Enterprise software’s growing reach
With software transforming so many industries, knowing what it takes to succeed in the dynamic sector is becoming critical for all manner of companies and leaders.
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How efficient growth can fuel enduring value creation in software
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A renewed emphasis on efficient growth could allow software companies to unleash $500 billion in incremental shareholder value.
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Anaplan CEO: How decision excellence drives enterprise performance
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Charlie Gottdiener discusses the growing importance of enterprise connectedness and the planning software provider’s research...
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Navigating the generative AI disruption in software
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The technology could accelerate growth, but presents new challenges, including shifts in value pools, user segments, and competitive...
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The growing importance of software product marketing managers
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As launching new products becomes more challenging, the multifaceted role of product marketing manager is poised to become a...
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Turning consumer and retail companies into software-driven innovators
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As customers increasingly expect seamless, engaging digital experiences, consumer-facing organizations can follow six principles...
Software excellence
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How generative AI could accelerate software product time to market
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A new study offers early lessons on how generative AI can improve product managers’ productivity, quality, and experience....
Book Excerpt - Rewired
MLOps so AI can scale
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Most of the failures in ML development come not from developing poor models but from poor productization practices.
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What’s driving the Nordic countries’ software export surge?
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Nordic countries represent just 3 percent of global software demand, yet they have become home to Europe’s fastest-growing...
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Yes, you can measure software developer productivity
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Measuring, tracking, and benchmarking developer productivity has long been considered a black box. It doesn’t have to be...
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From product-led growth to product-led sales: Beyond the PLG hype
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It’s touted as a panacea for tech companies, but a product-led growth strategy often has to be complemented by elements...
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Where could $374 billion in dry powder go? Six themes to watch
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Private capital activity in software will likely pick up after a short-term dip. Here are the key considerations.
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Unleashing developer productivity with generative AI
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A McKinsey study shows that software developers can complete coding tasks up to twice as fast with generative AI. Four actions...
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The art of software pricing: Unleashing growth with data-driven insights
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Software companies struggling with shrinking margins can unlock the power of pricing by considering five actions for profitability...
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Private equity turns to resiliency strategies for software investments
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As CIOs report shifts in software spending, investors may want to refocus their efforts on growing opportunities in cybersecurity,...
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What separates top product managers from the rest of the pack
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Software is an increasingly important driver for companies across industries. Capturing the full value of investing in it depends...
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The digital reinvention of enterprise tech go-to-market
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As customers demand both transformational expertise and simplified, self-serve experiences, the traditional enterprise sales...
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Responsible product management: The critical tech challenge
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Prioritizing privacy, sustainability, and inclusion will soon be essential to successful tech development. For product managers...
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Reversal of fortune: How European software can play to its strengths
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A relative lack of top software companies threatens Europe’s economic competitiveness. To turn that tide, the private sector...
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SaaS and the Rule of 40: Keys to the critical value creation metric
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Investors reward SaaS companies that hit this operating performance marker, yet a surprisingly small number have been able to...
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The next software disruption: How vendors must adapt to a new era
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Over the turbulent past decade, many legacy software players proved to be remarkably resilient. Now they must adopt a new strategic...
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How quote-to-cash excellence can fuel growth for B2B subscription businesses
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Outperformers achieve higher growth by carefully considering the sales journey and balancing rigorous process discipline with...
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The product management talent dilemma
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Despite product managers’ central roles in software organizations, they are often neglected from a talent-management perspective....
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Advanced analytics in software pricing: Enabling sales to price with confidence
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Building advanced analytics such as dynamic deal scoring into the core commercial process helps software sales organizations...
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Introducing customer success 2.0: The new growth engine
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Can software vendors and other companies identify more opportunities to grow and deliver value by taking a fresh look at customer...
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Product managers for the digital world
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The role of the product manager is expanding due to the growing importance of data in decision making, an increased customer...
Software transformation
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Taking industrial sector tech from cost center to competitive edge
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Industrial companies can enjoy the same strategic technology advantages as digital leaders in other sectors, provided they have...
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From start-up to centaur: Leadership lessons on scaling
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This playbook for founder CEOs on scaling from start-up to standout and beyond borrows lessons from the global B2B software-as-a-service...
