and ESG are not off the AI table ESG is now a critical business imperative. This allows organizations to maximize resources and accelerate time to market.