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The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise

CIO

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. To become a software-powered organisation, companies must first identify and address the concerns of its developers in areas such as developer experience, developer velocity and software security.

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3 Strategies CSMs Need to Keep Customers From Switching to Competitors

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Your sales team just won a competitive deal. It was a taxing evaluation: multiple demos, a trial period, extensive pricing conversations—the works. Until the account executive on your sales team got that long-awaited email, they really had no idea which solution the buyer would select.

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Delegation: The biggest test for transformational CIOs

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Two events influenced Schneider Electric CIO Elizabeth Hackenson to distribute more decision-making authority throughout the company’s IT organization. “During the pandemic we needed to have people make as many local decisions as possible,” which she says was essential to keep operations moving across the 100 countries in which the company operates.

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Optimizing Cost with DevOps on the Cloud

Smart Data Collective

Are you looking for a way to reduce the cost of your development efforts? DevOps on the cloud could be the answer! DevOps is an increasingly popular approach that combines software development and operations, allowing developers and IT professionals to work together more efficiently. With DevOps on the cloud, businesses can take advantage of faster, more flexible computing environments without having to invest in expensive hardware and software.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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CIO Wendy Pfeiffer on getting hybrid work right

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Wendy M. Pfeiffer is a technology leader who’s as dedicated to excellence in operations and delivery as she is to maintaining a focus on innovation. She joined Nutanix as SVP and CIO following a successful career leading technology teams at companies like GoPro, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, and Robert Half. Highly regarded by her industry peers for her courageous transparency and candor, Pfeiffer also serves on the boards of Qualys, SADA Systems, and the American Gaming Association (AGA).

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How Well-established Enterprises Can Achieve Innovation without Disruption

CIO

Before any innovation initiative starts, there are questions (and usually lots of them). What is innovation and, more importantly, what does it mean for your organization? What fears or misperceptions hold innovation back? If you haven’t yet, check out this blog before reading this follow-up piece. Decades ago, Netflix mailed DVDs to homes and a copy of the Yellow Pages was next to every landline phone.

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How You Can Sell Better With Sales Intelligence

Owler

Sales Intelligence is a go-to solution for sales professionals at all levels. Are you a sales professional looking to maximize your sales potential? Is your team in need of a tool to help them increase sales efficiency? If so, you might want to consider using sales intelligence. In this blog, we’ll discuss what sales intelligence is, the benefits of using it, and how you can use it to unlock your sales potential.

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CIO Leadership live with Derek Cullen, CIO of Stikeman Elliott

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Derek Cullen, CIO, Stikeman Elliott discusses the evolving role of the CIO as a leader and business partner. He also discusses supporting career development through networking and volunteering.

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Ensure You’re Using Clean and High-Quality Data: 6 Tips for Data Preparation

IBI

Reading Time: 2 minutes Is the pressure to achieve clean, quality data creating a bottleneck in your business? Data preparation is an essential step in the overall success and deployment of analytical applications and initiatives in your enterprise. Whether the goal is operational success for your day-to-day challenges or streamlining and scaling your business long-term, the responsibility for data cleansing should fall on software and processes—not your data scientists.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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Leveraging Cybersecurity to Supercharge Retail’s Frontline

CIO

By Ravi Balwada, CTO of Guitar Center In retail, we don’t have the luxury of thinking about security as an afterthought. We have to think about security early in the innovation process and make sure our security best practices, governance and architectures are taken into account when we are designing our solutions—everything from defining what a container needs to look like when we deploy something to what sort of access controls we have.

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9 competitive intelligence software companies

Aqute Intelligence

We have blogged before about competitive intelligence companies, but we did not discuss a related type of competitive intelligence provider: competitive intelligence software companies. Below is our current list of competitive intelligence software specialists. We have focused on companies that specifcally target competitive inelligence, rather than more general software including social media monitoring, press monitoring or business analytics, that also plays some role in competitive intelligen