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How will your team's headcount change in 2020?

Talent Management & Performance Financial Management

Increase

Stay Flat

Decrease

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Which RDBMS do you feel best suits the needs of today's climate of rapid change and iteration?

Engineering

SQLite

CouchDB

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

SQLServer

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What do you consider the most intimidating part about starting a company?

Culture & Values

A good idea

The high chance of failure

Not getting a salary for a while

Raising funds

Other (please comment)

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Do you have a business disaster recovery plan should your organization be attacked in the current circumstances?

Strategy & Architecture Security & GRC Threat & Vulnerability Management

Yes

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If your cybersecurity spend is increasing, how much is it increasing by?

Security & GRC Financial Management

Less than or equal to 5%

Between 6% and 10%

Between 11% and 15%

Greater than 16%

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How concerned are you about effects of an attack on your supply chain?

Security & GRC Threat & Vulnerability Management

Very concerned

Somewhat concerned

Not concerned

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Young, small companies shy away from investing in a full-scale ERP solution. You need to understand how the business operates to fully understand what you want to get out of your ERP program.

Applications & Platforms Finance

SAP

Oracle

Plex

Other

No ERP planned

ERP planned

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The Organizations intranet was developed internal or external? The platform/software is open source or commercial?

Applications & Platforms

Internal

External

Open

Commerical

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In which framework is your Front-end developed?

Software Development

React

Angular

Vue

No Framework

Other

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If you raised some funds (small amount $10k - $30k) as a seed/pre-seed investment towards your e-commerce/tech startup, on what will you spend most of the money?

Financial Management Finance Business Applications

Marketing

Team

Software

Operation (from packing to deliver)

Legal

Increase Inventory

Other (Please write it down)

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Do you use Neo4j? If so, what business cases support that DB?

Process Management Graph Databases NoSQL Databases

Roberto TorresCTO at Dlife in Healthcare and Biotech23 days ago

Currently we are using it for entities that have hierarchical relationships. We found that it works well for tracking semantic knowledge relationships in our case for customers.

Our customers are multi-tiered, with ...read more

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If you have reports which are Staff / Principal Engineers in your team: What have been the traits you recognize in them to be suitable for those positions?

Relationship Management Engineering

Roberto TorresCTO at Dlife in Healthcare and Biotecha month ago

For Staff / Principal engineers, 2 key traits that I expect distinctively different from typical developers/engineers in a delivery role is that they always strive to find a "better way" of solving the problem and taking ...read more

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Recently, we have implemented Git Flow within Engineering. So, I’ve chosen to create our own DORA metrics dashboard. If you have created a similar dashboard, could you give me pointers to create one?

Process Management Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)DevOps+1 more

Roberto TorresCTO at Dlife in Healthcare and Biotech2 months ago

Hello, I work with a DevSecOps by MS environment but suggestions are similar.
First you should you focus on the key metrics: Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Mean Time to Recover (MTTR), and Change Failure ...read more

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I recently discovered that our CMO has initiated a project with a development company for a major customer, which I had previously rejected in my role as CIO. I have several concerns about this project: 1) The budget is low, and the deadlines are unrealistic. 2) The project poses significant risks and could potentially harm the company. 3) We lack the necessary certifications required for this project. 4) There is a high likelihood of uncontrolled cost escalation. While this project might provide immediate financial benefits, especially given our current sales challenges and unmet objectives, I worry that the long-term risks may outweigh these short-term gains. Given these factors, should we proceed with this project or not? I would appreciate any advice or insights on how to handle this situation effectively.

Process Management IT Strategy & Roadmap Peer Insights+1 more

Roberto TorresCTO at Dlife in Healthcare and Biotech4 months ago

Do you need to accept the project? Why not let the CMO do it as they selected the supplier?

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If your repo is GitLab, what is the configuration you use in the DevOps process? I’m interested in knowing which tools do you use and why you chose that set of tools.

Process Management DevOps

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We have a provider we've been working with for 2+ years, recently someone from the CxO team suggested that we should hire someone from that specific provider, thus avoiding the need to hire a candidate that would go through a deep learning curve. The problem is that we have a contract with that provider that prevents us to hire someone from their team, the penalties are high if we think of doing so. The Chief Legal Officer told the CxO team we could circumvent this contract clause. I'm against this behaviour and actions, I understand perfectly the benefits of not having to hire someone new and avoiding the learning curve. But doing this kind of stuff feels bad in all senses. What would you do to let the CxO team not to go this way?

