InfoWorld

JANUARY 22, 2024

As the momentous first year of ChatGPT comes to a close, it’s clear that generative AI (genAI) and large language models (LLMs) are exciting technologies. But are they ready for prime-time enterprise use? There are well-understood challenges with ChatGPT , where its responses have poor accuracy. Despite being based on sophisticated computer models of human knowledge like GPT-4 , ChatGPT rarely wants to admit ignorance, a phenomenon referred to as AI hallucinations , and it often struggles with l

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

Remote work began as a temporary measure during the pandemic but has long been a permanent fixture in our new way of working. Organizations have shifted to remote desktop work environments at an increasing speed since then – simultaneously expanding their attack surface and exposing themselves to greater cybersecurity threats. The remote work revolution has pushed companies to rethink their security and data protection practices amidst hybrid work and cloud environments.

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 23, 2024

The last year has been a hard one for the technology industry, which faced its greatest waves of cutbacks and layoffs since the dotcom crash at the beginning of the century. As 2024 begins, we're seeing the early signs of a turn-around, which hopefully means technology organizations will soon be thinking of hiring again. Should such happy days return, firms will again run into the common problem of taking too long for new hires to become effective.

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InfoWorld

JANUARY 23, 2024

Oracle’s recent updates to its OCI Generative AI Service , which competes with similar services from rivals AWS , Microsoft , and Google , makes it more attuned towards the future need of enterprises, analysts say. But Oracle may be far behind rivals in terms of overall generative AI model and service offerings.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Dataiku

JANUARY 24, 2024

Let’s face it — Generative AI will continue to be the star of the show in 2024. Our commissioned study with Forrester surveyed 220 AI decision makers at large companies in North America in November 2023, and a whopping 83% of them are already exploring or experimenting with the technology.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

How do you lose the AI race? By not entering. So says Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. “When a technology this powerful comes along where you have to learn by doing, finding reasons not to do it is a pretty big error,” he says. Despite the mass embrace of generative AI in its first year of release, most organizations remain cautious about mass adoption.

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 22, 2024

Join Agile Alliance to elevate your career. Access monthly events, global conference opportunities, networking, and practical experiences for professional growth. The post Level up your leadership skills in 2024 with Agile Alliance! first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 24, 2024

Tim and Premand begin their discussion of how to get out of the difficulties of onboarding by explaining how to create a path to effectiveness for new hires. Such a path outlines the needs of employee and how the onboarding process should fulfill them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 22, 2024

To do more, clarify who owns the decision and know when it’s time to move Is your team full of good intentions and meaningful conversations that don’t translate into action and results? Do discussions regularly bog down in analysis paralysis? Or do you have choke points of one overwhelmed expert or manager that keeps everyone else waiting around? If any of these are true of your team, here are seven ways to help your team do more, improve morale, collaborate, and grow together. 7 Ways to Help Yo

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. How enterprises gather, store, cleanse, access, and secure their data can be a major factor in their ability to meet corporate goals. Unfortunately, the road to data strategy success is fraught with challenges, so CIOs and other technology leaders need to plan and execute carefully.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2024

In 2023, organizations continued to face significant challenges, from inflation to geopolitical turmoil to controversy over DEI and return-to-work policies — and 2024 promises more disruption. Gartner researchers have identified nine key trends, from new and creative employee benefits to the collapse of traditional career paths, that will impact work this year.

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Ooda Loop

JANUARY 25, 2024

“When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash” is a seering insight attributed to cultural theorist Paul Virilio - and is oft quoted here at OODA Loop. We review here some of the new "inventions" that are part and parcel of the emergence of AI as a general application technology across any and all global industry sectors and societal systems.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 26, 2024

Take initiative to find a great company culture that’s the right fit for you. You’re looking for a job, perhaps even your first “real” job out of school. Awesome. Let’s talk about how to find a great company culture that’s the right fit for you. Here’s the lowdown on finding a great company culture, straight from Carnegie Mellon University. 5 Steps to Finding a Great Company Culture in Your Job Search Hi Karin, I’m about to graduate from college a

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CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

German tech major SAP has announced a 2 billion euro ($2.17 billion) restructuring program for 2024, impacting 8,000 employees as it focuses on AI. “In 2024, SAP will further increase its focus on key strategic growth areas, in particular Business AI. It also intends to transform its operational setup to capture organizational synergies, AI-driven efficiencies and to prepare the company for highly scalable future revenue growth,” SAP said in a press statement.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2024

We should choose our words as wisely with people as we do with generative AI. In this article, the author offers six guidelines to consider when initiating discussions with stakeholders, whether they’re customers, partners, or employees: 1) Structure your prompts the right way. 2) Utilize reflective and thoughtful probing. 3) Convey empathetic language and humility. 4) Harness humor, playfulness, and emotions. 5) Acknowledge key challenges. 6) Be a good (and patient) listener.

