Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2024

A study of 146 companies that conducted layoffs showed that it often takes years — not months — for engagement, morale, and loyalty to rebound.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Many organizations running AI pilots will inevitably encounter a key IT dilemma: when to pull the plug and move on. If they dump a pilot that’s not meeting expectations too soon, they may miss out on huge benefits down the line, but if they hang on too long, they can waste huge amounts of time, money, and resources. On the one side, Forrester recently warned organizations not to look for AI ROI too soon, because they could miss out on AI’s benefits.

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InnovationM

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Exception handling is a crucial aspect of Java programming, particularly when designing APIs and ensuring robust application behavior. This article outlines best practices for handling exceptions in Java, using Spring Boot for RESTful APIs, and emphasizes the importance of providing clear, helpful error messages to consumers. Here’s a comprehensive look into exception handling, using references from the “Standardized API Exception Handling” presentation.

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Ooda Loop

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Recently, Chinese advanced persistent threat activity dubbed “SALT TYPHOON” was linked to intrusions that accessed major U.S. broadband providers such as ATT&T and Verizon Communications, among others.

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 7, 2024

When CEOs set out to lead their teams to success, the focus often lands on strategy, resources, or hitting key performance indicators. But there’s one critical element that frequently gets overlooked: accountability. Without it, even the clearest strategies and best resources fall flat. Accountability ensures that teams not only know what’s expected of them but […] The post The Number One Thing Most CEOs Overlook When Setting Their Teams Up for Success—And How to Fix It appeared first on C

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Agile Alliance

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Agile Alliance has introduced new 2024 membership levels, including options for government, universities, and product/service providers, offering greater flexibility and lower costs per user. The post Exciting updates to Agile Alliance membership levels and pricing! first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Be a Better Listener: “Time is the enemy of empathy.” -Michael Reddington Hi Karin, I want to be a better listener. I do. But, I’m not sure it’s in my nature. I get so impatient. It’s not that I don’t care. But, I’m busy. What advice can you give me to be a better listener when I feel impatient? #AskingforaFriend I love this candid and insightful question.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Recent cloud security guidance from CISA and the NSA offers a wealth of recommendations to help organizations reduce risk. This blog highlights key takeaways, provides further insights from CIS, and explores how utilizing cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud-native application protection program (CNAPP) solutions/services from Tenable can help.

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CIO

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Some bad news for CIOs: Many C-suite leaders, including IT leaders themselves, have less confidence in your department’s ability to get the job done than they did a decade ago. Less than half of C-level executives believe their IT organizations are effectively delivering basic services, compared to about two-thirds with confidence in 2013, according to a survey recently released by the IBM Institute for Business Value.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Most companies are full of really busy people, which makes it hard to slow down and focus on trying new things. At the same time, stopping everything to focus on innovation can leave day-to-day tasks neglected. So, how can leaders make sure workers are able to balance operational necessities with innovation? Four strategies can help: 1) Clearing the “process debt” that’s blocking innovation time; 2) Subtracting something old before you add something new; 3) Putting innovation at the top of the l

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In the past four years, we have experienced many changes in how people work—a global pandemic, the great resignation, quiet quitting, political unrest, and so on. Many people are proving they can work from anywhere and be productive. This is great news for most, but the roller coaster of 2020 and beyond comes with a […] The post How Leaders Can Give Themselves Grace Through the Practice of “Humane Leadership” appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 9, 2024

A survey of 504 DevOps practitioners finds a third (33%) are working for organizations that make use of artificial intelligence (AI) to build software, while another 42% are considering it. Only 6% said they have no plans to use AI.

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CIO

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Aiming to deliver end-to-end service automation, Oracle on Wednesday unveiled new agentic AI capabilities for Oracle Fusion Cloud Service and Oracle Fusion Field Service. Oracle said the new AI-driven workflows will help service teams increase service efficiency, reduce time-to-resolution, and improve customer experience. “We’re striving at Oracle for total end-to-end service automation, not enhancements, not spot efficiency gains in service,” Jeff Wartgow, vice president of Oracle Service, told

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The traditional approach to leadership is best described as the pursuit and maintenance of power over people. However, this isn’t the most effective method. The “leading through” paradigm engages middle managers and employees of all levels so that leadership is a collaborative effort which leaves everyone feeling valued, seen, and in turn, more motivated.

