Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 27, 2024
The Firewalla Gold Pro is a high-performance firewall designed for small offices and power users, offering robust security features, seamless setup, and advanced management through a user-friendly app and web-based subscription service.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 26, 2024
Market share has traditionally correlated strongly with profitability because of efficiency, market efficiency, and customer perception effects. But, as the authors demonstrate, the relationship has been changed by the digital transformation in firms. The authors’ research finds that the market-share profitability relationship has become weaker for firms that favor investment in value creation over value appropriation and for firms operating in B2B markets.
CIO
AUGUST 27, 2024
In 2019, it took an act of Congress to formally initiate the expansive modernization of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), marking an ambitious leap toward reimagining taxpayer services and operations. The strategy unfolded through careful planning, leveraging technology to enhance the taxpayer experience and ensuring robust cybersecurity measures.
Ooda Loop
AUGUST 26, 2024
There are things business and government executives should know about these new algorithms and what they mean for our collective future. This post captures what you need to know.
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.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 26, 2024
To be a better performance coach avoid these common mistakes. Have you ever had (what you thought was) a great performance coaching conversation—your employee commits to behavior change—but fifteen minutes later they’re back to their old habits? So you give them more performance coaching, this time “louder” literally or through progressive discipline.
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The Daily WTF
AUGUST 26, 2024
Lisa was working on a project she quite liked. The tech was cool, the problems being solved were interesting, and the team had a good working process. Company-wide, however, budgets were tight, and other projects were in much worse shape, so the project Lisa was on got put on pause, and her team was moved onto a different project. Someone wanted to make sure that functions which had large side effects were only called in the right places.
Crunchbase News
AUGUST 26, 2024
For a decade, U.S. seed and early-stage round sizes consistently saw an increase until early 2023 when typical round sizes began to come down and the venture market was three quarters into a funding slowdown. The first half of this year, however, has reversed that trend as the median round size for funding at seed through Series C has picked up again, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows.
Dell EMC
AUGUST 27, 2024
Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA includes support for NVIDIA NIM™ Agent Blueprints to streamline deployment of AI use cases.
CIO
AUGUST 30, 2024
A more operational, business-specific way of leveraging generative AI is beginning to take shape in the form of AI agents that quietly work behind the scenes, moving beyond gen AI’s creational capabilities toward autonomous decision-making in enterprise workflows. Agentic AI, at its core, is designed to automate a specific function within an organization’s myriad business processes, without human intervention.
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Henrik Warne
AUGUST 25, 2024
Using ChatGPT when I code has been a real productivity boost for me. Instead of reading an example on Stack Overflow and figuring out how to adapt it to my particular case, I immediately get code tailored to my specific needs. I my mind, generating code is a perfect use case for LLMs, since I will always test the generated code. If it isn’t working, I’ll find out right away, so hallucinations is not a problem.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 27, 2024
Few companies have a clear idea of where strategy making ends and execution begins. As a result they develop strategic plans where they’re not required and fail to develop strategic plans where they are. To help prevent this happening to your Graham Kenny offers a few dos and don’ts: (1) Don’t develop strategic plans for functions; (2) Confine “strategy” to the business level; (3) Keep strategy and action separate; and (4) Be careful how you use the terms “strategy” and “strategic.
IDC
AUGUST 28, 2024
Artificial intelligence is consuming the attention of IT and business leaders. So much so that many organizations are racing to hire or promote individuals to the role of chief AI officer. Call it the rise of the CAIO. The rapid and widespread interest in this strategic job role has helped inspire the CAIO Summit, which [.
CIO
AUGUST 28, 2024
CISOs looking for new IT hires already struggle with talent market shortages and bridging cybersecurity skills gaps. But now they face a growing challenge from an unexpected source: sanctions-busting North Korean software developers posing as potential hires. North Korea is actively infiltrating Western companies using skilled IT workers who use fake identities to pose as remote workers with foreign companies, typically but not exclusively in the US.
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IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 28, 2024
Broadcom today at the VMware Explore 2024 conference added an on-premises edition of its Rally project management application for managing software engineering projects.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 26, 2024
New research in behavioral science has revealed that cynical thinking stands in the way of success in the workplace. Cynics, it turns out, earn less money, report lower job satisfaction, and are less likely to be elevated to leadership positions. That’s because success is not the winner-take-all battle that cynics believe it to be. Cynicism, in fact, can bleed workplaces of creativity, openness, and morale, and the bottom line — whereas the people who succeed at work tend to so by building trust
Crunchbase News
AUGUST 27, 2024
Venture funding to Chinese startups seems almost certain to hit its lowest point in a decade as early-stage funding to the country continues to plummet. Total funding to startups in China bottomed out last quarter when it hit only $7.4 billion — a stunning 42% decline from Q1, which saw $12.8 billion invested, and the lowest since Q3 2014, per Crunchbase data.
