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Amazon Prime, a loyalty program by any other name…

Forrester IT

A few weeks ago, Jeff Bezos revealed in the annual shareholder letter that Amazon Prime now has over 100M members. But even more noteworthy than its size is its revenue impact. In 2017, Amazon shipped more than $5B items through Prime. Now, Amazon Prime isn’t like other loyalty programs you see in the marketplace. For […].

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Hannibal: I will either find a way or make one

CTOvision

All great history has drama. It is forged by leaders leading groups through challenges. The great's never give up. No where is this better demonstrated than in the persistence of Hannibal, whose invasion of Rome required him to pass two impassable mountain ranges. And he had to cross them with massive armies and their supplies, […].

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HaiDiLao Cooks The Competition With Memorable Customer Service

Forrester IT

How to differentiate your brand in highly competitive markets, especially when competitors promptly copy anything that works? Learn from HaiDiLao, China’s most popular chain of hot-pot restaurants. HaiDiLao evokes positive emotions from customers with memorably crafted human interactions. The company empowers its staff to personalize experience delivery as customers or scenarios demand.

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6 Reasons your Threat Intelligence Process Needs Musubu

CTOvision

Editor's note: Wayne is a friend and a great technologist I have admired for years because of his constant focus on keeping technology focused on outcomes for others. It has been very exciting to watch him and his team bring this new capability to life.-bg Today we are pleased to announce that Musubu is now […].

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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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CIOs Must Use EAs To Be Successful In Their Digital Transformations

Forrester IT

The demand for exceptional digital and customer experiences is exposing the constraints of existing technology organization practices. The people, processes, governance structures, and technology of the technology organization must change to drive and enable business success. CIOs need help, and enterprise architects (EAs) are best placed to influence and guide these digital transformations (see my […].

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How Cryptocurrencies will go from The Technologically Savvy, into the Everyday Transactions of Consumers

CTOvision

“The biggest opportunity set we can think of over the next decade.” Bob Greifeld, CEO NASDAQ on blockchain There are many concerns over cryptocurrencies in use right now. For the average person, what is crypto ranks top of that list. We see crypto volatilities, ICOs, new currencies and the entire thing feels pretty science fiction. […].

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What can you DO with Machine Learning?

Eric D. Brown

Everyone’s talking about machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) these days. If you are a CxO or work in IT or marketing, I’d bet that you hear these terms more than you probably want to. It feels an awful lot like the early data of Big Data or Business Intelligence or the days when the “Intranet” was first making waves within organizations.

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Learn How To Elevate Digital At Forrester’s Digital Transformation Forum Mumbai 2018

Forrester IT

While the idea of digital has been around for years now, Indian firms are still at the beginner stage of digital maturity. Let’s face it – being digital is hard, especially for executives who are yet to come to terms with transformative impact it has on their organization. Forrester’s Digital Transformation forum is India’s flagship […].

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What is AIops? Collaboration, Practices, and Principles for Delivering AI Solutions

Social, Agile and Transformation

I heard about the term AIops term last week at The AI Conference, presented by O'Reilly and Intel AI. Is this a real practice? My answer is yes and here's why. Consider that DevOps is the practice to align developers and operations on the agility, speed, and stability of making software releases. DevOps aims to align a multidisciplinary team on conflicting missions and priorities by.

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Microsoft Build 2018: Top Five Takeaways

Forrester IT

It’s a busy week with Digital Transformation Forum kicking off in Chicago tomorrow, but I managed to slip in a quick trip to Seattle to this year’s Microsoft Build developer conference. It’s hard to believe it’s been four years since Satya Nadella took over as CEO, but time flies. We detected early on in Satya’s […].

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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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Blank Screen after Enabling Secure Boot in the BIOS

Mick's IT Blog

I am working on the Windows 10 image, and part of this project is converting to UEFI. We do have several older systems that are still in production because systems that are used for temporary or loaner aren't as important to keep up-to-date. I use the oldest model system when creating a reference image so I am sure the image will work across all models.

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Introducing Forrester’s Asset Intelligence Model (AIM) For Asset Management

Forrester IT

During my presentation at RSA Conference 2018 this year, I discussed what I refer to as the “Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of Asset Management,” which states that it’s impossible to maintain an asset inventory list in a constantly evolving environment. Think of it this way: Your IT infrastructure is probably a lot like a giant jelly […].

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Video Guide SCCM 1804 Preview Version Baseline Media

Anoop

Microsoft SCCM team released SCCM 1804 TP (Technical Preview). 1804 is the baseline version of SCCM technical preview. You can download SCCM 1804 from evaluation portal. Once 1802 baseline build is downloaded, then you can build new SCCM infra with 1802. SCCM 1804 – Feature Highlights Move Content library for the site server (site server in […].

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Insight, Innovation, and Influence of Modern Digital IT

Future of CIO

The exponential growth of information, the wave of emerging digital technologies and the tide of “digital transformation” are creating new opportunities for the business to grow and mature. Forward-looking organizations begin to see IT as an integral part of the business, empower IT to lead changes and learn how to strike the right balance between “old” and “new” way to do things.

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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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Systems Thinking vs. Creativity

Future of CIO

The purpose of Systems Thinking is to solve problems and creating desirable futures. The goal of creativity is to connect the dots for generating naval ideas. So many people do not know how to connect the dots within complex systems, nor think inclusively or holistically, nor comprehend dynamics, induction or deduction, nor understand expensive variables, interfaces, and interactions.

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The Popular Quotes of “Digital Master” Book Series II

Future of CIO

"Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (23+ 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 the insight about Change Management.

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