Process Management Mentoring & Coaching Culture & Values

Roberto TorresCTO at Dlife in Healthcare and Biotech4 months ago

I see it as a breach of ethics. I would use that argument to start with, and then move to it could sour the relationship with the vendor. Ultimately, it could end up costing the company more money and time to replace that ...read more

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Can you give me pointers on what to tell my CEO about the benefits of working remotely? Most of my team takes at least 1.5 hours to get to the office and the same time to get home. Also, my CEO lives very close to the office as a context.

Relationship Management Mentoring & Coaching Personal Development+1 more

Roberto TorresCTO at Dlife in Healthcare and Biotech5 months ago

While there is content on the web that can provide specific examples we have found that some direct benefits to the company are:
1. Employees spend less time away from the office when taking care of personal items such ...read more

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For those who connect your company’s data thru Hubspot’s API, do you have any pointers you can give?

Disruptive & Emerging Technologies Process Management Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Roberto TorresCTO at Dlife in Healthcare and Biotech5 months ago

If the questions is related to “dos and donts” please find some points below:

TIMIFY clients looking to synchronize their data with HubSpot CRM can effortlessly achieve this by activating our HubSpot Sync App. With ...read more

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Which Python frameworks do you use? And what do you use them for?

Process Management Innovation Software Development

Roberto TorresCTO at Dlife in Healthcare and Biotech8 months ago

I primarily use FastAPI, an advanced Python web framework, for creating high-performance, scalable web applications and APIs. FastAPI is particularly well-suited for building APIs due to its automatic generation of interactive ...read more

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For those of you who work at last-mile logistics companies, do you rely exclusively on Google Maps or other TMS for delivery optimization such as route optimization and vehicle load optimization?

Enterprise Applications Business Applications Mobile+1 more

Roberto TorresCTO at Dlife in Healthcare and Biotech8 months ago

Specialist TMS and last mile logistic systems usually provide improved route optimization tools that would benefit your business.

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I am trying to understand what are the key skills on the ground that would be pivotal for moving our company to a digital first organization? Have you trialed anything in your organization? What are the skills and trainings you recommend that would be beneficial for the CDIO function at a high level to at least be prepared for the digital disruption in the next two years?

Process Management

Roberto TorresCTO at Dlife in Healthcare and Biotech8 days ago

Not knowing the current state of your organization, it is difficult to say definitively what skills and training are required for the CDIO function. However, based on my experience of working on multiple digital transformation ...read more

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CIOs: If you're skilled at delegation, what made you good at it? For those who struggle, what methods have helped you improve?

Relationship Management Personal Development

Roberto TorresCTO at Dlife in Healthcare and Biotecha month ago

I understand the strengths & weaknesses of each member of my team, as to identify their soft/hard skills too. With that in mind I can delegate easily and with confidence.

That is the result of the 1:1s I have with ...read more

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What is that one "magic" piece of advice/feedback you've gotten that improved your effectiveness as a leader?

People & Leadership Peer Insights

Roberto TorresCTO at Dlife in Healthcare and Biotech2 months ago

"Clarity is magnetic." It was part of a bigger lesson that people value integrity, but they actually follow clarity. Clarity in vision combined with a good vision has a potential to build incredible followership.

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What skills are most important (your priorities) in your work today?

Roberto TorresCTO at Dlife in Healthcare and Biotech2 months ago

Soft skills:

1. Communication
2. Emotional intelligence
3. Active listening
Among others

Hard skills:
1. Vision & planning
2. Problem solving
3. Business profit model ownership
Among ot...read more

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Have you successfully applied risk management strategies to technical debt? Do you find that leadership is more willing to address tech debt when it’s framed as a business risk?

Engineering Strategy & Architecture Applications & Platforms+1 more

Roberto TorresCTO at Dlife in Healthcare and Biotech2 months ago

Getting funding to address technical debt has worked really well for me if it is linked to risk management. I have used two different approaches:

1. If the company is more focused about operations, I did calculate ...read more

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In your opinion, what are the best software engineering standards and kpi metrics?

Roberto TorresCTO at Dlife in Healthcare and Biotech3 months ago

Use DORA metrics. It p rovides a standard set of DevOps metrics used for evaluating process performance and maturity. These metrics provide information about how quickly DevOps can respond to changes, the average time to ...read more

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