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Beyond growth: M&A as a strategic transformation enabler

CIO

Deals are developing beyond core business growth, encompassing new digital opportunities and emerging technologies as drivers of strategic acceleration. Contingency planning : Digital teams are continuously responding to unanticipated events and consequences. Have a clear blueprint for action resulting from the diligence stages.

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Unicorns wanted: Navigating the Product Owner shortage in IT

CIO

You’ve seen the virtues of transforming from a project to a product operating model: value-driven work, delivered by dedicated teams rather than through projects led by disparate team members. The unicorn, if not sourced with proper due diligence, will be viewed only as a creature in fairy tales. Why are they unicorns?

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

CIO

SAFe is particularly well-suited to complex projects that involve multiple large teams at the project, program, and portfolio levels. An ART is a team comprised of agile teams that, along with stakeholders, develop one or more solutions in a value stream. Apply systems thinking into all facets of development.

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10 ways to ace the IT executive interview

CIO

But for an executive position, you will certainly meet the leadership team, and that will likely mean several conversations. When you are preparing, develop some stories about your leadership experiences and have them ready. We develop their talking points,” he says. But the fashion question doesn’t have a simple answer.

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Sequoia Capital India pledges to take proactive steps amid fraud allegations at some startups

TechCrunch

.” The post — serving as Sequoia’s first official word on the matter — comes at a time when at least three of its portfolio startups have undertaken investigations: Fashion marketplace Zilingo has suspended Ankiti Bose, its founder and chief executive, this month following investigation over accounting.

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DevOps for startups

CircleCI

With digital collaboration tools enabling teams to work across borders and time zones with relative ease , the competition for skilled employees has increased substantially. With so many obstacles, Europe’s leading tech startups have adapted a variety of intriguing strategies for attracting and retaining talent on their tech teams.

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Use radical objectivity to create and retain an inclusive workforce

TechCrunch

Recent research by McKinsey shows that organizations with the most ethnically diverse teams are 36% more likely to financially outperform those with the least. A standard executive search process will typically entail significant manual desk research reviewing historical databases that are only as up-to-date as the day each CV was written.