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ADP’s cloud transformation pays dividends

CIO

Vipul Nagrath, who was global CIO of ADP during the company’s early embrace of the cloud, spearheaded ADP’s companywide digital transformation, which started in earnest five years ago fueled by the company’s hybrid cloud. Its massive dataset also makes it an industry-leading benchmark for compensation analysis, as another example.

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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

CIO

Frank Kim, CISO-in-residence at venture capital firm YL Ventures, and fellow at the SANS Institute, cites the case of one CISO who was fired after suggesting costly endpoint detection, and response and incident response programs considered not stage appropriate for such a startup.

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Unicorn Startups: What Are They and How to Build One?

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Not that long ago, unicorn startups were very rare entities. If you are new to the term ‘unicorn startup’, it’s ultimately a privately owned startup company that has a valuation of $1 billion. If you are new to the term ‘unicorn startup’, it’s ultimately a privately owned startup company that has a valuation of $1 billion.

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Competitive Intelligence Professionals Lighting the Way for the Energy Sector

ArchIntel

Since taking on the role in November 2020, Ng has been leading the CI function at Chevron, including the gathering, analysis and reporting of financial and strategic intelligence on competitors, industry trends and benchmarks. Blake Reuter Market Intel Manager GE Capital Americas. industrial automation business unit.

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Customer Acquisition vs. Customer Retention: Which Is Best for Your Business?

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What should you focus your time, energy, and capital on – acquiring new customers or retaining existing ones? Darryl Hicks and Karen Webster, both CEOs in the payment space, performed a benchmarking study on recovering failed payments and the LTV of your customers. And we definitely don’t want that! A big no-no!

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How to Conduct Tech Market Research

Alpha Sense BI

Speed Up Your Time to Insight With Artificial Intelligence While artificial intelligence (AI) is not strictly necessary for conducting market research, it is the secret weapon behind every organization, investment firm, and venture capital company that is outpacing the competition.

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Q3 Earnings Season: Key Takeaways From Top 26 Companies

Alpha Sense BI

Alphabet confirmed its acquisition of Alter, an AI-avatar startup backed by Twitter, for ~$100M. A lot of the improvements that I talked about on a macro level, capital efficiency, operations improvements are as important internationally as they are in North America.” – Brian T. Olsavsky, Senior VP & CFO. Scroll back to top.

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