CIO

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Salesforce is working on adding two new prompt engineering features to its Einstein 1 platform to speed up the development of generative AI applications in the enterprise, a top executive of the company said. The two new features, namely a testing center and the provision of prompt engineering suggestions, are the fruit of significant investment in the company’s AI engineering team, said Claire Cheng, vice president of machine learning and AI engineering at Salesforce.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Ralph Kilmann, the co-creator of the Thomas Kilmann conflict mode instrument (TKI), discusses his lifelong work on how to resolve conflict and improve collaboration. Kilmann explains that his interest in conflict stems from his personal experiences growing up in a family affected by conflict and his academic studies on conflict management. He and his colleague developed the TKI assessment to measure the different ways people approach conflict, and it has become a widely used tool in organization

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CIO

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

From the initial kickoff at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas for Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, an artificial intelligence platform will be tracking every move on the field to help keep players safer. Like many other professional sports leagues, the NFL has been at the leading edge of data-driven transformation for years. For example, in 2015 the league dramatically increased its data collection efforts by equipping all players with RFID sensors that pinpoint every player’s field position, speed, dis

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The Hustle

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Jen Glantz sat in her Manhattan apartment on a Friday night with a bottle of two-buck chuck, a keyboard, and years’ worth of frustration. She’d just hung up with two friends. Were they friends? She wondered. Neither had been in touch for years, but they came to her with the same request: Would she be their bridesmaid? She was 26, and she’d been a bridesmaid at least six times.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro marks the biggest experiment yet in the field of “spatial computing,” which its boosters argue has the potential to be the next era of tech — a shift on par with the emergence of mobile computing. But what are early adopter companies really doing with Apple’s new hardware, and what do they hope to get out of these investments? The piece examines efforts from Lowe’s, e.l.f.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Over the last few years, there’s been a renewed focus on burnout, a serious physical and psychological condition that requires attention and care. But a narrow focus on burnout ignores another key part of wellbeing — the more subtle but equally important ongoing maintenance of one’s energy, especially through the daily challenges of leadership. The authors identify five key energy batteries: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social.

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Ivanti

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Adopting a digital employee experience (DEX) solution delivers benefits for everyone in an organization, from the C-suite on down. A DEX solution provides contextual insights and intelligent automation capabilities that allow an IT team to proactively detect and resolve security vulnerabilities and other IT issues. This improves IT operations and an organization's cybersecurity and compliance posture.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Fortinet warns of “potentially” exploited flaw in the SSL VPN functionality of FortiOS, as government agencies warn of pre-positioning by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors in U.S. critical infrastructure through exploitation of known vulnerabilities Background On February 8, Fortinet published an advisory (FG-IR-24-015) to address a critical flaw in FortiOS, its network operating system.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Inspire team innovation with an idea garden, saving great ideas for future growth. Hi Karin, “I attended your Courageous Cultures, how to Read Courageous Cultures with your team book club, and we loved it. We are using the book and we’re reading it. The good news is we’re getting SO MANY IDEAS. I continue to respond with regard (with gratitude, information, and an invitation) to the ideas I receive.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Large companies are striving to increase their purchases from small, diverse-owned businesses (SDBs) — those that are 51% or more owned and operated by an individual or group that is part of a historically underrepresented or underserved group (e.g., women, racial minorities, veterans, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities). Despite their pledges, they are struggling to meet their goals.

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

We are experiencing a CEO leadership crisis—with limited information as to why. US CEO exits were at historic rates in 2023. 1914 CEOs departed, a 55% increase compared to 2022. “No reason given” was the top reason provided for 33% of exits in the Challenger, Gray and Christmas CEO turnover report, more than quadruple the […] The post The Hidden Reasons Behind Record Rates of CEO Turnover in 2023 appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This is a monthly feature that runs down some of the most active investors in U.S.-based companies, looks at some of their most interesting investments, and includes some odds and ends of who spent what. See 2023’s most active startup investors here. It’s a new year, but it seems no investor wanted to go too big in investing in too many U.S.-based startups.

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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Don’t look now, but 25% of organizations surveyed in the United Kingdom have already moved half or more of their cloud-based workloads back to on-premises infrastructures. This is according to a recent study by Citrix , a Cloud Software Group business unit. The survey questioned 350 IT leaders on their current approaches to cloud computing. The survey also showed that 93% of respondents had been involved with a cloud repatriation project in the past three years.

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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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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

By Marissa Fayer Taking over as CEO from a founder is often a herculean task, especially when you’re succeeding founders who have invested their money, time, passion and life into the business. Marissa Fayer of DeepLook Medical and HERhealthEQ. Even if appointed, taking on this role comes with a set of inevitable challenges. Founders naturally have the highest percentage of ownership and sway over the business to date.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Perficient is revving up its commitment to the future of automotive initiative with the innovation of its Electrifying the Future of Automotive program , supporting college Formula SAE racing teams. The Formula SAE program empowers college students to design, build, and race formula-style racing cars, including electric vehicles (EVs), in national and global Formula SAE competitions.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 9, 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. The week was rolling along pretty quietly until the House of Mouse decided to get involved.

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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for data analytics. It is built around a data lake called OneLake, and brings together new and existing components from Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse, and Azure Data Factory into a single integrated environment. Microsoft Fabric encompasses data movement, data storage, data engineering, data integration, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence, along with data security, governance, and compliance.

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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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TechSoup

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It's a tale as old as time — "Kids these days just don't care," grumbles everyone over 26 through gritted teeth and a barely suppressed sigh.

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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Hono 4.0.0, the latest release of the fast, lightweight web framework that runs on any JavaScript runtime, is now available. The update features static site generation, client components, and file-based routing. Launched February 9, Hono 4.0.0 introduces the SSG Helper, which generates static pages of Hono applications. Developers use this by creating a separate file from the application, build.ts , and calling the toSSG() function in it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Sponsor content from Slalom and Google Cloud.

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Ooda Loop

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The US Department of State has announced a $10 million reward for information leading to the identification and location of leaders of the Hive ransomware cybergang, roughly a year after law enforcement dismantled the operation and seized its Tor-based website.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

We’re thrilled to announce that this year, Sitecore has recognized nine of our Perficient colleagues the well-earned title of Sitecore Most Valuable Professional in all three categories- Strategy, Technology, and Ambassador. “Perficient’s commitment to encouraging their people to be active in the community is a model for what we’d like to see every partner doing.

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Ooda Loop

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

United Parcel Service Inc.’s largest layoffs in its 116-year history were made possible, in part, by new technologies including artificial intelligence, CEO Carol Tomé said last week. Citing one example, she said that machine learning allows salespeople to put together proposals without having to ask pricing experts for guidance.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Cisco this week expanded the scope of its observability platform by adding predictive and generative AI capabilities and log analytics.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection recently brought together industry leaders and stakeholders to discuss the urgent need for protective measures, baseline cybersecurity standards and collaboration initiatives to fortify the nation’s critical water systems. Here’s what you need to know. Recent trends highlight a disturbing reality: cyberattacks targeting U.S. water infrastructure are escalating at an alarming rate.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

GitGuardian has allied with CyberArk to streamline secrets detection and management by making it easier to share insights.

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Dataiku

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

With the explosion of Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) usage rapidly transforming the landscape of AI, so too has emerged increased scrutiny over how these models handle sensitive data. For example, OpenAI is being investigated for violating GDPR, and ChatGPT was even temporarily banned in Italy for the company’s practices around data usage and retention.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Using a SaaS solution where data is stored on the vendor’s infrastructure is like playing a football game at your opponent’s home field.

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