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How to Master Conflict Resolution

Harvard Business Review

Learning to navigate conflicts is not really a choice in today’s organizations. It’s an imperative. In this article, the author explains what conflict resolution is, why it’s an essential skill, and how to approach the conflict-resolution process. She offers four steps: 1) Try to see the situation from the other person’s point of view; 2) Pinpoint what the conflict is really about; 3) Think about your primary goal; and 4) Decide how to proceed.

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How BSH boosted their knowledge power to deliver better customer service

CIO

The approximately 60,000 employees of BSH Home Appliances Group (BSH) would agree with a phrase invented more than 400 years ago by an Englishman, Sir Francis Bacon. For those employees striving to meet their company’s goal of improving customers’ quality of life at home, Bacon said it best, “Knowledge is power.” Based in Munich, Germany, BSH , a part of Bosch Group, has become one of the world’s top home appliance manufacturers – from large appliances such as ovens, dishwashers, washers, dry

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Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import now generally available

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Today, we’re pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import. This feature empowers customers to import and use their customized models alongside existing foundation models (FMs) through a single, unified API. Whether leveraging fine-tuned models like Meta Llama, Mistral Mixtral, and IBM Granite, or developing proprietary models based on popular open-source architectures, customers can now bring their custom models into Amazon Bedrock without the overhead

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Securing the digital future: How Huawei is tackling cybersecurity in the GCC

CIO

As the GCC countries continue to evolve into global digital hubs, the adoption of technologies such as 5G, AI, and IoT is accelerating rapidly. These advancements offer immense economic growth and innovation potential, but they also introduce new cybersecurity challenges. To explore how organizations in the Gulf region are addressing these challenges, CIO Middle East discussed with Sultan Mahmood Malik, Chief Security Officer at Huawei Gulf North, who shared insights into the latest cybersecurit

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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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Shaken, Not Stirred: 4 Examples of Workplace Conflict and How to Build Stronger Bonds

Let's Grow Leaders

Crafting the Perfect Chaser: Powerful Phrases That Turn Conflict Cocktails into Care-Filled Collaboration If it feels like you’re experiencing more conflict at work over the last few years, you’re in good company. Our research shows that not only is conflict more frequent, but it’s also getting more challenging to navigate. Today’s examples of workplace conflict can best be described as a complex cocktail of challenges: tired workers in an uncertain economy; a pandemic ha

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Cyprus Thwarted a Digital Attack Against the Government’s Main Online Portal

Ooda Loop

Cyprus said it has successfully thwarted a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack aimed at blocking access to the government’s central online portal. This attack affected government portal gov.cy for only a few minutes. It has not been said who was behind the attacks or what the motive could have been.

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Estancamiento de la IA: la brecha entre la inversión en IA y su adopción

CIO

La inteligencia artificial (IA) sigue dando forma a las estrategias en la nube, pero su implantación está siendo más lenta de lo previsto. Esto resulta frustrante para los proveedores de tecnología que han hecho grandes apuestas por la IA. ¿Qué está ocurriendo? Una encuesta reciente realizada por Censuswide en nombre de Red Hat encuestó a 609 directores de TI de todo el Reino Unido y otros mercados importantes.

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Dell Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant Report

Dell EMC

Your success drives us to continuously innovate with Dell PowerScale. Learn more in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant.

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Los CIO están bajo presión para ofrecer resultados de IA más rápidamente

CIO

Los directores de sistemas de información (CIO, por sus siglas en inglés) están sometidos a una presión cada vez mayor para generar valor empresarial a partir de la IA generativa , pero Juan Pérez, CIO de Salesforce, se encuentra entre los líderes de TI que creen que la impaciencia de los directivos podría condenar al fracaso muchos proyectos. “La explosión de la IA realmente ha puesto a los CIO en el punto de mira y ha colocado a los CIO en el asiento caliente como nunca antes” , dice Pérez, re

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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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The Strengths and Weaknesses that Set Founders Apart

Harvard Business Review

Comparing data from 50 founder CEOs and 58 non-founder CEOs reveals the real differences between “founder mode” and “manager mode.

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SAP sustainability tracking rollout focuses on data consistency, outlier detection

CIO

The complexity and hard science elements of environmental sustainability programs make them among the most complex and challenging compliance areas for CIOs. In May 2023, SAP announced that it was pursuing such a sustainability program , and on Friday it finally rolled out the program, in the sense that it said that it “has finished beta testing and is now generally available,” according to SAP spokesperson Hanna Heine.

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AI-Enhanced Procurement Startup Zip Locks Up $190M At $2.2B Valuation

Crunchbase News

Procurement startup Zip saw its valuation jump 47% after raising a $190 million Series D led by Bond. The round also included new investors DST Global , Adams Street Partners and Alkeon Capital , along with existing investors, Y Combinator and CRV. The round values the San Francisco-based company at $2.2 billion. In May 2023, Zip locked up a $100 million Series C at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation.

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Seis obstáculos a la innovación en TI

CIO

Según una encuesta realizada en 2024 por la empresa de servicios profesionales Deloitte , los directores de sistemas de información (CIO, por sus siglas en inglés) consideran que la innovación es la característica más importante que deben aportar a su función, por delante de aportar valor a los resultados y actuar como agentes del cambio, dos tareas que requieren de la misma.

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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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4 Areas Where Seed Funding Is Strong, From AI Assistants To Carbon Capturers

Crunchbase News

In the not-that-distant future, robots and AI assistants will be taking on a much larger share of our work. Humans will consume growing quantities of increasingly elaborate digital content. And we’ll find more creative ways to store the carbon generated by all our activity. That, in very broad strokes, is the futuristic vision one might imagine after scrolling through a sample set of 1,000 seed-stage companies on Crunchbase that raised funding in the past six months.

