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Fountainhead: An Image Makeover for IT

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, September 13, 2011. An Image Makeover for IT. Wow. I just have to share notes about a meeting today - one that might have been unthinkable a year or so ago. Ive been working closely with EMCs CIO and internal IT groups lately, helping understand how theyre delivering IT as a Service.

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Why reputation, influence, and attention are becoming central to economies but are not currencies

Trends in the Living Networks

This morning I gave the opening keynote for an internal future strategy session at a large insurance company. A group of 40 executives from across the organization, as part of a six month program, are spending two days immersing themselves in thinking about how the structure of the economy could change in the years and decades ahead, and the implications for their business.

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How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 2 - 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. Thursday, September 15, 2011. How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 2.

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CIOs Know That Trial By Fire Is The Best Way To Pick New IT Leaders (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'True IT Management Talent Is Forged In The Fires Of Challenge. I’ve got some bad news for all of you CIOs out there: it turns out that 25% of the best workers in the IT department are planning on leaving within the next 12 months. Not to depress you even more, but it turns out that those internal job change programs that you have perhaps created that are intended to develop the next generation of IT leaders don’t seem to be working – 40% of the internal rotations that are made by IT

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Key Performance Indicators

A CIO's Voice

'Every department needs to develop key performance indicators to measure performance. IT is no exception. In fact, it is probably more important for IT to have a set of KPIs to show overall performance in the business. This supports the mission of IT to add value to the organiztion. For my department I have been tracking the following KPIs. I have been tracking on a weekly basis to keep an eye on trends that may develop.

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Detailed stats: Social networks dominate Internet usage, Australia still #1

Trends in the Living Networks

Research company Nielsen has just released detailed statistics on online activity , focusing on social networks and blogging, which at 22.5% of time spent online dominate Internet usage, with more than twice the next category games, at 9.8% of time spent. Below are a few highlights and comments from the full report. Facebook completely dominates the social networking and blogging space, with over 70 times the next most prominent social networking site.

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Lessons Learned from Our First VMworld

Nutanix

Back from our first vmworld on the heels of our launch on 8/16, here are some lessons we learned and a highlights video of our experience.

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Revisiting the future of PR

Trends in the Living Networks

For many reasons PR (or perhaps rather what PR could be) is close to the center of my interests. As we shift to a world driven by social media and influence networks, arguably the PR industry has the best background and capabilities to help organizations deal with the new challenges and opportunities that are emerging. Yet the PR industry has not markedly prospered relative to adjacent industries, which have muscled in on the new work generated in a rapidly changing landscape. ‘Public rela

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Support for crowdfunding in Obama’s Jobs Bill is taking it mainstream

Trends in the Living Networks

Earlier this year I wrote how the US SEC was opening the gates to crowdfunding and a new structure of capitalism with mooted regulatory changes. Now the US President’s proposed Jobs Bill is explicitly focusing on crowdfunding as a mechanism to support entrepreneurs and startups. A post on the White House’s Office and Science Technology blog titled The President’s American Jobs Act: Fueling Innovation and Entrepreneurship co-authored by U.S.

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Looking for Outstanding Researcher/ Writer on Crowdsourcing

Trends in the Living Networks

We have just posted a job on Odesk for an Outstanding Researcher/ Writer on Crowdsourcing in a freelance role. Below is the job description. If you’re interested please respond on Odesk. We’re very excited about our forthcoming book on how to crowdsource effectively, so if you really understand crowdsourcing, are a good researcher and great writer, we’d love to work with you!

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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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Outlook 2010 Speed Tip: Using the Quick Step Box - SeanDaniel.com

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Tuesday, September 13, 2011. Outlook 2010 Speed Tip: Using the Quick Step Box. Outlook 2010 has been out for a while, but one of the more recent features I started to depend on to make email faster for me is the Quick Steps box on the dialog: The Quick Steps bar allows you to make quick and customized operations on pieces of email that you have in your inbox.

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