N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This role is no longer confined to technical oversight or incremental operational improvements. At N2Growth, we have seen this combination of entrepreneurial agility , technical fluency, and strategic foresight become a hallmark of the most effective digital leaders.

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

That’s also why it’s such a thrilling profession, and it takes more than technical skills to successfully navigate this territory. It’s part of how they elevate the function beyond tactical order-taker or trusted advisor to forward-thinking, innovative partner. Be clear, unambiguous, and direct,” Noaman advises. “If

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2024

Interestingly, despite the significance of technical debt as a cost concern and an inhibitor to improving security and implementing innovation (like AI), it ranks much lower on the list of immediate priorities for many organizations (20%). For CIOs, balancing technical debt with other strategic priorities is a constant challenge.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When I started at Novanta about five years ago, my first mission was to bring scalability to our Enterprise solutions, as well as developing a digital roadmap to modernize the technology footprint, reduce technical debt, and explore strategies to ensure that we’re growing at scale. They’re there to advise and help, which is huge.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Max Schireson , the former CEO of MongoDB, is an executive-in-residence at Battery Ventures, where he helps advise the firm’s cloud and data portfolio companies on a variety of strategic and tactical business issues. Was I willing to engage with a young technical founder on business issues? Max Schireson. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Throughout this post, we provide detailed code examples and explanations for each step, helping you seamlessly integrate Amazon Bedrock FMs into your code base. We walk through a Python example in this post. For this example, we use a Jupyter notebook (Kernel: Python 3.12.0). In your IDE, create a new file.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Form a strong partnership Forming an effective IT-sales partnership requires embracing a startup mentality, even at large, long-established organizations, advises Amit Vashisht, assistant vice president at retirement services firm Jackson Enterprise Technology. Yet he also advises proceeding with caution.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

In Peak we have a partner with a shared vision that the future enterprise will run on a centralized AI software platform capable of optimizing entire value chains,” Max Ohrstrand, senior investor for SoftBank Investment Advisers, said in a statement. There have also been different market factors that have played a role.

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Martin Fowler

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I still remember one sharp technical leader, who was just made the architect of a large new project that consisted of six teams in different cities all over the world. “I This example recognized the big impact location has on human communication. I made my first architectural decision” he told me.

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

It’s among CIOs’ most persistent and underdiscussed challenges: embracing innovative technologies without losing sight of mounting — and potentially crippling — technical debt. For example, some organizational leaders may balk at replacing an old ERP system because they see it as a back-office function, Saroff says.

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CIO

JULY 15, 2024

As organizations increasingly outsource to cloud service providers for many technical and financial benefits, the power consumed and carbon produced are now controlled by the provider, wherever its cloud datacenters may be. We advise CIOs to be skeptical and seek independent verification of carbon emissions for their cloud providers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

“Most of the technical content published misses the mark with developers. The book title is a call to these marketers to treat their technical audience differently. Look for that magical combination of technical skill and communications. EveryDeveloper helps attract the right developers to our clients’ technical products.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Recently, I helped advise an IDC client whose security team was struggling to close thousands of vulnerabilities. Were their vulnerability detection tools falling short by, for example, generating false positive alerts about vulnerabilities that didn’t actually exist? Did they lack efficient or consistent remediation processes?

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Advise and collaborate. Then collaborate to develop an action plan,” advises Suneet Dua, products and technology chief growth officer at business advisory firm PwC. Before initiating a technical discussion, it’s important to consider the recipient’s perspective. What are their department’s goals? What do they care about?

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For example, “A corgi dog sitting on the front porch.” Examples include “oil paint,” “digital art,” “voxel art,” or “watercolor.” For example: “A winding river through a snowy forest in 4K, illuminated by soft winter sunlight, with tree shadows across the snow and icy reflections.” it’s advisable to stay within the range of 1.5–2.0

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

It’s no secret that having the right capabilities is essential to digital success, but given the dynamic nature of digital business, these capabilities go beyond technical know-how. The market is tight, but we are not short of people with technical skills; people who can develop, build infrastructure, and understand the cloud,” says Fox.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2024

As workers at all levels put together their development plans for 2024, IT leaders, recruiters, researchers, and advisors share here what actions CIOs can take to advance their careers if they want to embrace a growth mindset. For example, Claffey Jr.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Each respondent was kind enough to let us know how they want to be pitched, and for grins, one shared an example of a cold e-mail that worked. Munish Varma , managing partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers. Here’s who we surveyed: Anish Acharya, general partner, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Ethan Choi , partner, Accel.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

The meteoric rise of generative AI is only one example of the incidents and issues that can hinder or outright halt an IT department’s delivery on strategic objectives. The increasing pace of technology advances AI is just the latest, and perhaps most prominent example of emerging technologies that have disrupted organizational roadmaps.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

Its gospel truth the CIO role has seen an evolution from just the technical expert and is now central to business decisions. As an example, Saloni Vijay is focused on leveraging automation and AI by organizing and structuring organizations data assets which enables AIs full potential.

