Mon.Aug 19, 2019

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The Importance Of Defining Event ROI In The B2B Marketing Mix

Forrester IT

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” This question, first attributed to philosopher George Berkeley in 1710, raises questions about observation and perception.* Both are important to consider when assessing the value that physical events deliver. While you can attribute some ROI […].

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France Flying Solo with New Tax is Self-Inflicted Pain

Association of Information Technology Professional

France has enacted a digital services tax in an effort to hamper the growth of innovative companies based in the United States. Under the plan, those companies with at least $851 million in global revenue – of which at least $28 million is generated in France –would be slapped with a 3% tax, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2019.

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CX SF 2019: Don’t Claim A Good CX Until Customers Say They’ve Succeeded

Forrester IT

Shortly after I joined Forrester’s customer experience (CX) research team, I took a trip out to San Francisco to visit with some of my old friends and contacts in the tech industry. While there, I asked each one a simple question: “What do you do for your customers?” Without fail, my interlocutors went into detailed […].

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Agile Planning Business Roadmaps, Architecture Standards, and DevOps Releases

Social, Agile and Transformation

Agile planning doesn't end when stories are written, accepted by the team, sized, and ready for development. Story writing is one aspect of agile planning, but it's not the only one. At StarCIO, agile planning is done at several levels depending on the complexity of the requirement. require(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(L) { L.start({"baseUrl":"mc.us14.list-manage.

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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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The Future of Retail ; From Store to Stage

Forrester IT

Did you know that 90 former Toys R Us big box stores are now Urban Air Adventure Parks? [link] Here at Forrester we’ve been anticipating that retail, entertainment and hospitality would ultimately merge. We discussed the trend here : [link] and have more researh in the pipeline for you. Application Development and Delivery professionals must […].

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SCCM Task Automation Application Deployment Updates – Patch My PC Review 2

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. This post is the continuation of “SCCM Application Creation Automation – Patch My PC Review 1.” In this post, Review #2, you are going to see more details from the SCCM side. Let’s see how Patch My PC can help with SCCM automation activities like third-party software updates and application creation.

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The 3 P's of IT Certifications: Performance, Professional Influence, Promotions

Association of Information Technology Professional

What’s the value of a CompTIA certification? A new study by IDC shows that in today’s tech world, CompTIA certifications set IT pros above the rest in some concrete ways.

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

The Great Gender Blur And Its Impact On The Future Of Marketing Marketing stands at the threshold of a monumental cultural shift – the great gender blur. The male-female binary and all its associated tropes that have pervaded brand marketing for decades are on shaky ground. The Advertising Standard Authority (ASA), UK’s independent advertising regulator, […].

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Outlook is Good for Health Care, Thanks to Big Data

Information Week

Technology improvements in recent years are making it possible to overcome the decades of siloed, inaccessible, consumer data.

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Recommendations for Oracle OpenWorld 2019

Flexagon

Oracle OpenWorld 2019 in San Francisco is coming up quickly. It’s the biggest Oracle event of the year with a lot of great presentations and amazing influencers. Flexagon’s President, Dan Goerdt, is a conference veteran, attending and speaking at over 10 events in 2019. I sat down to ask Dan about what he is most. The post Recommendations for Oracle OpenWorld 2019 appeared first on Flexagon.

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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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Beat the Odds: How to Conquer Common AI Challenges

Information Week

Some of the keys to success with an AI implementation may seem basic, but they really can make a difference.

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The VoIP connection: Don’t be jittery with bad audio quality

Spearline Testing

Have you ever had a jumbled up conversation, where you and your friend are saying two completely different things, crossing over and having the most incoherent discussion? A little bit frustrating, isn't it? This is a widespread problem when it comes to calls online. Pieces of conversation getting mixed up, coming through in parts like a bad game of scrabble, can easily frustrate a customer, impacting the quality of the interaction.

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How Younger Employees Communicate in the Enterprise

Information Week

Millennial and Zennials are well established in the workplace. So, are their communication preferences different from those of Baby Boomers and GenX?

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Make Radical Shift to Improve IT Organizational Maturity

Future of CIO

Information Technology is permeating into every corner of the organization and continues to grow in importance to the company. The increasing speed of changes forces IT leaders to get really creative on how they architect and implement change, make broader, deeper, and bolder impact, and ensure that IT is strategically positioned to be ahead of where the business is moving next, in order to drive change and lead the digital paradigm shift seamlessly From business afterthought to foresight: In ma

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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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What you need to know about Cloudera vs. AWS for big data

CTOvision

When it merged with fellow big data management vendor Hortonworks in January 2019, Cloudera Inc. gained a better chance to compete with cloud providers’ Hadoop offerings — setting up an AWS faceoff. The upcoming Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) will be an open source, cloud-hosted big data offering meant to challenge Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) — […].

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The Best “Rule”Quotes of “Digital Master” Aug. 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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Blockchain: a friend to digital continuity and lightweight workflow tool

CTOvision

Read Nick Ismail explain how blockchain technology can be an aid to digital continuity on Information Age : Blockchain is a friend to digital continuity. And, here’s why. There is a very natural connection between the way that blockchain can make data traceable on the abstract engineering layer across the physical supply chain. In the aerospace […].

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The Monthly Learning Summary: Knowledge and Expert Power Aug. 2019

Future of CIO

High organizational learning relates to high response in recognizing and addressing system constraints, adapt to the ever-changing environment. With the increasing pace of changes and cutting throat competitions, to effectively respond to the digital dynamics, either individually or collectively, continuous learning becomes an important skill for skill building and prerequisite of developing changeability.

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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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Beware: In IIoT, Overreliance On Edge Can Lead To ‘Premature Optimization’

CTOvision

Read why Satish Gannu says that overreliance on technology could lead to premature optimization on Forbes : One piece of (not always popular) advice I give industrial internet of things customers is to resist being swept up in the hype-wave of edge computing. Research company IDC has forecast that 40% of internet of things (IoT)-created […].

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Managing Costs in a Multi-Cloud Environment

Nutanix

With any emerging enterprise technology the “big break” of explosive user growth doesn’t come until there is an obvious financial gain. When it comes to cloud adoption, the big break came when CFOs looked at the cloud model and discovered some interesting economic benefits.

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Ikea goes all in on smart home tech

CTOvision

Ikea is formalizing what has recently become all too obvious: the company is making a major bet on smart home tech as a source of new revenue. To do this, Ikea announced that it will invest heavily in a new “Ikea Home smart” business unit with end-to-end responsibility for its burgeoning portfolio of smart devices. […].

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Seeking Big A.I. Advances, a Startup Turns to a Huge Computer Chip

CTOvision

Tucked in the Los Altos hills near the Stanford University campus, in a low-slung bunker of offices across from a coffee shop, is a lab overflowing with blinking machines putting circuits through their paces to test for speed, the silicon equivalent of a tool and die shop. Most chips you can balance on the tip […].

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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.