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5 tips for startup partnership success

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IT leaders looking to accelerate their innovation agendas have a partner-in-waiting in the startup ecosystem. By linking up with startups, CIOs can greatly expand their opportunities to experiment with emerging technologies and augment their in-house innovation programs.

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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. White says being an enabler isn’t a straightforward role, either.

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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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Embracing shadow AI will help accelerate innovation

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They remember business line leaders using corporate credit cards for cloud applications from startups. 1 With genAI gaining traction, IT should learn what employees prefer to use, educate them on how to use them responsibly and institute guardrails. Learn more at dell.com/ai. These tips can point the way. 2024 Generative AI

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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. Innovation is a double-edged sword: It is critical to growth — but that’s also what makes it risky. “It

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Banking on customer experience and security via technology-based innovation

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This research indicates that established banking institutions are deploying technology-based innovation to stay competitive with more agile and tech-savvy FinTech startups in two significant areas: Customer experience. Source: “Innovation Digital Listening Research.” Learn more about banking and Iron Mountain here.

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

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Startup” means risk. But despite the high risk/reward framework, these Victory-or-Bust ventures don’t have the market cornered on agility and innovation. But despite the high risk/reward framework, these Victory-or-Bust ventures don’t have the market cornered on agility and innovation. Why not both?

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