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Quick Decisions Take Time

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing” Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.

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One Common Interviewing Mistake That Will Cost You the Job

Let's Grow Leaders

My phone rang. Colin was exasperated. “Karin, I thought I NAILED the interview. The owner seemed pleased with all my answers, and I had great stories for all his behavior-based interview questions. But I just got an email from him saying that although I was qualified, he was worried about my passion for training!!! You KNOW how passionate I am about training– it’s my life!

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Why every organization needs Business Process Management

CTOvision

Bob Larrivee. AIIM ’s Chief Analyst Bob Larrivee believes that Business Process Management has become an important tool for business, but maintains that organizations could still get more out of their BPM systems to make sure all aspects of operations are running at their optimum level. Business Process Management (BPM) is a very powerful tool, which Gartner sums up neatly when it describes it as ‘a discipline that improves enterprise performance by driving operational excellence and agility’.

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Boost Your Data Munging with R

Toptal

As a language, R is strongly tied to data and is thus used mostly by statisticians and data scientists. Many who already use R for machine learning, though, are not aware that data munging can be done faster in R, meaning another tool is not required for that task. In this article, Freelance Software Engineer Jan Gorecki explores tabular data transformations and introduces us to one of the fastest open-source data wrangling tools available.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Dynamics of Quality Teamwork

Women on Business

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An Update on the Megatrend of Robotics

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the trend of Robotics. Operating along a spectrum of human controlled to semi-autonomous to totally independent, robots are already operating in our world.

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Keep Calm And Transition To A New Development Team

Toptal

Many product owners don’t have a technical background and thus often find themselves unprepared and scrambling when it comes time to bring on a new development team. This often results in hindered progress, wasted time, and frustration for everyone involved. If this sounds like it could be you, either now or in the future, then you should be somewhat concerned.

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7 Steps to a Healthy Mind for Healthy Business

Women on Business

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Welcome to Strategic Planning 2.0

N2Growth Blog

As a strategy consultant, I have had the opportunity to review a lot of strategic plans over the years. It’s been truly amazing to discover just how many major organizations develop strategic plans that contain little more than a whole lot of budget estimates and revenue projections. Those firms practice what I call “ Strategic Planning 1.0 “ Clearly, a new kind of planning approach is required to guide today’s modern organizations through the challenges that exist in the

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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What Kind of Management Structure Is Needed to Govern a Data Analytics Program?

CTOvision

Dennis D. McDonald. Introduction. When thinking about developing a new data analytics program, two questions you need to address are: What services do you need to provide? To whom do you need to provide these services? I’m assuming here that your organization already provides products or services of some sort and that, through a new or enhanced data analytics program, you want to take advantage of the data associated with these products or services.

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What Are Personal Values and Do They Matter?

CoachStation

Values continue to be an important part of our lives. But do you know what your core personal values are and understand how they impact you and those closest to you? Personal values continue to be important for many reasons, both at work and at home. Based on my recent conversations, it is more relevant than ever to continue to elaborate on this core aspect of our motivations, decision-making process and behaviours.

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Best Practices to Help Your Startup Business Take Off (Part 1 of 2)

Women on Business

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How digital trends affect SMBs

Lead on Purpose

The pace of change in digital technology continues to increase. How do you take advantage without letting it overwhelm you? What should you focus on?

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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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Succinct Introduction To The Tamr Enterprise Data Unification Platform

CTOvision

Michael Johnson. This short video below captures the key differentiators and unique capabilities of Tamr. Businesses across every sector and all government agencies have mission-critical questions to ask and most all have the data assets they need to answer them. They’ve invested heavily in big data analytics — $44 billion in 2014 alone, according to Gartner.

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Journey That Inspires Others

QAspire

My journey in life and career is largely inspired by what other generous folks have shared – both online and offline. A boss who believed in me when I didn’t, a book that altered my perspective for better, a few blogs that clarified my thinking one post at a time, an inspiring video that uplifted me, a podcast that I often revisit, a virtual friend who opens a door of possibilities, a family member who guided my perspective about life and the list goes on.

