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.
CIO
MAY 24, 2024
At NASA, data is everything. From object detection to mission enablement, data collection and rapid insight are paramount to mission success. And the challenge with analyzing the data is not just due to its size, but its type. The data is quite literally out of this world, including images of galaxies, stars, and planet surfaces from across the solar system.
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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.
CIO
MAY 24, 2024
The CIO’s value in the rebounding private equity market appears to be increasing, as investors see IT as an enabler of new revenue and as a driver of cost efficiencies. Several CIOs and other IT leaders in private equity (PE) environments say they see a trend toward the position being elevated, both with investors and at the portfolio companies they fund.
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It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 24, 2024
To Get Better at Human Connection, Make Connecting a Habit “Hey Karin, I was just in your and David’s session at the Association for Talent Development (ATD) Global Conference in New Orleans, where you talked about human connection and the 4 dimensions of productive conflict (collaboration): connection , clarity , curiosity , and commitment.
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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!).
CIO
MAY 24, 2024
Europe, the Americas and Africa need more data, faster. Atlantic Convergence is the first conference and business event addressing the potential of pan-Atlantic digital infrastructure. This is where Europe, North and South America, and Africa converge. First Conference on New pan-Atlantic Business Opportunities Data largely drives digital transformation.
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
CIO
MAY 24, 2024
If anyone used OpenAI’s GPT-4o to summarize the announcements from Build for CIOs in the form of a music playlist, just like it was used to tell a story in a sing-song manner during its showcase earlier this month, it could hit a home run with the C-suite leaders who nearly always have to do more with less. At least that’s what analysts say. The news coming out of the annual conference from Seattle this week was summarized by Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella at the beginning of his keynot
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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.
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.
CIO
MAY 24, 2024
The role of the office in creating a great company culture and strong employee connections has changed. This function is as important as ever, but in a world where employees may be in on different days, it requires a new definition of “face-to-face” and how culture and strong connections are created and shared. This means that the way employees build relationships and get things done — team meetings, casual debriefings, and brainstorming sessions — must be as effective virtually as they are in p
Crunchbase News
MAY 24, 2024
This year is shaping up as the first we’ve seen in which biotech and healthcare startups receive a majority of U.S. Series A commitments. So far in 2024, biotech and health companies have pulled in around $5.6 billion across 110 Series A rounds, per Crunchbase data. That accounts for 53% of all funding at the Series A stage, which is a closely watched barometer for the startup ecosystem.
CIO
MAY 24, 2024
Growing interest in meeting corporate sustainability goals has reframed how organizations think about IT asset usage, life-cycles, and end-of-life disposal practices. This was one area addressed in the HP-sponsored IDC whitepaper on the benefits of integrating managed device services, published in April 2024 [1]. Many believe that a more socially and environmentally responsible organization is key to building trust with customers, partners, and employees.
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Without proper guidance, it’s easy to miss out on Kafka’s full capabilities. While not the easiest technology to optimize, Kafka rewards those willing to explore its depths. Under the hood, it is an elegant system for stream processing, event sourcing, and data integration. Download this white paper to learn the 10 critical rules that will help you optimize your Kafka system and unlock its full potential.
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.
CIO
MAY 24, 2024
Holistic Zero Trust is an increasingly mandated and critical defence against cyberthreats especially in today’s hybrid work environment. The added demand for remote access to corporate applications driven by business continuity, customer reach, and newfound employee satisfaction comes with a heightened concern over data security. Employee flexibility aside, enterprises have a competitive need to expose data to contractors and partner ecosystems, which can potentially lead to substantial liabilit
N2Growth Blog
MAY 24, 2024
The Power of Executive Coaching in Driving Business Success In today’s competitive business landscape, the importance of executive coaching cannot be overstated. Executives can improve their leadership skills through tailored and personalized coaching programs, overcome challenges, and achieve tangible results for their organizations. One of the key benefits of executive coaching is its ability to empower executives to reach their full potential.
Ooda Loop
MAY 24, 2024
Russia has deployed advanced tech to interfere with Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, Starlink, leading to more outages on the northern front battle line. Starlink has been critical to the Ukrainian military since the earliest days of the war with Russia.
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
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.
Ivanti
MAY 24, 2024
Ensuring that people with disabilities can connect with Ivanti to learn about its solutions is an important job. And that’s where Ivanti’s Travis Frazier comes in. In Travis’s third year as a front-end web developer, he’s been instrumental in improving accessibility to Ivanti’s website for those with disabilities. Some of those improvements include: Optimizing Ivanti’s website for keyboard navigation alongside mouse usage.
N2Growth Blog
MAY 24, 2024
Distinguishing the Traits of Successful Revenue Leaders In a competitive market, revenue leaders play vital roles, often exerting influence across the entire organizational hierarchy. Their responsibilities do not simply involve financial growth but also include strategizing comprehensive growth plans, fostering team spirit, and driving innovation. As a result, certain traits distinguish successful revenue leaders from the rest of the crowd.
Crunchbase News
MAY 24, 2024
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. It was a slower week for big rounds compared to many of the past few.
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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.
InfoWorld
MAY 24, 2024
JetBrains has released RustRover, a dedicated IDE for the Rust programming language that combines an integrated Rust toolchain with support for AI assistance through an optional plugin and subscription. Announced May 21 , RustRover is positioned to simplify the Rust coding experience while “unlocking the language’s full potential,” JetBrains said. Capabilities include real-time feedback, code suggestions, simplified toolchain management, and team collaboration.
Ooda Loop
MAY 24, 2024
U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, believing they’ll be smothered by exponential data growth as sensor-generated surveillance tech further blankets the planet.
InfoWorld
MAY 24, 2024
The tech industry is buzzing with talk of cloud repatriation, partly due to some articles I have written here. What frustrates me about this industry is the lack of nuance. People make everything seem like drastic shifts. The last example of this was edge computing. Many articles I read claimed that “the shift is to the edge.” That caused a lot of confusion.
Ooda Loop
MAY 24, 2024
AI Transparency is a concept centered on openness, comprehensibility, and accountability in technological systems. In the context of AI, transparency refers to the extent to which the inner workings and decision-making processes of AI systems are made accessible and understandable to users and other stakeholders.
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Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.
InfoWorld
MAY 24, 2024
Classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects are the building blocks of object-based Java applications. This Java tutorial teaches you how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields, describe behaviors via methods, initialize objects via constructors, and instantiate objects from classes and access their members. You'll also learn about setters and getters, method overloading, and setting access levels for fields, constructors, and methods.
Ooda Loop
MAY 24, 2024
Elon Musk is a notoriously hard worker. At present he’s the CEO of EV maker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX, founder of satellite venture Starlink and neurotechnology company Neuralink, and the owner of X—the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
InfoWorld
MAY 24, 2024
Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You've previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are initialized via constructors—but there is still more to initialization. This tutorial introduces all of Java's features for initializing classes and objects.
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