N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

To attract and retain top-tier talent in a competitive market, organizations must adopt innovative strategies that help identify the right candidates and create a cultural environment where they can thrive. Leveraging Technology for Smarter Hiring Embracing technology is imperative for optimizing talent acquisition strategies.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

CRAWL: Design a robust cloud strategy and approach modernization with the right mindset Modern businesses must be extremely agile in their ability to respond quickly to rapidly changing markets, events, subscriptions-based economy and excellent experience demanding customers to grow and sustain in the ever-ruthless competitive world of consumerism.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

While useful, these tools offer diminishing value due to a lack of innovation or differentiation. Finally, chatbots are often inappropriate user interfaces due to a lack of knowledge about better alternatives for solving certain problems. Technical restrictions and solutions LLMs have certain technical limitations.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Focused on digitization and innovation and closely aligned with lines of business, some 40% of IT leaders surveyed in CIO.com’s State of the CIO Study 2024 characterize themselves as transformational, while a quarter (23%) consider themselves functional: still optimizing, modernizing, and securing existing technology infrastructure.

Technical Review 197

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2024

Technical debt is a growing problem that businesses can’t ignore. These technical challenges can significantly impact the performance and stability of critical operations and must be addressed as a priority. Organizations spend an average of 30% of their IT budgets and investing on technical debt management.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

IT leaders, as a result, are now established as part of the corporate core, helping to define strategy with a strong voice and a more direct connection established with group management and boards. For me, it’s evolved a lot,” says Íñigo Fernández, director of technology at UK-based recruiter PageGroup.

Technical Review 163

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Freshworks CFO Tyler Sloat even touted a stock buyback program, to illustrate the company’s strong financials: “Given our strong financial position and improving cash profile, we have the opportunity to expand our capital allocation strategy. This is “the start of a continued wave of layoffs across industries due to advancements in AI.

Technical Review 174

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CIO

JANUARY 1, 2025

The successful execution of AerCaps growth through acquisition strategy involved many moving parts, among them merging two IT departments, a process that has plagued other high profile M&A projects in the past. Business strategy must drive IT decision making Business-first pragmatism is the key to understanding what makes Koletzki tick.

Strategy 152

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 9, 2025

This strategy results in more robust, versatile, and efficient applications that better serve diverse user needs and business objectives. We then explore strategies for implementing effective multi-LLM routing in these applications, discussing the key factors that influence the selection and implementation of such strategies.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

New Zealand online marketplace TradeMe, has unveiled an ambitious plan to double the number of women in technical leadership roles, to address the persistent gender imbalance in the tech industry, where women remain underrepresented, especially in senior positions. We’ve standardised our hiring processes.

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Luis Goncalves

APRIL 11, 2025

While launching a startup is difficult, successfully scaling requires an entirely different skillset, strategy framework, and operational systems. This guide explores essential frameworks, common pitfalls, and proven strategies to transform your promising venture into a market leader. What Does Scaling a Startup Really Mean?

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

Women remain underrepresented in technology roles and have, in fact, lost ground in recent decades. The 2024 State of the Tech Workforce from IT training and certification association CompTIA noted a similar gender gap in the field, finding that women make up just 27% of tech occupations.

Technical Review 114

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

While a firewall is simply hardware or software that identifies and blocks malicious traffic based on rules, a human firewall is a more versatile, real-time, and intelligent version that learns, identifies, and responds to security threats in a trained manner. Humans have traditionally been the weakest link in any tech setup or network.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Noting that companies pursued bold experiments in 2024 driven by generative AI and other emerging technologies, the research and advisory firm predicts a pivot to realizing value. Forrester said most technology executives expect their IT budgets to increase in 2025. Others won’t — and will come up against the limits of quick fixes.”

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This approach is repeatable, minimizes dependence on manual controls, harnesses technology and AI for data management and integrates seamlessly into the digital product development process. The choice of vendors should align with the broader cloud or on-premises strategy.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Adopting Operational AI Organizations looking to adopt Operational AI must consider three core implementation pillars: people, process, and technology. People : To implement a successful Operational AI strategy, an organization needs a dedicated ML platform team to manage the tools and processes required to operationalize AI models.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For example, because they generally use pre-trained large language models (LLMs), most organizations aren’t spending exorbitant amounts on infrastructure and the cost of training the models. And although AI talent is expensive , the use of pre-trained models also makes high-priced data-science talent unnecessary.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Why its important: A shorter Time to Hire generally reflects an efficient recruitment process, allowing your team to remain productive and ensuring that candidates dont lose interest due to a lengthy hiring process. A poor-quality hire can result in wasted training resources, low productivity, and even reduced morale among existing employees.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Most CIOs and CTOs are bullish on agentic AI, believing the emerging technology will soon become essential to their enterprises, but lower-level IT pros who will be tasked with implementing agents have serious doubts. There arent a lot of places to learn about agents now, other than hands-on experience, he adds.

