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Alexa, Does This Cough Sound Bad?

Forrester IT

Alexa Enters Healthcare Amazon was recently issued a new patent that will push its Alexa personal assistant into the health care realm. The patent, filed October 9th, describes a relatively straight-forward idea: program Alexa’s speech recognition to identify coughs and sniffles, then use that information to upsell cold medicine and chicken soup.

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Cyber Defenders In Polite Rage Mob Take Pot-Shots At Former NSA Director

CTOvision

I have seen some real rage mobs on Twitter. Some of them get really horrid and full of hate. But I just saw one that was polite. Maybe this is the way people should exchange ideas on Twitter. The interaction I’m talking about was discussed in a Cyberscoop post by Sean Lyngaas titled “Ex-NSA employees […].

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Announcing The First Forrester New Wave™ Evaluation Of Influencer Marketing Solutions

Forrester IT

What bubble? The size of the influencer market on Instagram alone is set to grow $2.38 billion next year. Accordingly, our Forrester Analytics data shows that 75% of marketers have already implemented or are planning to implement a solution to manage this market in 2018, and seventeen percent of B2C marketers consider influencers one of […].

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How to Pick the Best Technology Stack for Your Product

CTOvision

A tech stack is how you create web and mobile applications. It’s a combination of different programming languages, frameworks, and tools to form the frontend and backend, also known as the client and server side. You can think of a tech stay like a series of layers built on top of each other. This helps […].

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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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Turn Voice And Language Innovation Into A Conversational Strategy

Forrester IT

To shift from brand monologues to two-way dialogues, many brands are embracing live chat and piloting marketing initiatives on new conversational interfaces such as chatbots and voice-based assistants. However, conversational marketing is not new: It is simply based on listening to your customers, incorporating feedback into your marketing strategy, and communicating back to them in […].

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Fully Autonomous Business Process (ABP): The Real AI-Enabled Goal for Business Process Automation

CTOvision

A few months ago, Cognilytica released a report on the market identified as the Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) market. In this report, we discussed the evolution of business process automation, modeling, management, and optimization, and some of the tentative steps vendors were making from non-cognitive, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to what we called cognitive Intelligent […].

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SCCM Preview Expired – Now what?

Anoop

SCCM is expired and now what are the options to fix the issue. My SCCM preview version got expired, and I wanted to get back on track with SCCM preview versions. SCCM Preview Version Validity One SCCM Preview version is valid only for 90 days or 3 months. This version should NOT be installed in the […]. The post SCCM Preview Expired – Now what?

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Privacy Compliance May Get Tougher Soon

Information Week

Organizations have had a tough time trying to comply with the European Union's GDPR and now they have to consider the potential effect of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

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Envisioning the future so that it compels action

Trends in the Living Networks

The current issue of Brunswick Review features an interview with me titled Visions of Tomorrow. While it is a wide-ranging interview, as often, I was asked about the role of the futurist. Below are some of my ideas on thinking about the future and taking action from the article. See below the quotes for some further thoughts. Read the full article to also see my commentary on specific issues such as emerging economies, crowdsourcing, professional services, and the future of work.

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Winning Board Presentations for CIOs

Information Week

Whether you've had a security breach, need to provide a status update on digital transformation, or need funding for a new project, here are some dos and don'ts on how CIOs can successfully present to the organization's board of directors.

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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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Ethics to Ecotech: 5 Unmissable Talks At Data Natives 2018

Dataconomy

The pace of life and industry is accelerating at an unprecedented rate. Interconnected tech, inconceivably fast data processing capabilities and sophisticated methods of using this data all mean that we’re living in fast-forward. The Data Natives Conference 2018 will be exploring life at an accelerated pace, and what rapid innovation. The post Ethics to Ecotech: 5 Unmissable Talks At Data Natives 2018 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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The Silo of Excellence: Is It the Building Block or the Roadblock to Achieve Digital Excellence

Future of CIO

Silo is perhaps one of the most paradoxical symptoms in running the business in the industrial era. There are different definitions of the silo, by nature, it’s about isolation. The segmenting or sectioning of work by knowledge, skills, or type, etc, it is a necessary component of complex work or large workplaces. However, silo also causes miscommunication and it reduces a sense of belonging and connection to the organization's larger mission.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to South Africa!

All Things Distributed

Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in South Africa! AWS is committed to South Africa's transformation. The AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region is another milestone of our growth and part of our long-term investment in and commitment to the country. It is our first Region in Africa, and we're shooting to have it ready in the first half of 2020.

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The Popular Quotes about “Creativity & Digital Fit” in “Digital Master” Book Series

Future of CIO

“ Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (25+ 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.” Digital organizations are always on, interdependent and hyperconnected, people are always the most important asset in any organization before, today, and future.

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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 Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 10/25/2018

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2.5 million page views with 5000+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “ Digital Master ” book series includes 25 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is making to the businesses and society.