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Business Tapped Out of the Climate Fight. Here’s How to Get Back In.

Harvard Business Review

Despite the business community’s potential to be a powerful ally in the climate fight, it has largely been sidelined by free market ideologies that promote voluntary corporate sustainability over necessary regulation. To truly address climate change, businesses must go beyond individual sustainability efforts and engage in movement-building and political action.

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Scaling a medical device company: A CIO’s digital transformation journey

CIO

When I started at Novanta about five years ago, my first mission was to bring scalability to our Enterprise solutions, as well as developing a digital roadmap to modernize the technology footprint, reduce technical debt, and explore strategies to ensure that we’re growing at scale. Novanta is a leading global supplier of core technology solutions that give medical and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers a competitive advantage.

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Turning Sprint reviews into a powerhouse of feedback

Agile Alliance

How a fintech giant transformed stagnant Sprint reviews into dynamic, user-focused collaborations through Agile values, boosting team morale and user engagement. The post Turning Sprint reviews into a powerhouse of feedback first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Omar Hatamleh: “Todos los humanos tendrán gemelos digitales gracias a la computación cuántica y la IA”

CIO

En el año 1900, justo cuando comenzaba el siglo XX, la esperanza de vida en España era de 35 años. Esto era así por la elevada mortalidad infantil. Si conseguías sobrevivir a los primeros cinco años de vida, entonces podías llegar a los 50 años. Un siglo después, en el 2000, la esperanza de vida era de 78 años, y hoy se sitúa en 82, lo que convierte a nuestro país en uno de los más “longevos” del mundo.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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From copy-paste Agile to true transformation

Agile Alliance

The success story of a German insurance company overcoming "copy-paste Agile" by embracing true agility with cross-functional teams and customer focus. The post From copy-paste Agile to true transformation first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Managed DevOps Pools: Simplifying Azure DevOps Setup

Xebia

Have you ever had to deploy, configure, and maintain your own DevOps agents, be it for Azure DevOps or GitHub? If so, then you probably found out it is such a hassle to keep everything up-to-date and up-and-running. Managed DevOps Pools have recently been announced as Public Preview. In this article, we go over the most important features and capabilities of the new service and provide examples on how to implement this using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.

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3 reasons why the US government should lean on data and AI efficiency

CIO

Elon Musk revolutionized products in the auto industry. No one brand since the Model T and Henry Ford has had such a profound impact on design thinking, efficiency, and innovation all running in parallel. Tesla cars can be updated 40 times more frequently than the giants in the industry. He’s done the same in space. Who thought commercial and national space programs could be brought together in such a way?

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Poor Valuation Practices Have Slowed Innovation

Crunchbase News

Consider a simple truth: Professional investing requires understanding value. If you cannot understand the value of an asset, and how it appreciates over time, you will not invest in it. At one point in time, this understanding was the “moat” for venture capital firms. Those that could see value where others couldn’t were able to make decisions that resulted in outsized returns.

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El despliegue de ChatGPT Enterprise en BBVA desata una gran ola de innovación

CIO

Hace ya unos meses que BBVA, la entidad financiera española con más de 167 años de historia a sus espaldas, está sentando las bases para afrontar el gran reto que supone la aplicación de la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa al sector bancario. En concreto, según han dado a conocer desde la organización, los movimientos de la institución financiera están orientados al desarrollo y la implantación de una IA generativa segura y responsable que les permita impulsar la eficiencia e innovación d

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed In November: Stronger Plants, Better Protein And Longer Lashes

Crunchbase News

This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting startup funding deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out last month’s entry here. The holiday season is upon us and everyone’s busy. That means it’s pretty easy to miss some of the more intriguing rounds that get announced. No matter. We have you covered as we take a look at recently funded startups doing everything from fighting climate change to riding on the moon to longer lashes through AI.

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Beware the rise of ‘ghost jobs’ — fake job openings with no intent to hire

CIO

A job listing advertisement on a digital platform costs next to nothing, but the intelligence it can provide a company — even without any intent to fill the position — can be significant. A job listing alone can help a company build a potential talent base to draw on for the future, enable it to investigate market trends, or draw attention to the company as one experiencing growth.

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Tech winners and losers of 2024: For every triumph, a turkey

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

AI flourished, Arm chips dominated, and open source thrived. Meanwhile, Elon Musk gets credit for two of the biggest losers, and Apple makes it onto both the nice and naughty lists.

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Plan para ejecutar con éxito estrategias de TI alineadas con el negocio

CIO

En nuestro cambiante mundo digital, es esencial sincronizar las estrategias de TI con los objetivos empresariales para lograr un éxito duradero. La tecnología ha pasado de ser una función administrativa a un factor clave para el crecimiento empresarial, la innovación y la ventaja competitiva. Independientemente de si Peter Drucker dijo o no que “la cultura se come a la estrategia en el desayuno”, el sentimiento sigue siendo particularmente relevante en TI, donde la colaboración constructiva en

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Anti-Ransomware Startup Halcyon Reaches Unicorn Status After $100M Series C

Crunchbase News

Not even the holiday season can stop cyber fundraising it seems. Anti-ransomware firm Halcyon became the latest cyber startup to raise big, locking up a $100 million Series C led by Evolution Equity Partners that values the company at $1 billion. The round also saw participation from Bain Capital , SYN Ventures , Harmony Group , ServiceNow Ventures and others.

