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Valence raises $25M to track team performance with continuous reviews

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Valence lets managers track team performance by certain metrics and, if they deem it necessary, intervene with “guided conversations.” Valence , a growing teamwork platform, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by Insight Partners. What constitutes a “teamwork platform,” exactly?

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Growing Leaders Who are Confident, Skilled and Human-Centered (Mistakes to Avoid)

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When you delegated the tasks out among the team the timing was off and important parts of the project weren’t done when they needed to be. This is no cookie-cutter, stale-off-the-shelf program. AskingForaFriend This fantastic question came in during one of our recent leadership development programs.

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AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again

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Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions. That’s a far cry from what most online off-the-shelf AI services offer today. Ralf Haller is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at NNAISENSE. It sounds like a great idea, but there is a caveat — “one-size-fits-all” syndrome.

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Know before you go: 6 lessons for enterprise GenAI adoption

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Many organizations know that commercially available, “off-the-shelf” generative AI models don’t work well in enterprise settings because of significant data access and security risks. Lesson 1: Don’t start from scratch to train your LLM model Massive amounts of data and computational resources are needed to train an LLM.

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How we pivoted our deep tech startup to become a SaaS company

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For the foreseeable future, global markets will require billions of highly specialized electric machines that perform much better than the inefficient relics of the past. ECM PCB Stator Technology was founded on the innovation of MIT-trained electrical and software engineer Dr. Steven Shaw, our chief scientist.

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Gather AI secures new cash to scan inventory in warehouses using drones

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The trio had the idea to use drones to gather data — specifically data in warehouses, such as the number of items on a shelf and the locations of particular pallets. Arora co-founded Gather AI in 2019 with Daniel Maturana and Geetesh Dubey, graduate students at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute.

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NJ Transit creates ‘data engine’ to fuel transformation

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Aside from his own plans, Fazal is also engaged with CIOs and CTOs of partner agencies on several 10-to-15-year projects that involve purchasing new trains, building new tracks, and designing the proposed new tunnel between New York and New Jersey to add additional tracks. Lookman Fazal, chief information and digital officer, NJ Transit.