CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Under pressure to deploy AI within their organizations, most CIOs fear they don’t have the knowledge they need about the fast-changing technology. More than three in five CIOs surveyed by Salesforce say they’re expected to know more about AI than they do, potentially leading to massive and costly deployment mistakes. And while three-quarters of CIOs looking for AI expertise turn to their peers for guidance, only 9% believe their fellow CIOs know more about AI than they do.

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Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Increasingly the industry is seeing the value of creating data products as a core organizing principle for analytic data. Kiran Prakash has helped many clients design their data products, and shares what he's learned. In particular his methodical approach doesn't begin by thinking about some data that might be handy to share, but instead works from what consumers of a data product need.

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CIO

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When your CEO or CFO asks about the budget needed for technical debt remediation , do you find yourself struggling to justify the investment? You’re not alone. While CIOs understand the crushing weight of technical debt — now costing US companies $2.41 trillion annually — translating this into compelling business language for the board remains a persistent challenge.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Powerful Phrases for When You’re Being Set Up as the Scapegoat Being set up as the scapegoat never feels easy. It’s uncomfortable, unfair, and downright isolating. But here’s the good news: you don’t have to stay the goat in this blame game. Instead, you can fight goats with GOATs—our Greatest of All Time Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Workplace Conflict —and other powerful phrases and rise above the chaos.

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Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Explore the transformative power of Agile storytelling, showcasing how deliberate narratives can inspire change, foster engagement, and overcome resistance. The post Agile storytelling: Inspiring change through sharing experiences first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

For enterprises operating on the cloud, security and cost management are rising concerns. Typically, these issues are addressed in silos, with cyber teams and FinOps teams pursuing their charters and priorities separately — and with little thought given to collaboration opportunities between these teams that could be leveraged for better business results.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

By Dmitry Smirnov In the third quarter of this year, venture capital fundraising tightened significantly, with only $66.5 billion raised — down 16% quarter over quarter and 15% year over year. Amid this challenging environment, institutional investors are being more cautious and reassessing their investment strategies. For some VCs , this has highlighted an often-overlooked fundraising approach: courting entrepreneurs, including ex-portfolio founders, as limited partners.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

From glued-in batteries to software lockouts, you're paying more than ever for gadgets that won't last. Here's why and what can do done about it.

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Ooda Loop

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

A new so-called “reasoning” AI model, QwQ-32B-Preview, has arrived on the scene. It’s one of the few to rival OpenAI’s o1, and it’s the first available to download under a permissive license. Developed by Alibaba’s Qwen team, QwQ-32B-Preview contains 32.5 billion parameters and can consider prompts up ~32,000 words in length; it performs better on […] The post Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model appeared first on OODAloop.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When selecting new innovation projects, some committees prize consensus — and thus end up funding only ideas whose success is plain to see, which is often an incremental innovation. Meanwhile, venture capitalists looking for the next big thing might do the opposite, picking projects on which they disagree. These types of project selection quandaries are reflected in new research, which models the effectiveness of common decision methods such as voting, scoring, and ranking.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Plans and strategies get derailed on a daily basis. Unpredictable issues, market forces, and unforeseen circumstances can all throw your plan off track. Being flexible, having contingency plans in place, and trusting others can help you overcome these obstacles and get back on track. Today’s post is by Larry Ackerman, author of The Identity Code. I’m just back from my third trip to Tanzania – a three-week immersion into a startlingly different land, whose people, animals, birds and weather never

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The Sonos Ace were released this summer, offering great sound, immense comfort, and a sleek design. You can get them for $100 off during Cyber Monday 2024.