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David Heinemeier Hansson

JANUARY 25, 2024

Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a big, revealing moment to a lot of people. Folks who perhaps didn’t think Apple would be “that kind of company”. That they wouldn't so blatantly threaten developers into compliance with such overtly onerous and punitive terms. But they did. And now they’re doubling down.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Essence of Narrative in Business In the realm of business, storytelling transcends mere entertainment. Ernst Gleijm , a seasoned expert from N2Growth, emphasizes its dual role: internally galvanizing and externally captivating. Amidst the ubiquity of Excel and PowerPoint, the art of crafting compelling narratives stands unparalleled. Storytelling doesn’t just convey a direction; it breathes life into the organizational journey, clarifying both the destination and the purpose. “St

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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

As enterprises become more data-driven, the old computing adage garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) has never been truer. The application of AI to many business processes will only accelerate the need to ensure the veracity and timeliness of the data used, whether generated internally or sourced externally. The costs of bad data Gartner has estimated that organizations lose an average of $12.9m a year from using poor quality data.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are three immediate challenges for companies that want to train fine-tuned AI models: 1) they require extensive, high-quality data — a scarce resource for many enterprises, 2) third-party AI models can include problematic biases, and 3) training fine-tuned models with users’ personal data may result in privacy violations. However, data collaboration platforms can help address these challenges.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 24, 2024

Human resource departments are bedeviled by the scourge of addiction. It is estimated that 10% of Americans are suffering from some form of a debilitating addictive disorder. Many millions of dollars have been spent attempting to treat valuable employees struggling with addiction, only to result in frequent and heart-breaking failures. Doctors now view addiction as […] The post Addressing Addiction Treatment in the Workplace appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JANUARY 26, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications built around large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the potential to create and accelerate economic value for businesses. Examples of applications include conversational search, customer support agent assistance , customer support analytics , self-service virtual assistants, chatbots , rich media generation , content moderation , coding companions to accelerate secure, high-performance software development , deeper insights from multim

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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with contacts in many leading enterprises, including businesses across a wide range of industries and regions. This experience has given me a unique vantage point, enabling me to see those specifics that are unique to each team and organization—as well as common themes that apply to broad swaths of the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2024

So, your manager told you that they’ll be bringing in someone else above you. In other words, you’re getting layered. This refers to a situation where an additional layer of management is inserted between you and your current reporting line. Essentially, it means that someone else is hired or promoted to a position above you. They become your new direct supervisor and you now report to them instead of your previous boss.

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Ooda Loop

JANUARY 23, 2024

Trade Clusters are yet another development in the way globalization transformed over the course of 2023. William Alan Reinsch, Senior Adviser and Scholl Chair in International Business, at the The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) provides a working definition and framed some the core characteristics of what he calls "trade clusters".

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on the state of seed startup investing at the start of 2024. Read Part 1, which looked at seed funding trends over the past decade and the median time period between seed and Series A funding, here. Seed funding to startups has grown into its own asset class over the past decade, with round sizes trending larger, and a bigger pool of investors backing these nascent startups.

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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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CIO

JANUARY 26, 2024

Ford Motor Co.’s wholesale pivot to technology has transformed not only the automaker’s business operations but its corporate identity. “We have become much more of a software company than we were 10 to 20 years ago,” says John Musser, director of engineering for Ford’s commercial division, Ford Pro. “People don’t think of a large, 100-year-old manufacturing company as high tech.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 24, 2024

A survey found only 20% of IT and security professionals are confident in their ability to detect a vulnerability before an app is released.

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Ooda Loop

JANUARY 24, 2024

While it is promising to see that these areas are being addressed at the highest levels of government, there is still one glaring omission that has yet to be treated with the same level of seriousness by the Executive Office – data privacy. The United States has various laws at both the state and federal levels that address different aspects of data privacy.

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