N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
The Chief Innovation Officer is the spark that drives a company’s creative momentum. This role extends beyond generating new ideas; it involves transforming these concepts into strategies to revolutionize the organization and spur its growth. As businesses increasingly focus on innovation , having a dedicated leader championing this mission is more crucial than ever.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. On the one hand, enterprise architects play a key role in selecting platforms, developing technical capabilities, and driving standards. Moreover, undertaking digital transformation and technology modernization programs without an architect can lead to delays, technical debt , higher costs, and security vulnerabilities.
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Martin Fowler
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Most of the talk about the impact of GenAI on software development is about its ability to write (messy) code. But many of us think it's going to be much more useful to help us understand existing messy code, as part of a modernization effort. My colleagues Alessio Ferri , Tom Coggrave , and Shodhan Sheth have been considering how GenAI can do this , including building an internal tool to help explore the possibilities.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
On Monday of last week, former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi presented his “long-awaited” report on the EU’s competitiveness, which the Commission tapped him to produce a year ago. The report will form the basis of the policy work going forward for the new commission that will soon take office. I put long-awaited in quotation marks because, although it is described as such, it takes a certain masochistic disposition to look forward to a slap in the face like this.
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N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
The Chief Operating Officer is an organization’s powerhouse, ensuring every process and experience in your business runs like a well-oiled machine. This key executive monitors daily operations, ensuring efficient and effective methods. Depending on a company’s structure, a COO’s tasks can vary, but their core mission remains the same: to constantly fine-tune business operations, boost productivity, cut costs, and fuel growth.
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DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
A study of 800 software developers working on large engineering teams that have adopted the GitHub Copilot generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool finds limited gains in productivity are being achieved.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Three years after replacing Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is still busy refining the organizational structure and processes at the online giant. In a memo to Amazon’s workforce , Jassy has announced, among other things, an end to hybrid work and a commitment to further squeeze out bureaucracy by flattening the organizational hierarchy. Jassy aims to streamline Amazon bureaucracy by increasing the ratio of employees to managers by at least 15% by the end of the first quarter of 2025 — which i
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Gearset this week revealed it has acquired Clayton, a provider of a code analysis platform for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications running on the Salesforce cloud service.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Just as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was preparing to present her new team , there is trouble over the line-up for Commission posts: The European Union’s current Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, Thierry Breton, has unexpectedly submitted his resignation. In his resignation letter, which the Frenchman posted on X, Breton justified his move by saying that von der Leyen had asked the French government a few days ago to remove his name from the list of candida
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Ooda Loop
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
As a pre-read in the run-up to the OODA Network monthly meeting this Friday, September 20, 2024, we have compiled OODA Loop research related to and inspired by the "early warning" statement from the forward of "Addressing the Threat of Political Violence in the 2024 Elections" voicing concern "that the country’s deep divisions and dark mood could propel even minor incidents of violence during the election cycle into a dangerous national crisis.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Change is a constant source of stress on enterprise networks, whether as a result of network expansion, the ever-increasing pace of new technology, internal business shifts, or external forces beyond an enterprise’s control. When change occurs, organizations might not have the capabilities or resources in place to maintain performance across their networks, infrastructure, and applications.
Perficient
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
As an Optimizely expert, I eagerly anticipate this time of year due to the exciting Optimizely events happening worldwide. These include Opticon, the main conference for customers, the Optimizely OMVP Summit, a developer meetup, and the Optimizely Hackathon. During these events, we learn about new product releases and discover innovative ways to drive success for our customers.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Professional services automation firm Certinia (formerly FinancialForce) is spreading its wings with the recent introduction of Customer Success Cloud (CS Cloud), which it is showcasing at this week’s Salesforce Dreamforce 2024 conference in San Francisco. Natively built on the Salesforce platform, CS Cloud uses the same underlying database as Certinia’s marquee product, Professional Services Cloud (PS Cloud), but with a view to the needs of the customer success manager rather than a manager of
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
Crunchbase News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Engine , formerly Hotel Engine, booked a $140 million Series C led by a fund advised by private equity firm Permira that values the Denver-based startup at $2.1 billion. The new valuation represents a 62% jump from its previous $1.3 billion value after a $65 million Series B in late 2021. That increase is no small feat considering many startups are still raising money in flat or even down rounds from their sky-high valuations during the record venture market of 2020 and 2021.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Workday has joined the ranks of tech vendors scrambling to roll out their own agentic artificial intelligence (AI) with its announcement Tuesday of a new AI platform and several specialized AI agents. At its Workday Rising event, the cloud-based HR and financial management company unveiled Illuminate, its next-generation AI platform, as well as four new AI agents and a Workday Assistant for HR and financial processes.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Despite progress in the past decade, gender equity still remains uneven in U.S. companies. Coupled with recent political attacks on the very concept of DEI and declines in corporate commitments to racial and gender equity, there’s concern that the next decade may not bring as much progress as the last one — which is why we need to keep our foot on the accelerator when it comes to achieving gender parity at work.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
CISOs can only know the performance and maturity of their security program by actively measuring it themselves; after all, to measure is to know. With proactive measurement, CISOs will confirm how well their security program performs, better understand its preparedness against relevant threats, and highlight gaps that require improvement. However, CISOs aren’t typically measuring their security program proactively or methodically to understand their current security program.
