CIO
DECEMBER 2, 2024
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.
Agile Alliance
DECEMBER 2, 2024
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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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 2, 2024
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.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
DECEMBER 4, 2024
From glued-in batteries to software lockouts, you're paying more than ever for gadgets that won't last. Here's why and what can do done about it.
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Crunchbase News
DECEMBER 2, 2024
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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Martin Fowler
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Increasingly the industry is seeing the value of creating data products as a core organizing principle for analytic data. Kiran Prakash has helped many clients design their data products, and shares what he's learned. In particular his methodical approach doesn't begin by thinking about some data that might be handy to share, but instead works from what consumers of a data product need.
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 2, 2024
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.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
DECEMBER 4, 2024
In the competitive world of hiring, particularly in tech, recruitment is no longer just about finding candidates with the right technical expertise. Interpersonal skills—often termed “ soft skills “—have become equally critical, especially as organizations increasingly emphasize teamwork, communication, and adaptability. For tech teams tasked with solving complex problems, interpersonal skills ensure smoother collaboration, innovation, and productivity.
CIO
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Many organizations have launched dozens of AI proof-of-concept projects only to see a huge percentage fail, in part because CIOs don’t know whether the POCs are meeting key metrics, according to research firm IDC. In a September IDC survey , 30% of CIOs acknowledged they didn’t know what percentage of their AI POCs met target KPI metrics or were considered successful.
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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?
Xebia
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Walking into the office on an Innovation Day is like stepping into a world overflowing with possibility. The air feels charged, the energy undeniable, and the buzz of excitement infectious. These days arent about business goals or deadlinestheyre about curiosity , knowledge sharing , and the joy of exploring the unknown. Here, failure is not just acceptedits celebrated.
Martin Fowler
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Having got an initial data product, Kiran Prakash leads us through the next steps: covering similar uses cases to generalize the data product, determining which domains the products fit into, and considering service level objectives.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Key questions remain unresolved concerning the use of Gen AI tools, while one country may need stronger deterrence against data theft.
CIO
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Under pressure to deploy AI within their organizations, most CIOs fear they don’t have the knowledge they need about the fast-changing technology. More than three in five CIOs surveyed by Salesforce say they’re expected to know more about AI than they do, potentially leading to massive and costly deployment mistakes. And while three-quarters of CIOs looking for AI expertise turn to their peers for guidance, only 9% believe their fellow CIOs know more about AI than they do.
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.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 4, 2024
When something goes wrong with an AI system or model, the approaches used to respond to problems caused by traditional software systems don’t work. A new playbook is required. It includes defining AI, identifying relevant harms, designating responders, developing plans to contain the damage in the short term, carrying out a longer-term containment strategy to stop the harm from spreading further, and conducting a post-mortem review.
Crunchbase News
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Global venture funding totaled $28 billion in November 2024, Crunchbase data shows. That’s down from the $32 billion raised in October 2024, but up from the $21 billion raised in November 2023. More than a third of funding last month came from just three companies that each raised billion-dollar-plus rounds: AI foundation model companies xAI and Anthropic , and quality engineering testing service Tricentis.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
DECEMBER 3, 2024
The company is threatening to add a watermark to the desktop of any unsupported PC running Windows 11.
CIO
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Data warehousing, business intelligence, data analytics, and AI services are all coming together under one roof at Amazon Web Services. This unification of analytics and AI services is perhaps best exemplified by a new offering inside Amazon SageMaker, Unified Studio , a preview of which AWS CEO Matt Garman unveiled at the companys annual re:Invent conference this week.
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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 6, 2024
The difference between incremental and transformative gen AI lies not in technical sophistication or strategic vision, but in a shared understanding of what drives performance for your organization. This article describes a simple strategic tool that your organization can use as a framework to assess gen AI maturity and build the capabilities needed to create and capture value from AI.
Crunchbase News
DECEMBER 2, 2024
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.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Ethical leadership is the practice of demonstrating integrity, fairness, and respect in decision-making and organizational behavior. Ethical leaders prioritize transparency, accountability, and the well-being of all stakeholders, ensuring their actions align with core moral principles. In tech organizations, ethical leadership often intersects with critical issues such as data privacy, AI ethics, and corporate social responsibility.
CIO
DECEMBER 3, 2024
A new area of digital transformation is under way in IT, say IT executives charged with unifying their tech strategy in 2025. Adopting emerging technology to deliver business value is a top priority for CIOs, according to a recent report from Deloitte. That means IT veterans are now expected to support their organization’s strategies to embrace artificial intelligence, advanced cybersecurity methods, and automation to get ahead and stay ahead in their careers.
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.
Symantec
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Large U.S. organization was the subject of a four-month-long intrusion by China-based attackers.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 6, 2024
The highest-grossing tour in music history is a case study in how a legacy act can navigate the modern attention economy.
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today revealed it has extended the capabilities of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool.
CIO
DECEMBER 4, 2024
We’ve all heard about how difficult the job market is on the applicant side, with candidates getting very little response from prospective employers. But the hiring side isn’t much easier. Changing demographics, fast-evolving technologies, and the globalization of job opportunities make recruiting and holding onto skilled professionals much more difficult.
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Hacker Earth Developers Blog
DECEMBER 1, 2024
Hiring freezes have become a common challenge for many organizations, particularly in times of economic uncertainty. As companies tighten their belts, traditional hiring practices may no longer be sufficient. However, by adopting a skill-based talent strategy, organizations can effectively navigate these challenges and ensure business continuity. According to Deloitte research, skills-based organizations are 107% more likely to allocate talent effectively, 52% more likely to drive innovation, an
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Behavioral science has shown that hope can power positive outcomes for both people and organizations.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
DECEMBER 4, 2024
When using generative AI, achieving high performance with low latency models that are cost-efficient is often a challenge, because these goals can clash with each other. With the newly launched Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation feature, you can use smaller, faster, and cost-efficient models that deliver use-case specific accuracy that is comparable to the largest and most capable models in Amazon Bedrock for those specific use cases.
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