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Competitive Analysis Requires Benchmarking Your Own Company

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Most businesses know their own strategy through and through, and recently, more companies than ever before are investing in competitive intelligence. This brings us to a concept called competitive benchmarking, which is critical to competitive analysis success. What is Competitive Benchmarking? Let’s start with the basics.

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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

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Gartner projects that spending on information security and risk management products and services will grow 11.3% To better focus security spend, some chief information security officers (CISOs) are shifting their risk assessments from IT systems to the data, applications, and processes that keep the business going.

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The CIO’s survival guide for board engagement: 4 steps to success

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1. Illustrate the complexity of operations The way businesses work has become significantly more complex. The first is to pitch any information at a level that is relevant and digestible. The second is to use business-oriented language. So, how can CIOs survive engaging with their board?

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Overcome the Challenges of Cloud Optimization & FinOps to Drive Business Value

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This framework positions organizations to manage their cloud investments more effectively, driving increased accountability to maximize business value. How they handle this depends upon the business-unit driver and the organization’s culture, typically defined at the C-level. Overcoming these challenges goes back to KPIs and OKRs.

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The future of IT: what we can learn from the mainframe

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In the continuously evolving landscape of information technology, change is the only constant. As we usher in a new era of IT innovations, the impact of mainframes serves as both an inspiration and a benchmark. Their consistent role in daily functions, often unnoticed, sets a benchmark for new technologies.

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EU and US agree to chart common course on AI regulation

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The EU and US want to foster scientific information exchange between AI experts on either side of the Atlantic in areas such as developing benchmarks and assessing potential risks. Pal continued: “This will hopefully avoid creating silos and friction in conducting business between the US and EU for US AI companies.”

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How to Use AlphaSense for ESG Benchmarking

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However, there is currently no standardized reporting methodology, which makes ESG benchmarking a challenge. That is why it is crucial to have a market intelligence platform that aggregates ESG content into one place so you can efficiently perform your research and benchmarking. In the AlphaSense platform alone, there are over 14.6