James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025. Introduction People Internal Quality Lovability Visibility Agility Profitability How are you measuring productivity? It was September 2023 and my CEO was asking me a question. How are you measuring productivity? It was September 2023, my CEO was asking me a question, and my position as Vice President of Engineering was less than three months old.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2025

Given their lack of scale and resources as compared to larger enterprises, its no wonder that small to medium businesses (SMBs) weigh every decision to adopt new, emerging technologies more prudently. But this also comes without the layers of bureaucracy that plague larger enterprises. As a result, SMBs are nimbler and more responsive to change as they navigate their growth, which grants them the freedom to adopt agile practices, stay ahead of changing market trends, and drive innovation.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

The 16GB option might be overkill for the average home gamer, but it's a welcome addition for edge cases that truly need the extra RAM.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2025

A sharp rise in enterprise investments in generative AI is poised to reshape business operations, with 68% of companies planning to invest between $50 million and $250 million over the next year, according to KPMGs latest AI Quarterly Pulse Survey. The report underscores a growing commitment to AI-driven innovation, with 67% of business leaders predicting that gen AI will transform their organizations by 2025.

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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.

Enterprise

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2025

Despite advances in cybersecurity solutions, the number and impact of cyber incidents continue to grow, with the average cost of a data breach in 2024 reaching $4.88 million and the number of confirmed data breaches hitting a record high. The July 2024 CrowdStrike incident demonstrates the need to develop capabilities to assess the downstream business impact of cyber events, establish appropriate cyber resiliency objectives, and ensure effective communication for better cyber risk management dec

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2025

Despite the many concerns around generative AI, businesses are continuing to explore the technology and put it into production, the 2025 AI and Data Leadership Executive Benchmark Survey revealed. Generative AI is increasingly being put into production, survey author Randy Bean and Tom Davenport, professor of IT and management at Babson College, observed in this year s study.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

Want to bypass geo-restrictions and secure your entire network? Pair the WireGuard protocol with your favorite VPN. I use privacy-oriented Proton to show you how.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Latin America startup investment closed out 2024 on an up note, with the fourth quarter delivering the highest aggregate funding of the year. Overall, investors put $4.2 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for the region in 2024. Thats a 27% increase from the prior year. Even with these gains, however, funding remains far below the peaks scaled in 2021 and early 2022.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

A 'binary big bang' occurred when AI foundation models cracked the natural language barrier, kickstarting a shift in our technology systems: how we design them, use them, and how they operate.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2025

Five strategies to help you beat malaise and lock back in.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

From AI-driven defense to evolving ransomware tactics, here's what cybersecurity industry leaders and experts are preparing for this year.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2025

En algn momento de tu carrera has recibido malos consejos. Normalmente, son bien intencionados, pero tal vez estn anticuados o revelen una visin del mundo problemtica en la persona que te dio el consejo, que sera mejor que no imitaras. Sin embargo, incluso los malos consejos pueden ser una buena enseanza. Shannon Gath, CIO de Teradyne, dijo a CIO en una entrevista con Leadership Live que aprendi una leccin importante de un mal consejo que recibi al principio de su carrera.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

The exoskeleton is designed with weekend warrior athletes in mind. It's built to offer assistance in physical activities such as hiking or biking. Here's what it's like to wear.

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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.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 10, 2025

Survey findings include respondents noted that AI tools are increasing the blast radius of the amount of bad code that needs to be debugged.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

Start the new year by adding this simple process to your Android maintenance routine. You'll be glad you did.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 10, 2025

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 weeks top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out the biggest funding rounds of last year here and here. It certainly was a big week with companies having to raise more than $100 million to make the list.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

It's no G5 OLED, but the LG StanbyMe 2 strikes the right balance of quirkiness, innovation, and performance -- making it my CES standout.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 10, 2025

By Caleb Appleton Having invested in the biotech space since before it had a name, Ive seen life sciences investors steer founders toward a therapeutics pipeline in hopes of securing the payout of a winning drug or medical device. But the high reward comes with even higher risk: The 90% failure rate of clinical development means that a single, highly likely failure can destroy the entire value of a company.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

OK, maybe you wouldn't pay three grand for a Project DIGITS PC. But what about a $1,000 Blackwell PC from Acer, Asus, or Lenovo?

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 10, 2025

The countrys top cybersecurity agency is urging developers to take steps to ensure the software theyre building and the products they roll out are secure and protect end users.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

ChatGPT can step in if Apple's voice assistant can't answer your question or handle your request. Here's how it works.

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Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2025

Technology, geopolitics, and consumer habits are driving an unprecedented rate of change at a time when the organizations are already in flux with the rise of generative AI, remote work, and an aging workforce. Against this backdrop, employee learning and development is more critical than ever yet a recent report from LinkedIn and a series of interviews with 25 CLOs suggest that learning professionals dont always feel aligned with their organizations strategic priorities.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

The Swippitt is a futuristic way to charge your phone but it's not cheap. Here are some gadgets that can serve as alternatives.

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Ooda Loop

JANUARY 10, 2025

Russias recent strides in artificial intelligence development signal an intensification of a new kind of arms raceone where algorithms and neural networks become tools of coercion, disruption, and control The post Russias AI Gambit appeared first on OODAloop.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

As the smoke from California wildfires lowers the air quality across Los Angeles, keep the air in your home clean with the best smart air purifiers from Dyson, Levoit, and more.

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Perficient

JANUARY 10, 2025

Debugging and Error Handling in VBA After setting up VBA in Excel, you can start automating tasks and creating your macros. This blog will guide you through what comes next after the setup processwriting, running, and debugging VBA code in Excel. Debugging and error handling are crucial for writing effective and reliable VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) code.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

The Morento smart air purifier has an inlet and filters on both sides to cover rooms up to 1,076 square feet for cleaner air during wildfire season. Plus, it's discounted on Amazon.

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Ooda Loop

JANUARY 10, 2025

Quantum computers require extreme cooling to perform reliable calculations. One of the challenges preventing quantum computers from entering society is the difficulty of freezing the qubits to temperatures close to absolute zero. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and the University of Maryland, USA, have engineered a new type of refrigerator that can […] The post Researchers Introduce Refrigerator to Autonomously Cool Superconducting Qubits to Record Low Temper

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