O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 22, 2020

We do so out of genuine curiosity as well as professional necessity: Q is an ML/AI consultant, Chris is a product manager in the AI space, and Shane is an attorney. The opinions presented here are personal, do not reflect the view of our employers, and are not professional product, consulting, or legal advice. A lot of questions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

She is now CEO of 10Xresponsibletech, a consulting company focused on helping organizations design, integrate, and adopt business-aligned and responsible AI strategies. Are we building AI strategies that are aligned to business goals? Will it mitigate risk? Are we identifying opportunities that AI presents to us?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

Adding smarter AI also adds risk, of course. “At The big risk is you take the humans out of the loop when you let these into the wild.” When it comes to security, though, agentic AI is a double-edged sword with too many risks to count, he says. “We That means the projects are evaluated for the amount of risk they involve.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 21, 2022

Many of them have utilized many management programs but finding the most best application without the assistance of an experienced consultant can be a challenge. Some new consulting agencies specialize in helping companies select the best applications. What are application consulting services and can they help with your AI strategy?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

The time required to familiarize oneself with the requirements and consequences of the various laws and to develop and roll out your organizations strategies and solutions should also not be underestimated. Develop a compliance strategy Companies should first develop the strategic direction of the compliance organization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The implementation of these techniques in medical care will allow the transformation of the way we diagnose, in addition to personalizing treatments, helping to identify risk factors and, in general, improving the results and productivity of the health sector. This way, waiting times before going in for a consultation can be minimized.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 25, 2025

The coordination tax: LLM outputs are often evaluated by nontechnical stakeholders (legal, brand, support) not just for functionality, but for tone, appropriateness, and risk. They used some local embeddings and played around with different chunking strategies. Wrong document retrieval : Debug chunking strategy, retrieval method.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 25, 2023

IBM Consulting has established a Center of Excellence for generative AI. It stands alongside IBM Consulting’s existing global AI and Automation practice, which includes 21,000 data and AI consultants who have conducted over 40,000 enterprise client engagements. The CoE is off to a fast start.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. Unfortunately, the road to data strategy success is fraught with challenges, so CIOs and other technology leaders need to plan and execute carefully. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 17, 2024

What are the associated risks and costs, including operational, reputational, and competitive? That can be due to a lack of skillsets, concerns about risks or integration complexity, or identifying the right use case that will deliver ROI. To evaluate feasibility, ask: Do we have internal data and skills to support this?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

To navigate these challenges, firms may be forced to diversify their supply chains, identify alternative suppliers, and adapt procurement strategies. China will likely become a powerhouse for the legacy nodes, as they have a lot of capacity, and they might reduce the prices,” said Pareekh Jain, CEO of Pareekh Consulting.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

It identifies your organizations most critical functions and assesses the potential risks and impacts to income, opportunity, brand, service, mission, and people. It outlines strategies to ensure operations continue, minimize disruption, and drive preventative measures and contingency plans. Business priorities should guide it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The demand for ESG initiatives has become an integral part of a company’s strategy for long-term success, offering a promising future for those who embrace them. This includes minimizing the risks associated with AI bias, guaranteeing transparency in AI decision-making and addressing energy consumption in blockchain networks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Well also examine strategies CIOs can use to address these challenges, ensuring their organizations can recognize the rewards of GenAI without compromising financial stability. CIOs must develop a clear strategy for projecting and demonstrating ROI to ensure that innovation investments align with organizational goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

Chege, now CEO and principal consultant of Digital Transformation Experts, says he has worked with other companies that have made similar moves. Moreover, these repatriations show how CIOs have a shrewder, more fluid cloud strategy today to ensure they don’t settle for less than what they want. a private cloud).

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The need to manage risk, adhere to regulations, and establish processes to govern those tasks has been part of running an organization as long as there have been businesses to run. Furthermore, the State of Risk & Compliance Report, from GRC software maker NAVEX, found that 20% described their programs as early stage. What is GRC?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, returning to the GIGO warning, an over-reliance on synthetic data risks accelerating the dangers of inaccurate outputs and poor decision making; such data is only as good as the models that created it. Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Data Management, IT Leadership, IT Strategy

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2023

Excellent opportunities to save and make money, reduce risk, and develop new models of business emerge when business, IT and data teams work together, identifying where the enterprise’s most valuable data assets reside. Learn more about our data and analytics consulting services. The bottom line:  Don’t leave data behind.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 4, 2023

