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Companies look to sell off assets to pay for AI investments

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs worried about where the money for new AI initiatives will come from may have some help on the way, with some companies apparently selling off non-core assets to pay for new AI projects. AI is both a huge potential gamechanger for many companies and a huge expense to get right, he says.

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Why the Cloud Is the Quickest Way to Business Agility

Information Week

While cloud is not a magic wand, it pushes companies to become more agile -- and successfully compete.

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Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

In the State of Enterprise Architecture 2023 , only 26% of respondents fully agreed that their enterprise architecture practice delivered strategic benefits, including improved agility, innovation opportunities, improved customer experiences, and faster time to market.

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Product-based IT: 6 key steps for making the switch

CIO Business Intelligence

Past shifts to agile methodologies helped as teams now had a product owne r to prioritize backlogs and adopted agile principles that empowered them to commit to a realistic amount of work. But many enterprises stopped their agile transformations at this layer.

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How a Global CPG Leader Optimized $500M of Direct Materials Spend and Exceeded Savings Goal

A Fortune 500 CPG company partnered with GEP to improve end-to-end category management, optimize direct spend categories, and increase strategic focus on tail spend. The result was a year-over-year savings of more than 3%.

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Agility Robotics reportedly raising $400M for humanoid warehouse robots

GeekWire

A pair of Digit robots from Agility Robotics work inside an Amazon fulfillment center south of Seattle in 2023. GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Agility Robotics , the Salem, Ore.-based The report cited a person who has seen the term sheet, which put Agility’s pre-investment valuation at $1.75

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Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn talks culture: ‘They can steal your technology, but not your philosophy’

Network World

Culture is the only thing you really own about your company. The roadmap is based on three fundamental pillars, with a goal of achieving an agile organization with a capacity for innovation and operational resilience to face the uncertain future that is looming on the horizon.

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Strategic Cost Management Approaches to Unlock Growth and Increase Profitability

You'll also find out how the transformative power of synergies and collaborative innovations in product development can help companies cut down costs significantly. What’s Inside: Different cost improvement initiatives The importance of employee empowerment How to achieve agility and adaptability

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More Effective Agile Leadership

Speaker: Steve McConnell, CEO, Construx Software

We all strive to be effective Agile leaders. Join Steve McConnell, CEO of Construx Software, as he distills hundreds of companies’-worth of real-world experience into the proven Agile leadership practices that work best. Adapt your implementation of Agile to your industry context. But how do you know if you're succeeding?

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Retail Reimagined: What It Means To Be An Innovative Retailer

Speaker: DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist

Companies of all sizes were forced to welcome change with open arms and surrender to total flexibility in order to be agile in the ever-evolving economic environment. The past three years have forever changed the retail landscape.

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Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes

Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

And in the era of agile, which recognizes that software development is a team sport, performance reviews need to use data for programmer growth and to give focus to business results. Data-driven performance reviews help to align employee goals and team goals with company goals.