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Governing data products using fitness functions

Martin Fowler

Decentralized data management requires automation to scale governance effectively. Fitness functions are a powerful automated governance technique my colleagues have applied to data products within the context of a Data Mesh. Since data products serve as the foundational building blocks of a data strategy, ensuring robust governance around them significantly increases the chances of success.

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Ethics for ransomware: To pay or not to pay?

CIO

Cyberattacks challenge all organizations. Ransomware attacks continue to be a mainline threat, with 60% of surveyed organizations reporting a business disruption in the last 12 months due to ransomware, according to IDC’s What Do Four Recurring Surveys Tell Us About Trends in Ransomware Incidents? As the criminals have become more sophisticated in their attacks, organizations must become more prepared in their response.

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For years, tech firms were fighting a war for talent. Now they are waging war on talent.

The Agile Manager

In the years immediately following the dot-com meltdown, there was more tech labor than there were tech jobs. That didn’t last long. By 2005, the tech economy had bounced back on its own. After that, the emergence of mobile (a new and lucrative category of tech) plus low interest rate policy by central banks fueled demand for tech. Before the first decade of the century was out, “tech labor scarcity” became an accepted norm.

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Preparing Your Data Center for a GenAI World

Dell EMC

“We’re Not in Kansas Anymore” -Dorothy Gale, 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Why don't more people use Linux?

David Heinemeier Hansson

A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?" And it's a fair question! It intuitively rings true until you give it a moment's consideration. Linux is even free, so what's stopping mass adoption, if it's actually better? My response: If exercising is so healthy, why don't more people do it?

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AI’s Big Day — Startup Safe Superintelligence Raises $1B At Reported $5B Valuation

Crunchbase News

Artificial intelligence research lab Safe Superintelligence raised $1 billion from a litany of big-name investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. The round valued the Palo Alto, California-based company at $5 billion, per Reuters , which first reported the round. SSI, co-founded by OpenAI ‘s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever , is looking to develop safe artificial intelligence systems — something that has been in the news a lot recently as fears increase of AI tech b

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AI Gobbled A Record Share Of Startup Funding This Year

Crunchbase News

Venture funding today is way down from the record heights reached three years ago. But the comparison would be far starker, of course, were it not for artificial intelligence. So far this year, 35% of U.S. startup investment has gone to AI-related companies, per Crunchbase data. That appears to be the highest percentage on record, besting even 2023, when OpenAI secured its $10 billion Microsoft -backed financing.

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4 Pillars of Innovation Every Organization Needs

Harvard Business Review

Innovation doesn’t just come from serendipity. Leaders who nurture great ideas rely on concrete mechanisms to ensure that they see the right ideas, give them breathing room to development, and connect dots throughout their organizations. In any company, the challenge with innovation is seldom the volume of ideas. The challenge lies with having ideas that are related to emerging trends, involve more than the company can do on its own, require nurturing, and are cross-functional in nature.

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5 tips for switching to skills-based hiring

CIO

Hiring in the IT industry has traditionally relied on reviewing a candidate’s experience and education, with less focus on specific skillsets. But that approach is changing, with the emphasis on degrees and experience giving way to skills-first hiring strategies that put organizational skills needs first and foremost. This shifting mindset in hiring is quickly growing in popularity for technical roles, according to a report from Test Gorilla, with 88% of tech companies reporting they’re using sk

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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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Conflict resolution training basics for Agile teams

Agile Alliance

Effective workplace conflict resolution fosters collaboration, productivity, and psychological safety by educating teams on conflict identification, types, management language, and continuous feedback for improvement. The post Conflict resolution training basics for Agile teams first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Strategies for Hiring a Chief Revenue Officer

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Role of a Chief Revenue Officer The Chief Revenue Officer is a key member of the executive team, collaborating closely with the CEO, CFO, and COO to steer the organization’s overall growth strategy. Their main responsibilities include outlining the steps to implement the revenue generation process, which involves customer acquisition, retention, and establishing critical strategic partnerships.

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How to Lead Like a Coach

Harvard Business Review

The modern workplace demands that executives move away from a command-and-control style and instead adopt a model based on the idea of the leader as a coach. Companies have devoted extensive resources to this effort, in the form of time-intensive training programs and expensive new technologies, but without great success. In this article, the authors draw on their experiences as behavioral scientists and propose a simpler, cheaper, and more-effective approach: Help leaders identify interactions

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Are IT certifications replacing the college degree?

CIO

Ryan Williams Sr. applied for 51 jobs when was transitioning out of the US Air Force, landing an interview for the last of those open positions. Williams remembers that the hiring manager, a former US Marine, was particularly interested in his certifications. “He was very honest about what piqued his interest, which was my combination of the CISSP and PMP.

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

Gearing up for 2025 annual planning? Our latest eBook from the Operators Guild is your ultimate guide. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community. Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.

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Operations as Code: Transforming Operational Excellence

DevOps.com

The push toward digital transformation and cloud-native infrastructure is inevitable. This shift brings the need to manage operations with the same rigor and automation we apply to infrastructure or security. Many organizations have embraced the ideas of everything in a pipeline and all things as code.

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Talent That Gets It: How the AI-Savvy CMO Sources Marketing Masterminds

N2Growth Blog

Let’s be brutally honest: if you’re a CMO still clinging to outdated hiring practices and marketing strategies, it’s time to wake up or step aside. The marketing world is moving at warp speed, and those who don’t know how to actually harness AI are getting left in the dust. The days of legacy CMOs with bloated marketing teams, signing off on safe and bland campaigns, and doing the bare minimum are over.

