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#765 Why CTOs Feel Isolated and What To Do About It with Scott Smeester, Founder of CIO Mastermind

Modern CTO

To learn more about CIO Mastermind, check out their website here. For booking inquiries, email booking@proseriesmedia.com About Scott Smeester Scott Smeester has over 25-years of experience in web-based application development, earned a degree in civil engineering, and has invested two decades in building companies. Let us know here.

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Resilience, an introduction.

Xebia

How does this impact your business design and IT design? If an organization is purposeful, and it is intentionally designed then the organization design plays an important role, else there is no intention and no purpose with a certain societal purpose [ Daft 2010]. Since 2008 businesses are designed for resilience.

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What is a liquid neural network, really?

TechCrunch

The initial research papers date back to 2018, but for most, the notion of liquid networks (or liquid neural networks) is a new one. That means — potentially — using something as simple as a Raspberry Pi to execute complex reasoning, rather than offloading the task to external hardware via the cloud.

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Teachers are leaving schools. Will they come to startups next?

TechCrunch

There are more than 3 million public school teachers in the United States. Companies don’t have the same pressures as entire school districts, and thus are able to give teachers a way to teach on more flexible hours. Now, schools are open and the number of positive coronavirus cases are surprisingly low.

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ultimate.ai scores $20M for a supportive approach to customer service automation

TechCrunch

The focus, as tends to be the case for all these customer service conversational AI plays, is freeing (human) support agents from dealing with dull, repetitive stuff — so they can apply their (less limited) skills to more complex, consultative or emotionally demanding customer queries.

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Improving Security by influencing Human Behavior

Xebia

And there is more to it, why this works in changing the behavior of individual persons. Security is so much more than a software engineering topic. Behavior in the context of an organisation is influenced by the Process (Structure and Systems) and the Culture (Hoogervorst 2018) [11]. Behavior of management.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Economists Mariana Mazzucato and Josh Ryan-Collins write , “If the reward accruing to an actor is larger than their contribution to value creation, then the difference may be defined as rent. That difference in price (and its impact on pharmaceutical company profits) shows the extent of the rent. They start to collect robber baron rents.