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5 pitfalls to avoid when partnering with startups

CIO

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

CIO

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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How to create a culture of innovation

CIO

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

CIO

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.” Conducted by Quadrant Strategies for Iron Mountain.

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

CIO

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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5 Reasons Why Startups are Turning to AI and Contractors

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Why are startups increasingly aligning with artificial intelligence and the gig economy? Startups are unique beasts striving to disrupt markets with limited resources but boundless innovation. It’s simple: AI and contractors offer them agility and precision in a competitive market.

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