Mon.Apr 08, 2024

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The C-suite is expanding — and IT leaders are stepping up

CIO

Customer centricity is hardly a new organizational imperative, but some organizations have gone a step further, instituting new C-suite roles to help lead the charge. Interlace Health is one such entity, having named Maggie Peña as the electronic forms company’s first-ever chief experience officer. Peña has been with the company for nearly 13 years in customer-facing roles, most recently, building a customer success management team.

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Conflict at Work: How to Help Your Remote Team Do Conflict Better

Let's Grow Leaders

Got Conflict at Work? Help your remote team do conflict better with a few Powerful Phrases Navigating conflict at work is hard. Doing conflict at work well when you’re not in the same room, in different time zones, when you’re dealing with what Phil, our IT guy, would call “a crap ton” of rapid change is even harder. We call this conflict cocktail, The “Wedge Driver. 1.

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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

CIO

Nearly 10 years ago, Bill James, a pioneer in sports analytics methodology, said if there’s one thing he wished more people understood about sabermetrics, pertaining to baseball, it’s that the data is not the point. The point is to use the data like a razor to cut through false convictions to find the truth. “The reason that understanding is so difficult to build in baseball is because there’s an entire industry of people selling nonsensical ideas about the data all the time,” James said at the

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Winners Recipe for Finetuning LLMs

Xebia

Winning Recipe for Finetuning LLMs At NeurIPS 2023 we participated in the LLM Efficiency Challenge. During the conference, I met up with the winners of the competition and joined the workshop where they shared their approach. In this blog, we share the key takeaways on the winning approaches. The Challenge The goal of the competition is to finetune a Large Language Model (LLM) to perform well on a broad range of tasks.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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A new era for VMware Cloud Service Provider Partners begins

CIO

Broadcom’s strategy is to drive adoption of our full stack VMware Cloud Foundation as the best subscription-based private cloud platform for our customers’ innovation. We will rely heavily on partners to help customers transform their business with our private cloud infrastructure. Our goal is to accelerate innovation, enhance customer value, and optimize profitability and market opportunities for our partners.

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Si può tornare indietro dal cloud? Ecco che cosa ne pensano i CIO italiani

CIO

“Non sono mai stato un fan del cloud, ma non posso dire di essermi pentito della migrazione, del resto, abbiamo spostato poche applicazioni”. Possono essere riassunte con queste parole molte delle testimonianze dei CIO italiani sull’adozione del cloud computing. I manager della tecnologia sono molto realisti nel loro approccio alla “nuvola”, che spesso si declina caso per caso, anziché come una migrazione totale dall’IT ereditato (complessa e costosa).

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5 Well-Intentioned Behaviors That Can Hurt Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Most people can spot a toxic leader and connect the dots on why and how they are causing damage. But it’s much harder to recognize when well-intentioned leaders are actually hurting their teams because they aren’t aware of their negative impact, and team members aren’t always comfortable pushing back. If you’re a manager with a strong desire to be helpful to your team, be aware of these five common ways you may inadvertently hurt them despite your best intentions.

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The Water Sector Is Being Threatened.  That Should Worry Everyone

Ooda Loop

In December 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) issued an alert regarding the activities of Iranian cyber actors dubbed “CyberAv3ngers” believed to be tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

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To Succeed with AI, Adopt a Beginner’s Mindset

Harvard Business Review

Times of substantial tech progress and change, like the current AI revolution, create fear and anxiety. This often causes leaders to fall back on their ego and emphasize their expertise, closing their minds and negatively impacting their people and organizations. Instead, leaders need to take on a beginner’s mindset of openness and curiosity. This is not easy.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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North American Startup Investment Perked Up A Bit In Q1

Crunchbase News

After many months of tightening their purse strings, North American startup investors loosened them up a bit in the first quarter. Altogether, venture funding in American and Canadian companies totaled $35.2 billion in Q1 of 2024, per Crunchbase data. That’s a gain of 14% from Q4, which was the slowest quarter in years. But while funding was up sequentially, investment is still down year over year.

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How to Become a More Empathetic Listener

Harvard Business Review

When the subject of how to be a good listener comes up, psychologists often talk about the value of “perspective-taking” — that is, projecting ourselves into the lives of those we’re listening to. This has been shown to make us grow more generous and less prejudiced toward them, but it’s a flawed way to understand others, because it treats empathy as a solo sport, encouraging listeners simply to try to understand what someone else is going through.

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Build knowledge-powered conversational applications using LlamaIndex and Llama 2-Chat

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Unlocking accurate and insightful answers from vast amounts of text is an exciting capability enabled by large language models (LLMs). When building LLM applications, it is often necessary to connect and query external data sources to provide relevant context to the model. One popular approach is using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to create Q&A systems that comprehend complex information and provide natural responses to queries.

