Mon.Dec 02, 2024

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How to Decide Which Innovation Projects to Greenlight

Harvard Business Review

When selecting new innovation projects, some committees prize consensus — and thus end up funding only ideas whose success is plain to see, which is often an incremental innovation. Meanwhile, venture capitalists looking for the next big thing might do the opposite, picking projects on which they disagree. These types of project selection quandaries are reflected in new research, which models the effectiveness of common decision methods such as voting, scoring, and ranking.

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Las 15 tecnologías más infravaloradas en el ecosistema de TI

CIO

La inteligencia artificial (IA) continúa dominando los debates sobre tecnología, a medida que los ejecutivos (y los trabajadores de todos los niveles) buscan formas de usarla para hacer que el trabajo sea más fácil, más rápido y, en última instancia, más rentable. En gran medida, este bombo publicitario está justificado, ya que la IA ya aporta valor de múltiples maneras.

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Agile storytelling: Inspiring change through sharing experiences

Agile Alliance

Explore the transformative power of Agile storytelling, showcasing how deliberate narratives can inspire change, foster engagement, and overcome resistance. The post Agile storytelling: Inspiring change through sharing experiences first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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How to talk to your board about tech debt

CIO

When your CEO or CFO asks about the budget needed for technical debt remediation , do you find yourself struggling to justify the investment? You’re not alone. While CIOs understand the crushing weight of technical debt — now costing US companies $2.41 trillion annually — translating this into compelling business language for the board remains a persistent challenge.

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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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When You’re the Scapegoat: Powerful Phrases to Address Unfair Blame

Let's Grow Leaders

Powerful Phrases for When You’re Being Set Up as the Scapegoat Being set up as the scapegoat never feels easy. It’s uncomfortable, unfair, and downright isolating. But here’s the good news: you don’t have to stay the goat in this blame game. Instead, you can fight goats with GOATs—our Greatest of All Time Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Workplace Conflict —and other powerful phrases and rise above the chaos.

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The Great Filter Comes For Us All

Coding Horror

With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? teaching the aliens how to exit Vim ( Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don't stop there - read the Story of Your Life novella it was based on for so much additional nuance.) This is called the Fermi paradox : The Fermi Paradox is a contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations, such as in the Dra

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Download the Cloud Optimization Enterprise Spotlight

CIO

In this issue, we look at how IT leaders are reworking their cloud implementations for better fit to their needs, as well as how they can control cloud costs and ensure cloud security.

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From Founders To Funders: A Fresh Approach For Venture Capitalists To Find The Right LPs

Crunchbase News

By Dmitry Smirnov In the third quarter of this year, venture capital fundraising tightened significantly, with only $66.5 billion raised — down 16% quarter over quarter and 15% year over year. Amid this challenging environment, institutional investors are being more cautious and reassessing their investment strategies. For some VCs , this has highlighted an often-overlooked fundraising approach: courting entrepreneurs, including ex-portfolio founders, as limited partners.

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Makro transforma su gestión de recursos humanos gracias a la RPA

CIO

Makro, conocido distribuidor mayorista del mercado español, se suma a la transformación digital de sus procesos internos tecnología mediante. En esta ocasión, la organización ha apostado por optimizar y eficientar sus operaciones en la división de Recursos Humanos (RR.HH) con el fin de que el personal en plantilla pueda dedicar su tiempo a tareas de mayor valor añadido.

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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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I recommend this $60 anti-spy camera finder to anyone traveling (get 38% off for Cyber Monday)

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Social media is awash with ads for gadgets that detect hidden cameras and bugs in your hotel room, Airbnb, or even your own home. So I tested one to see if it actually works.

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Certificación SAFe: inicie su carrera en Scaled Agile Framework

CIO

¿Qué es la certificación SAFe? Las certificaciones de Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) se están volviendo valiosas para las organizaciones más grandes que buscan una ejecución eficiente de proyectos, una reducción del tiempo de comercialización y formas de brindar un mayor valor a las partes interesadas. Estas certificaciones brindan un medio válido y confiable para evaluar las habilidades, el conocimiento y la mentalidad de quienes buscan avanzar en su carrera trabajando con este enfoque.

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I test AI tools for a living, and these are the only two worth paying for

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Generative AI can supercharge your productivity, but which tools truly deliver? These are my must-have subscriptions for programming, graphics, and creative workflows that actually pay off.

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¿Somos peores en computación en la nube que hace diez años?

CIO

¿Soy solo yo o estamos viendo más fracasos en proyectos de la nube hoy que hace diez años? La lógica sugiere que mejoramos con el tiempo, pero las métricas no respaldan esa suposición. Hace una década, un proyecto en la nube implicaba normalmente la migración de algunos programas y sistemas de prueba. Ahora, los sistemas involucrados son mucho más complejos, con muchas más partes móviles que afectan a múltiples o todos los aspectos de las operaciones de una empresa.

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Score a free Google Pixel 9 phone with this T-Mobile Cyber Monday deal

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

T-Mobile will give you a free Pixel 9 phone with a qualifying trade-in or new line activation, with up to $800 back across 24 months of credits this Cyber Monday.

