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From,

Mitchell Northcutt,

BreakFree Solutions CEO

A Letter
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Must Reads

The CEO’s Playbook for a Successful Digital Transformation

How involved should the CEO be in the process of digital transformation? According to Harvard Business Review, CEOs must act as the "digital guardian" for their organization, leading the change from the top down.

What Internal Developer Platform Teams Can Do For DevOps

Company's can improve their interactions with customers and outpace competitors if they use an internal developer platform to streamline the entire software delivery lifecycle. Forbes elaborates in this article.

Moving into Hyper-Drive

Is hyperautomation the key to digital transformation, or just another buzzword?

Top 7 challenges IT leaders will face in 2022

Facilitating hybrid working environments and ensuring a skills match for future success top the list of tough, ongoing issues IT leaders must navigate this year.

Robotics and Automation is a core capability for banking

Banks that can enable fully automated bank operations are going to be far out ahead of everyone else

Leaky Pipelines and the Business Case for Data DevOps

Data clouds enable businesses to share data from all types of cloud environments. Datanami elaborates on this concept and discusses how it enables businesses to break free of old, restrictive processes.

Simon Sinek

Hear from Simon Sinek as he discusses why we have leaders and how to become a great one. "Leaders, like social hierarchies, have been around for tens of thousands of years. One thing has always been true: a strong relationship between a leader and their people is based on the trust that the leader will have their back."

Talking Industrial Automation

"In this episode of Talking Industrial Automation, Tor-Inge Erikson discusses an interest in the intersection between people, software and the physical world. Tor-Inge Eriksen started as a consultant, where he worked on projects in agriculture, health-care, aquaculture, shipping and manufacturing. He soon realized that the knowledge of people in the field was underused, and decided to commit to building a software as a service product with his co-founders. In this episode of Talking Industrial Automation, you'll discover how Tor and his company, Clarify, combine human context and industrial data for daily decisions. Plus, you'll hear his thoughts on industry pain points and trends."