Technical Review 187

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Interim executives have become indispensable in addressing immediate leadership needs, whether due to sudden departures, organizational restructuring, or transformational change management. Historically, companies prioritized executives with a proven track record and robust technical skills.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2024

For example, in tech hiring, many successful developers are self-taught or have bootcamp certifications rather than computer science degrees. Skills-based hiring leverages objective evaluations like coding challenges, technical assessments, and situational tests to focus on measurable performance rather than assumptions.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A successful IT modernization journey is about far more than just implementing a new technology into IT systems. Modernization is a complex process that requires the right strategy to be successful. Specifically, it requires technologies that align with each other, the environment they’re in, and intended business outcomes.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Across diverse industries—including healthcare, finance, and marketing—organizations are now engaged in pre-training and fine-tuning these increasingly larger LLMs, which often boast billions of parameters and larger input sequence length. Although these advancements offer remarkable capabilities, they also present significant challenges.

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

Generative AI has been hyped so much over the past two years that observers see an inevitable course correction ahead — one that should prompt CIOs to rethink their gen AI strategies. As the gen AI hype subsides, Stephenson sees IT leaders reevaluating their strategies in favor of other AI technologies.

Technical Review 214

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CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Amy Loomis, an IDC research VP, is more circumspect about predicting what IT hiring in 2025 will look like due to differences across various verticals. “I Gina Smith, an IDC research director, said CIOs will have to balance hiring people with the needed skills versus training current talent in new domains. “I

Technical Review 193

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Allegis plugged the gaps by integrating 12 third-party technologies and building custom solutions to give the company the ability to perform tasks such as replenishment and demand planning. Use an ERP upgrade as the trojan horse to harness other emerging technologies.” We’re dependent on it.”

Systems Review 197

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CIOs are facing these challenges head-on by designing integrated resilience strategies to future-proof their organizations. This involves establishing guardrails around AI, performing disaster training exercises, mitigating third-party threats, and more. Furthermore, the software supply chain is also under increasing threat.

Technical Review 158

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

They don’t continue beyond resume reviews and interviews to evaluate a candidate’s capabilities. Skills Tests : Assess various role-specific abilities, such as technical or communication skills. Train Hiring Teams Make sure that hiring managers know how to interpret assessment results and use them in making decisions.

Technical Review 130

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of cultivating an AI strategy is choosing use cases to bring to life. This is proving true for generative AI, whose ability to create image, text, and video content from natural language prompts has organizations scrambling to capitalize on the nascent technology. technology consulting leader, KPMG.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Generative AI breakthroughs over the past year have crystalized a significant issue that IT leaders have long been aware of but few have addressed programmatically: tech ethics. Confronted with the prospect of destroying civilization, tech leaders have proposed two paths: moratoria on development or legislative regulation.

Technical Review 204

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Credit: The Business Impact of Downtime Across Operational Segments , IDC, September 2024; IDC IT/OT Convergence Survey, August 2024, n = 1,041 When ransomware strikes (a disaster almost all technology leaders will experience), the disruption can last for days or even weeks. Then, assess the risk likelihood versus impact.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The implications for cloud adoption are profound, as businesses increasingly rely on these technologies to drive digital transformation, optimize operations and gain competitive advantages. This siloed approach leads to suboptimal decision-making and fractured strategies. Cross-functional collaboration. Long-term value creation.

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CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Like any new technology, organizations typically need to upskill existing talent or work with trusted technology partners to continuously tune and integrate their AI foundation models. Change management creates alignment across the enterprise through implementation training and support. Invest in internal or outsourced skills.

Technical Review 147

Technical Review Software Review Sustainability Government 147

CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

A successful agentic AI strategy starts with a clear definition of what the AI agents are meant to achieve, says Prashant Kelker, chief strategy officer and a partner at global technology research and IT advisory firm ISG. Its essential to align the AIs objectives with the broader business goals. Feaver says.

How To 191

How To Systems Review Technical Review Software Review 191

CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

In modern business, cybersecurity is not merely a technical concern but a crucial financial safeguard. With cyber threats growing in sophistication and frequency, the financial implications of neglecting cybersecurity training are severe and multifaceted. The average cost of a data breach ballooned to $4.88

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Training Technical Review Education Compliance 183

CIO

JULY 2, 2024

Imagine navigating a rapidly changing landscape, where technology seems to evolve at the speed of light and the pressure to keep up is relentless — this is the reality for today’s CIO. Future proofing technology investments has become a critical imperative for organizations seeking to maintain their competitive edge.

Technical Review 167

Technical Review Innovation Technology Systems Review 167

TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

.” De Gruchy — who has a fascinating history, having studied cage fighting and served as an army officer before pivoting to a quieter, white-collar career in due diligence analysis — founded Infogrid in 2018. “This trains our AI, which is then refined with user feedback, making it better.”

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