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The developer-customer connection: Why dev-centred cultures are customer-centric cultures 

  • Denise Dourado Headshot
    By Director of Digital and Application Innovation, Microsoft

Customers in today’s world expect a seamless interaction with a business. Because of this, your organisation’s essential business processes and interactions with customers, partners and employees increasingly depends on tailored innovative digital solutions. The teams who develop and manage these solutions – developers – are at the heart of the organisation. They’re critical in enabling Read more

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5 steps to help leaders close skills gaps in their organisation 

In my previous blog I introduced three inspiring learners, all of whom are building fulfilling technology careers. Reflecting on Enrique, Poornima and Amelia’s stories, I am reminded once more of the great value that can be gained from empowering employees to develop new skills and foster a learn-it-all mindset. How can leaders truly help employees Read more

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Empowering learners to build fulfilling tech careers 

Like its predecessor, 2021 is shaping up to be a year of change, disruption and adaptation. Many leaders are continuing to seek new ways to drive innovation and agility in their organisations. They also know that digital solutions offer the best chance to recover and make the most of opportunities in the new world of Read more

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10 high demand roles for developers and how to skill up 

We’re excited to provide learning and employability tools to help 25 million people around the world gain the skills they need to skill up and pursue roles that are in-demand in an increasingly digital economy. Using existing and new resources from LinkedIn, GitHub, and Microsoft, this initiative will be grounded in three areas of activity. Read more