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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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Whether your technology is new or old, lifecycle management is key

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Does your organization see technology infrastructure as a commodity or as a strategic business enabler? The answer will shape your approach to infrastructure: you can keep legacy infrastructure going as long as you can, or you can pursue the cutting edge of technology. Legacy technology also affects sustainability.

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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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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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The startup CIO’s guide to formalizing IT for liquidity events

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Suppose you lead IT at a VC-backed startup. You even acknowledge that IT has been kept afloat by managed service providers and fractional employees. Fortunately, Brian Hoyt does — and he’s been there, having served as CIO of real-time 3D content creator Unity Technologies, for which he prepared the IT department for IPO in 2020.

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Internet startup launches while embracing adoption

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As the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company planned its fiber build plan across its footprint, the company’s IT specialists realized that, with artificial intelligence (AI) emerging as the consummate transformative technology, Brightspeed needed to embrace adoption or fall behind. However, the transition would be challenging.

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Assembly required: 8 myths about knowledge management debunked

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General Stanley McChrystal, who once led Joint Special Operations Command, shared this key insight, “The military’s historic struggle with a lack of intelligence has shifted towards a new challenge: managing an overwhelming influx of information. The term “knowledge assembly” is not as widely recognized a term as “knowledge management.”

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