Agile Alliance
MAY 3, 2024
Ines Garcia, a leader of the Agile Sustainability Initiative, blends Agile practices with sustainability to address global challenges and promote sustainable business practices. The post Agile sustainability: Cultivating a sustainable future with Ines Garcia first appeared on Agile Alliance.
CIO
MAY 3, 2024
United Parcel Service last year turned to generative AI to help streamline its customer service operations. The in-house developed project, Message Response Automation (MeRA), is already delivering. MeRA, which was initiated last July and went into beta testing in October, leverages publicly available large language models (LLMs) to automate the handling of some customer issues, providing consistent messaging and significant improvement of agent efficiency, aka handle time, according to the mult
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Agile Alliance
MAY 3, 2024
The Agile Alliance board uses its established vision, mission, and "Value Dials" framework to guide its ongoing relevance and commitment to supporting a global community dedicated to Agile practices. The post How the Agile Alliance board makes decisions first appeared on Agile Alliance.
CIO
MAY 3, 2024
IBM has announced the expansion of its software portfolio to 92 countries in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs). Previously, the digital catalog was available in just five countries. This strategic alliance allows businesses in these countries access to IBM’s software products, including data technologies and AI, directly through the AWS Marketplace, IBM said in a statement.
Advertisement
Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 3, 2024
Identifying as an organizational member — or feeling a strong sense of attachment to the organization — is generally a positive thing for employees and employers. But our research on workplace incivility and mistreatment shows that it can also shape when — and if — employees recognize and respond to subtle forms of discrimination against women at work.
CTO Universe brings together the best content for CTOs from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 3, 2024
As AI becomes more powerful, it faces a major trust problem. Consider 12 leading concerns: disinformation, safety and security, the black box problem, ethical concerns, bias, instability, hallucinations in LLMs, unknown unknowns, potential job losses and social inequalities, environmental impact, industry concentration, and state overreach. Each of these issues is complex — and not easy to solve.
CIO
MAY 3, 2024
The agile methodology, which facilitates collaboration between stakeholders, teams, and customers during software development, is fast gaining prominence in today’s enterprises. The methodology, which is also used beyond software development at some businesses , is at the center of several frameworks such as Scrum, Lean, Kanban , and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
Crunchbase News
MAY 3, 2024
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. What a week it’s been if you were a startup looking to raise big.
Dell EMC
MAY 3, 2024
Meeting server cooling challenges with choice, flexibility and efficiency.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
Crunchbase News
MAY 3, 2024
There’s little software can do to stop hurricanes or prevent droughts. However, it can play a role in helping understand climate risks and taking steps to mitigate them. Those capabilities, it seems, are inspiring investors to back some fairly large rounds for startups developing digital tools with applications in climate-risk management. This week, two U.S. companies — Arbol and AiDash — closed on a combined $118.5 million for business models around managing insurance for climate-related damage
Ooda Loop
MAY 3, 2024
Four Chinese generative artificial intelligence start-ups have been valued at between $1.2bn and $2.5bn in the past three months, leading a pack of more than 260 companies vying to emulate the success of US rivals such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
Crunchbase News
MAY 3, 2024
This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out our March entry here. Spring is here, baseball’s back and days are longer, so it’s pretty easy to miss some of the more intriguing rounds announced by startups in April. Don’t worry, we selected a quintet of eye-catching startups raising cash that will keep you up on what you may have missed in the past month.
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 3, 2024
Episode 255: In this episode, you’ll dive into the challenges of unlocking team potential when leading a team tangled in conflict. Imagine having a handbook of exactly what to say to calm the storm—that’s what the book, “ Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict ,” offers you. You’ll hear why it’s crucial to tackle these conflicts head-on, transforming them into opportunities for growth and improved team dynamics.
Advertisement
The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
InfoWorld
MAY 3, 2024
Rust 1.78, just released as the latest version of the popular, memory-safe programming language , adds backing for a #[diagnostic] attribute namespace to influence compiler messages. These messages are treated as hints that the compiler is not required to use, the Rust team said. Also it is not an error to provide a diagnostic that the compiler does not recognize.
