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How to talk to your board about tech debt

CIO

When your CEO or CFO asks about the budget needed for technical debt remediation , do you find yourself struggling to justify the investment? You’re not alone. While CIOs understand the crushing weight of technical debt — now costing US companies $2.41 trillion annually — translating this into compelling business language for the board remains a persistent challenge.

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Agile storytelling: Inspiring change through sharing experiences

Agile Alliance

Explore the transformative power of Agile storytelling, showcasing how deliberate narratives can inspire change, foster engagement, and overcome resistance. The post Agile storytelling: Inspiring change through sharing experiences first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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How to Decide Which Innovation Projects to Greenlight

Harvard Business Review

When selecting new innovation projects, some committees prize consensus — and thus end up funding only ideas whose success is plain to see, which is often an incremental innovation. Meanwhile, venture capitalists looking for the next big thing might do the opposite, picking projects on which they disagree. These types of project selection quandaries are reflected in new research, which models the effectiveness of common decision methods such as voting, scoring, and ranking.

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4 ways the tech we buy is designed to fail, and why you should be furious

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

From glued-in batteries to software lockouts, you're paying more than ever for gadgets that won't last. Here's why and what can do done about it.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Public Raises $135M Series D-2 For AI-Driven Investment

Crunchbase News

Investment platform Public announced Monday that it has raised $135 million in equity and debt financing amid sharp growth in adoption of its AI-enabled research features. The financing, which New York-based Public described as a Series D-2, included $105 million in equity and $30 million in debt, with longtime backer Accel as the lead investor. Previously, the 5-year-old company had raised more than $300 million in venture funding.

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Designing data products: Working backwards from use cases

Martin Fowler

Increasingly the industry is seeing the value of creating data products as a core organizing principle for analytic data. Kiran Prakash has helped many clients design their data products, and shares what he's learned. In particular his methodical approach doesn't begin by thinking about some data that might be handy to share, but instead works from what consumers of a data product need.

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When You’re the Scapegoat: Powerful Phrases to Address Unfair Blame

Let's Grow Leaders

Powerful Phrases for When You’re Being Set Up as the Scapegoat Being set up as the scapegoat never feels easy. It’s uncomfortable, unfair, and downright isolating. But here’s the good news: you don’t have to stay the goat in this blame game. Instead, you can fight goats with GOATs—our Greatest of All Time Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Workplace Conflict —and other powerful phrases and rise above the chaos.

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CMO and CDO: The Digital Marketing Partnership Fueling Growth

N2Growth Blog

The digital revolution has fundamentally reshaped how businesses operate and engage with customers. In this landscape, the collaboration between the Chief Marketing and the Chief Digital Officer has become a pivotal driver of organizational success. These roles, while distinct, are increasingly interwoven, and their synergy can unlock unprecedented opportunities for growth and innovation.

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How the world can tackle the power demands of artificial intelligence

CIO

The world must reshape its technology infrastructure to ensure artificial intelligence makes good on its potential as a transformative moment in digital innovation. New technologies, such as generative AI, need huge amounts of processing power that will put electricity grids under tremendous stress and raise sustainability questions. But pioneering technologists are working on a potential game changer that goes some way to address these issues: photonics.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Generalizing the design of data products

Martin Fowler

Having got an initial data product, Kiran Prakash leads us through the next steps: covering similar uses cases to generalize the data product, determining which domains the products fit into, and considering service level objectives.

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The Importance of Assessing Interpersonal Skills in Recruitment

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In the competitive world of hiring, particularly in tech, recruitment is no longer just about finding candidates with the right technical expertise. Interpersonal skills—often termed “ soft skills “—have become equally critical, especially as organizations increasingly emphasize teamwork, communication, and adaptability. For tech teams tasked with solving complex problems, interpersonal skills ensure smoother collaboration, innovation, and productivity.

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How to Prepare Your Company for AI Incidents

Harvard Business Review

When something goes wrong with an AI system or model, the approaches used to respond to problems caused by traditional software systems don’t work. A new playbook is required. It includes defining AI, identifying relevant harms, designating responders, developing plans to contain the damage in the short term, carrying out a longer-term containment strategy to stop the harm from spreading further, and conducting a post-mortem review.

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What’s holding back CIO’s AI strategies? Their own AI learning curve for one

CIO

Under pressure to deploy AI within their organizations, most CIOs fear they don’t have the knowledge they need about the fast-changing technology. More than three in five CIOs surveyed by Salesforce say they’re expected to know more about AI than they do, potentially leading to massive and costly deployment mistakes. And while three-quarters of CIOs looking for AI expertise turn to their peers for guidance, only 9% believe their fellow CIOs know more about AI than they do.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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The Magic of Innovation Days

Xebia

Walking into the office on an Innovation Day is like stepping into a world overflowing with possibility. The air feels charged, the energy undeniable, and the buzz of excitement infectious. These days arent about business goals or deadlinestheyre about curiosity , knowledge sharing , and the joy of exploring the unknown. Here, failure is not just acceptedits celebrated.

