CIO
MAY 30, 2024
Following a legislative review of state purchases in fiscal year 2022, the state of Oklahoma discovered that its agencies had procured more than $3 billion worth of goods and services outside the oversight of its Office of Management and Enterprise (OMES) Central Purchasing division. “Understandably, state leaders were concerned,” says CIO Joe McIntosh.
Martin Fowler
MAY 30, 2024
In the story so far, Matteo Vaccari has shown how to test the behaviour of the HTML templates, by checking the structure of the generated HTML. That's good, but what if we want to test the behavior of the HTML itself, plus any CSS and JavaScript it may use?
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Agile Alliance
MAY 24, 2024
The Reimagining Agile workshop at JAFAC 2024 united New Zealand's Agile community to rethink the Agile Manifesto and address modern challenges, fostering collaborative discussions and questioning established narratives to envision Agile's future. The post Reimagining Agile at JAFAC: Back to basics and forward to the future first appeared on Agile Alliance.
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 27, 2024
“Agree to disagree” is dismissive, shuts down collaboration, and prevents meaningful solutions. Faced with conflict at work, you might think “let’s agree to disagree” is an easy way to move on from the conversation. The words seem peaceful and hint at mutual respect. But in actual use, they aren’t peaceful, or helpful, at all. The phrase implies a deadlock, which can prevent the resolution of underlying issues and hinder productive work relationships.
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Xebia
MAY 27, 2024
Origin of the XPRT. Magazine Assistant If you suggested creating an AI assistant about XPRT. Magazine #6 over two years ago, you might have been met with skepticism or confusion. Some might have preferred to simply download it. From our humble beginnings to our current glossy magazine filled with excellent content from our team and guest writers, these magazines are readily available for download.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 27, 2024
Being happy and positive at work can be a win-win for employees and organizations. But what happens when your boss practices toxic positivity? No matter how bad or stressful the situation is or how difficult the circumstances, they convince themselves that simply acting happy or thinking positively will change the outcome — then spread this toxic positivity to their teams.
Martin Fowler
MAY 29, 2024
Testing templates for generating HTML leads to tests that are very similar. Matteo Vaccari wisely likes to separate the common elements of tests from those that vary. He continues his article to show how he does this by parameterizing the tests. The resulting tests are easier to write, and more importantly, faster to understand and modify.
David Heinemeier Hansson
MAY 24, 2024
For over twenty years, the Mac was the default at 37signals. For designers, programmers, support, and everyone else. That mono culture had some clear advantages, like being able to run Kandji and macOS-specific setup scripts. But it certainly also had its disadvantages, like dealing with Apple's awful reliability years , and being cut off from seeing how half our Basecamp customer base saw by default (since they're on Windows!).
Ooda Loop
MAY 30, 2024
The weaponization of cyberspace has been a legitimate concern as nation states aggressively build capabilities to project power, retaliate, and become more offensively minded.
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Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr
CIO
MAY 30, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) is unlocking previously unimagined ROI for organizations of all sizes and across all industries. That’s especially true for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). “SMBs stand to reap immense benefits from the power of AI,” says Katie Evans, Research Director, Worldwide Small and Medium Business Research at IDC. “With leaner staffs and budgets than their enterprise counterparts, the efficiency gains that AI can bring can be a true game-changer in giving SMBs a compet
Harvard Business Review
MAY 27, 2024
Economists have traditionally believed that new technology lifts all boats. But in the case of AI, some are asking: Will some employees get left behind?
DevOps.com
MAY 24, 2024
Everyone is adding AI to their applications. Sometimes that's overkill. But Logz.io's IQ Assistant, which purports to make the most of your software stack's records, actually makes sense.
Perficient
MAY 30, 2024
Quality innovation is not for the weak at heart! Innovation myths may have you thinking it is for the lucky or the extremely talented – that’s not true. Pablo Picasso said, “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” Thomas Edison quipped, “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” In this blog post, I want to focus on a different quote with the same intent.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Ruby on Rails
MAY 29, 2024
The train for the Rails 7.2 release is leaving the station and we’re excited to announce the first beta release of Rails 7.2! There has been close to 2,500 commits made by over 400 contributors since Rails 7.1, so this release is packed with new features and improvements. Please help us test all this new stuff, so we can ensure a solid final release of Rails 7.2.