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CoprHD Now Supports Ceph

CloudScaling

Last year, EMC announced the open sourcing of ViPR Controller, the world’s leading SDS controller as CoprHD (“copperhead”). Since then we have made tremendous progress, with multiple releases, and operating the project in the open. Recently we achieved another key milestone, the addition of support for RedHat’s Ceph project. CoprHD already supported EMC’s ScaleIO[1], a software-defined storage (SDS) solution for block storage, but it was important for us to continue to move the needle and add su

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You could make similar arguments about electricity or water.

Dan Pupius

Components higher and higher up the value-chain get commoditized and become utilities. Continue reading on Medium ».

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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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Private Clouds eBook

CTOvision

Katie Kennedy. Cloud computing has achieved mainstream acceptance as an IT service delivery platform. Within the cloud paradigm, private cloud is gaining momentum for reasons ranging from performance optimization and cost containment to privacy and security. In Bright Computing's most recent eBook , they take a brief look at private clouds and discuss: What a private cloud is.

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Links for 2016-06-16 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Sponsored: 64% off Code Black Drone with HD Camera. Our #1 Best-Selling Drone--Meet the Dark Night of the Sky!

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Has Microsoft just killed the HR software & CRM market? #LinkedIn #HRSS16 #RECEX16 #HRBLOG

Rapid BI

Microsoft to acquire Linkedin. If you have not already read the news, yesterday Microsoft announced that it was on track to buy LinkedIn later this year. This is causing some upsets in many corners. Why would a Business software & services supplier (Microsoft) buy what most people think as a CV warehouse? Why over pay? […]. The post Has Microsoft just killed the HR software & CRM market?

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Is Your Business a Commodity or a Resource?

Strategy Driven

How are your services and the people providing them viewed by your clients? Are you a commodity readily available anywhere? Or are you a resource where skill, judgement, and critical thinking are valued and rewarded? The difference is important to your business future. The corner gas station offers a commodity. It is entirely a transaction-based relationship.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Senators Mark Warner and Cory Gardner announce creation of Senate Cybersecurity Caucus

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. On Tuesday at an American Enterprise Institute event today on Capitol Hill, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Cory Gardner (R-CO) announced the creation of the ‘Senate Cybersecurity Caucus’ to provide a platform for Senators and their staffs to stay informed on major policy issues and developments in cybersecurity. The announcement was captured in a release on Senator Warner's site , which said: “Cybersecurity is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges w

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Links for 2016-06-13 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Sponsored: 64% off Code Black Drone with HD Camera. Our #1 Best-Selling Drone--Meet the Dark Night of the Sky!

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Introduction to Knowledge – Understanding – Action The RapidBI approach to Change

Rapid BI

Knowledge Understanding Action are the principles that RapidBI base all of their programs, products and development upon. We recommend that the approach to organizational development and change management follow this simple order: Knowledge - learn principles, information and concepts. Understanding - from that knowledge develop your understanding of what is meant and what it might mean.

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Dan Pupius

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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The biggest Google I/O 2016 news in 10 minutes

CTOvision

Michael Johnson. At this year’s Google I/O, Assistant got chattier and found its way into several new Google products: the messenger Allo and the Echo-like speaker Home. Android N also got some improvements and a mobile VR platform called Daydream.

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Overcoming Opposition

Strategy Driven

I’m regularly flummoxed when I hear people question climate change, or when folks actually believe that people of color are ‘different’ and worthy of being insulted, underpaid, ignored. What’s up with Congress and why can’t that many smart people find grounds for compromise? And why do women still only earn a fraction of what men earn? Are we not smart enough?

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Infographics and facts from #HRSS16 and #RECEX16 Olympia @cleanviz @cipd

Rapid BI

Having spend 2 days at Olympia, here is my roundup of facts and mini-infographics that were created and posted on the day. Graphics created by @cleanviz, @cipd @martincouzins or @rapidbi Where it all began – The West Hall Olympia Not sure who this troublesome 2 are! The @CIPD social media gurus Stocking up ready […]. The post Infographics and facts from #HRSS16 and #RECEX16 Olympia @cleanviz @cipd appeared first on RapidBi.

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