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How To Disrupt the Tech World

Mills Scofield

The stories, including one by America’s new CTO and former VP at Google[X] Megan Smith , are the authentic voices of women who have persevered, overcome, created, and innovated their careers and accomplishments. Freshman Engineers designing radial keyboard for the communication impaired (e.g., Get Innovating Women.

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How Much do Software Developers Make in 2019?

Strategy Driven

The starting salary of cyber security engineers is also misleading. 30% of surveyed cyber security engineer jobs actually begin at the $83,000 to $108,499 range. Note that engineering roles have slight but significant job differences from your standard developer: engineers don’t just code. So there you have it.

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Learning The Keys To Exceptional Execution

Tanveer Naseer

Four years later, Forbes magazine listed Ben as one of the 12 most disruptive names in business for his groundbreaking idea for helping customers process a transaction in a simpler way. Guibert Englebienne, co-founder and CTO of Globant told me, “When you find unique talent, recruit it. The student became the teacher.

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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

Months of investigation by a cyber consulting firm finally determined the source of the vulnerability to Azotrope’s network: a combination printer/fax machine in their testing and QA area that engineers regularly used to fax lunch orders to a local Chinese restaurant. People, Policies and Processes.

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The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer

Harvard Business Review

Today''s IT leaders have known about the exponential growth of processing power, storage, and bandwidth, but like the frog, they didn''t notice the boiling point approaching because the change has happened over so many decades. However, over the next five years every business process is going to undergo a major transformation.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

Gaining the most from talent tech, we find, depends on the adopting firm’s ability to confront, and ultimately reinvent, an often outdated system of interlocking processes, behaviors and mindsets. This learning curve is often the culprit behind implementation processes that take significantly longer than managers expect.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity.