Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2024

High stakes, strong wills, and increasing uncertainty can make decisions at the top of your organization fraught. The backing of a board can mobilize an organization, but a significant divergence of vision and values may lead the board to stall progress on an organization’s highest priorities — and even unseat a CEO. Executives must proactively and productively make covert disagreements overt and foster a healthy dialog with board members.

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 15, 2024

Tech companies are on the hunt for unprecedented numbers of computer science people—many of them PhDs—to build and apply generative AI systems. But such talent is in limited supply.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 16, 2024

Two thirds of developers are using AI in product development, primarily for coding, documentation, and conducting research.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2024

The ability to develop crisp mental models around the problems you want to solve and understanding the why before you start working on the how is an increasingly critical skill, especially in the age of AI. Coding is one of the things AI does best and its capabilities are quickly improving. However, there’s a catch: Code created by an AI can be syntactically and semantically correct but not functionally correct.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 16, 2024

As of the first quarter of 2024, 83% of developers were involved in devops -related activities such as performance monitoring, security testing, or CI/CD , according to the State of CI/CD Report 2024, published by the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation, a part of the Linux Foundation. Released April 16, the State of CI/CD Report 2024 is downloadable from the CD Foundation , authored by developer researcher SlashData, and sponsored by CloudBees, provider of a DevSecOps platform.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

One of the constants in my more than two decades of executive coaching is the desire and need to build the muscles required to develop and execute competitive and innovative strategies. It came up with a client again as recently as this month. With a few modifications, here’s the quick outline I offered him on five ways to build your strategic muscles.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2024

As we grow or change, our identity transitions are often invisible — unless we do the work to help others see our changes. This can be particularly true for people who have worked at a company for a long time. If you’re feeling like your colleagues aren’t recognizing your growth, the authors recommend three strategies: 1) Get clear on the differences between how you are perceived and how you want to be perceived; 2) Let go of work you may still be doing that was associated with your previous rol

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2024

Jason Snyder faces the same challenge nearly all CIOs encounter when looking to fill open positions: a tight labor market, where fierce competition for workers has meant months-long vacancies. Snyder, secretary of the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security and Commonwealth CIO for Massachusetts, responded by overhauling the agency’s recruitment and retention practices.

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 16, 2024

AI versus AI will be the central drama, but the outcome depends profoundly on human choices around how intelligently we govern this technology.

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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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Agile Alliance

APRIL 19, 2024

Join Alex Sloley, Craig Smith, and Shane Hastie in embracing the Agile Coaching Ethics to elevate your coaching practices. Discover how you can contribute to a future of ethical Agility. The post Navigating the ethical waters of Agile coaching with Alex Sloley first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 15, 2024

Three critical questions will save you time and improve decision making with fewer headaches In a world with a constantly growing AI presence, where data is cheap, and you can easily outsource routine tasks to large language models, your decision making ability plays a more vital role than ever. Your ability to help your organization and teams make effective decisions is a competitive advantage and rare leadership skill.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s Wednesday night. You’re fast asleep aboard the USS Enterprise Star Trek. Suddenly, you wake to an urgent announcement and rush to the bridge of the starship. Captain James T. Kirk is activating warp drive and you see the iconic blurred streaks of light as the spaceship reaches warp speed. Within seconds, you are traveling faster than the speed of light to reach a Klingon war in the Alpha Quadrant–arriving in minutes versus years.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

In the high-stakes arena of executive recruitment , companies often gravitate toward prominent global search firms. If you are reading this, you will likely know their names. The expectation is that their extensive networks and vast resources will deliver the world-class leadership talent they need to drive their organizations forward. However, many companies fail to recognize that the largest search firms come with a significant limitation– expansive off-limits lists that drastically reduce the

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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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DevOps.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Redis is taking it in the chops, as both maintainers and customers move to the Valkey Redis fork.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2024

Bad days at work are inevitable, just as some degree of frustration and ennui is bound to be a part of almost any job. In this article, the author shares advice from two experts on what to do if you’re stuck in the gray area of deciding whether your job is merely mediocre (and could potentially improve) or downright soul-crushing (and might require a change).

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2024

A new breed of AI assistant has set its sights on the enterprise user in recent months, with Microsoft and other vendors promising huge productivity gains that offset the cost. But Microsoft still has work to do on its value proposition. Its Copilot for Microsoft 365, a high-profile offering among the growing list of AI agents, costs $30 per seat per month, with a 300-seat minimum.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Understanding the Economic Landscape of 2024 2024 presents us with a complex economic landscape where various challenges intersect. There is friction between globalization and regional autonomy, a conflict between the desire for sustainability and the lure of rapid development, ongoing political uncertainties, and the ever-increasing impact of digital technology.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 15, 2024

Commonhaus is taking a laissez-faire approach to open source group management.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2024

Companies are investing in — and talking about — mental health more often these days. But employees aren’t reporting a corresponding rise in well-being. Why? The author, who wrote a book on mental health and work last year, explores several key ways organizations haven’t gone far enough in implementing a culture of well-being. She also makes five key suggestions on what they can do to improve the mental health of their employees.

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CIO

APRIL 19, 2024

A scramble to invest in artificial intelligence and a natural replacement cycle for computing devices purchased during the COVID pandemic will lead to an 8% increase in global IT spending this year, Gartner predicted. Interest in AI, building since last year, will push a 10% increase in data center system spending this year, driving worldwide IT spending to $5.06 trillion, said John-David Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

In recent years, the duration of C-suite executives’ tenures has become a subject of growing interest and discussion. The traditional model of long-serving executives has shifted, giving way to a more dynamic environment where factors like performance, industry disruptions, and stakeholder expectations play significant roles. A study by Equilar reveals that the median tenure among S&P 500 companies has decreased by 20% from six years in 2013 to 4.8 years in 2022.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 16, 2024

Venture funding overall was still sluggish , but cybersecurity startups saw some love from investors in the first quarter of 2024. To be sure, this is not the salad days of 2021 — cybersecurity funding was still down year to year — but the sector saw its best funding quarter in three quarters. All told, cybersecurity startups raised nearly $2.7 billion in 154 deals in Q1, per Crunchbase data.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2024

Sponsor Content from Commvault.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

Innovation is essential, especially in the contact center as the tip of the spear in customer experience, but how do you activate your modernization plan? I had the opportunity to speak with Mary Daniel, VP of Customer Solutions Center for Aflac, a long-time Avaya customer, at the Gartner Symposium last fall. Mary is a veteran when it comes to customer experience and was most recently named by Constellation Research to the AX100 list , an elite group of executives who are breaking barriers and

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DevOps.com

APRIL 17, 2024

The XZ attack wasn’t the first, nor will it be the last. Linux dodged a bullet the other day. If the XZ exploit had gone undiscovered for only a few more weeks, millions of Linux systems would have been compromised with a backdoor. We were lucky. But, can we stay lucky?

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 18, 2024

Editor’s note: For more Web3 coverage, visit Crunchbase’s Web3 Tracker , where we track startups, investors and funding news in the Web3, cryptocurrency and blockchain space, powered by Crunchbase ’s live, comprehensive data. Web3, once the buzziest of all buzz words in the venture landscape, saw its funding slightly increase in the first quarter of the year compared to last year’s fourth quarter — the first uptick Web3 funding has realized since the fourth quarter of 2021.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2024

While calls for cross-sector collaborations to tackle complex societal issues abound, in practice, only few succeed. Those that do often have a collaboration intermediary, which can bring together different actors, develop relationships among collaborators, and create an ecosystem to support ideas over time. With their strengths in knowledge creation and their role as community anchors, universities are ideally equipped to create and orchestrate support for the kind of innovation that the sustai

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. Take for example French multinational Carrefour, who used it to make digital avatars and videos. They had ChatGPT write the script, and other gen AI tools to create a digital person who reads the script, a scalable process with at least one measurable benefit: speed.

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