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How Value Stream Management is fueling success at Boeing, Tyson, and Verizon

CIO

In today’s digitally transforming world, time is of the essence. Whether you’re looking to deliver a new product release, fix an issue, or enhance a service, the longer you make customers wait, the worse for your business. As you seek to boost agility and speed your organization’s digital transformation, there are some proven principles you can apply.

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Preliminary Thoughts on the White House Executive Order on AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Disclaimer: Based on the announcement of the EO , without having seen the full text. While I am heartened to hear that the Executive Order on AI uses the Defense Production Act to compel disclosure of various data from the development of large AI models, these disclosures do not go far enough. The EO seems to be requiring only data on the procedures and results of “Red Teaming” (i.e. adversarial testing to determine a model’s flaws and weak points), and not a wider range of inf

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Want AI? Here’s how to get your data and infrastructure AI-ready

CIO

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping our world. In business, this puts CIOs in one of the most pivotal organizational roles today. CIOs are responsible for much more than IT infrastructure; they must drive the adoption of innovative technology and partner closely with their data scientists and engineers to make AI a reality–all while keeping costs down and being cyber-resilient.

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Fuel Your Career: 17 Critical Skills When You’re a Young Leader Hungry for Success

Let's Grow Leaders

To distinguish yourself as a young leader, build your knowledge, focus on results and relationships, and speak up. You’re a young leader with responsibility for a small team and you want more responsibility. And there’s nothing more frustrating than being told, “Not now. Give it time. You’re not ready yet.” (And if you manage a young leader, please don’t use those despair-inducing words.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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The rise of the chief transformation officer

CIO

Like so many IT leaders, Richard Wiedenbeck wears multiple hats. Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt. In his chief transformation officer (CTO) capacity, the current mission is to spearhead an enterprise transformation effort that takes aim at operational efficiency.

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Boost Human Awareness to Lead with EQ

CEO Insider

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is imperative to any role, team, or organisation. Having the ability to focus on transferring EQ and motivation to your team is even more critical as we all continue to work and lead in an everchanging environment. Simply put, EQ is defined as someone’s ability to recognise, understand, and manage their own […] The post Boost Human Awareness to Lead with EQ appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Balancing Profit and Purpose with Your Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Digital transformation can be a tool for doing both well and good. The authors look to the example of the Dutch Lottery, or Nederlandse Loterij (NLO), which faced a wave of digital disruptors that operated in a legal gray zone offering pure online products. In response, the company proposed implementing a “KPI butterfly” to balance doing well (making money) against doing good (protecting society) as part of its digital transformation process.

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AI Healthcare Use Cases

Perficient

Are you a Healthcare Business Leader stressing over how much you should use AI? Don’t be. I’m certain you have a roadmap with some bodacious goals on them. You want to increase engagement and access to high quality care and drive down healthcare costs, right? Although AI isn’t a magic wand, we can finally start to think bigger and shorten our roadmaps.

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Creating Customer Service Bots That People Don’t Hate

Harvard Business Review

From physical robots to digital chatbots, service bots are revolutionizing the workplace. To understand how consumers perceive firms that employ service bots, researchers conducted six experiments in which customers interacted with either a bot or a human service provider. Their field and laboratory experiments found that consumers believe the use of bots is motivated by cost-cutting and profit maximization at the expense of the customer experience.

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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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Fail Like a Pro – How to Plan for and Recover from Failure

Perficient

Success and failure – just like hot and cold, light and darkness, love and hate, or good and evil – these represent the ends of a familiar spectrum. Countless philosophical works have pondered these seemingly opposing concepts. My favorite view for all such opposites is that you cannot understand one without the other. They are more complementary than they are contradictory.

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IBM Applies Generative AI to Ansible Playbooks

DevOps.com

IBM extended the reach of the generative AI tools it provides to automate the writing of code to the Ansible IT automation framework.

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Get More Funding for Your R&D Initiatives

Harvard Business Review

Although financial analysts widely acknowledge that innovation is a key driver of business growth and business sustainability, the financial markets do not reward innovation investments, largely because companies do a poor job of making innovation transparent to investors and analysts. There are legitimate reasons for being careful with information but the authors argue that companies could benefit from sharing progress with their project pipelines and communicating their decision-making progres

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FAQs for Software Testing: All the Background You Need

DevOps.com

Software testing is critical and involves evaluating an application to see if it meets the requirements and functions it was built for.

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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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Perficient US Colleagues Participate in Hunger Action Month Campaign

Perficient

September is Hunger Action Month (HAM) when Feeding America , a Perficient community partner, organizes a campaign to spread awareness about food insecurity. To support these efforts, Perficient Giving ERG organized a friendly HAM competition to encourage colleagues worldwide to donate non-perishable food items to their local food banks. Offices that collect the most donations and have the biggest impact qualify for special recognition as HAM champions!

