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Design Thinking: Understanding the Method Behind the Idea

Luis Goncalves

In a 2014 assessment handled by the Design Management Institute , the performance of design-led corporations like Apple, Nike, and Procter & Gamble exceeded that of the S&P 500 for the past decade by as much as 219%. Now many organizations want to learn design-based thinking – a distinct way that designers come up with solutions to problems.

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Bug bounties have bugs of their own

The Parallax

SAN FRANCISCO—Growing pains are attacking bug bounty programs much like horse flies attack East Coast beach visitors in late summer. They pester and bite, and they aren’t easily swatted away. Bug bounty programs, which are built on vulnerability disclosure agreements coordinated between sponsor companies and hackers attracted to the possibility of fame and cash payouts for their research, have yet to implement adequate legal protections for hacker participants, says Amit Elazari, a University of

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Heilmeier’s Catechism

NeverFriday

Heilmeier Catechism. When George Heilmeier was the director of ARPA in the mid 1970s, he had a standard set of questions he expected every proposal for a new research program to answer. These have been called the Heilmeier Catechism. It’s a good exercise to answer these questions for an individual research project, too, both for yourself and as a way to convey to others what you hope to accomplish.

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High EQ: The most desirable leadership tenet of them all?

N2Growth Blog

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the ability to identify, use, understand and manage emotions in an effective and positive way. And, in many organisations around the world, it is on the rise! Contrary to popular belief, The Millennials, Generation Y and Gen Next (those engrossed by tablets and screens) hold, on average, higher EQ levels than generations before them.

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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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How to run a custom version of Spark on hosted Kubernetes

O'Reilly Media - Data

Learn how Spark 2.3.0+ integrates with K8s clusters on Google Cloud and Azure. Do you want to try out a new version of Apache Spark without waiting around for the entire release process? Does running alpha-quality software sound like fun? Does setting up a test cluster sound like work? This is the blog post for you, my friend! We will help you deploy code that hasn't even been reviewed yet (if that is the adventure you seek).

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19 Questions to Grow Confidence in Children

Let's Grow Leaders

Questions are a remarkable way to grow confidence in children. Great questions work because they cause children to stop and think. To reflect. To pause and consider what’s going on in their lives and in the world around them. Kids are natural questioners. […]. The post 19 Questions to Grow Confidence in Children appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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5 Essential Habits to Be a Successful Woman Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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Cyber War: The Fastest Way to Improve Cybersecurity?

CTOvision

For all the benefits IT in general and the Internet specifically have given us, it has also introduced significant risks to our well-being and way of life. Yet cybersecurity is still not a priority for a majority of people and organizations. No amount of warnings about the risks associated with poor cybersecurity have helped drive […].

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Creating Server-side Rendered Vue.js Apps Using Nuxt.js

Toptal

When using a JavaScript framework, your browser doesn't receive a complete page to display. Instead it gets a bunch of pieces and instructions of how to put them all together. It takes a substantial amount of time to put all this information together before your browser actually has something to display. In this article, Toptal Freelance Front-end Engineer Ben Jones introduces us to Nuxt.js, a server-side rendering library for Vue.js, inspired by the popular Next.js for React.js.

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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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Managing Remote Teams: Let’s Grow Leaders April Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on managing remote teams. We asked thought leaders from around the world to share their very best post on this topic. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and […]. The post Managing Remote Teams: Let’s Grow Leaders April Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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25 Best Active Forums for Programmers

VironIT

You are a programmer and face a problem. Where do you go? Some programmer gets stuck for a long time for solving a small problem, which already solved by other. In this article, we talk about the best active forums for programmers and software developers. Actually, forums are the place where everyone shares their problems and […].

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I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it.

CTOvision

In doing some background research for a book review I wanted to dig up an article I remember from years ago. Not remembering exactly where I found it I turned to Google, the research assistant all of humanity turns to in times like this. I entered the search terms: Google Making Us Stupid and in […].

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Mastering Sustainable Startup Growth and Finding Your Relevant KPIs

Toptal

To unlock growth in a company, you must first find the KPI that is core towards increasing company value. More effective knowledge of growth comes from a deeper understanding of the characteristics of a "perfect client," the trends between user cohorts, and finding the tipping point that solidifies retention and engagement.

