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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

CIO

They ensure that decisions are aligned with both short-term goals and long-term sustainability Strategist: The enterprise architect aligns technology initiatives with the businesss vision, ensuring that technology choices drive value and competitive advantage. Observer-optimiser: Continuous monitoring, review and refinement is essential.

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Why GreenOps will succeed where FinOps is failing

CIO

However, the rapid pace of growth also highlights the urgent need for more sustainable and efficient resource management practices. Capital One built Cloud Custodian initially to address the issue of dev/test systems left running with little utilization. The rapid adoption of AI is making the challenge an order of magnitude worse.

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How Celanese makes people central to its digital transformation

CIO

Some are large, spread over more than two square miles, and they run on manual processes that require significant time on data entry and data collection across several non-integrated systems. I’ve always understood that people, not systems, create value. So we’re turning them into smart plants, self-optimized and autonomous.

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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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Freshworks lays off 660 — about 13 percent of its global workforce — despite strong earnings, profits

CIO

We shifted a number of technical resources in Q3 to further invest in the EX business as part of this strategic review process. This is “the start of a continued wave of layoffs across industries due to advancements in AI. CFO Sloat told analysts during the call that there were multiple objectives for the layoffs. “We

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Banyan wants to unlock financing for a (more) sustainable future

TechCrunch

When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. The theory is that it will make investment in sustainable infrastructure a more attractive proposition, too.

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AI market evolution: Data and infrastructure transformation through AI

CIO

However, many face challenges finding the right IT environment and AI applications for their business due to a lack of established frameworks. Sustainability and ESG are not off the AI table ESG is now a critical business imperative. This allows organizations to maximize resources and accelerate time to market.