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Six steps to creating a successful IT strategy: A guide for CIOs

CIO

This requires evaluating competitors’ strategies; identifying strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities; and leveraging insights from the competitive market analysis team or similar teams within the organization. With this information, IT can craft an IT strategy that gives the company an edge over its competitors.

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CIOs must mind their own data confidence gap

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Moreover, 68% of vice presidents in charge of AI or data management already see their companies making decisions based on bad data all or most of the time, versus 47% of C-level IT leaders. Directors see the backend broken pipelines, inconsistent definitions, alerts missing context.

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Can AI solve your technical debt problem?

CIO

But t echnical debt can undercut an organizations ability to innovate long term, and the shortcuts taken during initial development likely resulted in a codebase thats convoluted, slow, or difficult for devs to understand. Sometimes tech debt arises not because your code is bad, but because code it depends on has changed or gone sour.

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7 ways gen AI can create more work than it saves

CIO

But a substantial 23% of respondents say the AI has underperformed expectations as models can prove to be unreliable and projects fail to scale. The information volume piece is definitely one of the areas where productivity could go down,” says Woolley. Generally, there’s optimism and a positive mindset when heading into AI.”

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Agents are here — but can you see what they’re doing?

CIO

The definition of AI agent varies, and while some vendors give their chatbots cute names and rebrand them as agents, most experts expect them to do more than answer questions. This has definitely caught the attention of the enterprise. But its not all bad news. Agentic AI can also enable more intuitive interactions, he says.

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Finding a New Software Developer Job

Henrik Warne

For the first time ever, I was laid off, and had to find a new software developer job. In my case, we were 17 people let go that day, including 8 developers. The quality of the roles was about the same as I normally get (albeit at a much higher rate) – some I really liked, some were OK, and some were definitely not for me.

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From Ph.D. to boutique software developer: An interview with Solwey’s Andrew Drach

TechCrunch

” This point was seconded by other survey respondents, so we reached out to Drach and his team to learn more. More specifically, Solwey provides consulting in all stages of software design and development strategy and execution. How is your team structured? Why did you choose the boutique consultancy model?