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Design Thinking Can Deliver an ROI of 85% or Greater

Forrester IT

The Benefits of Design Thinking Are Quantifiable and They’re Compelling By Ryan Hart (Principal Analyst, CX) and Benjamin Brown (Senior Consultant, Total Economic Impact) Design thinking has historically enjoyed “blind support” among executive leaders based on its perceived value. However, many of these same leaders now find themselves increasingly under pressure to show the return […].

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Analytics Without Behavior Change Is Just Expensive Artwork

Information Week

IT leaders should keep in mind that a good data analytics design starts with understanding how data is being used within their enterprise organizations.

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Infosecurity Europe 2019: Incremental Evolution Rather Than Revolution

Forrester IT

I have spent the last three days attending Infosecurity Europe 2019, the largest security trade show in the UK and Europe. As ever, before coming I have tried to predict the big theme or trends that CISOs should take note of. However, the show is very similar to last year, with incremental evolution of products […].

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Announcing Instant Hands-On Labs for Google Cloud

Linux Academy

Nothing gives us more joy than announcing new features and enhancements that add to the learning experience. Today, we’re happy to announce instant labs are now part of our Google Cloud Consoles in the Linux Academy Cloud Playground! Your staff can practice in a safe environment without worrying about cost, reimbursement, account management, or compliance.

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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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Robo-Advice Claims Another Victim: FORR in 3 Video

Forrester IT

In this episode of our video blog series FORR in 3, Vijay Raghavan and I discuss the challenges of robo-advice, some of the latest failures in this space, and what this means for a technology market that has seen over $2 billion investment in the last decade. For more insights, Forrester clients can check out […].

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Data Is the Lifeblood of Sales Intelligence Programs

Information Week

Turn sales professionals into their own data masters. Help them organize disparate data, which can lead to intelligence and actionable insights.

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Priceline and RB Health Share Advice on Scaling Up AI

Information Week

Consumer-facing enterprises discuss how they use AI and algorithms at scale to address their problem-solving needs.

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The FTD Lesson For Long-Standing Brands: Don’t Rest On Your Laurels

Forrester IT

FTD Gets Caught In A Terrible Game Of Pickle Century-old floral delivery stalwart FTD filed for Chapter 11, sending shivers through C-suites of venerable brands everywhere. In a growing US flower market, this pioneer should have dominated. It’s long offered eCommerce and delivery, features that competitive direct-to-consumer (DTC) upstarts now play to disrupt markets.

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Leverage “SWOT” to Assess IT Organizational Maturity

Future of CIO

"SWOT" as a strong instrumental tool, in particular, helps an organization put a category (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) to certain characteristics of the organization, giving them relevance in a strategy management processes. Nowadays, IT plays a critical role in driving digital transformation. IT managers can do a “SWOT” analysis for their functional area to make an objective organizational assessment.

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Marketers: Manage Your Automation Portfolio

Forrester IT

Marketers will run a portfolio of automation technologies; take an organized and intentional approach to this complex but crucial effort.

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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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The Monthly “Unpuzzling Innovation” Book Tuning: Perfecting the Art of Innovation June 2019

Future of CIO

Digital is the age of innovation. And innovation is what leads to differentiation. There are many ways to differentiate and, therefore, there are many ways to pursue innovation. Digital Master refers to those high-performing, highly innovative and high-mature (less than 15%) digital organizations; at the individual level, Digital Masters are those cross-generational digital professionals who are equipped with the advanced digital minds and build a unique set of digital capabilities.

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The Evolution of 1-Click.

Nutanix

We could not sit by and say we have ‘1 click’ when each and every product or component is a separate or isolated ‘1 click’ because we could only execute on one component at a time.

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