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Can AI solve your technical debt problem?

CIO

But t echnical debt can undercut an organizations ability to innovate long term, and the shortcuts taken during initial development likely resulted in a codebase thats convoluted, slow, or difficult for devs to understand. Add outdated components or frameworks to the mix, and the difficulty to maintain the code compounds.

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What is technical debt? A business risk IT must manage

CIO

A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with refactoring. While the term technical debt found its origins in software development, the concept is applicable to a wide range of IT implementations and operations beyond custom code. So, is technical debt bad? Why is technical debt important?

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Scaling Startups: The Ultimate Guide For Founders

Luis Goncalves

While launching a startup is difficult, successfully scaling requires an entirely different skillset, strategy framework, and operational systems. This isn’t merely about hiring more salespeopleit’s about creating scalable systems efficiently converting prospects into customers. What Does Scaling a Startup Really Mean?

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8 signs you’ve mistimed a major IT initiative

CIO

Defective leadership Leadership is a key component in the successful timing of any major transformation project, ahead of strategy and technology, says Suneet Dua, chief revenue and growth officer for products and technology at business advisory firm PwC. Mistimed initiatives ultimately result in poor adoption, Lively warns. “If

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer. Third party products are used appropriately. Review the code being built.

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CIOs rise to the ESG reporting challenge

CIO

The job is so large that Allianz Technology CTO Gülay Stelzmüllner, then CIO, hired Karcher in October 2022 to develop the company’s ESG reporting strategy because she didn’t have enough time to strategize for it herself, given her ongoing CIO duties. We have to be able to rely on the data, otherwise it’s just a good guess.”

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Exploration to elimination: CIO road map for adaptive technology portfolios

CIO

Use minimum viable products (MVPs) to validate concepts. Exploit: Leverage proven technologies to maximize exploitation and scale for success Once a technology proves its value, the exploitation phase focuses on developing, implementing, and scaling it to maximize ROI by fully integrating it into the organization’s operations.