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Technology Companies Need to Make Hard Choices to Teach More ‘Soft Skills”

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But they won’t ensure that IT teams have the broad range of skills, knowledge, overall business acumen and emotional intelligence they need to meet tomorrow’s challenges. This involves committing to gathering the best information, regardless of source, and shedding biases when it comes time to make a decision. Conclusion.

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8 ways to detect (and reject) terrible IT consulting advice

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Beware of canned advice Guidance that sounds like it rolled off an advice assembly line to form a one-size-fits-all information nugget is a sure sign the adviser isn’t really trying to understand your specific challenges and goals. You want advice from a team that can get invested enough to challenge your ideas or suggest alternative paths.”

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How to create a culture of innovation

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Your team needs to know they can trust you and each other to brainstorm openly, suggest ideas, experiment, and take risks — and even fail, without consequence. “I Prianka Nandy, chief information and technology officer, Special Olympics International. Picture Post-it notes dotting the walls and flipcharts at every table,’’ he says.

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Tech leaders weigh in on the upside and flipside of generative AI

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We ran workshops with every division of our business, educating them on the accelerating innovation in this area, brainstorming opportunities and risks. But it’s still to be seen how generative AI replaces, rather than augments, human involvement in terms of information. But overall, we see this as a huge opportunity.

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Diversity and inclusion: 7 best practices for changing your culture

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Despite the requisite commitment and knowledge, however, creating a truly diverse and inclusive workforce takes much more than locating and tapping a diverse hiring pipeline. Internally organized inclusion efforts often fall informally on people from diverse backgrounds,” explains Cassandra Shapiro, global head of DEI at Reaktor.

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How to Create a SWOT Analysis to Update Your Organization’s Strategy

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65% of banking institutions use data to make informed decisions. For example, if you’re looking to lower business expenses , your team’s expertise and knowledge about creating a business budget would be considered a strength. It forces you to look at all the available information and objectively assess your situation.

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Competitive Intelligence Spotlight #33: Marcia Altgilbers, Competitive Intelligence & Price-to-Win Director of BAE Systems

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First and foremost, the individual has to be highly ethical and be willing to push back when the capture manager or program manager wants to share information that could be proprietary. There’s absolutely no circumstance where sharing company proprietary information is acceptable to use or to share.