March, 2018

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Now That You Are A Soldier In The Cyber War You Must Know Your Cognitive Biases

CTOvision

None of us wanted this cyber war. But now that it is here all of us are targets. Even before the cyber war we were being overwhelmed with data. The average citizen is surrounded with information from TV, radio, entertainment, the Internet, social media, co-workers, neighbors, family, schools, the government as well as old sources […].

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IBM Channel Executives Are Frustrated With The Pace Of Partners’ Transformation

Forrester IT

PartnerWorld kicked off in Las Vegas yesterday and, for the first time, colocated with IBM’s Think main event. The 1,000-plus partners who packed the MGM Grand Arena heard some great messaging around simplified programs, reduced contractual requirements, and a direct sales team who was finally getting channel religion delivered through its paychecks.

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Innovation - Plant Your Garden Well

CIO Musings

?Innovation is a big topic in civic circles these days. Creating value out of new approaches and ideas is at the heart of this. But first, an interesting example of innovation. The picture below is of bio-sensitive tatoo ink. Imagine not having to sample your blood to see the glucose level, just look at your tatoo and it will tell you by it's color if you need insulin.

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The #1 Reason Why Digital Transformations Fail

Social, Agile and Transformation

Harvard Business Review just published why so many high profile digital transformations fail highlighting some of the difficulties several high profile programs. They reviewed digital transformations from GE, P&G, and Nike and suggest several lessons learned: "No managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation.

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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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Beware the Models

Eric D. Brown

“But… all of our models have accuracies above 90%…our system should be working perfectly!”. Those were the words spoken by the CEO of a mid-sized manufacturing company. These comments were made during a conversation about their various forecasting models and the poor performance of those models. This CEO had spent about a million dollars over the last few years with a consulting company who had been tasked with creating new methods and models for forecasting sales and manufacturing.

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Challenges That CIOs Face In The Upcoming Year

The Accidental Successful CIO

Being a CIO is even harder to do right now Image Credit: Greg on the Run. There is a certain thrill that runs through all of us when we assumed the CIO position. Finally, we are going to be in a position of power from which we can make the changes that we’ve always known needed to happen in order to maximize the importance of information technology.

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Avoid These Top CX Misconceptions

Forrester IT

To provide great CX reliably and efficiently, companies must master the six competencies of customer experience management (CXM): research, prioritization, design, enablement, measurement, and culture. Unfortunately, common misconceptions can cause even the most experienced CX professionals to stumble along the path to CXM maturity.

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Leadership Lessons From My Dog

CIO Musings

Okay, so my wife I have a dog. This is different for us. I've never had a dog before. I wasn't anti-dog or anything, I was more ambivalent about them. It is funny how fast I went from being dog-indifferent to being a dog-lover! After years of talking about it, thinking about it, researching it, being encouraged to do it, we got organized and located a reputable breeder of West Highland Terriers (aka Westies).

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6 Easy Ways to Lead Product Owners and Drive Meaningful MVPs

Social, Agile and Transformation

It isn't easy to put governance and guardrails on product managers and product owners. You trust them to engage customers and prospects across segments, capture needs from users of competitive products, and understand strategic requirements of internal stakeholders. You task them to develop product visions that deliver value and convenience to end users.

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The Complete Guide for SCCM Server Migration Part 2 – Database Migration

Anoop

The site database server is one of the critical roles of SCCM architecture. SCCM site database is a server that runs a supported version of Microsoft SQL Server. SQL Server DB is the database used to store information for SCCM sites and clients. Each SCCM site in an SCCM hierarchy contains a site database and […]. The post The Complete Guide for SCCM Server Migration Part 2 – Database Migration appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Rajul OS.

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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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People are really worried about IoT data privacy and security—and they should be

Network World

A new study from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) shows that consumers around the world are deeply worried about in how their personal information is collected and shared by the Internet of Things (IoT). But let’s be honest, the problem isn’t that unsophisticated consumers are panicking for no reason. In fact, consumers are merely picking up on the very real inherent risks and uncertainties surrounding IoT data.

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What Executives Should Know About Ethereum

CTOvision

Bitcoin was the first implementation of a working blockchain technology. The idea has been built on with several other implementations. One of the most exciting is Ethereum. In some instances Ethereum's coin, Ether, is compared with Bitcoin, and you see both cited in cryptocurrency value listings. But Ethereum's implementation of blockchain goes far beyond the […].

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How To Ride The Technology Wave (And Not Get Swept Away)

Forrester IT

AI, blockchain, chatbot, digital identity, etc. — there’s enough emerging technology in financial services to fill a whole alphabet book. And it’s difficult not to get swept off your feet by visions of bionic men, self-executing smart contracts, and virtual assistants that anticipate our every need. Investing in emerging technology is one of the main […].

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Infinitely scalable machine learning with Amazon SageMaker

All Things Distributed

In machine learning, more is usually more. For example, training on more data means more accurate models. At AWS, we continue to strive to enable builders to build cutting-edge technologies faster in a secure, reliable, and scalable fashion. Machine learning is one such transformational technology that is top of mind not only for CIOs and CEOs, but also developers and data scientists.

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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.

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Agile Development is like Running a Restaurant Kitchen [Video]

Social, Agile and Transformation

I had the opportunity to work with Infoworld on this video illustrating how agile development is a lot like running a restaurant. Restaurants requires operational excellence to deliver high quality meals, excellent service, and on time delivery to restaurant patrons. They also require some creativity and innovation when developing new menu items and adjusting ingredients based on what's.

