Sourcing for Innovation

Erin Flynn, board director of Portland's Innovation Quadrant and associate vice president for strategic partnerships at Portland State University discusses the newly launched Portland IQ initiative. She also examines higher education's changing role in relation to the private sector and how colleges and universities can help foster better, more inclusive technology innovation.

As rising healthcare costs push our economy to a breaking point, organizations are turning to technology as a way to ensure better, more cost-effective outcomes.

Tony Trenkle, head of Catalyte's healthcare practice, discusses ways to use IT to reduce administrative and clinical costs, how to play catch up if you're a digital laggard and the consequences of implementing technology without a strategic plan.

Catalyte is supercharging its growth, enabling it to solve more client problems, put more Americans to work in IT and make the software development industry more diverse and inclusive. In this conversation, CEO Jacob Hsu discusses Catalyte's acquisition of Surge, its $27M funding round, the opening of new development centers, need for local teams/individuals and how all this positions Catalyte to take full advantage of the onshoring software development trend.

In 2000, Michael Rosenbaum founded Catalyte and created the Catalyte Talent Platform, a big data engine that removes the cultural biases from hiring and objectively selects candidates who have the innate potential to become great software developers.

In this episode, Michael discusses the founding of Catalyte, the impact of the Talent Platform and how AI and machine learning can be put to use in skills-based hiring to create better software engineering outcomes.

Resumes are a poor predictor of job success. Evolving to a skill-based hiring process would allow better and more equal access to employment, decrease hiring costs and make businesses more innovative and resilient.

Interview with Chevonne Hall, the principal of the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. A moving discussion that dives deeper into STEP's themes of community, perseverance, mentoring, importance of education and technology and how unleash the potential inside every person.

There are many similarities between farm-to-table restaurants and colocated software development teams: local teams working closely with clients to quickly adapt to new technologies and changing user demands.

Tech policy expert, New York Times best-selling author and Maryland gubernatorial candidate Alec Ross discusses preparing Maryland's workforce for the new digital economy, the importance of technical education for all and if the Orioles will make the playoffs this year.

There are many ways to practice Agile, both correctly and incorrectly. Here's how to identify if you're practicing "Faux Agile" and how to fix it.

Digital transformation places extra importance on finding the correct partner who can co-create the enterprise applications that fulfill customer expectations and meet critical business needs.