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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovator’s Mindset

Harvard Business Review

If you want to move up the corporate ladder, you need to do more than meet deadlines and produce strong results. Employees who quickly move up often have an innovator’s mindset. These people ultimately position themselves as valuable assets by questioning assumptions and pushing their organizations to stay competitive. By consistently bringing fresh ideas to the table and demonstrating a proactive approach to problem-solving, they naturally attract the attention of higher-ups.

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Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI

Ooda Loop

Tech companies scouring the country for electricity supplies have zeroed in on a key target: America’s nuclear-power plants. The owners of roughly a third of U.S. nuclear-power plants are in talks with tech companies to provide electricity to new data centers needed to meet the demands of an artificial-intelligence boom.

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What is Incident Response?

xmatters

Incident response is a crucial process for any organization, addressing situations where services are disrupted, systems fail, or security incidents occur. This process ensures that organizations can quickly recover and resume normal operations. However, incident response is not limited to major incidents—even routine actions such as rebooting a computer to fix a problem qualify as incident response.

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Your generative AI project is going to fail

InfoWorld

Your generative AI project is almost certainly going to fail. But take heart: You probably shouldn’t have been using AI to solve your business problem, anyway. This seems to be an accepted fact among the data science crowd, but that wisdom has been slow to reach enterprise executives. For example, data scientist Noah Lorang once suggested , “There is a very small subset of business problems that are best solved by machine learning; most of them just need good data and an understanding of what it

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

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.

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Terraform Tips for Efficient Infrastructure Management

Dzone - DevOps

Terraform is a popular tool for defining and provisioning infrastructure as code (IaC) , improving consistency, repeatability, and version control. But you need to know how to use it properly to extract maximum value from it as an infrastructure management tool. In this article, we explore best practices for using Terraform to streamline your infrastructure management effectively and avoid common pitfalls.

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AI incident reporting shortcomings leave regulatory safety hole

CIO

Shortcomings in incident reporting are leaving a dangerous gap in the regulation of AI technologies. In other safety-critical industries, such as aviation and medicine, incidents are tracked and investigated but such incident reporting is lacking in the increasingly important are of AI, warns the Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR) , a UK think tank.

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How evolving AI regulations impact cybersecurity

InfoWorld

While their business and tech colleagues are busy experimenting and developing new applications, cybersecurity leaders are looking for ways to anticipate and counter new, AI-driven threats. It’s always been clear that AI impacts cybersecurity, but it’s a two-way street. Where AI is increasingly being used to predict and mitigate attacks, these applications are themselves vulnerable.

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Rust types team moves forward on next-gen trait solver

InfoWorld

The Rust types team has made significant progress on the next-generation trait solver , according to a June 26 blog post. Work done to stabilize the use of the next-generation trait solver in coherence checking surfaced small behavior regressions and hangs, which caused delays. But the team is close to compiling the standard library and the compiler with the new solver enabled everywhere.

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Enhancing Emergency Services Analytics with SFTP Gateway

Thorn Tech

The ability to securely and efficiently transfer data is paramount, especially for organizations focused on critical services like fire, EMS, and police departments.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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10 ways AI can make IT more productive

CIO

When it comes to maximizing productivity, IT leaders can turn to an array of motivators, including regular breaks, free snacks and beverages, workspace upgrades, mini contests, and so on. Yet there’s now another, cutting-edge tool that can significantly spur both team productivity and innovation: artificial intelligence. Any task or activity that’s repetitive and can be standardized on a checklist is ripe for automation using AI, says Jeff Orr, director of research for digital technology at ISG’

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Things to Consider When Hiring React JS Consulting Services

The Crazy Programmer

Applications and websites are now an essential component of practically every company. They can draw in a wider audience and serve as a company’s online persona, after all. Experts even argue that a well-designed website or application can provide a business owner with the highest possible revenue and profit potential. Online companies are increasingly choosing the technology and developers for their initiatives with greater caution as a result.

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How to Salvage a Useful Process That Isn’t Working Anymore

Harvard Business Review

It is a familiar story in health care and many other settings: the performance of an innovative process deteriorates over time. Instead of automatically discarding it, organizations should understand the causes. They may then decide to redesign and reimplement the process. Using the reimplementation of a surgical checklist at Singapore General Hospital as an example, this article explains how to conduct a reimplementation.

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Survey Surfaces Lots of Software Supply Chain Insecurity

DevOps.com

A global survey of 900 application security professionals finds nearly two-thirds work for organizations that have had their software supply chains compromised in the past two years.

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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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How small businesses can develop a technology strategy that leverages AI

CIO

Many small business leaders are still trying to build out an artificial intelligence (AI) strategy to drive efficiencies, supercharge automation and spark creative productivity among their people. What’s clear though, is that these organisations risk being left behind if they aren’t maximising the potential of AI. Analysts expect small businesses to quickly grasp the nettle.