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7 Questions to Ask When Weighing a Job Offer

Harvard Business Review

You got the job offer! Now you have to decide whether or not to take it. It’s impossible to predict exactly how a job will turn out, but asking the right questions of yourself and others can give you a clearer picture of what to expect. In this article, the author shares advice from two experts and offers seven questions to ask to help you make an informed decision and to help prevent future regrets: 1) What am I overlooking?

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Can the CIO role prevail over AI?

CIO

According to a recent report from the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, 92% of IT jobs will be transformed by AI to a moderate or high degree. But when it comes to senior-level jobs, 100% will see moderate transformation. And when it comes to business and management IT jobs, 63% were classified as “high transformation” due to AI. And online education company Pluralsight conducted a survey of IT professionals in the US and UK and found that 74% worried AI tools will make many of their daily sk

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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

Success in product management goes beyond delivering great features - it’s about achieving measurable financial outcomes that resonate across the organization. By connecting your product’s journey with the company’s financial success, you’ll ensure that every feature, release, and innovation contributes to the bottom line, driving both customer satisfaction and business growth.

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Evaluating prompts at scale with Prompt Management and Prompt Flows for Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize every industry, the importance of effective prompt optimization through prompt engineering techniques has become key to efficiently balancing the quality of outputs, response time, and costs. Prompt engineering refers to the practice of crafting and optimizing inputs to the models by selecting appropriate words, phrases, sentences, punctuation, and separator characters to effectively use foundation models (FMs) or large langua

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Don’t Get Caught in the DevOps Loop

DevOps.com

The DevOps movement has changed how software is built and released by injecting automation and best practices into the veins of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in a way that has substantially reduced the time and effort required to build and deploy software.

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The HBR Guide to Standing Out in an Interview

Harvard Business Review

Job interviews can be daunting. In this video, author Amy Gallo culls advice from top experts in the field and shares strategic tips on how best to prepare, what to do, and what to say so that you can make a great impression in your next interview. She also offers advice on what to do if you notice your interviewer losing interest or you’ve stumbled over some answers.

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Thomas Meyer (IDC): “El CIO será cada vez más un líder empresarial, un comunicador, un vendedor, un socio y un mitigador de riesgos”

CIO

Para Thomas Meyer, director general y vicepresidente de grupo de Investigación de IDC en EMEA , la aparición y masificación de la inteligencia artificial (IA) puede compararse con la aparición del fuego: poco a poco se van conociendo sus ventajas y beneficios, pero “hay que aprender a usarla, controlarla y asegurarse de que los demás no se quemen, ese es el papel del CIO ”.

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What Is Entity Resolution? How It Works & Why It Matters

Entity Resolution Sometimes referred to as data matching or fuzzy matching, entity resolution, is critical for data quality, analytics, graph visualization and AI. Learn what entity resolution is, why it matters, how it works and its benefits. Advanced entity resolution using AI is crucial because it efficiently and easily solves many of today’s data quality and analytics problems.

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This Election Season Stopping Misinformation Must Start at the Top

Ooda Loop

Recently, the United States government accused Russia of conducting sustained efforts to influence the 2024 election. If true, this is not surprising as election-timed influence operations gained notoriety in 2016 catalyzing the call to protect the election process and maintain their integrity.

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DevOps Must Learn From CrowdStrike’s Outage

DevOps.com

The CrowdStrike outage on July 19, 2024, is a stark reminder of DevOps practices’ critical role in deploying updates to maintain the security and reliability of applications and systems.

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What to Do When You Know More Than Your Boss

Harvard Business Review

There are instances when, as a newer professional, you might have more experience in certain areas than your manager. This could be a deeper understanding of the technologies you grew up, some innovations in your field, or even foundational leadership skills that you’d like to share. There are ways to communicate your knowledge with your superiors while maintaining humility and a collaborative mindset.

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SAP CTO to step down after ‘inappropriate behavior’

CIO

SAP CTO Juergen Mueller will step down from SAP’s executive board at the end of September. “I want to address an incident at a past company event where my behavior was inappropriate. I regret being inconsiderate and sincerely apologize to everyone affected. I recognize my behavior at that moment did not reflect our values at SAP. I take full responsibility and believe stepping down is best for the company.

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5 Key Reasons for Your Business to Embrace Nearshore Staff Augmentation

Nearshore staff augmentation allows businesses to access skilled talent quickly, improve efficiency, and reduce costs. It provides a wider pool of talent in similar time zones, facilitating seamless communication. This approach often leads to cost savings compared to local or distant offshore hires and promotes easy integration with existing teams, fostering cooperation and knowledge sharing.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Safe Superintelligence Leads With Massive $1B Raise

Crunchbase News

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. Investors seemed to be still hungover from the long holiday weekend, as big rounds rolled in slow for the week.

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Best of…: Classic WTF: A Systematic Approach

The Daily WTF

It's a holiday in the US today, where we celebrate labor and laborers. Enjoy a story of working smarter, not harder, to meet unrealistic deadlines and create a lot more work for someone in the future. Original -- Remy It was the early 1990s and Frank was living the dream – unshaven, in pajama bottoms and his favorite hockey jersey, having just woken up at 12:18 PM, was now working in the dim light of his basement on one of his freelance projects.

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When a Coworker You Don’t Like Becomes Your Boss

Harvard Business Review

When a colleague you dislike or who dislikes you becomes your new leader, it’s natural to feel anxiety or despair, worry about the fallout, and think about leaving. But five strategies can help you transform this challenging situation into career growth: distinguish your feelings from the facts; shift from ambivalence to active inquiry; acknowledge and bridge personality differences; leverage shared values and desired outcomes; and, if needed, address your conflicts directly.

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