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The ‘Great IT Rebrand’: Restructuring IT for business success

CIO

Traditionally viewed as rock-solid and steady, the insurance industry is not exactly associated with taking big risks. Gray Nester, CIO, Brown & Brown Insurance Gray Nester / Brown & Brown Some, like BBNI’s Technology Solutions Group, are being renamed and restructured to orchestrate greater immersion in the business.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 key hiring metrics, building SDR teams, insurtech investor survey

TechCrunch

The expense involved in recruiting, training and onboarding a new employee who turns out to be a poor fit could be equivalent to 50% of that person’s first-year salary. “Pipeline generation at early-stage companies is expensive and time consuming, often more so than the sales process itself.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Metromile CEO interview, Oscar Health’s IPO plans, our 2-year anniversary, more

TechCrunch

Thanks to hard work from the entire TechCrunch team, authoritative guest contributors and a very engaged reader base, we’ve tripled our membership in the last 12 months. The quartet selected four startups each from Chicago, Boston and Techstars Workplace Development. “Often these founders with Ph.D.s Proactive in Pacifica.

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Multiplayer fintech, and the muddled world of startup data

TechCrunch

The good news is that the government is also in the dark about funding data; the bad news is that without good tracking, we don’t know how progress is being made. TechCrunch covered favorites from Techstars’ three Demo Days, which were focused on Chicago, Boston and workforce development. Image Credits: Amazon / Microsoft.

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Why your best IT managers quit

CIO

Yes, top managers — like all high performers — are less likely to tolerate working for a bad boss; because they typically are more driven (which is why they’re valuable employees), they’re more willing to seek a better gig. Still, it’s an important exercise for CIOs to undertake, if they want to keep their best players on the team.

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How to set compensation using commonsense principles

Erik Bernhardsson

Good/bad compensation systems. A bad system keeps people below the salary that you would give them to keep them. A bad system gives raises mostly when people interview elsewhere and get offers. A bad system gives raises mostly when people interview elsewhere and get offers.

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10 Steps to Creating a Talent Advantage

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll share my philosophy on the best way to insure that you hire tier-one talent. Identifying and recruiting talent requires much more than screening a resume and having a set of standard interviewing questions to guide you. Put simply; talent matters.