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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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5 Easy Ways to Look and Feel More Confident in Business and Life

Women on Business

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Why Scrum is the Best Way to Create AI

scruminc

Why Scrum is the Best Way to Create AI. by Tom Bullock , Joe Justice , Alex Sutherland | 04-20-2018 | Blog. There is no broad agreement on what constitutes artificial intelligence (AI). Still, this much is clear, we have already entered the age of AI and business. Just ask Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, really any company that is looking to replace algorithms with something much more complex, responsive, even predictive of customer and market wants and demands.

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Global Cyber Alliance Release: Perhaps the most important of the 2018 RSA Conference Season

CTOvision

Every year the RSA conference brings together members of the cybersecurity community for a week of presentations, discussions, tech demos and socials. Concurrent with the event there is always a flurry of press releases. Many are designed to highlight a company’s product or service. Many, like the annoucement of the new Microsoft led coalition of […].

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Advanced Financial Modeling Best Practices: Hacks for Intelligent, Error-Free Modeling

Toptal

From abstract spreadsheets to real-world application, financial models have become an inextricable part of business life and an indispensable part of every company’s toolkit. But irrespective of its ubiquitousness as a productivity and decision-making tool, many out there still have a love-hate relationship with it. Finance expert Alberto Bazzana authors a comprehensive “how-to guide”, for both the novices and experts among us, detailing Wall Street’s best practices for intelligent, effective, a

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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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9 Times These Female CEOs Inspired Us with Their Words

Women on Business

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How to create Bitcoin Wallet App?

VironIT

Before you can trade Bitcoins, you need a place to store it. In the cryptocurrency world, that place is called a wallet. There are different wallets, catering for different requirements and varying in terms of safety and security, convenience, accessibility and so on. But for various reasons, existing cryptocurrency apps may not suit you. This […].

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Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Targeting Network Infrastructure Devices

CTOvision

It can be really hard for the government to share information with citizens and businesses, for many reasons. We all wish it was easier, but the fact is that complex rules and regulations and the need to operate with some degree of certainty combines with the need to protect sources and methods. Everyone in the […].

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Product Strategy: A Guide to Core Concepts and Processes

Toptal

In this age of lean startups, designers often find themselves in stretch roles where they are not only in charge of a product’s design but also in charge of coming up with the type of product to build.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Scrum Alliance and Scrum Inc Are Partnering

scruminc

Scrum Gathering 2018 Kicks Off With Exciting Announcement About Scrum@Scale. Great partnerships just make sense from the very beginning. And that is how we feel about the new joint venture between the Scrum Alliance and Scrum@Scale. Announced at the sold-out 2018 Scrum Gathering in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the partnership will focus on training, coaching and promoting Dr.

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Stick out your thumb, agile42 is looking for a new Agile Coach

Agile42

First, a bit more about us ! We work with a variety of methods, including Scrum, Kanban, Systems thinking, and Lean and Agile Leadership. Our approach allows organizations of all kinds and sizes to change prevailing mindsets and become more Agile in a proven, risk-free, and sustainable way. We always focus on delivering value to our customers. We have colleagues in Germany, the United States, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, Finland, Turkey and South Africa.

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Craxel’s Digital Trust Platform, Data Security and Your Identity

CTOvision

Editor's note: We learned of Craxel and saw this post on their site and asked Dave Enga for permission to publish it here for your reference. It seems that Craxel can provide a key part of a comprehensive strategy to protect information. This approach should fit well with other modern approaches, including a Software Defined […].

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Landing Page Design: Building the Ultimate Landing Page

Toptal

The best landing pages increase conversions and help brands sell more. But what makes great landing page design? Read and uncover valuable insights for any business looking for a world-class landing page.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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5 Tales of Leadership from India

Accenture

For several years, I was the managing director of SolutionsIQ operations in India. At times it was like I was always on a plane to or from Bangalore, where we have our office. I learned a lot more about the India market than I knew growing up there, and I met interesting people, not the least among them leaders looking for ways to drive change in their organizations.

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Product manager or product maker?

Lead on Purpose

Titles have a way of morphing over time. In some cases, they improve and become more popular. At times, because of the acts of certain, often high-profile, individuals, titles can lose value.

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Cognilytica’s Weekly Newsletter on AI and Related Topics

CTOvision

Cognilytica is an AI focused analyst firm. They are known for their industry-leading market research and deep bench of knowledgeable experts on AI. They really know AI because they stay immersed in its implementation and adoption. Their analysts publish research reports, whitepapers and briefing notes for clients. They also provide insights via a weekly newsletter. […].