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Design Thinking: Understanding the Method Behind the Idea

Luis Goncalves

In a 2014 assessment handled by the Design Management Institute , the performance of design-led corporations like Apple, Nike, and Procter & Gamble exceeded that of the S&P 500 for the past decade by as much as 219%. Now many organizations want to learn design-based thinking – a distinct way that designers come up with solutions to problems.

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Most phishers using Gmail are actually Nigerians targeting Americans

The Parallax

SAN FRANCISCO—Turns out the phisher stereotype of the Nigerian “prince” who says he’s looking for a safe place to store his money isn’t that far off the mark. When two Google security team members searched for phishers who use Gmail to temporarily store stolen account log-in credentials, they found about 19,000 of them—and most actually in Nigeria. After modifying Gmail’s anti-abuse detection systems to look for phishing-kit code signatures, Neal Mueller and Collin Frierson detected more than 10

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Heilmeier’s Catechism

NeverFriday

Heilmeier Catechism. When George Heilmeier was the director of ARPA in the mid 1970s, he had a standard set of questions he expected every proposal for a new research program to answer. These have been called the Heilmeier Catechism. It’s a good exercise to answer these questions for an individual research project, too, both for yourself and as a way to convey to others what you hope to accomplish.

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High EQ: The most desirable leadership tenet of them all?

N2Growth Blog

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the ability to identify, use, understand and manage emotions in an effective and positive way. And, in many organisations around the world, it is on the rise! Contrary to popular belief, The Millennials, Generation Y and Gen Next (those engrossed by tablets and screens) hold, on average, higher EQ levels than generations before them.

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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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How to run a custom version of Spark on hosted Kubernetes

O'Reilly Media - Data

Learn how Spark 2.3.0+ integrates with K8s clusters on Google Cloud and Azure. Do you want to try out a new version of Apache Spark without waiting around for the entire release process? Does running alpha-quality software sound like fun? Does setting up a test cluster sound like work? This is the blog post for you, my friend! We will help you deploy code that hasn't even been reviewed yet (if that is the adventure you seek).

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19 Questions to Grow Confidence in Children

Let's Grow Leaders

Questions are a remarkable way to grow confidence in children. Great questions work because they cause children to stop and think. To reflect. To pause and consider what’s going on in their lives and in the world around them. Kids are natural questioners. […]. The post 19 Questions to Grow Confidence in Children appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Kubernetes in the cloud: the 6 best options

Xebia

The container wars are over. Kubernetes has won. The fact that Docker even integrates it in it's desktop version says enough. But creating and maintaining a K8S cluster is still hard. You need to know a lot of the internals of Kubernetes, like etcd, overlay networking and more. And you need to be an expert […]. The post Kubernetes in the cloud: the 6 best options appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Relato: Turking the business graph

O'Reilly Media - Data

A failed analytics startup post-mortem. In order to conquer a market, you must first understand it. We often speak of markets in the abstract, as addressable segments of the economy, defining them by examples of companies and by comparisons to others engaged in similar activities. Sales and marketing leaders have richer internal models of markets they use to guide their organizations as they fight for their share of the markets they contest.

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5 Essential Habits to Be a Successful Woman Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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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Managing Remote Teams: Let’s Grow Leaders April Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on managing remote teams. We asked thought leaders from around the world to share their very best post on this topic. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and […]. The post Managing Remote Teams: Let’s Grow Leaders April Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Cyber War: The Fastest Way to Improve Cybersecurity?

CTOvision

For all the benefits IT in general and the Internet specifically have given us, it has also introduced significant risks to our well-being and way of life. Yet cybersecurity is still not a priority for a majority of people and organizations. No amount of warnings about the risks associated with poor cybersecurity have helped drive […].

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Creating Server-side Rendered Vue.js Apps Using Nuxt.js

Toptal

When using a JavaScript framework, your browser doesn't receive a complete page to display. Instead it gets a bunch of pieces and instructions of how to put them all together. It takes a substantial amount of time to put all this information together before your browser actually has something to display. In this article, Toptal Freelance Front-end Engineer Ben Jones introduces us to Nuxt.js, a server-side rendering library for Vue.js, inspired by the popular Next.js for React.js.

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25 Best Active Forums for Programmers

VironIT

You are a programmer and face a problem. Where do you go? Some programmer gets stuck for a long time for solving a small problem, which already solved by other. In this article, we talk about the best active forums for programmers and software developers. Actually, forums are the place where everyone shares their problems and […].

