Future of CIO

JUNE 19, 2019

It is the “VUCA” digital new normal with higher volatility, uncertainties, complexity, and ambiguities The digital paradigm arises out of new knowledge; the emerging trends are the digital shapers to reinforce the very characteristics of the digital business such as enlightenment, “always-on,” or people-centricity, etc. There are opportunities and risks, confusions and frustrations on the way to going digital.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 19, 2019

As the saying goes, if we waste now, we might want it later, and regret the waste. Well, it’s even worse that that in the global food system. We waste now, and we want it at the same time. One of the paradoxes around food is that we have both too much and too little […].

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CTOvision

JUNE 20, 2019

Predicting the future is hard. We have tried just about every way humanity has come up with, and frankly every model has flaws. But we have found some methods that can be very informative for decision-makers. We look at the megatrends of technology, those unstoppable forces sweeping over us all, and then evaluate current technologies […].

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 17, 2019

It's getting close to summer months and many agile devops teams are working hard to close out their Q2 commitments. The summer months are a great time to bring people and teams together to recalibrate on priorities and revitalize their commitment to collaboration. require(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(L) { L.start({"baseUrl":"mc.us14.list-manage.com","uuid":"786c41758ef1858a45a739f3e.

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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 Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 19, 2019

One of the jobs of a CIO is to be able to deliver bad news Image Credit: Still The Oldie. Let’s face it, as CIOs we’d all like to be liked. We enjoy the parts of our job that are fun and which have to do with the importance of information technology. It makes us happy when another large IT project is successfully rolled out. However, life is life and part of our job is that when there is bad news to be delivered , we’re the ones who have the job to share the news with the people who

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Forrester IT

JUNE 18, 2019

Agencies’ creative perspective, the very currency of the business, is at risk and can only be realized by shifting billions from tech to fund creative differentiation. “The value of agency creativity is at risk of disappearing.” The marketing industry is woefully out of balance, from agency/client relationships to new business requirements and compensation.

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Eric D. Brown

JUNE 21, 2019

In February I had the opportunity to visit the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.   When I was younger, I’d been a few times but I’d never been out since I got into photography. The trip was more of a scouting trip than anything, but I can say my scouting turned into a number of fantastic images. A sampling of these images are below.

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Anoop

JUNE 19, 2019

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. I have many steps by step guides about SCCM third-party patching, and I’m going to share the more details in the upcoming webinar round table discussions. SCCM Third-Party Patching Catalog Version Update SCCM 1906 TP version introduced a new catalog version (V3) with options to select to sync only required categories of products.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 21, 2019

It’s not hard to see the signs that the data economy is heating up. Virtually all decision makers want to be insights-driven. They mine their own data, yet increasingly they want incremental insights that drive further differentiation and competitive advantage. External data hunting is on the rise: 56% of decision makers say their firms are […].

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CTOvision

JUNE 17, 2019

Apple has been working in Augmented Reality since the launch of the iPhone, at first by just driving research and fueling imagination, but then by powering real AR that uses the computational power of the iPhone and its cameras plus smart software to drive both Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality applications. But the biggest gains […].

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Eric D. Brown

JUNE 19, 2019

I’m sure we’ve all been there. We have 100 things to do and we pick 90 things to get done and avoid those last few items that we just don’t want to do. They are on our ‘to-do’ list for a reason. We put them there…or more likely…someone put them there for us. But, they’re there and they should probably get done.

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Anoop

JUNE 17, 2019

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. SCCM release dates are one of the debated things in the SCCM community especially among the active Tweeps. In this post, let see the SCCM 1906 production version release dates prediction date. Background I was lucky to predict the SCCM 902 release dates via twitter. So there was an expectation (rather pulling my leg) about […].

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Forrester IT

JUNE 19, 2019

Business leaders in the financial services (FS) industry are used to tracking success with measures that reflect shareholder, investor and market regulator values like return on equity, net profit, assets under management and capital adequacy ratio. This is the ‘money story’. However, most don’t always know how these important measures are affected by customer experience (CX) and customer engagement, or the ‘customer story’.

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CTOvision

JUNE 18, 2019

The convergence of trends like globalization, rapidly advancing technology, cyber espionage and trade wars mean we live in an age that requires new understanding of geopolitical risks to business operations, as well as risks to mergers and acquisition. OODAloop.com is a resource designed to capture actionable insights into geopolitical risk, technological risk and cyber conflict […].

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Eric D. Brown

JUNE 19, 2019

I’m sure we’ve all been there. We have 100 things to do and we pick 90 things to get done and avoid those last few items that we just don’t want to do. They are on our ‘to-do’ list for a reason. We put them there…or more likely…someone put them there for us. But, they’re there and they should probably get done.

