Mon.Jan 27, 2020

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B2C CDPs Need To Survive Before They Can Thrive

Forrester IT

B2C customer data platforms (CDPs): all the hype, none of the follow through. That summarizes the analysis of the CDP space in our inaugural report on the category in 2018. We continue to field client inquiries about the CDP market — but the tone from marketers has grown increasingly skeptical, and vendors are asking less […].

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AI In Project Management

CTOvision

Read Ronald Schmelzer’s article in Forbes focusing on how AI is being used to transform project management. Ever since humans have had people and projects to manage, we’ve had challenges keeping the projects on time, on budget, and people on task. The field and industry of project management emerged as a way to manage a […].

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European Retail CX Scores Are Gradually Improving

Forrester IT

The launch of Forrester’s CX Index reports for UK and French retailers is a great way for me to dive into the topic of customer experience in a broader way than I have in the past, with a particular focus on the dynamics of the European market. Those of you who’ve followed me over the […].

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Breakthrough Agile Transformation: The Important Leadership Roles

Social, Agile and Transformation

I've written several posts on the CIO and leadership roles in agile transformation, agile adoption, and agile practices. For example, in the CIO's role in agile transformation, I stress the following four leadership roles: Asking questions to drive collaboration on business, tech, and data Taking one for the team and challenging the status quo Driving iterative thinking and minimally.

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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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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

CVS Is Taking Its HealthHUB Digital Retail Innovation To Market Across 1,500 Of Its Pharmacies CVS’s HealthHUB, debuting at three store locations in Houston, Texas, transforms over 20 percent of a brick-and-mortar CVS into dedicated health services, offering patients access to new durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies, digital tools, on-demand health kiosks, and new […].

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What's your organization's cybersecurity strategy?

Tech Republic Security

Take this quick, multiple choice survey and tell us about your company's cybersecurity strategies for the upcoming year.

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Configuration Manager KB4535819|Hotfix for Early Ring

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. SCCM 1910 early update ring customers might have received a new hotfix KB4535819. Configuration Manager KB4535819 hotfix is available only for the customers who installed early update version of 1910 via PowerShell script. Introduction KB 4535819 shall be available only if Configuration Manager 1910 package GUID is any one of the following.

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Introducing Forrester’s Adobe Services Coverage

Forrester IT

“Well, it’s about time.” That’s what I hear every time I mention that we are going to cover the Adobe services market. When my Singapore-based colleague Xiaofeng Wang first suggested this, it hit me like a bolt of lightning. We’ve been doing Salesforce, SAP, and Oracle services Waves for years. Why not also evaluate the […].

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Where Common Machine Learning Myths Come From

Information Week

There are a lot of misconceptions about ML that can have a negative impact on one's career and reputation. Forrester and ABI Research weigh in.

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Risk managers: Here are the must-have skills for 2020

Tech Republic Security

The risk management field is growing more challenging as threats evolve. How will these changing threats affect your organization in 2020?

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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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The Changing Role of IT in the Customer Experience Era

Information Week

The role of IT as just a back-office function within an organization is a thing of the past.

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Cisco study finds huge returns for companies investing in privacy

Tech Republic Data Center

The report shows that enterprises with mature privacy policies saw millions in tangible returns from investments in protecting their data.

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IT Pros Wooed With These Perks in Tight Job Market

Information Week

The unemployment rate is at 3.5% and IT pros are in high demand so employers are increasingly offering these perks to win the recruitment wars.

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7 Bookkeeping Tips for Small Businesses in 2020

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 7 Bookkeeping Tips for Small Businesses in 2020 - Information Technology Blog. There’s no doubt that bookkeeping is one of the hardest tasks that the modern entrepreneur has to face. When you’re a small business that can’t afford to hire an in-house accounting team, it falls on your shoulders to ensure that the bookkeeping system still runs smoothly.

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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 5 elements of enhancing client relationship capabilities

Trends in the Living Networks

Below is an excerpt from my book Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships 2nd Edition from Chapter 6 on Enhancing Client Relationship Capabilities: Implementing Key Client Programs. Enhancing Client Relationship Capabilities. Every firm has a certain set of capabilities in developing high-value client relationships. All successful firms will have at least reasonable capabilities in this domain, even if this has not been an overt focus in their management activities.

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How to connect a Chromebook to a network printer

Tech Republic Cloud

With Google Cloud Printing going away, you'll want to find a new way to print from your Chromebook. Why not a network printer?

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How to protect previous Firefox tabs from being hijacked

Tech Republic Security

Learn how to secure Firefox tabs from mischief with the Don't Touch My Tabs add-on.

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Three Perspectives of Critical Thinking

Future of CIO

Critical thinking has been described as “reasonable reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do for making reasoned judgments.” It’s the mental process of actively and skillfully processing, conceptualizing, analyzing and synthesizing information to reach an answer or conclusion. Critical thinking is to make objective reasoning in order to form a judgment: critical thinking is a multifaceted thought process to make logical reasoning via analysis and synthesis, induction and ded

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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.

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Don’t Put Backup on the Backburner

Nutanix

Today we’re proud to announce the general availability of Nutanix Mine. This truly integrated data protection solution allows customers to experience top-notch data management capabilities on Nutanix’s industry-leading enterprise cloud platform.

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The Monthly “Digital Boardroom” Book Tuning: Strategic Communications in the Boardroom Jan. 2020

Future of CIO

Modern corporate boards play significant roles in guiding businesses in the right direction and achieve expected business results. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Velocity of the Digital Era, the directorship in any organization must have the agility to adapt to changes and build abilities to advise, inspire and motivate a group of people toward accomplishing shared visions and goals.

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Finding the Best ebook Creator | 10 Best ebook creation software

Kitaboo

Here’s a list of the best eBook creation software we compared, for all your ebook publishing, ebook creation and ebook authoring needs. Kitaboo – Award-winning cloud-based digital publishing platform to create, publish and securely delivery multimedia-enhanced interactive ebooks. Epubeemaker – Free ebook publishing software in the form of a word add-in, it helps you create epub directly from your word document.

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The Best “Orchestration” Quotes of “Digital Master”Jan, 2020

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is a series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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The Cloud Adoption Showdown: 2018 vs. 2019

Nutanix

Inevitably, the cloud model of choice one year might drop off the pedestal the next.

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Don’t Put Backup on the Backburner

Nutanix

Today we’re proud to announce the general availability of Nutanix Mine. This truly integrated data protection solution allows customers to experience top-notch data management capabilities on Nutanix’s industry-leading enterprise cloud platform.

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The Cloud Adoption Showdown: 2018 vs. 2019

Nutanix

Inevitably, the cloud model of choice one year might drop off the pedestal the next.

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The Cloud Adoption Showdown: 2018 vs. 2019

Nutanix

Inevitably, the cloud model of choice one year might drop off the pedestal the next.

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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.