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Embedded finance: The choices and trade-offs for US banks
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No risk, no reward. Banks can design an embedded-finance offering based on their size, distribution footprint, customer base,...
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The generative AI opportunity in airline maintenance
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For everyone from repair copilots to clerical assistants, generative AI can improve productivity and ease labor shortages. How...
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Five considerations for software private equity in 2024
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A new wave of software investing is on the horizon as private equity looks to create value through software portfolio companies....
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Thoughtful M&A strategies are key to growth in tech, media, and telecom
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With technology, media, and telecommunication companies poised for a potential resurgence in M&A, players seeking growth...
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Tech talent in transition: Seven technology trends reshaping telcos
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With technologies like edge computing, AI, and xRAN transforming telecom, leaders are reassessing how to capture value. Rethinking...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Every company is a software company: Six ‘must dos’ to succeed
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As software transforms every industry, leaders must turn to a new playbook.
Interactive
Leadership lessons: Becoming a software company
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Every company needs to become a software company to compete in the digital age. Here’s how some leaders have made that...
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The SaaS factor: Six ways to drive growth by building new SaaS businesses
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Software as a service (SaaS) can be an impressive source of revenue growth for nontech companies that follow these six key principles...
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Debugging the software talent gap in aerospace and defense
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As aerospace and defense players accelerate their mission to transition from hardware to software, we see four talent imperatives....
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Winning in software for industrial companies
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A new compendium compiles articles that can help industrial companies excel in software by improving strategy, operational excellence,...
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Reaching excellence in software procurement
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Rapid software advances are creating new opportunities for product differentiation and faster time to market—for companies...
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Moving beyond agile to become a software innovator
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Companies need to borrow a page from the tech industry’s playbook to understand how to use agile to build better products...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Four myths about building a software business
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As nontechnology companies turn to software-based business models for growth, they will need to avoid common misconceptions.
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Hardware’s business-model shift: Finding a new path forward
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New business models present an opportunity for IT-infrastructure providers, who are facing a migration in value as buyers demand...
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Developer Velocity at work: Key lessons from industry digital leaders
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The experiences of several high-performing software development organizations in banking and retail offer a road map to excellence....
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When code is king: Mastering automotive software excellence
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With software driving tomorrow’s automotive innovations, R&D organizations must quickly master its intricacies.
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Developer Velocity: How software excellence fuels business performance
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The businesses that are achieving the greatest returns from their software investments are those willing to tackle entrenched...
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The case for an end-to-end automotive-software platform
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Software is transforming car capabilities but also creating development challenges for automotive players. An end-to-end approach...
Executive voices
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Ya Xu on building AI and machine learning products
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Ya Xu, vice president of engineering and head of data and AI at LinkedIn, discusses how leaders can prioritize and mature AI...
Interview
The promise and the reality of gen AI agents in the enterprise
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Generative AI technology is improving so quickly that a range of new capabilities are rapidly coming online, but only for those...
Podcast
Kareem Yusuf on building sustainability products for your customers
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Kareem Yusuf, senior vice president of product management and growth at IBM, discusses the current landscape for sustainability...
Interview
Creating a European AI unicorn: Interview with Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI
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Arthur Mensch, CEO and cofounder of Paris-based Mistral AI, discusses his company’s large language models, its open-source...
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Thomas Dohmke on improving engineering experience using generative AI
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Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, discusses the impact generative AI will have on software development, the evolution of the developer’s...
Podcast
Alex Hardiman on product outside of pure technology companies
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Alex Hardiman, chief product officer of the New York Times, shares how a strong product-led strategy can elevate organizations...
Podcast
Unlocking autonomous-vehicle development: TIER IV’s open-source blueprint
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Can open-source software unlock the scalability the autonomous-vehicle industry has struggled to achieve amid varied successes...
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Pali Bhat on building intelligent products
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Reddit chief product officer Pali Bhat shares his approach to creating innovative products—and how machine learning and...
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Talking innovation in video games with Electronic Arts
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EA’s chief strategy officer, Mihir Vaidya, discusses the challenges of innovating at the intersection of art, entertainment,...
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Gokul Rajaram on product thinking and the future of innovation
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Coinbase and Pinterest board member Gokul Rajaram reveals how companies can use product thinking to better understand customers...
