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How to Interview For Winning Leadership Competencies

Let's Grow Leaders

You’re working hard to build a Winning Well culture. You’ve identified your MIT leadership competencies and are working to cultivate and encourage the right behaviors. How you staff your key leadership roles matters more now than ever. How will you identify the […]. The post How to Interview For Winning Leadership Competencies appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Is $4.2 Billion Reasonable? How to Evaluate Instacart's Valuation

Toptal

Grocery delivery startup Instacart has recently been valued at $4.2 billion. In this article, Finance Expert Patrick Gaffney works backwards and uses some basic assumptions to determine if the valuation is reasonable. With companies opting to stay private for longer, analyzing private companies in this way can help us better understand industries typically shrouded in secrecy and provide clarity on the efficacy of certain business models.

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Are engineers more creative than designers?

Scott Berkun

On Tuesdays, I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the lovely archive ). This week’s question came via email from Pavel Pavia [43 votes]: Are engineers more creative than designers? Both answers (“Yes they are!” and “No they are not!”) are naive. It’s foolish to compare massive groups of people against each other especially around a sloppy word like creativity.

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Have you reserved your tickets for the 2018 K-12 STEM Symposium?

CTOvision

Can you believe it is already the 5th anniversary of the K-12 STEM Symposium? This event, coordinated by WashingtonExec's JD Kathuria, has been a fantastic connector of great employers who are interested in creating a future of abundance for all and STEM students K-12. This year promises to be even more incredible than past years, […].

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Jumpstart Your Service Revolution by Tom Schlick: What Does it Have to Do With Me?

CO2 Business Leadership

Good question! And the answer is…everything! Even if you don’t consider yourself in the service business. My new book, Jumpstart Your Service Revol ution , has just been launched – and it is chock full of practical examples of how to win an age of disruption. The premise is that almost every company that got into trouble and had their market share challenged – heck, even their very existence put on the line – was sitting in a seemingly stable position.

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Want to speak at the AI Conference in San Francisco or London in 2018?

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If you'd like to speak at the Artificial Intelligence Conference in 2018 there are two calls for speakers that are currently open: San Francisco, September 4–7 deadline is March 13 London, October 8–11 deadline is April 17 The AI Conference blends the latest and most promising breakthroughs, exceptional technical content, and a relentless focus on […].

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Digital Transformation Starts With Managing Digital Disruption

Kentik

Wikipedia defines digital transformation as “the change associated with the application of digital technology in all aspects of human society” and “that digital usages inherently enable new types of innovation and creativity.” Management consultants have been raking in big bucks helping established businesses plot digital transformation strategies to defend against “digital disruptors” poised to enter existing markets and win over customers.

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NIST SP 800-171: What U.S. Government Contractors Need to Know

Coalfire

In December 2016, NIST released Special Publication 800-171, Revision 1: Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems. Since that publication, I have worked with dozens of government contractors to help them understand this publication and determine if and how it applies to their businesses. This is the first of a three-part series that explains the standard and provides guidance to firms that must comply with it.

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Security by design in 9 steps

SIG

Security by design offers many advantages, but is still in its infancy. By Rob van der Veer. In this article, I’ll walk you through nine steps for getting started. Security by design is the opposite of security after the fact – instead of testing the security of a system when it’s done, information […]. The post Security by design in 9 steps appeared first on Software Improvement Group.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Security by design in 9 steps

SIG

Security by design offers many advantages, but is still in its infancy. By Rob van der Veer. In this article, I’ll walk you through nine steps for getting started. Security by design is the opposite of security after the fact – instead of testing the security of a system when it’s done, information […]. The post Security by design in 9 steps appeared first on Software Improvement Group.