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Crafting Operational Excellence: Key Considerations in a Search for an Operations Leader

N2Growth Blog

At N2Growth, we recognize that the Chief Operating Officer is indispensable to the executive leadership team. This role is not merely about managing daily operations; it involves strategically aligning people to operational processes with the company’s long-term vision. Collaborating closely with the Chief Executive Officer, the operations leader executes the organization’s strategy, makes pivotal decisions, and drives performance across all departments.

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How laws strain to keep pace with AI advances and data theft

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Key questions remain unresolved concerning the use of Gen AI tools, while one country may need stronger deterrence against data theft.

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5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

CIO

A new area of digital transformation is under way in IT, say IT executives charged with unifying their tech strategy in 2025. Adopting emerging technology to deliver business value is a top priority for CIOs, according to a recent report from Deloitte. That means IT veterans are now expected to support their organization’s strategies to embrace artificial intelligence, advanced cybersecurity methods, and automation to get ahead and stay ahead in their careers.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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.

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From Founders To Funders: A Fresh Approach For Venture Capitalists To Find The Right LPs

Crunchbase News

By Dmitry Smirnov In the third quarter of this year, venture capital fundraising tightened significantly, with only $66.5 billion raised — down 16% quarter over quarter and 15% year over year. Amid this challenging environment, institutional investors are being more cautious and reassessing their investment strategies. For some VCs , this has highlighted an often-overlooked fundraising approach: courting entrepreneurs, including ex-portfolio founders, as limited partners.

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Ethical Leadership and its Importance in Tech Organizations

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Ethical leadership is the practice of demonstrating integrity, fairness, and respect in decision-making and organizational behavior. Ethical leaders prioritize transparency, accountability, and the well-being of all stakeholders, ensuring their actions align with core moral principles. In tech organizations, ethical leadership often intersects with critical issues such as data privacy, AI ethics, and corporate social responsibility.

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Microsoft ramps up pressure on users running Windows 11 on unsupported PCs

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The company is threatening to add a watermark to the desktop of any unsupported PC running Windows 11.

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US expands curbs on China’s AI memory and chip tools, raising supply chain concerns

CIO

The US has announced sweeping new measures targeting China’s semiconductor sector, restricting the export of chipmaking equipment and high-bandwidth memory. This move has sparked concerns over potential supply chain disruptions. The rules impose export restrictions on equipment from manufacturers in countries including Israel, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan, while granting exemptions to firms in Japan and the Netherlands.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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Taylor Swift and the Strategic Genius of the Eras Tour

Harvard Business Review

The highest-grossing tour in music history is a case study in how a legacy act can navigate the modern attention economy.

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Adapting to Hiring Freezes: A Skill-Based Talent Strategy

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Hiring freezes have become a common challenge for many organizations, particularly in times of economic uncertainty. As companies tighten their belts, traditional hiring practices may no longer be sufficient. However, by adopting a skill-based talent strategy, organizations can effectively navigate these challenges and ensure business continuity. According to Deloitte research, skills-based organizations are 107% more likely to allocate talent effectively, 52% more likely to drive innovation, an

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Understanding data(), Interpolation and Computed Properties in Vue.js

Perficient

How to Easily Manage and Display Data in Vue.js? Are you building a dynamic, interactive Vue.js app and wondering how to manage and display data efficiently? In this guide, we’ll show you how to easily store data, display it instantly on your page with Vue’s interpolation, and optimize complex calculations with computed properties. These features will help your app run faster and smoother than ever!

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4 ways to build a team equipped with emerging skills

CIO

We’ve all heard about how difficult the job market is on the applicant side, with candidates getting very little response from prospective employers. But the hiring side isn’t much easier. Changing demographics, fast-evolving technologies, and the globalization of job opportunities make recruiting and holding onto skilled professionals much more difficult.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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The Strategic Power of Hope

Harvard Business Review

Behavioral science has shown that hope can power positive outcomes for both people and organizations.

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AWS Extends Generative AI Reach and Scope of Amazon Q Developer

DevOps.com

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today revealed it has extended the capabilities of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool.

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U.S. Organization in China Targeted by Attackers

Symantec

Large U.S. organization was the subject of a four-month-long intrusion by China-based attackers.