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Research: When Bonuses Backfire

Harvard Business Review

Why do bonuses sometimes backfire? It’s because each incentive design choice both signals information about your own beliefs and intentions as an employer and shapes the signaling value of employee behavior within the organization. If you don’t think through these signals carefully, you may end up approving a bonus scheme with results that are the opposite of what you intend.

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Executive coaching from seasoned CIOs makes the difference

CIO

CIO legend Charlie Feld doesn’t hesitate when he says, “This is an outstanding time to be an IT leader.” And for good reason. In the digital era, IT leaders have more opportunities to spearhead innovation, orchestrate large transformation efforts, and drive business value. But with the speed and complexity of business today, CIOs and IT leaders also face many new challenges, the stakes of which have never been higher.

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Bliki: Cycle Time

Martin Fowler

Cycle Time is a measure of how long it takes to get a new feature in a software system from idea to running in production. In Agile circles, we try to minimize cycle time. We do this by defining and implementing very small features and minimizing delays in the development process. Although the rough notion of cycle time, and the importance of reducing it, is common, there is a lot of variations on how cycle time is measured.

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Can the CIO role prevail over AI?

CIO

According to a recent report from the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, 92% of IT jobs will be transformed by AI to a moderate or high degree. But when it comes to senior-level jobs, 100% will see moderate transformation. And when it comes to business and management IT jobs, 63% were classified as “high transformation” due to AI. And online education company Pluralsight conducted a survey of IT professionals in the US and UK and found that 74% worried AI tools will make many of their daily sk

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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What to Do When You Know More Than Your Boss

Harvard Business Review

There are instances when, as a newer professional, you might have more experience in certain areas than your manager. This could be a deeper understanding of the technologies you grew up, some innovations in your field, or even foundational leadership skills that you’d like to share. There are ways to communicate your knowledge with your superiors while maintaining humility and a collaborative mindset.

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Crush It, Don’t Get Crushed — Combat SOC Analyst Burnout with AI

Palo Alto Networks

Anyone who works in cybersecurity knows that it’s full of rewards and challenges, with threat actors keeping folks on their proverbial toes. And with artificial intelligence (AI) permeating cybersecurity at seemingly warp speed, it’s critical for practitioners to stay up to date on the latest developments and ensure they are integrating AI responsibly into their security protocols.

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INE Security Announces 5 Practical Steps to Elevate Cyber Defense Strategies

CIO

In a proactive response to the rapidly evolving landscape of cyber threats, INE Security , a global leader in cybersecurity and network training, today unveiled a crucial initiative aimed at fortifying corporate defenses against digital dangers. The newly launched guide, “5 Practical Steps to Reduce Cyber Threats,” offers actionable strategies for cybersecurity leaders to enhance their team’s preparedness and response capabilities.

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How to Regulate Generative AI in Healthcare

Harvard Business Review

A challenge confronting the Food and Drug Administration — and other regulators around the world — is how to regulate generative AI. The approach it uses for new drugs and devices isn’t appropriate. Instead, the FDA should be conceiving of LLMs as novel forms of intelligence. It should employ similar approaches to those it applies to clinicians.

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Palladium Hotel Group gestionará sus grandes volúmenes de datos con una nueva solución de monitorización

CIO

La diversidad y el volumen de sus operaciones en distintos países ha llevado al Palladium Hotel Group a buscar soluciones tecnológicas que mejoren su gestión de los datos. Para ello, ha implementado una nueva plataforma de monitorización que le permite detectar y responder a los problemas operativos de forma más rápida y eficaz. Se trata de la solución Datokey de Datarmony , un sistema predictivo que utiliza modelos entrenados continuamente con el histórico de datos de la compañía y que permite

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

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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Production Deployment and its Basics: Known to Many, Followed by Few

Perficient

Did you ever feel tense while taking your exams? Or you must have watched the Olympics or other sports events like cricket, football, etc. When you focus on national players during significant events, you can observe stress and anxiety in performing at that level. Similar is the situation of an IT professional during a production deployment call. This moment is crucial because it represents the end of months or years of effort, the results of which will be evaluated by those involved.

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Lecciones del caso Crowdstrike para los CIO

CIO

El primer momento fue de caos. A medida que se encendían ordenadores y aparecía la temida pantalla azul de la muerte, o que fallaban TPV, o no se podía sacar tarjetas de embarque, la noticia corría como la pólvora a medida que la temida pantalla azul de la muerte aparecía en más equipos. En aquellas empresas afectadas, el personal de TI era reclamado por, básicamente, todos los departamentos.

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Planning for the Future: 7 AI-Powered Ways to Elevate Your Sales Team

IDC

This blog explores how AI and generative AI (GenAI) are reshaping sales leadership and how forward-thinking leaders can harness its power to drive success.

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¿El papel del CIO puede prevalecer sobre la IA?