CIO
MAY 29, 2024
Consulting firm PwC announced Wednesday that it is accelerating its adoption of generative AI in the US and UK through an agreement with OpenAI that it said makes it both the first reseller for ChatGPT Enterprise and the product’s largest user. “PwC consultants are leveraging the capabilities of ChatGPT Enterprise as a valuable tool in their work,” said partner and GenAI leader at PwC, Bret Greenstein.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2024
For all the communication around strategy, we know that leaders at many companies don’t provide the necessary context for employees to understand what the words and sentences in a strategy statement actually mean. What can leaders do to help employees understand enough context to understand a strategy? In this article, the authors offer three recommendations: 1) Present the alternatives considered and explain why they were not adopted. 2) Explain how each choice is linked to the organization’s p
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MAY 30, 2024
This post is co-written with Murthy Palla and Madesh Subbanna from Vitech. Vitech is a global provider of cloud-centered benefit and investment administration software. Vitech helps group insurance, pension fund administration, and investment clients expand their offerings and capabilities, streamline their operations, and gain analytical insights. To serve their customers, Vitech maintains a repository of information that includes product documentation (user guides, standard operating procedure
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Crunchbase News
MAY 29, 2024
When Hollywood takes on addiction recovery, the script typically conjures up dingy rooms where the down-on-their-luck gather to share their struggles and fears. The prevailing venture-funded model, in contrast, offers little cinematic eye candy. Rather, the focus is mostly on startups where people in treatment message and video chat with care providers and use apps to track prescriptions.
Confluent
MAY 29, 2024
The dual-write problem can arise in any distributed system. Fortunately, it has solutions in event sourcing & the transactional outbox & listen-to-yourself patterns.
CIO
MAY 27, 2024
The creation of a new group to advise on AI and technology product strategy by Facebook parent Meta Platforms has been criticized by an executive member of the Responsible AI Institute (RAI) for what on the surface appears to be an acute lack of diversity. “It was definitely striking, I will say,” said Alyssa Lefaivre Škopac, head of global partnerships and growth with the RAI, of a panel that is made up of four white male entrepreneurs.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 28, 2024
Corporate employees undertaking expatriate assignments rely on support from local employees. This dynamic is underappreciated and understudied. Both individuals and their employers will benefit if people understand and correct the mythology that’s grown up around the vital role local employees play.
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N2Growth Blog
MAY 24, 2024
Identifying the Key Qualities and Skills of an Effective Nonprofit CEO Nonprofit organizations thrive under the guidance of exceptional CEOs who possess a unique set of qualities and skills. As a leading executive search firm , we’ve found that one of the most important qualities to look for in a nonprofit CEO is strong leadership and communication skills.
Crunchbase News
MAY 28, 2024
Funding to startups focused on fusion energy has declined sharply in recent quarters after hitting a high two-and-a-half years ago. So far this year, just $58 million has gone to companies innovating around the future of fusion as a potential power source, per Crunchbase data. By contrast, more than $2.4 billion went to the space in the fourth quarter of 2021, the peak period for funding.
Perficient
MAY 28, 2024
On Sunday, May 19th, 2024, 21 individuals consisting of Perficient employees and their family members, participated in the 2024 Michigan Kidney Walk at the Detroit Zoo. This annual event aims to raise funds for the National Kidney Foundation, an organization that provides critical support to those affected by kidney disease. A Tradition of Giving This year marked our third consecutive participation in the Kidney Walk.
CIO
MAY 30, 2024
Perhaps no statistic shows just how much pressure CIOs are under to enable artificial intelligence (AI) than this: AI is now tied with cybersecurity as the top priority for CIOs, according to a recent Lenovo survey. However, though AI deployment is an urgent issue, most CIOs don’t believe their organizations are ready. Less than half of CIOs say they possess the required technical skills, only 4 in 10 believe they have the required security infrastructure, and just one-third think their organi
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2024
Large language models (LLMs) provide a search experience that’s dramatically different from the web-browser experience. The biggest difference is this: LLMs promise to answer queries not with links, as web browsers do, but with answers. Increasingly, using apps such as ChatGPT or Perplexity, or search portals such as Google’s Search Generative Experience (now AI Overviews) or Bing’s Copilot, customers will learn about products and brands through natural-language outputs.
N2Growth Blog
MAY 24, 2024
Defining the Key Elements of a Strategic Succession Strategy A robust succession plan depends on thorough strategic planning and preparation. It begins with identifying key organizational roles that could impact its continuity and growth. Creating detailed role descriptions outlining responsibilities, requirements, and potential for growth is essential.
Modern CTO
MAY 27, 2024
Today we’re talking to Ryan Graciano, CTO & Cofounder at Credit Karma. We discuss what Ryan’s been up to since his first appearance on the podcast, the ways in which Credit Karma is restructuring alongside the rise of AI, and how new technology is revolutionizing the accessibility of financial advisory. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
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