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Ruby on Rails

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The Rails Foundation is growing! After 2 years, we have made great strides in fulfilling our mission, but there is still more we want to accomplish. With that in mind, at a recent board meeting, the board voted in favor of expanding the number of Core members and seats on the board. Founded in 2022 by Core members Cookpad , Doximity , Fleetio , GitHub , Intercom , Procore , Shopify , and 37signals , the Rails Foundation has since welcomed 7 other Contributing members, and enjoyed two years of op

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2024

When something goes wrong with an AI system or model, the approaches used to respond to problems caused by traditional software systems don’t work. A new playbook is required. It includes defining AI, identifying relevant harms, designating responders, developing plans to contain the damage in the short term, carrying out a longer-term containment strategy to stop the harm from spreading further, and conducting a post-mortem review.

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CIO

DECEMBER 2, 2024

La inteligencia artificial (IA) continúa dominando los debates sobre tecnología, a medida que los ejecutivos (y los trabajadores de todos los niveles) buscan formas de usarla para hacer que el trabajo sea más fácil, más rápido y, en última instancia, más rentable. En gran medida, este bombo publicitario está justificado, ya que la IA ya aporta valor de múltiples maneras.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Development teams are under growing pressure to build cutting-edge applications with shorter development lifecycles. However, they are often slowed down by the growing burden of fixing security vulnerabilities. Ineffective application security processes mean these teams can spend more time firefighting than building, diverting focus from their primary objective: Delivering innovative, high-performance software.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The most impressive discounts for Black Friday 2024 are here. These are the five best deals I've found on some of the top tech products you can buy -- and I've personally tested all five products.

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The Daily WTF

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

or actually, it doesn't. A few fans found figures that just didn't add up. Here they are. Steven J Pemberton deserves full credit for this finding. "My bank helpfully reminds me when it's time to pay my bill, and normally has no problem getting it right. But this month, the message sent Today 08:02 , telling me I had to pay by tomorrow 21-Nov was sent on. 21-Nov.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Interviews with local leaders show how this technology has helped them automate tasks, make better decisions with data, and more effectively engage with the community.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The business world is changing at a rapid pace. Less than 10% of the FTSE 500 companies that existed fifty years ago are still around today and less than half of the companies founded since 2000 are still operating. Company executives are well aware that their businesses need to adapt to keep up with the rapid transformation now taking place. Two things play an essential role in a firm’s ability to adapt successfully: its data and its applications.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today revealed it has extended the capabilities of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool.

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Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Xreal continues to push the limits of the smart glasses form factor, and its latest innovations are available now in the Xreal One Series.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Investment platform Public announced Monday that it has raised $135 million in equity and debt financing amid sharp growth in adoption of its AI-enabled research features. The financing, which New York-based Public described as a Series D-2, included $105 million in equity and $30 million in debt, with longtime backer Accel as the lead investor. Previously, the 5-year-old company had raised more than $300 million in venture funding.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Product management can be a great stepping stone for ambitious early career professionals, and it’s not just for those with an engineering background. With real-world examples and personal experiences, the authors of this article explain what product management is about, the critical skills a PM needs to have, as well as how to start out and match your strengths to different types of PM roles.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A new area of digital transformation is under way in IT, say IT executives charged with unifying their tech strategy in 2025. Adopting emerging technology to deliver business value is a top priority for CIOs, according to a recent report from Deloitte. That means IT veterans are now expected to support their organization’s strategies to embrace artificial intelligence, advanced cybersecurity methods, and automation to get ahead and stay ahead in their careers.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent enterprise search service that helps you search across different content repositories with built-in connectors. AWS customers use Amazon Kendra with large language models (LLMs) to quickly create secure, generative AI –powered conversational experiences on top of your enterprise content. As enterprises adopt generative AI, many are developing intelligent assistants powered by Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to take advantage of information and knowledge from

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Social media is awash with ads for gadgets that detect hidden cameras and bugs in your hotel room, Airbnb, or even your own home. So I tested one to see if it actually works.

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Dell EMC

DECEMBER 4, 2024

AI: everything, everywhere, all at once. From AI PCs to data center transformations, Jeff Clarke, Vice Chairman and COO at Dell Technologies identifies the top five trends that will drive business in 2025.

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