Mon.Dec 09, 2019

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The One-Sentence Business Case For Customer Experience

Forrester IT

Recently I wrote a post arguing that $ is the one CX metric that matters to executives. The obvious conclusion: You need to design your CX measurement program to track and report $. If you haven’t done that already you should jump on it today. As I write this post in December of 2019, corporate […].

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Rise of the Internet of Things (IoT)

CTOvision

Read Darren Anstee take a look at how the Internet of Things will fare in 2020 on Tech Radar : They are already here. And they might already have outnumbered us. Their proliferation is breath-taking, with an estimated population reaching 125 billion in the next 10 years. IoT devices are the poster boys of a […].

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Do You Recruit Bad Employees As A Matter Of Policy?

Forrester IT

For better or for worse, my family is a customer of a large bank near my home. Once in a while I step in to the branch to update documents for my mother (she still likes to see her account balance in print), or some other such need. Here’s the kicker though: Every time I […].

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Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8c and 7c processors will power cheaper ARM laptops

CTOvision

Qualcomm has had big ambitions for ARM-powered Windows laptops for years. At its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, the chipmaker revealed its biggest play yet: the Snapdragon 8c and the Snapdragon 7c, two new processors that are designed to create a new lineup of ARM chips for Windows laptops. The 8c is positioned as a replacement for […].

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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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Avoid Becoming Dumb Money

Forrester IT

The Dos And Don’ts Of Accelerating Innovation With Corporate Venture Capital One former VC partner I spoke with for my research on corporate venture capital (CVC) — “Accelerate Open Innovation Via Corporate Venture Capital” — said he believed there was a direct correlation between the number of CVCs formed in a year and a looming […].

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How Walmart And Others Are Riding A Blockchain Wave To Supply Chain Paradise

CTOvision

Blockchain technology as a potential solution has been applied to all of the large ecosystems that have issues with real-time data access, partners privacy, traceability and auditability. The supply chain ecosystem is no exception to that, as typical product recalls cost $8 million per year and this number can be reduced with the improved track-and-trace […].

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Top 5 enterprise technologies of the decade

Tech Republic Cloud

Manufacturing IoT, video conferencing, and cloud computing are just some of the biggest advancements of the decade. Tom Merritt lists the five top enterprise technologies of the 2010s.

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Windows 7 Extended Security Update Step by Step Prerequisite Guide

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Windows 7 is going out of support on 14th January 2019. Hence Microsoft is putting loads of efforts to migrate all the Windows 7 devices to Windows 10 as the best practice. Also, we shall see more about Windows 7 Extended Security Update (ESU). Introduction Let’s see How to get Extended Security Updates for eligible […].

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Why SMBs Must Consider Upgrading their ERPs to Transform the Business

Social, Agile and Transformation

When your business is small or growing slowly, you can get away with a mix of disparate SaaS tools, spreadsheets, and collaboration over email to manage the business while leaders and employees focus on serving customers. One of those tools is likely an ERP, financial, or accounting system. The finance person or team is probably using it to manage basic accounting, financial, and business.

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Top 5 enterprise technologies of the decade

Tech Republic Cloud

Manufacturing IoT, video conferencing, and cloud computing are just some of the biggest advancements of the decade. Tom Merritt lists the five top enterprise technologies of the 2010s.

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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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Designing human-AI hybrids will be at the center of the future of work

Trends in the Living Networks

The future of work is not about AI replacing humans. It is about designing work so that machines and humans are complementary, not substitutes. As described in my Humans in the Future of Work framework, there are a number of uniquely human capabilities that can be brought together in a wealth of roles that transcend what machines can do on their own.

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9 Important Cybersecurity Facts

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 9 Important Cybersecurity Facts - Information Technology Blog. Today, data breaches have become something common in the business world, and cybercriminals are always looking for ways to circumvent the current security tools. As a result, new security issues arise as soon as the current ones are resolved. Considering the damaging effect that a data breach can have on the growth of your business, you have no other choice but to keep up with these current trends.

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Technical Skills Gap: Time to Think Out of the Box

Information Week

There's a clear way to fill the ever-growing technical skills gap, and it starts with the hiring managers thinking a bit differently than they have in the past.

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Intel expert divulges security trends

Tech Republic Security

Intel's Amit Elazari Bar On discussed IoT security, ethical hackers, bug bounties, and more.

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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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Reflections on Tech in 2019

Information Week

We look at 2019's most popular content on InformationWeek and put perspective around the technology areas that took off in terms of innovation and adoption.

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Mental Health…“The Not So Widely Talked About Problem” That Needs To Be On Every Company’s Agenda in 2020

Forrester IT

We are experiencing a mental health crisis. 1 in 5 Americans manage a diagnosable mental health condition in any given year. Up to 80% of people will manage a diagnosable mental health condition in their lifetime. On average individuals must wait up to 25 days for a psychiatry appointment; and waiting comes at significant cost […].

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The “Personalities” from Change Management Perspectives

Future of CIO

Change is the new normal with increasing speed. In practice, more than two thirds of change initiatives fail to achieve business expectations. It's no surprise to know that only a small percentage of people are changing agent either strategically or tactically, What are personalities from change management perspectives? When we say personality, we are talking about mindsets, traits, emotions, attitudes, behavior, etc.

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Sample Database: Olympic Games (ERD and SQL)

Database Star

When you’re learning SQL or database design, it’s helpful to use other databases as a reference. Many articles online refer to Oracle’s HR database, or SQL Server’s AdventureWorks database. These can be helpful, but often you’re looking for answers that these databases don’t help with. Which is where this post comes in.

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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 Best “Leadership” Quotes of “Digital Master” to Celebrate #6300 Blog Posting Dec. 2019

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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8 Emerging Trends In Big Data Management And Analytics To Watch In 2020

CTOvision

The total amount of digital data created worldwide is expected to more than quadruple to 175 zettabytes by 2025 from 40 zettabytes this year, fueled in part by the exploding number of data-generating edge devices and sensors, according to market researcher IDC. In keeping with Gartner’s “three Vs” (volume, variety and velocity) definition of big […].

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The Monthly “Digital Master” Book Tuning: Build High Mature Digital Organization by Creating Abundant Synergy Dec. 2019

Future of CIO

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. Digital Master refers to those high-performing, highly innovative and high-mature (less than 15%) digital organizations; they have both clear digital vision and well-crafted digital

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Data security and the cloud: 3 things your team needs to know

CTOvision

Read Carole Murphy list three things you should keep in mind while using the cloud on Tech Beacon : Increasingly, companies are moving their data and processing to cloud services. It’s easy for this out-of-sight data to be out of mind when it comes to security, but if anything, it should be top of mind […].

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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.