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The art of selling: IT budget approval made easier

CIO

Because as a young CIO, I was struggling with obtaining budget approvals for a range of IT initiatives. A majority of CIOs I speak with dread the budget approval process and breathe a welcome sigh of relief when annual budgeting comes to an end. And because of this, IT budgeters must have open ears.

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CAPM certification: Cost, salary, training, and more

CIO

Based on the information provided in the table below, determine which task is on schedule and within the budget? PMI: This official online course from PMI focuses on PMI standards and technical skills for new practitioners. Which of the following describes a work breakdown structure?

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Emerge Career’s pre-release job training lands $3.2M seed and new state contracts

TechCrunch

Security and limited budgets at vocational and community colleges limit the amount of help they can actually offer people in the system, and courses from GEDs to trades often take a very “study by mail” approach during incarceration, or traditional brick and mortar one on release.

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Assembly required: 8 myths about knowledge management debunked

CIO

Knowledge is created by the systematic process of capturing, synthesizing, analyzing, and interpreting information to achieve a higher level of understanding of some problem or course of action. As a means of control, budgets measure performance against planned targets, influencing employee behavior.

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Swiss Federal Railways CIO relies more on AI than concrete

CIO

The IT budget amounts to €850 million per year, which is about 7% of sales. In terms of traffic management, the aim is to make better use of routes, in particular by reducing the distances between trains. Another example of AI use at SBB is operations management, or optimizing train path utilization.

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Inferencing holds the clues to AI puzzles

CIO

Crunching mathematical calculations, the model then makes predictions based on what it has learned during training. Ultimately, it takes a combination of the trained model and new inputs working in near real-time to make decisions or predictions. The engines use this information to recommend content based on users’ preference history.

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How We Develop TechSoup Courses for Nonprofit Skills Training

TechSoup

TechSoup offers a range of courses based on nonprofit needs with topics on fundraising, social media marketing, grant writing, digital skills, technology tools (including those for the cloud) and more.