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Anoop

JUNE 20, 2019

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Nowadays, everything is cloud, and there are many cloud offerings from different vendors. Most of the large organizations are into the hybrid cloud because of several reasons, and you can name the purposes of having a Hybrid cloud. What is Hybrid Cloud? For SCCM admins, the simple example of Hybrid cloud is SCCM servers which […].

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Forrester IT

JUNE 19, 2019

On the outside: Social media’s total global advertising spend is expected to balloon to $110 billion by 2022 (with Facebook taking 75% of the global spend market). Social networks are happy. Investors see dollar signs. Marketers feel justified in their spending. On the inside: Social media’s underbelly conveys a picture of turmoil. Consumers can’t quit […].

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CTOvision

JUNE 17, 2019

OODA Network Members are invited to participate in our webinar on mitigating risks due to AI on Thursday 20 June 2019 at 2pm. During this webinar, the OODA Loop team will be discussing salient points of key research for our members, including an overview of key problem areas in AI, followed by a solutions framework. […].

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Eric D. Brown

JUNE 21, 2019

In February I had the opportunity to visit the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. When I was younger, I’d been a few times but I’d never been out since I got into photography. The trip was more of a scouting trip than anything, but I can say my scouting turned into a number of fantastic images. A sampling of these images are below.

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Information Week

JUNE 20, 2019

Data and analytics in the cloud era may favor platforms based on platforms that are more flexible than Hadoop. But that doesn't mean there's no future for the early big data technology.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 19, 2019

Recently, I attended Rosenfeld Media’s Enterprise Experience Conference, as an input to research I’m conducting about enterprise UX. My three top takeaways about how to improve UX for employees: Use sense-making to bring order to chaos Tatyana Mamut, NextDoor’s Chief Product Officer, captured a widespread sentiment at the event about the importance of using the […].

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CTOvision

JUNE 21, 2019

Algorithmia’s serverless infrastructure is custom built to host scalable AI models and advanced algorithms. Add your code and Algorithmia automatically generates API pipelines for hassle-free deployment and maintenance-free scalability. For an overview of their approach see: Any model added can optionally be monetized in the marketplace. Today more than 55,000 developers have access to a […].

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Flexagon

JUNE 20, 2019

Ansible is an open-source automation tool that provides a simple way to automate applications and IT infrastructure. It allows you to manage configurations, deploy applications, start and stop middleware, and much more. Ansible works by running modules on remote hosts. In order to run these modules, you can execute them on the command line or. Read more.

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Information Week

JUNE 18, 2019

According to industry hype, the latest emerging technology will change everything. No technology is an island, however, which is where things get interesting.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 20, 2019

(Jeremy Vale coauthored this post.) Brace yourself: Computer vision is coming. “The Long Night” is finally over, and enterprises see the opportunity more clearly than ever. With AI replacing biological rods and cones, computer vision is now a must-have weapon in every firm’s arsenal. Computer vision solutions are spreading like wildfire.

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CTOvision

JUNE 19, 2019

The video below provides insights that can be of use to any enterprise embarked on digital transformation (which these days is most every enterprise). In the video, Jad Naous and Frank Chen of a16z discuss ways enterprises are changing their decision making because of digital transformation (including, for example, pushing decisions further down the organization […].

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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.

Kitaboo

JUNE 20, 2019

There’s a growing need for scientific and technical talent in STEM -related jobs. The only way this demand can be met is by developing skilled candidates who are ready for the job as soon as they graduate. However, it seems that not many students are keen on pursuing STEM courses post their school level. Recent data from a test commonly taken by college-bound high school students found that only 20% of students are ready for courses typically required for a STEM major.

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Information Week

JUNE 19, 2019

Only time will tell with how GDPR and regulators can keep up with the influx of breaches and violations, but that doesn't mean GDPR is something to brush aside.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 19, 2019

On June 18th, Facebook officially launched its “Libra” cryptocurrency project, which aims to leverage blockchain technologies to create a new stable cryptocurrency backed by a basket of fiat currencies. Facebook says its aim is to enable accessible and affordable digital payments for billions of people, including un/underbanked people across the world.

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Flexagon

JUNE 20, 2019

JET Made Easy Developing new enterprise applications? Building JavaScript based user interfaces that need deployment? Then Flexagon’s new JET Plugin (FlexDeploy 5.1.0.3) may be for you. With the evolution of technology, companies such as Oracle and Flexagon have been transitioning to the cloud. The move to the cloud has emphasized the use of responsive, scalable, Read more.

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