Many businesses have at least some kinds of cybersecurity plan in place, but not all cybersecurity strategies are equally thorough. Most business decision makers suffer from blind spots and biases that cause them to neglect or underestimate certain risks. Some people struggle with risk identification. Risk assessment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Regarding complexity, David Linthicum, managing director and chief cloud strategy officer at Deloitte Consulting LLP, comments that “ over the last five years, people have been migrating to the cloud and using more complex distributed deployments, such as multi-cloud, edge computing, IoT, and things like that.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This can be great for technically-savvy customers but has the risk of not being sufficiently abstracted from AI costs to hold value over time, he says. A third way that AI agents could be priced is by calculating the underlying costs and charging a small markup, he says. Potentially good for customers, but maybe not for shareholder returns.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To keep ahead of cybercriminals, organizations must remain agile, pivoting to embrace new strategies and technologies whenever necessary in order to outrun attacks. For example, suppose an organization has multiple teams or departments responsible for different parts of its cybersecurity strategy.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

According to the IBM survey, when CMOs were asked what they thought the primary challenges were in adopting generative AI, they listed three top concerns: managing the complexity of implementation, building the data set and brand and intellectual property (IP) risk. With the right generative AI strategy, marketers can mitigate these concerns.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 20, 2019

Like many others, I’ve known for some time that machine learning models themselves could pose security risks. And at many companies, many different employees, consultants, and contractors have just that—and with little oversight. They could also share their strategy with others, potentially leading to large losses for your company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

If they want to make certain decisions faster, we will build agents in line with their risk tolerance. D&B is not alone in worrying about the risks of AI agents. At IT consultant CDW, one area where AI agents are already being used is to help staff respond to requests for proposals. Ours is totally automated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2024

For the technical architecture, we use a cloud-only strategy. This team of former consultants thinks about how to change the IT organization itself. When I talk to the board, it’s about risk reduction, since the cloud offers a much better control plane for enforcing governance practices. This is a multi-year initiative.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2023

They note, too, that CIOs — being top technologists within their organizations — will be running point on those concerns as companies establish their gen AI strategies. Here’s a rundown of the top 20 issues shaping gen AI strategies today. Douglas Merrill, a partner at management consulting firm McKinsey & Co.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

Sixty-six percent of C-level executives are ambivalent or dissatisfied with the progress of their AI or GenAI efforts, according to Boston Consulting Group 1. Deloitte 2 meanwhile found that 41% of business and technology leaders said a lack of talent, governance, and risks are barriers to broader GenAI adoption.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2025

Complexity is challenging when youre trying to make rapid changes to keep up with the needs of the business, but those frequent changes drive risk and incidents. AIOps can show the causal impact of the change in one system, and the learning algorithms of AIOps can help you predict risks of incremental versus major changes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2022

Is it digital transformation (the phrase that has launched a thousand consultancies and as many failed strategies)? A collection of tactics does not a strategy make. Digital transformation, cloud computing, 5G, metaverse… these are not strategies. We have aggregated them and call it a strategy.”. Given that ~$1.3

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As data leaks on the dark web continue to make headlines, organizations face heightened pressure to reinforce their breach containment strategies. Incorporating an effective attack surface management tool into your security strategy can significantly help you mitigate the risks of data breaches.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The value of addressing cybersecurity issues through ongoing discussions is getting corporate alignment on effective and robust strategies, says Roger Albrecht, co-lead of the cybersecurity unit at technology research and advisory firm ISG. Are our systems adequately modernized for security? What would be the next steps?

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Timo Elliott

DECEMBER 10, 2024

One of the sessions I sat in at UKISUG Connect 2024 covered a real-world example of data management using a solution from Bluestonex Consulting , based on the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). Impact of Errors : Erroneous data posed immediate risks to operations and long-term damage to customer trust.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2023

For those companies operating on a calendar year, the end of summer signals the start of annual planning and the mad dash to prepare their IT strategies. Your answers will lay the foundation for your strategy and highlight where your story needs work if you want to avoid fire drills in the eleventh hour. IT Strategy

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

The partnership between Cognizant and Microsoft may help ease some of that, as Cognizant’s consulting services can help enterprises find ways to leverage copilots as part of their business processes. Ensuring human oversight and rigorous quality checks can mitigate the risks associated with AI errors.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

Poor planning Enterprises risk running into trouble if they lack a detailed cloud strategy. “A A pragmatic and structured architectural approach when moving to the cloud is critical,” says William Peldzus, senior director and Center of Excellence head with enterprise consulting firm Capgemini Americas.

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