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5 pitfalls to avoid when partnering with startups

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Enterprise technology leaders are actively partnering with startups to help make their organizations more innovative and agile. Co-creating with startups can help kickstart innovation , provide CIOs with access to hard-to-find skills in emerging technologies, and round out digital transformational strategies.

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CIO as enabler: Building an ecosystem of innovation partners

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There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. What are we doing about the transformation of the business?’”

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Salesforce earmarks $250 million for AI startup investment

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CRM giant Salesforce today said that it would commit $250 million to investments in startups focused on generative AI, even as the company warned of the dangers of the technology. The second, Cohere, is a natural-language processing startup which, it said, aims to make language AI accessible to a much broader range of companies.

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Internet startup launches while embracing adoption

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In particular, the company had to integrate billing data from SAP S/4HANA, an enterprise resource planning software designed specifically for large enterprises, with SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management (BRIM) and replicate the information to Google BigQuery, a fully managed, AI-ready data analytics platform.

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Internet startup explodes while embracing adoption

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In particular, the company had to integrate billing data from SAP S/4HANA, an enterprise resource planning software designed specifically for large enterprises, with SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management (BRIM) and replicate the information to Google BigQuery, a fully managed, AI-ready data analytics platform.

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How to create a culture of innovation

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A shift has occurred and IT is now viewed as an equal partner in driving business growth with CIOs recognized as the de facto leaders of innovation. Here, they and others share seven ways to create and nurture a culture of innovation. Prioritize time for experimentation. Mike Crowe, CIO, Colgate-Palmolive. Colgate-Palmolive.

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The Inside Startup: Meet Cisco’s Emerging Technologies and Incubation Group

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Startup” means risk. Regardless, new business ventures work under pressure to research, refine, and deliver an idea to the market. But despite the high risk/reward framework, these Victory-or-Bust ventures don’t have the market cornered on agility and innovation. Like any startup, delivering on expectations is job one.

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