Tue.Oct 09, 2018

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When Trains Start Running Late: Japan’s Digital Awakening

Forrester IT

I love going to Japan where everything works flawlessly and where customer obsession, or “omotenashi”, is deeply engrained into the culture of every institution: this is where, for instance, train operators apologize when their trains leave the platform 25 seconds earlier than schedule. It’s also an economy stifled by a widespread risk averse culture, a […].

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Pymetrics raises $40 million for AI-powered job recruitment

CTOvision

If Pymetrics has its way soon your job interviews will not be conducted by humans but AI-powered games. Pymetrics is in recruitment business and uses a combination of neuroscience and AI to create games which companies can use to evaluate candidates they are recruiting. Pymetrics has been successful in convincing investors about the potential of […].

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Building the Web? If It’s Not Progressive, It’s Not Right!

Forrester IT

Web apps or native apps? For a long time, that was the choice we had for building mobile experiences. And we all know the trade-off: native apps are really expensive, but give the best experience. Web apps can be mobile-optimized, but the experience is terrible. While this was once directionally true, today it’s not true […].

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What is artificial intelligence? Defining it in business — a CTO guide

CTOvision

In the dictionary, artificial intelligence is defined as: the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. In reality, AI is much more complex to understand, leave alone adapting it in your company.

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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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Join Me In London Next Month To Discuss The Ethics Of AI

Forrester IT

In about a month, I will have the honor of presenting my research on The Ethics Of AI: How To Avoid Harmful Bias And Discrimination to our European clients at CX Europe 2018. The event will take place in London on November 14 and 15 and will feature several of my esteemed analyst colleagues as well as […].

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Use AI To Uncover The Truth About Your Business

CTOvision

Read Barry Libert and Megan Beck explain how companies can use artificial intelligence to bring transparency to their business on Forbes : Incumbent organizations—those with long histories—all struggle with the same issue in the digital economy: the conflict between transforming the business and operating the business. How does a company transform its business model midflight, while […].

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Machine Learning Is Transforming Data Security

Eric D. Brown

Data is the lifeblood of any organization today so it should be easy to understand that security of that data is just as important (if not more important) that the data itself. It seems that data security (or rather the lack thereof) has been in the news regularly over the last few years. The inability for organizations to secure their has caused millions (if not billions) of dollars in damages from lost revenue in addition to the loss of trust.

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Should You Migrate Your DevOps Architecture to the Cloud?

Information Week

Advancements in the cloud sector and interest in DevOps have organizations wondering how the two initiatives can work together.

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5 Reasons Why Ansible is the Best CM Tool Out There?

Cloud Musings

Amidst volatile markets, dynamic technology shifts, and ever-increasing customer demands, it is imperative for IT organizations to develop flexible, scalable and high-quality applications that exceed expectations and enhance productivity. A software application has numerous moving parts, which, if not effectively maintained, will definitely affect the final quality and end user experience.

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Software Delivery Depends on Infrastructure and Trust

Information Week

There's more to elite software delivery and operational performance than just tools and the right cloud architecture.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Ten tips to reduce your cloud compute storage costs #blogtobertech

Storage IO Blog

Ten tips to reduce your cloud compute storage costs #blogtobertech The following are Ten tips to reduce your cloud compute storage costs. In some cases, reducing your cloud costs means spending the same yet getting more value and resources that provide a business benefit. For example, paying the same yet upgrading to fewer, faster servers, […] The post Ten tips to reduce your cloud compute storage costs #blogtobertech appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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What can data-driven startups gain from Ruhrgebiet region in Europe?

Dataconomy

The Ruhr region known to be a steel and coal mine hub in Europe is reimagining the entrepreneurial spirit which was it’s foundation 150 to 200 years ago. This time lies a huge opportunity for data-driven startups to innovate and collaborate with the big traditional corporates that exist in the. The post What can data-driven startups gain from Ruhrgebiet region in Europe?

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How I saved money storing more data on aws s3 simple storage service #blogtobertech

Storage IO Blog

How I saved money storing more data on aws s3 simple storage service #blogtobertech How I saved money storing more data on aws s3 simple storage service is an example of reducing cloud costs as opposed to merely cutting cloud costs. What this means is that instead of just cutting my cloud storage costs with […] The post How I saved money storing more data on aws s3 simple storage service #blogtobertech appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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The Multifaceted Digital CIOs

Future of CIO

Many organizations are at the strategic inflection point of the digital transformation, it is the broader and longer journey with many leaps and jumps, bumps and curves. IT plays a crucial role in knitting all important business elements into differentiated organizational competency. Digital CIOs, are born to change, how they overcome the digital transformation challenges depends on their ability to think, adapt, proactively plan and execute.

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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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Webinar Replay: Dashboards 101–How to create effective dashboards

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: While a business dashboard will help you make sense of your data, not all dashboards are created equal. Typical dashboards are inflexible–displaying a pre-determined set of metrics in a pre-set layout. Learn how to create flexible dashboards that your users love, while avoiding the common problems found in many modern dashboards. As data volumes rise, business dashboard adoption has skyrocketed.

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The Five Digital Learning Types

Future of CIO

People want to grow, develop and learn, in effect, they want to change even though they don't realize it. But it is the organization which stops them. Continuous learning and training become more important in the digital era due to increasing paces of changes, the exponential growth of information. Learning taxonomies try to explain the levels of learning and identify the domains/types of learning.

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What You Can Do To Stop Content Geoblocking

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - What You Can Do To Stop Content Geoblocking - Information Technology Blog. Tell me if you’ve ever experienced this: You are wandering around threads online to find something that can cure your boredom. No show or movie seems to interest you at the moment. Netflix seems dissatisfying. There’s no one online you’d rather do small talk with.

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The Monthly “Change Insight” Book Tuning: Digital Change Practices Oct. 2018

Future of CIO

Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change lifecycle management, though it is not all linear steps, but an iterative, ongoing and upgoing change continuum.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.