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How to Solve the GPU Shortage Problem With Automation

DevOps.com

What can teams do when facing a quota issue and the cloud provider runs out of GPU-based instances? Automation is the answer.

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CodeSOD: Legacy Horrors

The Daily WTF

Today is Halloween, a day filled with chills, horrors, and Jamie Lee Curtis. An interesting aspect of horror movies is how often the roots of the horror lurk in the past. Michael Meyers had been in an asylum for decades before his infamous Halloween rampage. Midsommar represents a centuries old tradition. Barbarian is rooted in sins committed a generation prior.

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How to Deal with Brilliant Jerks

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Brilliant jerks are great to have around because they’re brilliant but they’re equally painful to have because they’re jerks. As a leader, the way you treat these brilliant jerks tells your organization a lot about what you value… and what you don’t. Today’s post is by Chris Laping, author of People Before Things: Change Isn’t an End-User Problem ( CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Embracing Continuous Delivery: Unleashing the Power of Agile Software Development

Dzone - DevOps

Organizations work to deliver software applications at an unprecedented pace without sacrificing quality in today’s fast-paced and fiercely competitive digital landscape. Companies are unable to respond quickly to market demands because traditional software development methodologies frequently experience bottlenecks and delays. Continuous delivery (CD), however, has made it possible for businesses to streamline their software development procedures, promote teamwork, and produce quick, dependabl

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Cloud Analytics Powered by FinOps

Cloudera

Cloud transformation is ranked as the cornerstone of innovation and digitalization. The legacy IT infrastructure to run the business operations — mainly data centers — has a deadline to shift to cloud-based services. Agility, innovation, and time-to-value are the key differentiators cloud service providers (CSP) claim to help organizations speed up digital transformation projects and business objectives.

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IoT Interoperability Solutions With Software-Based Architecture

Dzone - DevOps

In the rapidly evolving landscape of the Internet of Things ( IoT ), achieving seamless interoperability among a myriad of devices and systems is paramount. To tackle this challenge head-on, software-based architectures are emerging as powerful solutions. In this article, we explore the synergy between software-based architecture and the development of interoperability solutions for IoT to provide insights relevant to software developers and data engineers.

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Sharpening Tools for Retailers to Take on Loss Prevention

Dell EMC

How Cox and Dell use AI to address product loss, return value to retailers and improve the shopping experience.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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A Guide to Managing the First Fallacy of Distributed Computing

Dzone - DevOps

Distributed computing is a complex field with numerous challenges, and understanding the fallacies associated with it is crucial for building robust and reliable distributed systems. Here are eight fallacies of distributed computing and their significance: 1. The Network Is Reliable: Assuming that network connections are always available and reliable can lead to system failures when network outages occur, even when the network outages are transitory.

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How People, Process and Technology Challenges Are Hurting Cybersecurity Teams

Tenable

In a commissioned study conducted in 2023 by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Tenable, we set out to understand the real-world challenges standing in the way of effective risk-reduction practices. Here’s what we learned. At a time when cybersecurity programs are facing unprecedented levels of scrutiny by government agencies, insurance companies and investors , many organizations find it challenging to effectively report and communicate about risk.

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Fail Fast Without All the Annoying Technical Debt

Dataiku

A company recently told me that their AI initiative was very successful. After three years, it had zero project failures and their team of seven data scientists put two AI use cases into production each year. Is that failure rate too low?

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Antarctica: An EarthX Film Festival Recap

Dell EMC

Dell’s documentary explores microplastic pollution found in one of the most remote areas of our planet.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Tenable Cyber Watch: IAM Ranks No. 1 as Most In-Demand Cyber Tech Skill; Anti-Phishing Best Practices, and more

Tenable

This week's edition of Tenable Cyber Watch unpacks the most sought-after cyber skills and addresses how to protect your organization from phishing attacks. Also covered: The most common method used to log into online accounts. What are the cybersecurity skills that hiring managers look for the most? Need guidance on how to best protect your organization from phishing attacks?

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How Do I Find Meaning in my Work?

Harvard Business Review

A leader who feels something is missing in his career must learn how to define his purpose.

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Cyber Watch: Tenable CSO Bob Huber on Common Employee Behaviors That Can Put Your Company At Risk

Tenable

On this special edition of Tenable Cyber Watch, Tenable CSO Bob Huber discusses whether certain common employee behaviors are security risks for a company – red flags or green flags. Happy Monday! It's Cybersecurity Awareness Month! On this special edition of Tenable Cyber Watch, Tenable CSO Bob Huber discusses whether certain common employee behaviors are security risks for a company – red flags or green flags.

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