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The power of pace in technology
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The CEO of Hivemind Technologies explains what steps matter in speeding software development for transformations.
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Miro’s Andrey Khusid: Product-led growth in tech and beyond
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The entrepreneurial leader of the fast-growing visual collaboration platform talks about the importance of experimentation and...
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Making product inclusion and equity a core part of tech
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Annie Jean-Baptiste, the head of product inclusion and equity at Google, talks about how and why the tech giant works to incorporate...
Interview - McKinsey Quarterly
‘Find the smartest technologist in the company and make them CEO’
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In the first episode of the new The Quarterly Interview: Provocations to Ponder series, Silicon Valley’s...
Podcast
Giving developers a leading role in cybersecurity
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Cyber-attacks are happening at such a breakneck pace that protecting against them increasingly starts when developers are first...
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Building a “digital operating rhythm” with OKR software
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As the pandemic has fueled the growth of remote work and the pace of strategic planning, more companies are looking for greater...
Interview
Leading from the heart: How Freshworks’ CEO built a global tech unicorn
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Girish Mathrubootham, CEO of the India-born, US-headquartered software-as-a-service start-up believes that this is the decade...
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Box’s Aaron Levie on navigating SaaS’ several stages of growth
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After nearly two decades leading the file-sharing company, its co-founder and CEO talks about how his understanding of value...
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Net retention and customer success: Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta on winning at SaaS
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A software leader shares his view of the growing importance of two key factors to creating value in the sector.
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Turning India into a SaaS power
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The rise of SaaS has dramatically transformed the software industry and opened it to many new players. What will it take for...
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Recovering from ransomware: a conversation with Veritas CEO Greg Hughes
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Why executives and boards need to understand the growing cyber threat, how to best prepare for recovery, and who should be at...
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Managing growth and value creation in SaaS: An interview with a software leader
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Sue Barsamian, a veteran executive who now sits on several software company boards, discusses growth, product–market fit,...
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Unleashing developers’ full talents: An interview with Twilio’s CEO
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Jeff Lawson talks about software’s growing digital supply chain, the future of flexible work, and the origins of both his...
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Software and the next normal: A talk with Workday’s cofounder and co-CEO
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Aneel Bhusri discusses serving customers as the COVID-19 crisis began, the limitations of remote work, data’s importance for...
Talent and capabilities
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
The human side of generative AI: Creating a path to productivity
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The number of employees who use generative AI is expected to soar, freeing many to focus on higher-level cognitive work. Can...
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Attracting and retaining tech talent to sustain mobility’s growth
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The contest for talent in mobility has entered a new phase as recruits reappraise potential employers.
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HR rewired: An end-to-end approach to attracting and retaining top tech talent
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Technology companies are shedding the very talent that incumbent players need to meet their own digital objectives. Here’s...
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Cracking the code on digital talent
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Even with recent industry layoffs, the tech talent shortage shows few signs of abating. To attract this critical segment, it’s...
Article - McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility
How to close the Black tech talent gap
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Businesses risk billions if Black professionals continue to be underrepresented in tech jobs. Closing the gap means making changes...
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Mining for tech-talent gold: Seven ways to find and keep diverse talent
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A wealth of diverse tech talent is available, if companies expand their approach to hiring them.
Article - MGI Research
Overcoming the fear factor in hiring tech talent
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Providing the kind of experience and skill building that augments human capital can open up a much broader pool of candidates....
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Tech talent tectonics: Ten new realities for finding, keeping, and developing talent
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Large incumbents can compete successfully for tech talent—but only if they’re ready to completely rethink their entire...
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Repairing the broken rung on the career ladder for women in technical roles
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Women in technical roles are less likely than men to win promotions early in their careers, and many are exiting the field. Companies...
Risk
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The cyber clock is ticking: Derisking emerging technologies in financial services
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As financial institutions actively adopt emerging technologies, they should act now to future-proof themselves against growing...
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Software bill of materials: Managing software cybersecurity risks
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As software-related vulnerabilities continue to grow, companies must manage their software cyber risks to innovate faster and...
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Security as code: The best (and maybe only) path to securing cloud applications and systems
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Managing security as code enables companies to create value in the cloud securely.
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Securing software as a service
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Here is how SaaS providers can meet the security needs of their enterprise customers.