CIO Musings

AUGUST 5, 2012

'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Sunday, August 5, 2012. Public CIO as Social Media Practitioner. I was interviewed recently by Public CIO magazine for an article on the use of social media by public-sector CIOs.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Two years ago I wrote a post Will there be capital markets for equity in people? That appears to be coming true with the launch of Upstart , a startup from a group of ex-Google employees. Venture Beat writes : Would you fork over a small portion of your income for the next decade in exchange for funding? The team behind Upstart, (pictured, above) a new crowdfunding platform, is willing to bet that this will be a viable option for scores of recent grads and budding entrepreneurs.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 8, 2012

'Image Credit. Making innovation happen is the hard part…. “Be more innovative” – how many times has your CEO told you that? Although being innovative isn’t really part of the definition of information technology, CIOs still want their IT department to always be ahead of what their internal customers want. We’d like to be able to have our IT staff be solving problems that our customers might not even know that they have.

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Sean Daniel

AUGUST 8, 2012

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Wednesday, August 08, 2012. SBS is a Community, Stick together! Well, I’ve seen a lot of unhappy faces (umm, emoticons?) about a name change from Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials to Windows Essential Server 2012. People don’t like the removal of the “SBS” part, and there is a revolt.

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Future of CIO

AUGUST 5, 2012

Modern businesses all need learn how to swim at the sea of data, to ride the wave, or avoid obstacles, The value of information management is never for its own sake, but to provide insight and leap innovation. 1. Customer Insight Know What Customers Need Before They know Themselves Big Data allows businesses to see customers’ behavior pattern they have never seen before, it also uncovers the interdependence and connections that will lead to a new way of doing business, or engaging customers’ fee

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 7, 2012

Last week I ran a workshop for the global leadership of the growth companies division of a major professional services firm. The Economist had just run a leader on Europe’s chronic failure to encourage ambitious entrepreneurs , including some interesting data comparing the age of leading European and American companies. I dug into the original data from think-tank Bruegel in their excellent report The Demographics of Global Corporate Champions to create the following chart.

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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 8, 2012

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

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Future of CIO

AUGUST 9, 2012

Everybody talks about customer experience these days, IT vendors are no exception. Customer-vendor relationship at modern business is both art and science, complex, also critical, but it’s worth the effort to craft such a good long term relationship, especially for IT vendors, how to delight customers takes both aptitude and attitude, how modern CIOs evaluate vendors also take fair judgment and deep knowledge. 1.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 6, 2012

I have recently been running a series of social media workshops for retailers in a franchise chain. The workshop starts with a big picture view and then runs through detailed guidance on establishing a presence, building engagement, and driving success, interspersed with group exercises to set objectives, think through stratgies, and set action plans.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 9, 2012

Last week The Guardian asked me to write an article from a futurist’s perspective commenting on the debate on Britain’s internet priorities. They published it under the title For better internet connectivity, we must invest in bandwidth. Below is the full text of the article. I will write more on this topic later, as it is so critical for nations to take intelligent, differentiated, relevant strategies to broadband investment in order to create prosperous economies and societies.

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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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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 7, 2012

I’ll be in Perth, WA the evening of 13 August after a client workshop. After a quick pow-wow on Twitter, a few fine folk have agreed to catch up for a drink and conversation about Twitter, media, the future, startups, or whatever else we feel like chatting about. When : Monday 13 August, 5:30 – 7:30pm, and then bite to eat for whoever’s up for it.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 10, 2012

Yesterday I spoke at a business leaders lunch event in Darwin on the Future of Business organized by the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce and Optus. Following my keynote John Paitaridis, Managing Director of Optus Business, shared some of the highlights of a recently released Optus Future of Business report , based on an extensive survey of corporate Australia.

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