Tue.Apr 02, 2019

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Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) Brand Growth Will Boost Social Ad Spending

Forrester IT

In recent years, a wave of so-called digitally native direct-to-consumer (DTC) startups have burst onto the scene and have grown in popularity. Consumers are increasingly purchasing products and services such as mattresses, shoes, razors, and groceries from the over 400 DTC firms now in operation. Forrester forecasts that online spend by DTC enthusiasts will grow […].

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11 Artificial Intelligence Trends Every Business Must Know in 2019

CTOvision

Read Sohaib Khalid list 11 artificial intelligence trends every business should know about on Read Write : Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a game changer for global businesses, opening doors to innumerable possibilities. With the integration of AI in businesses, the global economy is excepted to grow exponentially in the coming years. Although the introduction […].

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Forrester Future Fitness: The Big Picture View

Forrester IT

This week, we launch a completely new tool to get you from where you are to where you want to go. The tool is called Forrester Future Fitness. It’s an atypical tool for Forrester, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Or maybe, transformative times call for transformative measures. Note: Want to read the in-depth, […].

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AI And ML: Greatest Hype Or Hope?

CTOvision

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a remarkable bias: it simultaneously predicts amateurs underestimating the complexity and being overconfident and veterans underestimating complexity, with often less confidence than the amateurs! This is well shown in the famous Mount Stupid diagram. Today, we see the rise of hype in technologies like the Internet, blockchain, and cloud, three of […].

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Single Source Provider for Data Management – Not Yet

Forrester IT

Architects can choose, and do, a primary cloud service provider and/or Hadoop system to house their data. Moving, transforming, cataloging and governing data is a different story. So, architects come to me after throwing up their arms searching for solutions to tame the information fabric thinking they must be missing something. “Isn’t there a single […].

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Three Ways To Use Artificial Intelligence To Improve The Employee Experience

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Read Dan Turchin list three ways companies can use artificial intelligence to improve employee efficiency on Forbes : According to Ray Kurzweil, famed inventor and futurist: “Our technology, our machines, are part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves.” Striving to extend ourselves is the essence of what it means to be human. […].

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Google creates external advisory board to monitor it for unethical AI use

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Google today announced a new external advisory board to help monitor the company’s use of artificial intelligence for ways in which it may violate ethical principles it laid out last summer. The group was announced by Kent Walker, Google’s senior vice president of global affairs, and it includes experts on a wide-ranging series of subjects, […].

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AI, Machine Learning, Data Science: What Enterprises Are Doing

Information Week

CIOs say that AI and machine learning are the top technologies that will drive transformation, but there aren't many enterprises who have them in production, yet. Here's how they are planning to get there.

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OK I Fell For A Huge Fake Because I Wanted To Believe It: Amazon Blimp Delivery

CTOvision

There are some cool videos going around that show an Amazon blimp launching baby drone delivery bots. This is so neat and so believable because we all know Amazon has been working on drones and considering blimps. As for me, I believed it because I wanted to. I am biased to want to believe in […].

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Importance of Logo Design in Business & its Key Principles

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Importance of Logo Design in Business & its Key Principles - Information Technology Blog. Competition is always tough when your business is targeted to niche and in such cases, an eye-catching logo design becomes the arsenal for business owners to attract customers. A unique and distinct logo design is indeed the most viable essential of any business.

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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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He Helped Create A.I. Now, He Worries About ‘Killer Robots.’

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Yoshua Bengio is worried that innovations in artificial intelligence that he helped pioneer could lead to a dark future, if “killer robots” get into the wrong hands. But the soft-spoken, 55-year-old Canadian computer scientist, a recipient of this year’s A.M. Turing Award — considered the Nobel Prize for computing — prefers to see the world […].

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Could a Social Media Exodus Mean a Return to the Open Web?

Information Week

Consider why reverting to an open Web might not be such a bad thing.

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Gain Insights Into How Bad Guys Are Manipulating You via YouTube

CTOvision

This clip is the first in a series on social media algorithm manipulation and countermeasures. I’ve been tracking these topics somewhat, like most of you probably are. But still found this to be surprising and very interesting. There are serious threats to business here, most of this is being done for financial reasons. But imagine […].

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Five Perspectives of Building People-Centric Organization

Future of CIO

Digital organizations are all about information savvy, adaptation, people-centricity, high-performance, and speed. Hyper-connectivity enhances people-centricity. Being people-centric is a transcendent digital trait and the core of corporate strategy in today’s digital organizations. One of the key determinants of whether an organization can move to the digital new normal is how well it can delight customers and truly understand their people and run a people-centric organization for getting digit

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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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Insights for your enterprise approach to AI and ML ethics: The role of humans in AI systems

CTOvision

This post is the second in a series of three based on interviews of Courtney Bowman and Anthony Bak of Palantir. The first post laid a foundation which can help any organization seeking to establish an ethics policy and program around AI and ML. This one picks up from there and dives into the role […].

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The Best “Insight” Quotes of “Digital Master” Apr. 2019

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is the series of guidebooks (27+ 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, advises on how to run a digital IT organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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Why a future of efficient capital markets matters and how we’ll get there

Trends in the Living Networks

I recently gave a keynote in Dubai at The World in the Future conference, organised by the Ministry of Finance as part of the Dubai government’s Innovation Month. The event timeframe was 30 years in the future, showing an appetite for foresight very unusual from governments. The event kickoff brought together three featured speakers – physicist and futurist Michio Kaku , trend watcher Daniel Levine , and myself – who each delivered a keynote and then joined a panel discussion.

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The Monthly “Digitizing Boardroom” Book Tuning: The Boardroom Scorecard Apr. 2019

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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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.