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Future-Proofing Your Business With Sustainable IT Strategies

Dell EMC

Dive into the power of sustainable IT with industry leaders from Computacenter, Creative Strategies and Dell Technologies.

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How Companies Can Mitigate AI’s Growing Environmental Footprint

Harvard Business Review

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly ubiquitous in business and governance, its substantial environmental impact — from significant increases in energy and water usage to heightened carbon emissions — cannot be ignored. By 2030, AI’s power demand is expected to rise by 160%. However, adopting more sustainable practices, such as utilizing foundation models, optimizing data processing locations, investing in energy-efficient processors, and leveraging open-source collaborations, ca

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Build your multilingual personal calendar assistant with Amazon Bedrock and AWS Step Functions

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Foreigners and expats living outside of their home country deal with a large number of emails in various languages daily. They often find themselves struggling with language barriers when it comes to setting up reminders for events like business gatherings and customer meetings. To solve this problem, this post shows you how to apply AWS services such as Amazon Bedrock , AWS Step Functions , and Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to build a fully-automated multilingual calendar artificial

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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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4 essential lessons in AI governance

CIO

Austin-based software company Planview began using gen AI to boost productivity around 18 months ago. During that same period, they started integrating gen AI into their products, building a copilot that users interact with to do strategic portfolio management and value stream management. The copilot creates plan scenarios to help managers hit product release goals, and suggests ways to move deliverables around on roadmaps, share work between teams, and reallocate investment.

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IBM Makes Generative AI Platform for DevOps Available

DevOps.com

IBM has made generally available a framework, dubbed IBM Concert, that leverages generative artificial intelligence and knowledge graphs to surface in real-time dependencies.

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How AI Can Change the Way Your Company Gets Work Done

Harvard Business Review

AI offers many ways to enhance a company’s overall internal capabilities and skills. AI can be used to infer skills from employee profiles and their activity. AI can be used to classify learning content and make it more applicable and accessible for the whole workforce, as well as making learning more personalized to each individual. AI can be used to summarize, recommend, and augment learning content.

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An overview of Modernization

Xebia

Over the years, Xebia has been working with many customers, delivering solutions that bring value to their business, organization and way of working. We have been doing modernization of many solutions that we delivered. When we inquire about the meaning of modernization, we receive a range of responses, typically shaped by the experiences and roles of the people involved at that time.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

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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Provider or partner? IT leaders rethink vendor relationships for value

CIO

Shane McDaniel was nearly a year into a modernization effort when he and his IT team for the City of Seguin, Texas, cut over from the city’s legacy network to the upgraded version. On hand for much of the work that Saturday in June 2019 was the rep from Extreme Networks, a Morrisville, N.C.-headquartered company that McDaniel had selected as the provider on the project.

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Site Reliability Engineering State of the Union for 2024: Embracing Innovation and Efficiency in the Age of Generative AI

DevOps.com

SRE practices are set to undergo significant transformations, driven by technological advancements and changing organizational needs.

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Research: How Family Motivates People to Do Their Best Work

Harvard Business Review

Family is one of the most important things in most people’s lives, across cultures and geographies. Yet, the idea that family can be motivational at work has been overlooked. Instead, in the past, family has been mostly seen as competing with work for an employee’s finite resources, like their time and energy. A large body of research on work-family conflict drew on this notion and illustrated how work and family domains create conflicting demands and interfere with one another.

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Introducing guardrails in Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed capability that helps you securely connect foundation models (FMs) in Amazon Bedrock to your company data using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). This feature streamlines the entire RAG workflow, from ingestion to retrieval and prompt augmentation, eliminating the need for custom data source integrations and data flow management.

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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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How smaller businesses can reimagine brand building with generative AI

CIO

Generating and maintaining awareness is notoriously challenging for small businesses, often working with limited in-house resources and without the budget for external marketing support. In fact, recent research found that 67% of small business founders considered marketing and sales support one of their biggest challenges, with marketing budgets one of the first to see cuts in difficult conditions. 1 But generative AI (genAI) could answer this challenge, unleashing a new wave of creativity for

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From Scalability to Speed: Generative AI has Put Testing on Steroids

DevOps.com

The rapid integration of Generative AI in the last few years has shifted the base toward new testing solutions — the next level in the race for AI aptitude

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3 Lessons from The Washington Post’s Leadership Turmoil

Harvard Business Review

The leadership questions surrounding new Washington Post CEO Will Lewis serve as a case study in the challenges of bringing in an outsider to lead an organization, highlighting the importance of transparency and alignment with company values. This article offers three lessons leaders can draw from it — as well as advice on how the Post and Lewis can move forward.