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• Workday CIO on tackling SaaS debt and sprawl

  21-11-2018 12:00
  Being the CIO of a cloud ERP provider is a unique balancing act. As the first customer of your company’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, you must help drive the company’s flagship forward, but you also must support the technical needs of the organization as a whole.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Who’s succeeding with product-focused IT?

  21-11-2018 12:00
  Organizations are making the shift to delivering IT as a product — a multistep process, rife with challenges. First, there’s the need to lay the groundwork for change, and to extend a product mindset across the organization. Then governance must be implemented, product teams must be structured and implemented, and supporting IT capabilities must be created. Unlike leaders of startups, who can create an organizational vision from scratch, CIOs have to create their “new-not-
  
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• Google employee walkout results in forced arbitration policy change

  21-11-2018 11:30
  On Nov. 1, approximately 1,500 Google employees collectively protested inadequate handling of sexual misconduct claims related to two executives. At 11:10 a.m. local time, at more than two dozen Google offices worldwide, employees walked away from their desks, leaving behind a flyer that read:
  “Hi. I’m not at my desk because I’m walking out in solidarity with other Googlers and contractors to protest sexual harassment, misconduct, lack of transparency, and a workplace culture
  
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