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Why Job Crafting is key to keep good staff engaged

CEO Insider

What if you could design your workday to do more of what you love? More of the tasks that give you energy and joy. You can. It’s called Job Crafting. Job Crafting is where Managers enable employees to customize their roles, allowing them to align tasks, relationships, and cognitive aspects with their strengths and motivations. […] The post Why Job Crafting is key to keep good staff engaged appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Values First—Then Culture

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Dr. Sam Adeyemi reveals the six secrets to an enviable working culture for values-driven leaders and C-suite executives. Today’s guest post is b y Dr. Sam Adeyemi, author of “Dear Leader: Your Flagship Guide to Successful Leadership.” 6 Secrets to Creating an Enviable Working Environment If your organization were a mechanic, your working culture would be the tools of your trade.

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Your AI Might be Lying to You

DevOps.com

Simple tests can demonstrate whether a code generator is actually doing what you ask. That can be important for developers and DevOps who want to use these tools for activities like code or script generation.

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Plan Inferencing Locations to Accelerate Your GenAI Strategies

Dell EMC

Dell on-premises solutions can be more cost-effective than the public cloud and APIs for Generative AI LLM inferencing with RAG.

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Kauffman Fellows Sentiment Survey Says Venture Investors Plan To Spend More In 2024 

Crunchbase News

“It’s time for founders to take out their pitch decks,” said Fernando Fabre , CEO of Kauffman Fellows , as he previewed the results of the almost 30-year-old organization’s first venture sentiment survey. Around 53% of investors surveyed predicted that 2024 will pick up in terms of investment pace compared to 2023 , while 6% expect to do fewer deals.

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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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PHP sinks in Tiobe language popularity index

InfoWorld

PHP, long a popular server-side scripting language for web development , has dropped to its lowest position ever in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, ranking 17th in the April 2024 edition of the index. When the Tiobe index started in 2001, PHP was about to become the standard language for building websites, said Paul Jansen, CEO of software quality services vendor Tiobe.

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How Do I Stay on the Fast Track to the Next Level of Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

A high performing leader on the fast track must learn how to build new skills and relationships to get to the next level in her career.

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How to talk to machines: 10 secrets of prompt engineering

InfoWorld

Just a few years ago, a prompt was something English teachers used for homework assignments, which filled up weekends and kept students inside on sunny days. Now it seems we’re all teachers, tasked with distributing perfect prompts that direct large language models to do our bidding. These prompts are also endowed with the power to ruin weekends, but it’s not the machines that are suffering.

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Unleash Platform Power with Strata Cloud Manager’s Command Center

Palo Alto Networks

Revolutionizing Network Security Every week, we get the privilege of talking to customers and thought leaders across diverse industries, delving into their cybersecurity challenges. Among these challenges, one issue consistently rises to the forefront: the increasingly complex and fragmented nature of network security. The proliferation of disparate tools, sensors and management interfaces has created a complex landscape where achieving unified visibility across the entire network security infra

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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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Vulnerability and risk management: How to simplify the process

Ivanti

It’s like a faded Polaroid from a bygone era: The day when a computer with centralized software was safely locked away in an office. That’s because it is a bygone era for most organizations – wistfully recalled but wildly out of touch with the present. Consider just how many devices, assets and people interact with a company’s IT infrastructure today: Devices (desktops, laptops, mobile and IoT devices – corporate-owned and personal).

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How Can the Energy Sector Bolster its Resilience to Ransomware Attacks?

Ooda Loop

Since it plays a vital role in every functioning society, the energy sector has always been a prime target for state-backed cybercriminals. As cyberattacks and ransomware rates continue to increase, there is a real concern among energy providers about the operational resilience of the industry.

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How to test large language models

InfoWorld

There’s significant buzz and excitement around using AI copilots to reduce manual work, improving software developer productivity with code generators, and innovating with generative AI. The business opportunities are driving many development teams to build knowledge bases with vector databases and embed large language models (LLMs) into their applications.

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Two Pizzas for ME

The Daily WTF

Gloria was a senior developer at IniMirage, a company that makes custom visualizations for their clients. Over a few years, IniMirage had grown to more than 100 people, but was still very much in startup mode. Because of that, Gloria tried to keep her teams sized for two pizzas. Thomas, the product manager, on the other hand, felt that the company was ready to make big moves, and could scale up the teams: more people could move products faster.

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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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Progress in AI requires thinking beyond LLMs

InfoWorld

We need to have a frank conversation about large language models (LLMs). At their core, LLMs are nothing more than sophisticated memorization machines, capable of reasonable-sounding statements, but unable to understand fundamental truth. Importantly and despite the fervent hopes of many, they are far from delivering or even prefiguring artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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#772 Master Your Sales Pipeline with Matt Heinz, Founder & President of Heinz Marketing

Modern CTO

Today we’re talking to Matt Heinz, Founder & President of Heinz Marketing. Matt shares his expert strategies and process playbooks to mitigate market complexities, ensuring your sales and marketing efforts yield predictable outcomes. Dive deep into the world of effective sales pipeline management and unlock the potential of your business with Matt’s guidance.

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Rapid B2B integrations with Ballerina and Choreo

InfoWorld

Many business processes involve communicating with external parties such as suppliers, logistics providers, insurance providers, and government institutions. Unlike internal communications, these inter-organizational communications usually have to follow various regulations and standards, and could introduce delays if one party doesn’t comply. Therefore, effective business-to-business (B2B) integrations are a key part of most digital transformation projects.

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