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Dataiku

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As data, analytics, and AI continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible, 2024 has brought forward a new wave of groundbreaking use cases and innovative leaders. The Dataiku Frontrunner Awards honor these trailblazers — organizations and individuals who have harnessed Dataiku, the Universal AI Platform, to drive transformation across industries.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Buildkite Pty Ltd today launched a Scale-Out Delivery Platform that combines multiple previous DevOps tools into a single integrated platform. In addition to the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform the company developed, the Scale-Out Delivery Platform includes Buildkite Test Engine, Buildkite Package Registries and Buildkite Mobile Delivery Cloud.

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CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

What got you here won’t get you there. That advice from executive coach and bestselling author Marshall Goldsmith has never been truer for CIOs than it is today. The technical skills, IT leadership expertise, and ability to keep the network secure and running, and even to deliver innovation aren’t enough to create success for today’s CIOs. “When we think about where CIOs need to go, we say to them: ‘You need to be an executive first and a functional leader second,’” says Christie Struckman, rese

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Deep-tech innovation, which harnesses advanced scientific understanding to create groundbreaking technologies, has seen significant growth — and investment — over the past decade. But investors and leaders who pivot into deep tech also face a steep learning curve, as it presents unique challenges: prolonged R&D periods, high upfront costs, and stringent regulatory landscapes.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Nearly half — 49% — of unicorn startup founders have previously started at least one company, according to Endeavor. In Europe, it’s even higher at 65%, Mosaic Ventures estimates. On the surface, these figures seem to validate a common assumption in venture capital: Prior entrepreneurial experience leads to better outcomes. However, the disparity between these numbers points to something more complex.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 9, 2024

A survey of 2,551 technology leaders finds business criticality (51%) followed closely by cost savings (45%) and the age and obsolescence of an application as the primary drivers of mainframe application modernization.

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CIO

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Amazon made headlines a few weeks ago with its announced reorganization. According to CEO Andy Jassy, a massive reorganization is what’s needed to remove layers, flatten organizations, increase teammates’ ability to move fast, and create an employee utopia by getting rid of lots and lots of non-value-adding managers. I’m not optimistic. And I don’t think you should be either if you’re thinking of approaching your organizational issues the same way.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Managers often make a costly mistake in leaving high performers to perform at their maximum capacity without support, choosing to instead devote their time and attention to underperformers. In doing so, though, these high performers are often left feeling overlooked and neglected. Contrary to popular belief, high performers need just as much attention as underperformers — just not in the same way.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 8, 2024

3 Critical 113 Important 1 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 117 CVEs with three rated as critical and four zero-day vulnerabilities, two of which were exploited in the wild. Microsoft patched 117 CVEs in October 2024 Patch Tuesday release, with three rated critical, 113 rated important and one rated moderate. Our counts omitted one vulnerability reported by Hackerone.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Prime Security today emerged from stealth to make available a beta version of a platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure the appropriate guardrails are being followed as software is developed.

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CIO

OCTOBER 8, 2024

SAP’s promised collaboration between its AI copilot, Joule, and other agents will become reality in the fourth quarter of 2024, the company announced at its 2024 TechEd conference Tuesday. The company first discussed the new functionality at its Sapphire conference in June, announcing that Joule would offer an integration with Microsoft Copilot enabling users to, for example, query their Outlook calendar from Joule.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Global startup funding may have slowed in the third quarter, but that slowdown apparently didn’t apply to the most active venture investors, most of whom actually upped their dealmaking pace. This is particularly true for the three most-active post-seed investors — Y Combinator , Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst — which all significantly increased dealmaking in Q3.

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 11, 2024

CEOs are still struggling to move the needle on employee wellbeing. Deloitte reports that while 90% of C-suite executives believe they promote workplace wellbeing, only 60% of employees agree. More worryingly, overall employee wellbeing declined in 2023, with 41% of global workers still experiencing daily stress, according to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2024 […] The post Happier employees find work more meaningful – a manager’s guide to helping employees uncover it a

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As distributed systems continue to evolve and grow in complexity, the ability to troubleshoot effectively will remain a critical skill for engineers and system administrators.

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