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You Need A Design System — Here’s Why

Forrester IT

A recent study on design maturity from InVision revealed something really interesting: that design team size is not predictive of a design team’s maturity. That is, it’s possible to dedicate a lot of headcount to design but still see limited benefits on business outcomes. Not only did they find there’s not a correlation, but they […].

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How can attackers abuse artificial intelligence?

CTOvision

But a new report published by the SHERPA consortium – an EU project studying the impact of AI on ethics and human rights – finds that while human attackers have access to machine learning techniques, they currently focus most of their efforts on manipulating existing AI systems for malicious purposes instead of creating new attacks […].

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Value For Customers: The New Frontier For CX Professionals

Forrester IT

Most firms love to talk about the value of customers but don’t get value for customers right. That’s ironic because customers that get value create business value in return by increasing profitability and market share. Academia has written about value for customer for decades. But businesses have been sluggish and incomplete in applying it. We […].

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Anatomy of an enterprise-scale AI strategy

CTOvision

Read Maria Korolov takes a look at how organizations can develop a holistic AI strategy honed for business results on CIO : When it comes to AI, companies typically test the waters proof of concepts or small-scale use cases, taking advantage of vendor offerings, such as new features in their existing SaaS platforms. If things go […].

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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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One Medical Bridges Digital And Physical Experiences In – And Outside – The Doctor’s Office

Forrester IT

One out of two US consumers encountered some type of setback or frustration with their healthcare.[i] While that captures just one moment in time of consumer’s dissatisfaction with the patient experience it’s safe to say that this has been the norm for years. The patient experience is broken. There’s a silver lining though. The critical […].

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Ford-VW alliance expands to include autonomous and electric vehicles

CTOvision

On a widely anticipated move, Ford and Volkswagen announced Friday their plan to expand their seven-month-old alliance to include autonomous and electric vehicles. As part of the deal, VW will invest a whopping $2.6 billion in Argo AI, the autonomous vehicle startup based in Pittsburgh that practically no one had heard of until Ford’s own eye-popping […].

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Google’s new ‘data echoing’ technique speeds up AI training

CTOvision

AI accelerator hardware like Google’s Tensor Processing Units and Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processor promise to speed up AI model training, but because of the way the chips are architected, earlier stages of the training pipeline (like data preprocessing) don’t benefit from the boosts. That’s why scientists at Google Brain, Google’s AI research division, propose […].

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How to Deliver Retail Sales Training to Remote Employees

Kitaboo

Remote working has become one of the biggest trends in the workplace. While a couple of decades back it would have been an inconvenience to have employees working remotely, now it has been normalized to an extent where companies offer work from home options to employees upfront for better productivity. In fact, 3.9 million Americans work from home at least half the time!

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To prepare today’s workforce for AI, they must understand it’s not a threat

CTOvision

Read why Alex Adamopoulos says that employees should understand that artificial intelligence use is not a threat on The Next Web : For countless businesses across all industries and around the world, AI is dominating mindshare to impossible-to-ignore levels. It’s all entrepreneurs and business leaders can talk about: What does a future with AI look […].

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Customer-Led Automation Changes the Service Game

Information Week

Customer self-service is ready to take the next step toward customer-led service, where enterprises are supporting requests from bots as often as from people.

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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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Seven Ways Boards Can Support and Drive Innovation

Trends in the Living Networks

I wrote an article for the most recent issue of Company Director magazine on seven ways boards can support and drive innovation. The slightly edited final version is on the Company Director website. The full original text is below. How Boards Can Support and Drive Innovation. One sixth of Australian businesses with a turnover of over $10 million in 2014 did not exist four years later.

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What the FTC’s $5 billion fine really means for Facebook | TECH(feed)

Network World

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission hit Facebook with a $5 billion fine for mishandling user data. The fine comes after the FTC’s investigation following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. On this episode of TECH(feed), Juliet discusses the implications of this fine -- and how Facebook may (or may not) change its practices.

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AWS Summit Focuses on Smoother Integrations

Information Week

Amazon touts ease of using custom code on its platform and the acceleration of the speed of execution in the development cycle.

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It's the Autonomy, Stupid!

Phil Windley

Summary: The core value proposition of decentralization is autonomy. Without freedom to choose we can't build a thriving digital ecosystem that is as rich and full as the physical world we inhabit. In If you’re not Breaking Rules you’re Doing it Wrong , Simon Morris argues that the primary value proposition of decentralization is enabling the breaking of rules.

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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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ChefDK Install: What you need to know

Linux Academy

Installing ChefDK(Chef Development Kit) isn’t too complicated, but there are a few things to watch out for. We’re going to run through a simple install here real quick, to help keep you from hitting the potholes that trip people up sometimes. Download ChefDK. Before a ChefDK install, there’s got to be a download, and you can download ChefDK here.

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How the Tech Revolution Transformed the Mortgage Market

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How the Tech Revolution Transformed the Mortgage Market - Information Technology Blog. Everything tech touches, it makes smarter. From the latest developments in the telecommunications to goal-line technology in football, the world around us has been improved by the latest tech innovations. With that being the case, it’s little surprise the financial world is embracing new, tech-forward ideas.

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ChefDK Install: What you need to know

Linux Academy

Installing ChefDK(Chef Development Kit) isn’t too complicated, but there are a few things to watch out for. We’re going to run through a simple install here real quick, to help keep you from hitting the potholes that trip people up sometimes. Download ChefDK. Before a ChefDK install, there’s got to be a download, and you can download ChefDK here.

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Will cognitive networks enable better conversations in the future?

Spearline Testing

The increasing complexity of networking environments. Network managers face the challenge of managing increasingly complex networking environments. The telecoms industry has undergone a fundamental transformation with the decline of traditional landlines and the rapid evolution of technologies such as smart devices, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, and cloud computing.

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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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The “Shapes and Colors” Mislead Progressive Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

Nowadays change is unavoidable and disruption is inevitable. The multidimensional digital transformation provides impressive advantages in terms of the speed of delivering business solutions and the ability to adapt to changes. It is the radical change that “the company reinvents itself” by fine-tuning its underlying processes, functions, culture, or business model.

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Constructive Criticism in the Boardroom

Future of CIO

The true critical thinking and constructive criticism are very important for the business’s improvement continuum. The corporate board plays a crucial role in overseeing business strategy and driving business transformation. Criticism shows portrayal of ideas, concerns, directions, and attitudes. Asking good questions is not the “wasting time” activity, it can help to clarify the vision and bring the new insight about how to steer the company in the right direction.

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The Monthly “100 IT Charms” Book Tuning: Running IT as Digital Differentiator July 2019

Future of CIO

The purpose of the book “ 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready“ is to articulate different flavors of digital IT organizations and brainstorm the best and next practices for running highly innovative and high-performance IT. Digital charm is not based on the style presented on the surface but on a set of unique competencies to make IT shine through as a business differentiator.

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