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Free LinkedIn Learning Courses for SCCM Intune

Anoop

I totally agree with the following sentence and that is why I’m sharing my experience with LinkedIn learning. Microsoft MVPs are notorious for passionately sharing their knowledge with the world. In this post, we will see the details about free LinkedIn learning courses available for SCCM and Intune (Learn SCCM Intune). Microsoft MVP award Program […].

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When Is It Ok For A CIO To Brag?

The Accidental Successful CIO

When you’ve accomplished something great, is it ok to tell people about it? Image Credit: bengtham. As the person with the CIO job, you are in charge of a lot of different things. There always seem to be projects going on, decisions to be made, and things for you to do that reflect the importance of information technology. However, just every so often, things go right.

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The Ethics Of Big Data: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Are Writing New Case Studies For Us All

CTOvision

The term “Big Data” has been around quite a while (see a short history of Big Data here), but really came into mainstream discussion in 2007 (which also happens to be the first year CTOvision used the word). The phrase had an important role in helping many of us think through new architectures for how […].

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Twenty Goals That Are Just Plain Better Than “Growing Revenue”

Forrester IT

Dear Marketers, I know how important it is to you to grow revenue. I also know how that focus will help expand your remit — to align with your organization’s strategic priorities and rally around an explicit path to revenue. Any of these 20 examples (and countless more) are more substantial, manageable, and productive than an […].

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Microsoft Compatibility Reporting Tool Spectre and Meltdown Patch

Mick's IT Blog

Ever since the Spectre and Meltdown issues arose, we have been waiting on patching, at least reliable patching. Microsoft has taken it on itself to patch systems for the vulnerability. ExtremeTech wrote an excellent article on Microsoft's solution which gave me the thought to write a script for telling which systems are compatible. To determine the minimum family and model compatible with the patch, I used the data from this Intel page that associates family and model to the microarchitecture co

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Benchmarks for Healthy Agile Planning that gets User Stories Written and Estimated

Social, Agile and Transformation

Agile practices, and scrum in particular are really strong at prescribing steps to go from sprint start to end. Teams practicing scrum will usually have a commitment meeting at the start of the sprint to decide the scope of work they aim to complete and daily standups during the sprint to discuss status and blocks. At the end of the sprint there should be a demo for product owners and.

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Linux Unix SCCM Support is Almost Dead

Anoop

Microsoft SCCM team released the new production version of SCCM 1802. I will prepare detailed blog post and video tutorial on SCCM CB 1802 upgrade process and new features. In this post, I wanted to share surprise information (but expected) about Linux and Unix support of SCCM CB. Do you have more questions about Linux UNIX […]. The post Linux Unix SCCM Support is Almost Dead appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Unlocking Enterprise systems using voice

All Things Distributed

At Amazon, we are heavily invested in machine learning (ML), and are developing new tools to help developers quickly and easily build, train, and deploy ML models. The power of ML is in its ability to unlock a new set of capabilities that create value for consumers and businesses. A great example of this is the way we are using ML to deal with one of the world's biggest and most tangled datasets: human speech.

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What Should Executives Know About How Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Cryptocurrencies Are Disrupting Business?

CTOvision

One hundred percent of board of directors and other executive leaders I interact with know of the blockchain. Not all are fans of cryptocurrency, but all seem to be deeply interested in exploring the business impact of the distributed ledger that makes cryptocurrencies work. There are quite a few interesting use cases out there. Some […].

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Retailers Without Chat: A Missed Opportunity

Forrester IT

Chatting, by definition, is meaningless, trivial talk – but web “chatting” is anything but; it is starting to transform digital customer experiences. And it works. Customers want to use chat. Forty-five percent have used it to interact with a live agent in 2017. The companies that get it are moving towards a holistic chat strategy […].

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What do ogres, onions and SD-WAN security have in common? Layers!

Network World

Remember this scene from the movie Shrek? The big ogre was explaining to Donkey that ogres are very complicated, and like onions, they have layers. Donkey, of course, didn’t like the analogy because not everyone likes onions and would have preferred cake as everyone likes cake, but he did seem to understand that ogres did indeed have layers after it was explained to him.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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KB40888878 Patch for Spectre and Meltdown on Windows 7 x86 and x64 systems

Mick's IT Blog

Recently, Dell released the BIOS updates covering systems starting with the Intel Family 6 Model 42 and later processors. This is the first part of the patching process. The second part is to apply all windows updates, which I also included all optional updates. That was my personal preference. The third step is to apply the appropriate KB4088878 patch.

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Windows 10 MDM CSP Policies Override Group Policy Settings

Anoop

Windows 10 modern device management relies on CSP for security & other configurations. There are many discussions happening whether CSP can replace Group policy (GP). By default, GP have higher precedence over CSP when there is a setting conflict. But, starting with Windows 10 1803, this behavior is controllable with CSP “MDMWinsOverGP”. With this new […].

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Why HR needs to look at Apple’s Schoolwork app

ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

Apple introduced its Schoolwork app for teachers and students at its Field Trip event in Chicago in spring 2018. The app promises so much for educators, but it may well prove itself outside the education sector as an on-boarding and training facilitator for human resources teams. What is Apple's Schoolwork app? Schoolwork is kind of a digital class management app teachers can use to share tasks with students — they can send notes, PDFs, links to the web, and even activities that need to be trans

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Blockchain Capital: One of the earliest and most active investors in blockchain technologies

CTOvision

Founded in 2013, Blockchain Capital is one of the earliest and most active investors in the blockchain technology industry and the crypto ecosystem. Blockchain Capital has raised and deployed several venture funds, including the first ever ICO of a venture fund (BCAP) in April of 2017. The firm is based in San Francisco and was […].

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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.