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11 ways to ensure IT-business alignment

CIO

What really matters is determining how to fit every function together to achieve unified goals — chiefly IT and its business counterparts, given the importance technology has organizationwide. It allows businesses to be the best technologically enabled version of themselves,” Upchurch says.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. D ue diligence pays off. Invest in workforce planning.

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Bliki: ConwaysLaw

Martin Fowler

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 The architect recognized this, and realized that he needed take this into account in his technical design from the beginning. Acknowledgements.

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ESG reporting: Carbon in the cloud

CIO

Environment, social, and governance (ESG) concerns have become increasingly important for all organizations. 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.

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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO

As CIOs prepare for the next wave of digital transformation, they must demonstrate shorter-term business impacts from technology investments and achieve larger innovation goals that evolve the organization’s business model. It’s hard to deliver business outcomes from any technology investment without business executives as partners.

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Blackshark.ai’s digital twin of Earth attracts $20M in funding

TechCrunch

Blackshark.ai, the Austrian startup behind the digital globe you fly over in Microsoft’s Flight Simulator, has raised a $20M round A to develop and scale its replica-Earth tech. “There’s obviously government applications, disaster relief , smart cities, autonomous industries — driving and flying. Blackshark.ai

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3 force multipliers for digital transformation

CIO

Tech companies have laid off over 250 thousand employees since 2022, and 93% of CEOs report preparing for a US recession over the next 12 to 18 months. CIOs should consider technologies that promote their hybrid working models to replace in-person meetings. What are force-multiplying initiatives?