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DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
As the digital frontier evolves, it is becoming imperative for C-suite executives to cultivate a robust DevOps and DevSecOps culture.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Tres gigantes de la banca española se suman, de ahora en adelante, al Proyecto Agorá impulsado de manera conjunta por el Banco de Pagos Internacionales (BIS, por sus siglas en inglés) y el Instituto de Finanzas Internacionales (IIF). En concreto, BBVA, CaixaBank y Banco Santander se sumarán a otras compañías del sector privado internacional para valorar cómo la aplicación de tokens -unidad de representación digital de cualquier activo en una plataforma programable- puede reforzar los pagos trans
Dell EMC
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
With rising compute needs, thanks to AI, learn how to embark on the next era of technology infrastructure with Dell, NVIDIA and Applied Digital experts.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Sea por presión regulatoria, sea por reputación o sea por los valores arraigados en el corazón del negocio, las organizaciones están cada vez más preocupadas por el impacto que sus procesos tienen sobre el medioambiente. Sin embargo, el análisis de una ingente cantidad de información y datos, sobre todo en las grandes empresas y multinacionales, hace que la medición de sus parámetros se complejice.
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
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N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Foremost, the responsibilities of the Chief Marketing Officer have transformed significantly. Today’s CMOs aren’t just the masterminds behind ad campaigns or marketing projects—they’re key players in driving business innovation , focusing on customer needs, and harnessing technology. A CMO wears many hats in the boardroom. They align marketing strategies with the company’s vision, maintain the brand’s image, and build crucial relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
In the heart of Brazil, Hospital Nipo-Brasileiro stands as a beacon of excellence in patient care. The hospital’s mission is to provide top-notch, value-based care that prioritizes patient outcomes. Leading this mission is Chief Technology Officer, Rafael Sousa, whose dedication to leveraging innovative technology has earned him widespread recognition and respect in the healthcare community.
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Entrepreneur coaching can be a transformative experience for both emerging and seasoned business leaders. As the business world continues to evolve, having the right tools and insights is essential for growth. This is where the true value of entrepreneurial coaching shines. Through the guidance of experienced professionals who have successfully built and scaled businesses, entrepreneurs gain access to invaluable knowledge that can reshape how they approach challenges and make decisions.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Salesforce added new features to its Data Cloud to help enterprises analyze data from across their divisions and also boost the company’s new autonomous AI agents released under the name Agentforce, the company announced at the ongoing annual Dreamforce conference. The CRM software provider terms the Data Cloud as a customer data platform, which is essentially its cloud-based software to help enterprises combine data from multiple sources and provide actionable intelligence across functions, suc
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CableLabs
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
One of the key roles that CableLabs plays for our member operators and the vendor community is tracking trends in key areas of the broadband industry. Because the networks operated by our members are predominantly fiber, we are always keeping a close eye on the optical industry — but this year is proving to be an especially exciting one across a range of optical topics.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has served a critical role in advancing accessible and equitable communications for deaf and hard of hearing individuals. But as companies race to automate their customer service operations in recent years, many are inadvertently creating new barriers for deaf and hard of hearing people. Leaders can lean on the vision and spirit of the ADA to create more inclusive and accessible customer service programs in this era of AI.
Confluent
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
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