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Sify Technologies: India’s end-to-end digital transformation partner

CIO

Jitender Durairajan, Head Cloud Engineering & Solutions at Sify Technologies, believes it is imperative for businesses to carefully consider who they partner with in their digital transformation journey. He points to IDC’s research on hybrid and multicloud management as a case in point. “IDC’s research found that organizations ‘need to work with professional cloud service providers that offer end-to-end capabilities of assessment, cloud migration, security, and managed services, and that can

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Research: How Keeping Organizational Secrets Impacts Employees

Harvard Business Review

Protecting confidential company information can increase employee stress, but also help them find meaning in their work.

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Why Sovereign Cloud is essential for today’s businesses

CIO

So, why suddenly does everyone care about “where the data lives?” Well, the truth is, we’ve always cared. Policymakers interested in leveraging data sovereignty requirements to advance economic and investment goals certainly continue to care. As a candidate for European Commission President in 2019, Ursula von der Leyen highlighted the economic importance of data sovereignty, and in his September 2024 report on European Competitiveness, former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi noted

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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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Nervous About Public Speaking? Here’s How to Use Notes Like a Pro.

Harvard Business Review

Speaking in front of a smaller group is different than speaking on a large stage. Hearing your own voice over the speakers, being elevated above your peers with all eyes on you in an unfamiliar environment — these factors pull you out of your comfort zone and can trigger a fight or flight response, which can manifest itself as your mind going blank, either in the middle of the presentation or while fielding tough questions from the audience.

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Il Data Act e la data-driven company: quali compiti per il CIO

CIO

Nel corso di quest’anno, i CIO hanno dovuto impiegare parte del loro tempo nello studio del quadro normativo europeo sul digitale, un insieme di leggi che si presentano complementari e, allo stesso tempo, unite dall’intento di favorire l’innovazione delle imprese europee e aprire nuovi mercati. È il caso del Data Act, entrato in vigore a gennaio e applicabile da settembre 2025, che definisce chi può accedere a e utilizzare i dati generati nell’UE in tutti i settori economici.

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How an Effective AppSec Program Shifts Your Teams From Fixing to Building

DevOps.com

Development teams are under growing pressure to build cutting-edge applications with shorter development lifecycles. However, they are often slowed down by the growing burden of fixing security vulnerabilities. Ineffective application security processes mean these teams can spend more time firefighting than building, diverting focus from their primary objective: Delivering innovative, high-performance software.

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Public Raises $135M Series D-2 For AI-Driven Investment

Crunchbase News

Investment platform Public announced Monday that it has raised $135 million in equity and debt financing amid sharp growth in adoption of its AI-enabled research features. The financing, which New York-based Public described as a Series D-2, included $105 million in equity and $30 million in debt, with longtime backer Accel as the lead investor. Previously, the 5-year-old company had raised more than $300 million in venture funding.

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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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Last chance to get 1 year of Hulu for $0.99 a month with this Cyber Monday streaming deal

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Hulu's Cyber Week deal drops the price of a monthly subscription to the streaming service from $7.99 to $0.99 a month for your first year. But hurry - it expires today.

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Wealth Management Startups See Funding Rise

Crunchbase News

The ultra-rich run family offices, hire wealth managers and hold stakes in private investment funds. For those who are well-off but hardly jetsetters, however, portfolios look much more mundane. Typically, their largest asset is their home. Other holdings might include a 401(k), a few stocks, a bank account and a car. There’s nothing terrible about this sort of asset assortment.

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Volvo's new ad is basically a free digital marking course: 3 takeaways you need to know

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Jaguar broke the internet with a strange new rebrand recently, but Volvo went a very different direction. Here's why and how to use its example to level up your next digital marketing campaign.

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Fast and accurate zero-shot forecasting with Chronos-Bolt and AutoGluon

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Chronos-Bolt is the newest addition to AutoGluon-TimeSeries, delivering accurate zero-shot forecasting up to 250 times faster than the original Chronos models [1]. Time series forecasting plays a vital role in guiding key business decisions across industries such as retail, energy, finance, and healthcare. Traditionally, forecasting has relied on statistical models [2] like ETS and ARIMA, which remain strong baselines, particularly when training data is limited.

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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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My top 5 best Cyber Monday deals are hovering near all-time low prices

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

You should be excited to see some of the best tech products available at such great prices for Cyber Monday. I've personally tested all five of the products on this list, and they're outstanding.

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How Amazon Finance Automation built a generative AI Q&A chat assistant using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Today, the Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) analysts in Amazon Finance operations receive queries from customers through email, cases, internal tools, or phone. When a query arises, analysts must engage in a time-consuming process of reaching out to subject matter experts (SMEs) and go through multiple policy documents containing standard operating procedures (SOPs) relevant to the query.

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5 Linux commands for locating system slowdowns fast

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

If you've ever experienced a system slowdown on Linux, it could be hardware-related. Here are five commands to help you find the problem to get back up to speed fast.

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