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO is typically an experienced IT leader who is external to the enterprise yet acts as an accountable leader and extension of the executive team, says Dave Hartman, president of IT management consulting firm Hartman Executive Advisors. “A Rather than being a senior executive, the ex-CIO is now simply a third-party advisor. “It

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Tenable

OCTOBER 25, 2024

For example, in one alarming finding, 80% of respondents, which included board members, CISOs and other cyber leaders in medium and large enterprises, confessed to being unsure of who is ultimately accountable for cybersecurity in their organizations. Aim to provide a holistic view, and avoid using technical jargon.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MARCH 18, 2020

If you are a recruiter or hiring manager in the technical recruitment space and are wondering why most men (or women) are applying for your organization’s open positions, here’s a hint for you. Look at the language in your tech job descriptions. Chances are, the wording is more biased toward one gender than you realize. .

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CIO

JULY 2, 2024

Onboarding a new hire, for example, follows a set of known processes, such as location, role, hours, and so on, Orr says. Identify potential issues By analyzing vast amounts of data, AI can identify potential technical and security issues long before they can escalate into system outages.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy. What the AI can do is advise the human on what decision to make, but even still, there are some significant limitations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

These skills can come from many different experiences –– for example, a student working a full- or part-time job while pursuing a technical degree gains a strong work ethic, time-management prowess and resilience. Here’s one example: If you hire a new employee who is still in their senior year, cover their spring term.

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2024

I used figures of speech and financial terms they understood, and I kept well away from technical jargon because that wasn’t my audience. She adds that storytelling is also being used increasingly in M&A, and she’s advised on Accenture’s recent acquisition of UK creative change management consultancy, The Storytellers.

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Legacy tech and all that goes with it Legacy systems and technical debt top the list of common innovation roadblocks. And it prevents turf wars between groups, so, for example, a business unit won’t run away with an innovation that IT proposed. Here, CIOs and IT innovation leaders share five common roadblocks to IT innovation.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

A lot of the education has been focused on how to make it practical and usable for them, but also, for example, if youre working with a supplier, how should you bring that to the organization? As the role evolves, Bruman advises putting in the effort to build one-on-one relationships with critical leaders across the company.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

But 2023 is shaping up to be paradoxical, and after speaking to hundreds of CIOs over the past couple of years, I have been advising them to seek force multipliers in their digital transformation initiatives. Here’s an example of a non-multiplying initiative; a sequential phased delivery familiar to CIOs.

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CIO

MARCH 21, 2023

“You must ensure at the start of the project that you have a full, holistic cloud budget,” Matin advises. For example, the cost of talent, including reskilling, upskilling, and finding the right cloud talent, or for reorganizing your business structure,” Matin says. “If Cloud costs appear in various forms.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Once the flow is done, then you have somebody a little bit more technical fill in some of the blanks underneath.” Such tools can provide a way of bringing the business teams and technical teams closer together, he adds. Measurement is key, he says. Coverage is more nuanced, being a measure of “Can generative AI help with this?”

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 6, 2022

The authorities admitted that the previous 2024 deadline for human landing “ was not grounded on technical feasibility.”. Technical feasibility inspects whether software can be built at all with available tools and experts. For example, medical software dealing with protected health information (PHI) must meet HIPAA rules.

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CIO

AUGUST 27, 2024

Infosys gained access to certain of TriZetto’s closely guarded, proprietary software offerings, and related technical documentation, under the guise of NDAAs that it executed with TriZetto for the limited purpose of equipping Infosys to complete work for certain Infosys clients,” the lawsuit said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We said something like, ‘We’re very early and we’re both technical so we’re kind of doing everything together,’ but if we had to choose it would be X,” said Dinesh. The move to a more permanent, Registered Investment Adviser model is meant to counter that, several U.K.-based based VC investors told Anna Heim and Alex Wilhelm.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Two examples here: Former NEA general partner Liza Landsman joined fintech startup Stash , which calls itself the “anti-Robinhood,” as its new CEO. He has also held executive and technical roles at Dropbox, LinkedIn, eBay and Apple. It’s great to see more women in leadership roles in the fintech community.

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CIO

JULY 8, 2024

For example, many times a CIO or tech leader needs to find a suitable supplier to solve a business need. For example, the selection criteria are based on factors such as technical capability, price, and capacity.

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