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10 ways Digital Organizations are Smarter Faster than their Peers

Social, Agile and Transformation

A quote from my book, Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology Here's how digital organizations are smarter and faster - They change their culture by developing "bottoms up" practices like agile, ideation, relationship developing CRM, and citizen's development.

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious. If you yourself are not a coder, then much of what you think about the unique nature of development work may be incomplete. Measure the right outputs.

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Gates offers $1.5B for carbon-cutting innovation if lawmakers enact public-private program

GeekWire

Bill Gates authored “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster” and spoke to GeekWire about the book in February 2021. Department of Energy (DOE) to remove planet-warming carbon from the atmosphere, provided that lawmakers approve a program for developing new technologies in this space. Bill Gates has pledged to invest $1.5

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From book club to bootcamp: How these Seattle tech veterans took bold action on racial inclusion

GeekWire

They had monthly lunches and started a social justice book club to discuss the Black experience. They discovered HNG Internship , a Nigerian program that has provided free coding training for about 25,000 students in Nigeria and other African countries over the past four years. The program is starting its inaugural class next month.

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Google will now consider letting your video, music or book app evade its 30 percent cut

The Verge

Google is opening up applications to a new program for developers of media apps that lets them keep more of what they earn — paying a lower 15 percent commission to Google in exchange for supporting certain platforms and features ( via 9to5Google ). Google has mirrored other Apple olive branches to developers as well.

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7 sins of software development

CIO Business Intelligence

Software development is a challenging discipline built on millions of parameters, variables, libraries, and more that all must be exactly right. Opinionated programmers, demanding stakeholders, miserly accountants, and meeting-happy managers mix in a political layer that makes a miracle of any software development work happening at all.

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How Healthcare Can Keep Up with Accelerating Tech Cycles

CTOvision

” And yet in healthcare, we, as consumers are still challenged to book an appointment online and practitioners are lost in the ancient interfaces of the EMR systems that most of the time do not provide the right information at the right time for a patient (and we hope it’s the right patient!).