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2024 Salary Guide

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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5 Easy Ways to Look and Feel More Confident in Business and Life

Women on Business

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I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it.

CTOvision

In doing some background research for a book review I wanted to dig up an article I remember from years ago. Not remembering exactly where I found it I turned to Google, the research assistant all of humanity turns to in times like this. I entered the search terms: Google Making Us Stupid and in […].

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Mastering Sustainable Startup Growth and Finding Your Relevant KPIs

Toptal

To unlock growth in a company, you must first find the KPI that is core towards increasing company value. More effective knowledge of growth comes from a deeper understanding of the characteristics of a "perfect client," the trends between user cohorts, and finding the tipping point that solidifies retention and engagement.

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Why Scrum is the Best Way to Create AI

scruminc

Why Scrum is the Best Way to Create AI. by Tom Bullock , Joe Justice , Alex Sutherland | 04-20-2018 | Blog. There is no broad agreement on what constitutes artificial intelligence (AI). Still, this much is clear, we have already entered the age of AI and business. Just ask Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, really any company that is looking to replace algorithms with something much more complex, responsive, even predictive of customer and market wants and demands.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

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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9 Times These Female CEOs Inspired Us with Their Words

Women on Business

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Global Cyber Alliance Release: Perhaps the most important of the 2018 RSA Conference Season

CTOvision

Every year the RSA conference brings together members of the cybersecurity community for a week of presentations, discussions, tech demos and socials. Concurrent with the event there is always a flurry of press releases. Many are designed to highlight a company’s product or service. Many, like the annoucement of the new Microsoft led coalition of […].

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Advanced Financial Modeling Best Practices: Hacks for Intelligent, Error-Free Modeling

Toptal

From abstract spreadsheets to real-world application, financial models have become an inextricable part of business life and an indispensable part of every company’s toolkit. But irrespective of its ubiquitousness as a productivity and decision-making tool, many out there still have a love-hate relationship with it. Finance expert Alberto Bazzana authors a comprehensive “how-to guide”, for both the novices and experts among us, detailing Wall Street’s best practices for intelligent, effective, a

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How to create Bitcoin Wallet App?

VironIT

Before you can trade Bitcoins, you need a place to store it. In the cryptocurrency world, that place is called a wallet. There are different wallets, catering for different requirements and varying in terms of safety and security, convenience, accessibility and so on. But for various reasons, existing cryptocurrency apps may not suit you. This […].

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Scrum Alliance and Scrum Inc Are Partnering

scruminc

Scrum Gathering 2018 Kicks Off With Exciting Announcement About Scrum@Scale. Great partnerships just make sense from the very beginning. And that is how we feel about the new joint venture between the Scrum Alliance and Scrum@Scale. Announced at the sold-out 2018 Scrum Gathering in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the partnership will focus on training, coaching and promoting Dr.

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Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Targeting Network Infrastructure Devices

CTOvision

It can be really hard for the government to share information with citizens and businesses, for many reasons. We all wish it was easier, but the fact is that complex rules and regulations and the need to operate with some degree of certainty combines with the need to protect sources and methods. Everyone in the […].

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Product Strategy: A Guide to Core Concepts and Processes

Toptal

In this age of lean startups, designers often find themselves in stretch roles where they are not only in charge of a product’s design but also in charge of coming up with the type of product to build.

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5 Tales of Leadership from India

Accenture

For several years, I was the managing director of SolutionsIQ operations in India. At times it was like I was always on a plane to or from Bangalore, where we have our office. I learned a lot more about the India market than I knew growing up there, and I met interesting people, not the least among them leaders looking for ways to drive change in their organizations.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

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.

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30 tips for creating great software releases

Successful Software

If a film director is only as good as their last film, then I guess a software developer is only as good as their last software release. In more than 30 years of writing software professionally I have shipped my fair share of releases. For the last 13 years I have been shipping software as a solo developer. Here are a few things I have learned along the way.

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Craxel’s Digital Trust Platform, Data Security and Your Identity

CTOvision

Editor's note: We learned of Craxel and saw this post on their site and asked Dave Enga for permission to publish it here for your reference. It seems that Craxel can provide a key part of a comprehensive strategy to protect information. This approach should fit well with other modern approaches, including a Software Defined […].

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Landing Page Design: Building the Ultimate Landing Page

Toptal

The best landing pages increase conversions and help brands sell more. But what makes great landing page design? Read and uncover valuable insights for any business looking for a world-class landing page.

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