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CIO metrics are failing digital transformation; it’s time to radically rethink success

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However, the metrics used to evaluate CIOs are hindering progress. While the CIO role has expanded significantly, the metrics used to evaluate their performance often remain tied to traditional IT values like cost management, operational efficiency, and system uptime. The CIO is no longer the chief of “keeping the lights on.”

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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower CTO

Next, define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. Don’t overcomplicate things with reporting tools. The metrics, and how they relate, are captured in his slide: Note the relationship between retention/referral efforts and lifetime value. Focus on building an MVP to gather startup metrics.

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5 key metrics for IT success

CIO

IT leaders are drowning in metrics, with many finding themselves up to their KPIs in a seemingly bottomless pool of measurement tools. There are several important metrics that can be used to achieve IT success, says Jonathan Nikols, senior vice president of global enterprise sales for the Americas at Verizon. Here they are.

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5 metrics Series A investors look for at dev-tools startups

TechCrunch

Rak Garg is a principal at Bain Capital Ventures where he leads early-stage investments in developer tools, data infrastructure, cybersecurity and enterprise software. Now, with the market downturn, raising capital for a dev-tools startup is much more difficult. The median Series A round for a developer-tooling company was $47.5

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Prioritizing Customer Experience Using SLIs & SLOs: A Case Study from The Telegraph

There was a time when technology managers needed to actively monitor these kinds of granular metrics, but today, these alerts just create distracting noise. Service Level Indicators and Service Level Objectives are now the principal tools for focusing on what really matters. Alert fatigue is a real thing.

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The Cost Crisis in Metrics Tooling

Honeycomb

The following is an excerpt from Charity Majors’ new whitepaper, The Cost Crisis in Metrics Tooling. In my February 2024 piece The Cost Crisis in Observability Tooling , I explained why the cost of tools built atop the three pillars of metrics, logs, and traces— observability 1.0 This blog post struck a nerve.

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Transform launches with $24.5M in funding for a tool to query and build metrics out of data troves

TechCrunch

Now, three alums that worked with data in the world of Big Tech have founded a startup that aims to build a “metrics store” so that the rest of the enterprise world — much of which lacks the resources to build tools like this from scratch — can easily use metrics to figure things out like this, too.

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Address the Challenges of Siloed Monitoring Tools

Companies frequently are dealing with disparate and siloed monitoring tools. Find out why monitoring tool sprawl occurs, why it’s a problem for businesses, and the positive business impacts of monitoring tool consolidation. How Datadog helps businesses with tool consolidation.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk in this exciting webinar to learn all about: How to design and implement production-ready systems with guardrails, active monitoring of key evaluation metrics beyond latency and token count, managing prompts, and understanding the process for continuous improvement Best practices for setting up the proper mix of open- (..)

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

To get there, Amazon focused on decomposing for agility, making critical cultural and operational changes, and creating tools for software delivery. Whether you're developing for a small startup or a large corporation, learning the tools for CI/CD will make your good DevOps team great. How Amazon thinks about metrics.

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User-Centered Development: The Importance of User Empathy to Build the Right Thing

Speaker: Jesse Walker, Product Manager at Canva

It allows us to see our work in terms of the real problems it helps solve, rather than simply the metrics it helps move. Balancing creating the tools people want and creating the tools people never knew they needed. In order to build the right thing, we must first build collective empathy for our users.

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Omnichannel is Multichannel 2.0

Get the tools to turn data into actionable insights and deliver personalized, relevant, timely messaging to increase conversions and maximize your ROI. A unique case-study, complete with hard metrics and step-by-step process breakdown. Multichannel and omnichannel marketing are not the same. Today’s consumers have evolved.