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The Blind Men & The Elephant: An Open Innovation Blueprint

Planbox

Curb Transactional Open Innovation and Embrace an Integrated Ecosystem Strategy “It’s a wall,” “It’s a snake,” “It’s a rope,” “It’s a spear,” “It’s a fan,” no, “It’s a tree,” and so goes the story of “The Blind Men & The Elephant”.

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4 Tips To Plug The Cloud IT Skills Gap

DevOps.com

Technical talent is few and far between. The programming world faces a developer shortage, and with this shortage comes a lack of cloud know-how. By now, most organizations have become multi-cloud, yet 86% of IT professionals believe a lack of these skills will slow down cloud projects. As more teams transition from older architectures to […].

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Do you need another app to discover beautiful places when you travel?

TechCrunch

In the summer of 2019, Timilehin Ajiboye became intrigued with the idea of building a travel app after conversations with a circle of friends. One friend reached out to Ajiboye asking if he knew of any platform where she could find new, aesthetically pleasing places to dine in, visit and take pictures. And then, during a trip to Miami, he and his friends actively sought out beautiful places to eat — and take photographs.

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Empathy interviews for transformational coaching

Agile Alliance

Empathy interviews are an effective technique for both understanding the people involved in a transformation and going beyond individuals to see where patterns emerge. The post Empathy interviews for transformational coaching first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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7 Reasons Your Feedback is Being Ignored

Let's Grow Leaders

Start with yourself to ensure everyone can receive feedback. It’s a frustration we hear all the time. “My people aren’t coachable. They’re defensive. It’s like they have a wall and just won’t listen.” We get it. One of the most frustrating human experiences is feeling ignored or unheard. And sometimes people who can’t grow aren’t in the right position.

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Oraan raises $3M to increase financial inclusion among Pakistani women

TechCrunch

After working as an investment banker in Canada for a decade, Halima Iqbal moved back to Pakistan in 2017 and quickly realized how difficult it is for women to access financial services. “I had a really hard time opening up a basic bank account. It took me about three and a half months,” Iqbal told TechCrunch. She began researching how Pakistani women deal with money—for example, how do they save or take out credit?

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3 years of Feedback Using Tribal Leadership Techniques from the Amazon Rainforest

Agile Alliance

After spending a year on a social project with Yanomami tribes in the Amazon rain-forest in Brazil, I was surprised by their peculiar leadership practices. Nightly circle gathering rounds of discussions, regular visits to neighboring villages with ritualized discussions and intriguing common practices among others. When moving back to Europe, I returned to my regular … Continued.

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Leading Through Invisible Dissent with Kellie Beattie

Let's Grow Leaders

Constructive discussions are essential for good decisions and great results. But how do you create an environment that helps to surface disagreement and overcome the challenges of invisible dissent? In this episode, Kelly Beattie shares practical steps you can take to help every team member engage. Leading Through Invisible Dissent. 3:00 – Why leaders must meet people where they are. 7:51 – How leaders create respectful conversations. 10:51 – The role of clear expectations with

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911, What Are Your Innovation Emergency OKRs?

Planbox

There is a reason why firefighters say be fast or be last: they have 60 seconds or less to act before they have a major house fire on their hands. A home can catch fire entirely in just 4 minutes.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Thailand’s fintech startup Ascend Money lands $150M at a $1.5B valuation

TechCrunch

Ascend Money , the Thailand-based fintech startup behind TrueMoney, an e-wallet service, announced today it has raised a $150 million Series C round at a valuation of $1.5 billion. The Series C round was led by Charoen Pokphand Group , which is a major shareholder of Ascend Money, with participation from Bow Wave Capital Management and returning backer Ant Group.

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Ensemble Methods: The Kaggle Machine Learning Champion

Toptal

Two heads are better than one. This proverb describes the concept behind ensemble methods in machine learning. Let's examine why ensembles dominate ML competitions and what makes them so powerful.

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My Team Doesn’t Like Me, What Should I Do? (With Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

3 Ways to Build Deeper Influence and Connection. Of course, you know that leadership is not who likes you. But it sucks to go to work every day when you know your team would rather be working for someone else. Plus, if your team doesn’t like you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. So, how do you gain respect, when your team’s just not there?

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How to Build a Future-Fit Innovation Portfolio

Planbox

We used to think of the future as something that is far, far away. Time between disruptive changes has become significantly more compressed and how much time we have to prepare for the future is shrinking ever faster. The pressure this places on organizations to continually reinvent themselves is staggering.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Netflix acquires its first games studio, “Oxenfree” developer Night School

TechCrunch

A screenshot from Night School Studio game “Oxenfree” Night School Studio , the independent game developer known for narrative-driven titles like “Oxenfree,” announced today it has been acquired by Netflix. This makes it the first games studio the streaming giant has purchased. In Netflix’s announcement, Mike Verdu, vice president of game development, wrote Night School’s “commitment to artistic excellence and proven track record make them invaluable partners as we build out the crea

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Microservices quality issues? A modern DevOps approach can help

TechBeacon

Your team has followed industry trends and shifted from a monolithic system to a widely distributed, scalable, and highly available microservices architecture. But instead of solving all the problems with your fragile legacy architecture, you ended up with a set of federated services that have hidden dependencies maintained by teams that don't talk to each other.

