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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO

Transformational CIOs recognize the importance of IT culture in delivering innovation, accelerating business impacts, and reducing operational and security risks. Research on creating a culture of high-performance teams suggests there’s a disconnect between how leaders perceive their cultures compared to how individual contributors view them.

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Leading the digital charge: Inspiring innovation and fostering a culture of excellence

CIO

So the question that plagues any professional entrusted with or motivated to drive a huge change initiative is how to inspire innovation and foster a culture of excellence. Activities and endeavors that promote a culture of excellence should not only be rewarded but also be implanted as a standard practice for the team.

Culture 167
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Introducing a product delivery culture at Etsy

Martin Fowler

Tim Cochran relates how CTO Mike Fisher identified problems with the product delivery process, built a cross-functional Product Delivery Culture team to analyze the situation, and began an improvement program based on lean thinking and the ideas of Marty Cagan. A second article exploring the challenges Etsy faced as it scaled up.

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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

CIO

Solution: Invest in continuous learning and development programs to upskill the existing workforce. The compay fostered a culture of innovation by involving employees in the modernization process and addressing their concerns. Siloed departments, lack of collaboration, and resistance to change are common cultural barriers.

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How to Democratize Data Across Your Organization Using a Semantic Layer

Speaker: speakers from Verizon, Snowflake, Affinity Federal Credit Union, EverQuote, and AtScale

Join this webinar panel for practical advice on how to build and foster a data literate, self-service analysis culture at scale using a semantic layer. Driving a self-service analytics culture with a semantic layer. The impact that data literacy programs and using a semantic layer can deliver.

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AI success depends on a culture of innovation

CIO

Instead, we need to focus on developing a culture of innovation around AI that shapes the technology with society and business front and center. Culture of innovation Companies can absolutely foster a culture of innovation where new technology, including AI, is built with a focus on clear uses and real value.

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A look at Sweden’s startup scene as Techstars drops Stockholm program

TechCrunch

In the wake of Techstars’ decision to discontinue its Swedish accelerator program, TechCrunch+ decided to dig into the country’s startup scene to understand how one smaller venture market is adapting to a changed investing climate. And narrow our focus. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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How to Scale a Data Literacy Program at Your Organization

Speaker: Megan Brown, Director, Data Literacy at Starbucks; Mariska Veenhof-Bulten, Business Intelligence Lead at bol.com; and Jennifer Wheeler, Director, IT Data and Analytics at Cardinal Health

Our featured speakers will share practical guidance and examples from effective programs that help with data skill-building, improving decision-making, and fostering a data literate culture – so everyone at your organization can confidently read, write, analyze and communicate with data.

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From an Agency Serving Clients to Their Own Fintech Product

With this in mind, a Canadian full stack digital agency decided to jump into offshoring not only to find skilled engineers, but also to expand cultural barriers with countries across the world. The project they needed to complete was aimed at operating within the financial environment, thus it was tremendous, scrupulous, and time-consuming.