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Viajes aéreos 100% digitales, seguros y personalizados gracias a la biometría

CIO

Imagínese una experiencia paperless en los aeropuertos, donde la fricción se reduzca considerablemente y la experiencia del viajero relegue al pasado el estrés y la tensión. Esto ya es una realidad gracias a la alianza suscrita entre la compañía española especializada en verificación digital, Facephi, y la Asociación Internacional de Transporte Aéreo (IATA, por sus siglas en inglés).

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Microsoft Enlists Endor Labs to Integrate SCA Tool with CNAPP

DevOps.com

Microsoft has tapped Endor Labs to incorporate a software composition analysis (SCA) tool into its cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP).

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Capgemini expande las capacidades de su fábrica de aplicaciones inteligentes

CIO

Capgemini ha anunciado formalmente la expansión global de su Intelligent App Factory en Azure , que unirá a Mistral AI y Microsoft con el fin de acelerar la adopción de tecnologías de inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa. De la mano, las tres organizaciones están cooperando para abordar las necesidades específicas de las empresas que requieren implementaciones muy personalizadas, incluidas las industrias altamente reguladas.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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A new AI scaling law shell game?

Ooda Loop

Scaling laws were supposed to be, well, laws. Mathematical laws. Pretty much the entire GenAI frenzy has been based on the idea that with reasonable precision you could predict performance from amount of data, number of parameters, and amount of compute. As recently as a few weeks ago, Sam Altman was extolling scaling laws as […] The post A new AI scaling law shell game?

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Macy’s $154 million ‘hidden’ accounting mess shows the limits of today’s audit, GRC, and accounting systems

CIO

Macy’s on Monday reported that it needed to delay its earnings announcement, itself a stunning move that public companies try to never make, because a lone employee manipulated the retailer’s accounting systems for three years, hiding as much as $154 million. Macy’s announced , “a single employee with responsibility for small package delivery expense accounting intentionally made erroneous accounting accrual entries to hide approximately $132 to $154 million of cumulative delivery expenses from

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Amazon Web Services Launches Quantum-Computing Advisory Program

Ooda Loop

Amazon Web Services launched Quantum Embark, an advisory program that aims to prepare customers for society’s shift towards quantum computing. The program—which builds upon the company’s existing quantum-computing service, Amazon Braket—will take users through up to three modules designed to provide people being introduced to the field with context, guidance and expertise, the Amazon.com unit […] The post Amazon Web Services Launches Quantum-Computing Advisory Program appeared first on OOD

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Why data quality drives AI success

CIO

When it comes to AI, the secret to its success isn’t just in the sophistication of the algorithms — it’s in the quality of the data that powers them. AI has the potential to transform industries, but without reliable, relevant, and high-quality data, even the most advanced models will fall short. Organizations must prioritize strong data foundations to ensure that their AI systems are producing trustworthy, actionable insights.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Walking the Walk: How Tenable Embraces Its "Secure by Design" Pledge to CISA

Tenable

As a cybersecurity leader, Tenable was proud to be one of the original signatories of CISA’s “Secure by Design" pledge earlier this year. Our embrace of this pledge underscores our commitment to security-first principles and reaffirms our dedication to shipping robust, secure products that our users can trust. Read on to learn how we’re standing behind our pledge.

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Los CIO se enfrentan a los problemas de crecimiento de la IA

CIO

El camino que tienen por delante los líderes de TI para convertir la promesa de la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa en valor comercial sigue siendo empinado y desalentador , pero los componentes clave de la hoja de ruta de la IA generativa (datos, plataforma y habilidades) están evolucionando y definiéndose mejor. Esa fue la conclusión clave del panel Qué viene después para IA generativa en las empresas que tuvo lugar en el marco del evento Big.AI@MIT , moderado por Lan Guan, CAIO en Ac

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Quick Tips for Providing IT Support During the Holidays

Dell EMC

Learn how to bolster your family's cybersecurity hygiene and effortlessly protect them from online threats this holiday season.

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AI ed etica: la priorità è mitigare i rischi e assicurare la compliance

CIO

Era il novembre del 2021 quando l’Unesco annunciava l’adozione del primo testo mondiale sull’etica dell’ intelligenza artificiale , ratificato dai 193 Paesi membri dell’organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite. Le tecnologie dell’AI “possono rendere grandi servizi all’umanità” e “tutti i Paesi possono beneficiarne”, ma “sollevano anche preoccupazioni etiche di fondo”, recitava il testo, raccomandando uno sviluppo e un uso dell’AI fondato sui valori di “rispetto, protezione e promozione dei diritti del

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Looking to lead technology teams in 2025? Follow this CDO's advice

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

There's a temptation to automate as much work as possible, but AI has some shortcomings - and not for the reasons many think.

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Trace3 names Jason Peoples as Outlier Award winner for 2024

CIO

Innovators have the unique ability to see what’s possible, bringing together in new ways, acclimating to change and thriving within it, and creating true transformation. Few people are true innovators, but it’s those characteristics that make an innovator worthy of the title “Outlier.” Jason Peoples is one of those rare people. Trace3 recently awarded Peoples its highest honor, the Outlier Award.

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CodeSOD: Hall of Mirrors

The Daily WTF

Robert was diagnosing a problem in a reporting module. The application code ran a fairly simple query- SELECT field1, field2, field3 FROM report_table - so he foolishly assumed that it would be easy to understand the problem. Of course, the "table" driving the report wasn't actually a table, it was a view in the database. Most of our readers are familiar with how views work, but for those who have had been corrupted by NoSQL databases: database views are great- take a query you run o

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