Sat.Apr 30, 2011 - Fri.May 06, 2011

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3 major shifts in the nature of trust in business relationships

Trends in the Living Networks

While the subtitle of my book Living Networks referred to the ‘hyperconnected’ economy, the reality is that living networks are built primarily on human relationships based on mutual knowledge and trust. Here is a brief excerpt from the book about what is changing in the world of trust. Trust is a business perennial—from the days when chickens were traded for cowrie shells until we start trading with extraterrestrial races, trust has been and always will be the central factor in busi

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Release early, release often to minimize risk

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Release Cycles have been debated for the last 30 years and will certainly be for the next 30. Arguments for longer release cycles with larger releases usually focus on how risky these rapid releases are and the stability and polish these larger releases with their longer cycles bring. These arguments are absolute rubbish. To add to the discussion I’ll put a different emphasis than I’ve heard before.

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Governance and Risk Management

A CIO's Voice

'Has your firm performed an analysis on data governance, IT governance and risk management strategies? Data governance is critical especially as firms move to the cloud; data is an asset that needs to be protected and used properly. IT Governance ensures consistency and compliance and can assist in risk management. Done properly, IT Governance facilitates faster, better execution thru visibility and formal decision making.

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Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization - Social.

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Monday, May 02, 2011. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization.

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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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Telling the story of how the Osama news came out on Twitter first

Trends in the Living Networks

This definitely counts as big news. Osama Bin Laden is dead after over a decade of trying. Interestingly, in many news outlets the fact that the news leaked on Twitter before President Obama’s announcement to the nation almost rivals the news itself. Just in following my own Twitter stream I knew the news (or at least the rumor) well before it appeared in the mainstream media.

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IT Risk: Framework and Real-World Stories

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

Last year, at Microsoft's CIO Summit event last year in Redmond, I was fortunate to accompany a few select clients and hear Dr. George Westerman of MIT's Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) speak, and I thought that his story would resonate with our CIO clients. So this week, KMA and our valued partners in our Circle of Excellence (Altico Advisors, Compuworks, Presidio, and SoftwareONE) sponsored a top-notch event at Microsoft's Waltham office featuring Dr.

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How tablets are changing how we use tech

Trends in the Living Networks

Nielsen has come out with some interesting research on tablet usage in the US and associated changes in the use of other devices. Source : Nielsen. It seems that some of the data may simply reflect changes in usage rather than the direct impact of the use of tablets. For example, Nielsen highlights the fact that 25% of people are using their portable gaming consoles less after having bought a tablet.

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What would you do if you could solve a major world problem with technology and innovation?

Trends in the Living Networks

The Imagine Cup is an initiative by Microsoft in which students from around the world to come up with technology solutions to solve the world’s biggest problems. This morning at an event at the Powerhouse Museum it was announced that Sydney will host the global 2012 Imagine Cup. They showed a video, as below, of a number of people saying what world problem they would solve.

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Keynote on Success in a Connected World at Think Business next week

Trends in the Living Networks

May is going to be a very busy month. I have 10 speaking engagements in Australia and China over the next five weeks, as well as several ongoing consulting projects, and an ever-increasing array of active web projects on our plate. Next week my one public event will be a breakfast keynote on Friday 13 for Business Enterprise Centre (BEC) St George and Sutherland Shire , at Doltone House Sylvania Waters.

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