Ooda Loop
MAY 3, 2024
This Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) is the first of its kind release from the NSA Artificial Intelligence Security Center (AISC) – “intended to support National Security System owners and Defense Industrial Base companies that will be deploying and operating AI systems designed and developed by an external entity…while intended for […]
InfoWorld
MAY 3, 2024
As a seasoned advocate and expert in cloud computing and generative AI , I’ve observed the immense transformative potential these technologies offer. Yet, we’re doing things just as stupidly as we did in the early days of cloud computing. If you have not noticed lately, enterprises are running around in circles to fix mistakes they made 10 years ago in migrating and building new cloud-based systems.
Tenable
MAY 3, 2024
Verizon’s DBIR found that hackers are having a field day exploiting vulnerabilities to gain initial access. Plus, a CISA program is helping critical infrastructure organizations prevent ransomware attacks. In addition, check out what Tenable’s got planned for RSA Conference 2024. And get the latest on the Change Healthcare breach. And much more! Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending May 3. 1 - Verizon DBIR: Hackers feasting on unpatched vulnerabilities This year’s edition
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.
Ooda Loop
MAY 3, 2024
China is exporting its model of digital authoritarianism abroad with the help of its far-reaching tech industry and massive infrastructure projects, offering a blueprint of “best practices” to neighbors including Cambodia, Malaysia and Vietnam, a human rights watchdog has warned.
Cloudera
MAY 3, 2024
One of the worst-kept secrets among data scientists and AI engineers is that no one starts a new project from scratch. In the age of information there are thousands of examples available when starting a new project. As a result, data scientists will often begin a project by developing an understanding of the data and the problem space and will then go out and find an example that is closest to what they are trying to accomplish.
InfoWorld
MAY 3, 2024
ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs need authentication too. We’ve explored JWT authentication in an earlier post here. In this article we’ll examine how we can build a basic authentication handler for minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core.
Ooda Loop
MAY 3, 2024
China leads the U.S. as a top producer of research in more than half of AI’s hottest fields, according to new data from Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) shared first with Axios. The findings reveal important nuances about the global race between the U.S.
Advertisement
GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.
InfoWorld
MAY 3, 2024
Visual Studio Code 1.89, the April 2024 release of Microsoft’s popular code editor , has arrived with capabilities including enhanced branch switching and middle-click paste support. The update, downloadable from the project website , was announced May 2. Enhanced branch switching addressed a long-standing feature request to save and restore editors when switching between source control branches.
Ooda Loop
MAY 3, 2024
It seems that nowadays everyone is becoming an “AI expert” because they have done some prompt engineering or played around with AI tools that help them create music. Everyone now considers themselves to be an AI developer.
Honeycomb
MAY 3, 2024
Challenge Fender faced challenges with log analysis, finding it slow and complex to navigate, leading to inefficient troubleshooting and a need for a more user-friendly and advanced observability solution. Synonymous with all things rock n’ roll, Fender is the world’s leading guitar manufacturer. To enhance the customer experience, Fender launched their digital apps in 2016 (Fender Tune and Fender Tone) and 2017 (Fender Play) to empower customers in starting and advancing their guitar playing sk
Ooda Loop
MAY 3, 2024
Microsoft, it seems, is hedging its bets when it comes to general-purpose robotics AI. At the end of February, the Windows maker spearheaded a massive $675 million Series B in Bay Area-based Figure.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.
IDC
MAY 3, 2024
Dive into the nuanced world of sales methodologies as we explore the distinctions between value-based selling and consultative approaches, unraveling when to employ each for optimal results.
Ooda Loop
MAY 3, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled an international framework for regulation and use of generative AI on Thursday, adding to global efforts on governance for the rapidly advancing technology. Kishida made the announcement in a speech at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
CEO Insider
MAY 3, 2024
99.9% of businesses in the United States are small businesses, and 46% of Americans are employed by small businesses. Given these statistics, the importance of a small business having protection in the event of a loss is quite evident. Businesses fail for a number of reasons, such as poor leadership, poor marketing plans, and poor […] The post This One Insurance Hack Saves Your Business from Disaster appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
216 
Let's personalize your content