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Huawei Dr Wen Tong: Do 6G right rather than haste

CIO

On 17 th October 2024 in Japan, Dr Wen Tong, Huawei Wireless CTO, delivered a speech titled ‘6G needs to delivery new values for the market’ at CEATEC conference. Dr Wen Tong shared his views and understanding of 6G standardization directions and presented the innovations that would drive 6G standardization. “6G should represent a true generational leap in technology, while its standards, technologies and network architectures should be redefined based on application scenarios and requirements f

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The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED is great for gaming and streaming, and still $150 off

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED offers great picture and audio quality for both streaming and console gaming. Save $150 on the 55-inch model, but you'll have to hurry because you might not see a deal this good again until Black Friday.

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El Gobierno de Andorra presenta su Cartera de Identidad Digital Ciudadana

CIO

El Gobierno de Andorra da un paso adelante en su plan de transformación digital con la presentación en sociedad de su Cartera Ciudadana de Identidad Digital en el marco de la celebración de Madrid Tech Show. Un proyecto con el que aspiran a transformar, de la mano de Var Group, la interacción de la ciudadanía con las instituciones públicas y privadas del país vecino.

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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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Future-Proof Your Savings with PowerStore’s Advanced Data Reduction

Dell EMC

See how PowerStore's best-in-class data reduction and efficiency helps your business save money and help the environment.

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4-Step guide to avoid e-invoicing penalties around the globe

CIO

Governments all over the world are pushing forcefully for unified tax collection and paperless data exchange. One of the biggest shifts is related to the e-invoicing regulations, which are becoming obligatory in an increasing number of countries. Why are so many countries going paperless? The main benefits of embracing e-invoicing include: Reduced tax fraud and increase revenue for governments Cost optimization, given e-invoicing can cut costs by as much as 60% to 80% compared to paper invo

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Safeguard OT Environments with the Power of Precision AI

Palo Alto Networks

New capabilities safeguard OT remote operations, mitigate risks for critical, hard-to-patch assets, and extend protection into harsh industrial environments. As operational technology (OT) environments undergo rapid digital transformation, so do their security risks. Protecting industrial setups, especially those with legacy systems, distributed operations, and remote workforces, requires an innovative approach that prioritizes both uptime and safety.

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What crisis of confidence? Cut IT some slack

CIO

In September, Gartner presented a list of CIOs’ biggest challenges right now, and apart from things that address the here and now of IT (AI, new security challenges, talent gaps), one of the main pain points the 12,000 CIOs in the survey highlighted was a more traditional issue: demonstrating to management that investments in IT have a business value.

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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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Serverless NLP: Implementing Sentiment Analysis Using Serverless Technologies

Dzone - DevOps

In this article, I will discuss building a sentiment analysis tool using AWS serverless capabilities and NLTK. I will be using AWS lambda to run sentiment analysis using the NLTK -vader library and AWS API Gateway to enable this functionality as an API. This architecture eliminates the need for any server management while providing on-demand scalability and cost-efficiency.

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Mitigating cyber risks: the essential role of collaboration for Middle East organizations

CIO

At Gitex Global 2024, a panel of top cybersecurity leaders delivered a clear message: cybersecurity is no longer just the responsibility of the cybersecurity team or the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). It is now a critical issue that demands the attention of board members and every department within an organization. The “Cyber Risk Mitigation & Collaboration Panel” highlighted the urgent need for businesses to adopt a company-wide approach to cybersecurity, integrating protection

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How to Implement Client-Side Load Balancing With Spring Cloud

Dzone - DevOps

It is common for microservice systems to run more than one instance of each service. This is needed to enforce resiliency. It is therefore important to distribute the load between those instances. The component that does this is the load balancer. Spring provides a Spring Cloud Load Balancer library. In this article, you will learn how to use it to implement client-side load balancing in a Spring Boot project.

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Cyber Resilience Act dell’UE: che cos’è e come faciliterà la vita ai CIO

CIO

Il Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) [in inglese] dell’Unione Europea ha avuto il via libera del Consiglio dei ministri dell’UE: si completa così il quadro normativo dell’Unione sulla cybersicurezza di cui fanno parte anche la NIS2 e, per il settore finanziario, la normativa DORA. Il CRA si rivolge ai produttori di dispositivi digitali immessi sul mercato europeo, ma per i CIO significa avere una garanzia sui device che portano in azienda, e, di conseguenza, generare un impatto positivo sulla cyber-res

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Deploy a serverless web application to edit images using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Generative AI adoption among various industries is revolutionizing different types of applications, including image editing. Image editing is used in various sectors, such as graphic designing, marketing, and social media. Users rely on specialized tools for editing images. Building a custom solution for this task can be complex. However, by using various AWS services, you can quickly deploy a serverless solution to edit images.

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Resourcely Adds Free Tier to Cloud Configuration Management Platform

DevOps.com

Resourcely has added a free tier option for its platform for safely configuring and deploying cloud resources using a set of templates and guardrails for application developers using either open source Terraform or OpenTofu infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools.

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Best practices for building robust generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock Agents – Part 2

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In Part 1 of this series, we explored best practices for creating accurate and reliable agents using Amazon Bedrock Agents. Amazon Bedrock Agents help you accelerate generative AI application development by orchestrating multistep tasks. Agents use the reasoning capability of foundation models (FMs) to create a plan that decomposes the problem into multiple steps.