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Harnessing the Value of Log Data Analytics

DevOps.com

Each day, the average enterprise’s cloud applications, containers, compute nodes and other components throw off millions of tiny logs. Each log is a file whose data describes an event such as a user action, service request, application task or compute error. Logs also capture messages that applications and other components send to one another. There’s […].

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ISO 56000 For Innovation Management: Everything You Need To Know

Planbox

ISO 56000 looks like a lot of numbers and letters, but essentially it is the international standard for innovation management. It is a set of standard operation procedures designed to provide a general framework for all organizations, regardless of type, sector or size, toward the successful implementation, maintenance and continual improvement of an innovation management system.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Dance raises another $19.4 million for its e-bike subscription service

TechCrunch

German startup Dance has raised $19.4 million in new funding (€16.5 million). The news comes just weeks after the company started rolling out its e-bike subscription service in Berlin. Eurazeo is leading today’s funding round. HV Capital and BlueYard are also investing, as well as Dave Morin and James Higa from Offline Ventures, Nicolas Berggruen, Roxanne Varza and Verena Pausder.

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Automating Smart Contract Development With Docker

Dzone - DevOps

Smart contracts aren't the easiest things to work with. The setup process to start developing involves many cumbersome, error-prone steps, which by themselves lead to hours of developer time wastage. At the end of this article, you'll have yourself an automated Docker setup that will help you: Run smart contract tests with testRPC. Perform deployments on your chosen network.

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Achieving Business Maturity with Database DevOps

DevOps.com

Companies have seen unprecedented change over the past year and a half, with IT teams trying to help businesses weather the storm by meeting customer demands for services and products to be delivered in new ways while adjusting to remote work. As more companies introduced hybrid approaches to their workplace, a particular trend began to […]. The post Achieving Business Maturity with Database DevOps appeared first on DevOps.com.

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And FORTRAN, FORTRAN So Far Away

The Daily WTF

A surprising amount of the world runs on FORTRAN. That's not to say that huge quantities of new FORTRAN are getting written, though it's far from a dead language, but that there are vital libraries written fifty years ago that are still used to this day. But the world in which that FORTRAN was written and the world in which we live today is wildly different.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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SoftBank-backed Oyo files for $1.16 billion IPO

TechCrunch

Oyo is ready to explore the public markets. The eight-year-old Indian budget hotel giant has filed the paperwork (PDF) with the local market regulator for an initial public offering, in which it is seeking to raise about $1.16 billion. The Gurgaon-headquartered startup — which offers an operating system of sorts to help hoteliers accept digital bookings, payments and determine the best pricing for a room, and integrates with third-party booking services — is seeking to raise about $

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Google’s State of DevOps 2021 Report: What SREs Need to Know

Dzone - DevOps

SRE and DevOps deliver the best value when used together. Culture is key to avoiding burnout. You need the cloud more than ever. These are among the main takeaways from Google Cloud’s latest Accelerate State of DevOps report , which examines how companies are using DevOps practices. Based in part on a survey of more than 32,000 professionals, the 2021 report, which was compiled by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), identifies best practices that DevOps and SRE teams can use today to achi

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Sumo Logic Extends Observability Scope and Reach

DevOps.com

During the online Illuminate user conference, Sumo Logic revealed how it is integrating capabilities it gained with the June 2021 acquisition of Sensu, a provider of open source monitoring tools, with its continuous intelligence platform in addition to adding support for data collected via open source OpenTelemetry software. Sensu Go, a set of tools for […].

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LEADING WITHOUT FRONTIERS: How to fearlessly navigate invisible horizons?

CEO Insider

Creativity is the most distinguishable quality for every leader in every domain. Creative leaders display distinctly different behaviors, values, and characteristics from traditional management, and they get exponential results, inspire creativity in others, build productive teams, and drive successful businesses. They embrace originality and make unique connections between disparate universes past and present to light […].

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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Creative capital is the secret sauce, not venture capital

TechCrunch

Brett Lovelady. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Brett Lovelady is the founder of Astro Studios , now a part of PA Consulting, a design-driven company that empowers designers and strives to capture the value of design in the product, brand, experience and company creation process. Around 90% of startups ultimately fail, and the reasons leading to failure are well known: Undercapitalization, scaling challenges, lack of a competitive advantage or realistic IP.

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AWS Web Application and DDoS Resiliency

Dzone - DevOps

Let me start by explaining the term "DDoS" and then we will get into how AWS helps in creating resiliency against these kinds of attacks. DDoS. DDoS stands for ‘Distributed Denial of Service’ attack in which an attacker attempts to disrupt the online services by overwhelming the target with huge network traffic. It is achieved by exploiting multiple machines using malware and then using them for crafting a surge in network requests on the actual target machine which causes the bandwidth to choke

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Transform Mobile DevOps into Mobile DevSecOps

DevOps.com

Mobile developers are mostly focused on adding new features and functionality to their apps. Security features—such as RASP protection, obfuscation, encryption, jailbreak/root prevention and MiTM prevention—are usually addressed at the end of the development cycle if they are addressed at all. Unfortunately, most apps ship with significant vulnerabilities.

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