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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? Project Management PrepCast: This video-based training helps you master the knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques needed to pass the CAPM exam. Which of the following describes a work breakdown structure?

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO

But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval. Others include preparation for zero-day attacks, almost anything having to do with data stewardship, as well as IT training and social engineering audits.

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Efficient continual pre-training LLMs for financial domains

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Large language models (LLMs) are generally trained on large publicly available datasets that are domain agnostic. For example, Meta’s Llama models are trained on datasets such as CommonCrawl , C4 , Wikipedia, and ArXiv. The resulting LLM outperforms LLMs trained on non-domain-specific datasets when tested on finance-specific tasks.

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V7 snaps up $33M to automate training data for computer vision AI models

TechCrunch

It’s only as good as the models and data used to train it, so there is a need for sourcing and ingesting ever-larger data troves. But annotating and manipulating that training data takes a lot of time and money, slowing down the work or overall effectiveness, and maybe both. V7 even lays out how the two services compare.)

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Even startups on tight budgets can maximize their marketing impact

TechCrunch

Leveraging this material with best practice techniques enables any startup, no matter how limited its budget, to run an effective marketing campaign. The knowledge and expertise of its team, together with the why and the how of its offering provides the most compelling content. So, how do you get started? Lack of in-house expertise/skills.

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Need for Increased Training — Strained Budgets Strain Enterprise IT Teams

DevOps.com

As enterprises have increasingly embraced cloud, hybrid IT environments and DevOps methodologies, many of the old siloes associated with IT departments have crumbled—while demand for training and skills that reflect new technology requirements have risen considerably.

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