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Payment-processing outages at UK retailers raise reliability issues for cashless transactions

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The problems at fast food restaurant McDonalds, supermarkets Tesco and Sainsbury’s, and bakery chain Greggs, highlight retailers’ increasing reliance on third-party payment systems and the technical issues hampering a global shift from cash to digital payments.

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Baldor’s first-ever CIO sets the transformation agenda

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To cultivate its ambitious digital plans, the Bronx-based company, which prepares and delivers fresh food from “farm to table” of restaurants and caterers in New York City, Boston, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., poached its first CIO. Parameswaran points to Freshgrass as an example.

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Strategic planning: How CIOs can build the best possible future

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That’s not the problem today,” says Bruce Rogow, former vice president and global head of research for Gartner and a Gartner executive fellow for 26 years. My good friend Geoffrey Moore told me over breakfast at Buck’s Restaurant in Woodside, Calif., Organizations were reluctant to spend money on technology.

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Cybersecurity and compliance take centre stage at IT Directors’ Dinner in London

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One attendee, a global head of cybersecurity, shared insights into navigating ISO and SOC certifications – referring to it the “certification jungle”. NinjaOne is hosting the next edition of the IT Directors’ Dinner on July 18th 2024 at the NoMad Restaurant in Covent Garden, London. Here are five main takeaways from the event.

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The Importance of Identity Management in Security

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Should one restaurant manager have access to the neighboring restaurant’s data, even if they’re in the same company? billion global financial loss, according to some sources. When should a developer access data on-premises or in the public cloud? The second consideration is identity for IoT devices.

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Schrodinger’s Open Banking

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The global banking regulation race. Toast is digitally revolutionizing restaurant management with its modern, cloud-based restaurant point-of-sale system, but it generates a large portion of its $1.7bn revenue from payments fees. They’re building their own open banking environment.

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New US CIO appointments, March 2022

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Sanofi selects Lakshmi Eleswarpu as SVP & Global CIO. Lakshmi Eleswarpu, SVP & Global CIO, Sanofi Sanofi. Sanofi is a $40B global healthcare company with a presence in over 100 countries, that produces consumer healthcare products, medicines and vaccines. If you have CIO job news to share, please email me!

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