CIO

Según un informe reciente del AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, el 92% de los empleos de TI serán transformados por la IA en un grado moderado o alto. Pero cuando se trata de empleos de alto nivel, el 100% verá una transformación moderada. Y en lo que respecta a los puestos de TI de gestión y empresariales, el 63% se clasificaron como de ‘alta transformación’ debido a la IA.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of August: Anduril And Groq Lead Hot Month

Crunchbase News

This is a monthly feature that runs down the month’s top 10 funding rounds in the U.S. Check out the biggest rounds of last month here. It was another big month for megadeals. You had to raise more than $150 million to make the top 10 list this month — as investors put money into everything from defense tech to semiconductors to biotech. 1. Anduril Industries , $1.5B, defense: Anduril Industries matched its own record for the largest defense tech round ever.

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Tencent super-apps helped a large American retailer expand its reach into China

CIO

Entering a new market with a different social structure, cultural history, and regulatory issues is never easy for a large retailer, even if the difference seems slight. On the technological front, a key issue when expanding into a new market is the need to build a new technology stack that suits the local consumers. This was a major roadblock for a large American retailer when it started on its journey to enter the Chinese market in 1996.

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Your next laptop may be powered by this Intel AI chip, and the benefits are mind-blowing

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Intel is giving its Core Ultra 200V line multiple ways to boost hardware performance when it is needed. And the company even claims the chip can last hours longer than rivals.

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Come si riconosce, oggi, un team ad alte perfomance? E, come fare per crearne uno?

CIO

L’idea di ciò che costituisce un team ad alte performance si è notevolmente evoluta negli ultimi cinque anni. Prima della pandemia, le squadre di lavoro di questo genere erano co-localizzate, multidisciplinari, auto-organizzate, agili e data-driven: team concentrati su capacità tecnologiche affidabili, sul miglioramento dell’esperienza dell’utente finale e sull’aumento delle capacità di gestione dei dati e analytics.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Gold Medal Efficiency: Energy Wins Add Up for Voluntary Agreement Programs

CableLabs

Just as our athletes strived for gold this summer at the Paris Olympics, our industry is striving for peak energy efficiency with home networking equipment and set-top boxes (STBs). The annual reports for energy-efficiency voluntary agreements were recently released, and it feels like these programs are setting new world records every year! The Balance Beam The Small Network Equipment Voluntary Agreement (SNE VA) is an initiative that addresses SNE devices such as modems and routers.

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AI’s Big Day — Startup Safe Superintelligence Raises $1B At Reported $5B Valuation

Crunchbase News

Artificial intelligence research lab Safe Superintelligence raised $1 billion from a litany of big-name investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. The round valued the Palo Alto, California-based company at $5 billion, per Reuters , which first reported the round. SSI, co-founded by OpenAI ‘s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever , is looking to develop safe artificial intelligence systems — something that has been in the news a lot recently as fears increase of AI tech b

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Effectively manage foundation models for generative AI applications with Amazon SageMaker Model Registry

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models (FMs) are gaining popularity with businesses due to their versatility and potential to address a variety of use cases. The true value of FMs is realized when they are adapted for domain specific data. Managing these models across the business and model lifecycle can introduce complexity. As FMs are adapted to different domains and data, operationalizing these pipelines becomes critical.

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AI Gobbled A Record Share Of Startup Funding This Year

Crunchbase News

Venture funding today is way down from the record heights reached three years ago. But the comparison would be far starker, of course, were it not for artificial intelligence. So far this year, 35% of U.S. startup investment has gone to AI-related companies, per Crunchbase data. That appears to be the highest percentage on record, besting even 2023, when OpenAI secured its $10 billion Microsoft -backed financing.

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Solving Open Source Complexity with a Managed Data Infrastructure Platform

With its unparalleled flexibility, rapid development and cost-saving capabilities, open source is proving time and again that it’s the leader in data management. But as the growth in open source adoption increases, so does the complexity of your data infrastructure. In this Analyst Brief developed with IDC, discover how and why the best solution to this complexity is a managed service, including: Streamlined compliance with some of the most complex regulatory guidelines Simplified operations, li

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That massive Pixel security flaw reported last month has been patched

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Google's new update removes software intended only for cell phone store employees that could have been exploited by bad actors.

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Extend Azure to the Edge with Specialized, Small-Footprint Nodes

Dell EMC

Rugged, adaptable and optimized for tight spaces—this solution delivers top performance in the most challenging environments.

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That massive Pixel security flaw has been patched

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Google's new update removes software intended only for cell phone store employees that could have been exploited by bad actors.

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Chobani’s Founder on Mission-Driven Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Chobani started with an abandoned yogurt factory in upstate New York and a mission to make quality yogurt accessible to more people.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.

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Better than Ring? This video doorbell has similar features and none of the monthly fees

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The Lorex 2K video doorbell is the brand's flagship security system. I tested it to see if it was worth the money.

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Preparing Your Data Center for a GenAI World

Dell EMC

“We’re Not in Kansas Anymore” -Dorothy Gale, 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'

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Quantum-Safe Encryption: A Critical Frontier for U.S. National Security

Ooda Loop

As we stand on the cusp of a new technological era, the race to secure our digital world has never been more urgent. Quantum computers, once the stuff of science fiction, are rapidly becoming a reality.