CIO
AUGUST 27, 2024
If you’re stressing over cloud cost increases, you’re not alone. Three out of every five organizations saw cloud spending increase in the past year, with nearly four in 10 who experienced price hikes saying their costs jumped by more than 25% — this according to a recent survey of IT professionals commissioned by cloud provider Civo. Several factors appear to be driving cloud cost increases, including inflation, a rush to deploy compute-hungry AI , and energy costs, says Mark Boost, CEO of Civo,
Speaker: Conrado Morlan
In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 30, 2024
Programmers say that adopting generative AI is a top priority for their companies and that such investments create openings for new products.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 27, 2024
High stress at work can destabilize people’s ethical compass, putting them at heightened risk of ethical lapses. When employees focus solely on achieving their targets, deadlines, or personal financial goals at the expense of ethical considerations — when doing the right thing feels burdensome compared to seemingly less-costly shortcuts — they can teeter on “ethical burnout.
Ooda Loop
AUGUST 29, 2024
A recent article raised an important acknowledgement in the world of global, state-driven cyber attacks: “the hacker blame game isn’t working anymore.
CIO
AUGUST 26, 2024
IBM is outfitting the next generation of its z and LinuxONE mainframes with its next-generation Telum processor and a new accelerator aimed at boosting performance of AI and other data-intensive workloads. The new processor, the IBM Telum II, has greater memory and cache capacity than the previous generation, and it integrates a new data processing unit (DPU) specialized for IO acceleration along with enhanced on-chip AI acceleration capabilities.
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The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.
Perficient
AUGUST 28, 2024
This post is the first in a series of four about estimating project hours. Part 1: Sandbagging & Lowballing Coming Soon: Part 2: Dependencies & Creep Part 3: Assumptions & Uncertainty Part 4: The Emotional Conclusion Estimating is a precarious business – part science, a lot of guesswork, and a bit of psychic magic! The goal is to forecast the effort, time, and cost of a project with enough accuracy to avoid disaster.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 29, 2024
“Evolvable scripts” are brief instruction sets that are easy to understand and remember, and allow room for employees to adapt to specific and changing needs.
The Daily WTF
AUGUST 27, 2024
Peter was tracking down some bugs, when he found code which looks like this: if (IsEmptyOrNull(myInput)) { // do things that clearly expect myInput to NOT be null or empty } else { throw BadInputException( "The input must not be null." ); } Names are made up above, to illustrate the flow of code. This seemed wildly wrong, and was possibly the source of the bug, so Peter dove in.
CIO
AUGUST 29, 2024
Google has updated its Gemini large language model (LLM) with a new feature, dubbed Gems, that allows users to train Gemini on any topic of their choice and use it as a customized AI assistant for various use cases. Gems, previewed at Google I/O this year, is currently available for Gemini Advanced, Business, and Enterprise users. Gemini Advanced is a paid premium subscription of Gemini with the first month free presently.
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With its unparalleled flexibility, rapid development and cost-saving capabilities, open source is proving time and again that it’s the leader in data management. But as the growth in open source adoption increases, so does the complexity of your data infrastructure. In this Analyst Brief developed with IDC, discover how and why the best solution to this complexity is a managed service, including: Streamlined compliance with some of the most complex regulatory guidelines Simplified operations, li
CEO Insider
AUGUST 29, 2024
The pandemic catalyzed a seismic shift in how companies operate regarding flexibility in the location of their workers. For some, this flexibility proved a temporary measure; for others, it became a permanent feature. Crunchbase, an AI-powered platform for discovering and connecting with innovative companies, is one of the latter. Kelly Mendez-Scheib, Chief People Officer at […] The post What Does It Take to Make Remote-First Work?
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 28, 2024
Numerous researches have shown that we forget much of what we experience in a day. Knowing this, how do you create messages so there is a better chance of people remembering them? The author uses concepts from memory science to help you craft messages — whether it’s a presentation, an email, or a speech — that will be likely to stick. One way to craft a memorable message is to chunk it up.
Perficient
AUGUST 28, 2024
Perficient continues to make strategic investments to grow our global footprint. This is great for our clients because we span time zones, cultures and capabilities. However, it can present a challenge fostering a cohesive company culture and opportunities for colleagues to connect. That is why Perficient invests in its people by supporting Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), Special Interest Groups (SIGs), and Innovation Groups (IGs).
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