O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Technical sophistication: Sophistication measures a team’s ability to use advanced tools and techniques (e.g., Technical competence: Competence measures a team’s ability to successfully deliver on initiatives and projects. Technical competence results in reduced risk and uncertainty. AI Goals as a Function of Maturity.

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Jedox

APRIL 9, 2020

Times of crisis mean uncertainty, both personally and professionally. In this blog post, we’ll look at the importance of agility in FP&A in being able to better manage uncertainties, even during uncertain times and build resilience for the future. Business Continuity. The importance of real time data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

In its latest filing, the company said it continued executing cost management measures, “including limiting external hiring, employee reorganizations, and other actions” to align its investments with strategic priorities and customer needs. These actions resulted in a reduction in overall headcount.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

To get back in front, IT leaders will have to transform lessons learned from 2023 into actionable, adaptable processes, as veteran technology pros have been remarkably consistent in identifying global and economic uncertainties as key challenges for IT leaders to anticipate in 2024 as well.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s no surprise, then, that according to a June KPMG survey, uncertainty about the regulatory environment was the top barrier to implementing gen AI. So here are some of the strategies organizations are using to deploy gen AI in the face of regulatory uncertainty. Not without warning signs, however. Then there are the lawsuits.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This is due, on the one hand, to the uncertainty associated with handling confidential, sensitive data and, on the other hand, to a number of structural problems. HR managers need to think strategically about what their companys needs will be in the future and use this to develop requirement profiles for personnel planning.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

by AMIR NAJMI & MUKUND SUNDARARAJAN Data science is about decision making under uncertainty. Some of that uncertainty is the result of statistical inference, i.e., using a finite sample of observations for estimation. But there are other kinds of uncertainty, at least as important, that are not statistical in nature.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

Digital disruption, global pandemic, geopolitical crises, economic uncertainty — volatility has thrown into question time-honored beliefs about how best to lead IT. Thriving amid uncertainty means staying flexible, he argues. . The past few years in IT have exemplified this. Develop team trust. Budgets may need adjusting,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The global IT services industry is at a significant crossroads, with the explosive growth of generative AI and deepening economic uncertainties reshaping its future. Although there are efforts to boost industries such as semiconductors, there is much uncertainty about when the impact may be seen.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Revenue growth at Amazon’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, continued to slow in the fourth quarter as enterprises advanced their cost-cutting measures, brought on by uncertain macroeconomic environment. Despite a 20% year-on-year increase in revenue, reaching $21.4 and 33% growth seen in Q3 and Q2 respectively.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Hot: Getting comfortable with uncertainty To address disruptions across multiple aspects of the business, organizations need to be able to pivot quickly, says DeVry University CIO Chris Campbell. Harvard’s McNulty says ongoing uncertainty is prompting more interest in futures and scenario planning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

Yet throughout the evening, the common denominator was the need to reduce uncertainty and manage risk. What is playing on the minds of senior IT executives confronted with the multiple challenges of cybersecurity and compliance? Here are five main takeaways from the event.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2023

The importance of efficiency, optimization, and risk reduction When asked how they measure success within their organizations, respondents noted increased efficiency (71%), optimized resources (67%), and reduced risk (63%). based IT directors and vice presidents in companies with more than 1,000 employees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Economic uncertainty, increased competition, sustainability concerns, shareholder expectations, and regulatory challenges are also top of mind. IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. But it’s not the only one.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

As IT leaders feel pressure from the C-Suite to be more efficient, as well as cut costs and optimize resources, respondents of the survey ranked faster DevOps processes, automated processes, and increasing overall output as the top three measures that would be most impactful to increasing efficiency.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In an incident management blog post , Atlassian defines SLOs as: “the individual promises you’re making to that customer… SLOs are what set customer expectations and tell IT and DevOps teams what goals they need to hit and measure themselves against. Proper AI product monitoring is essential to this outcome. I/O validation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

In How to Measure Anything , Douglas Hubbard offers an alternative definition of “measurement” to the Oxford English Dictionary’s “the size, length, or amount of something.” Hubbard defines measurement as: “A quantitatively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on one or more observations.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2023

EY recently found that in current economic and financial uncertainty, 94% of tech executives plan to increase their IT investment over the next year. Optimization also rose to the top of IT leaders’ lists: 67% measure success within their IT organization by better optimizing resources. Recently, Rocket Software surveyed 275 U.S.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2024

The technology landscape isn’t the only element evolving within the IT department, nor are rank-and-file staffers the only IT professionals expected to upskill. CIOs, too, are expanding their executive capabilities — as they should be — given the everchanging list of challenges they face. He says to do otherwise would risk being left behind. “AI

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As a first step toward reducing uncertainty and surprise in 2024, I suggest CIOs take baby steps to operationalize learning by leaning into this briefing structure. Uncertainty is Certain A key reason to do this is because uncertainty abounds. Today, not so much. Here’s what that means and how to achieve it.

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Jedox

APRIL 21, 2020

In the face of unprecedented uncertainty, the question is how to quickly evaluate risk, opportunities and competitively allocate capital. To understand the marginal impact of changes you need an analytical framework that measures shifts from baseline scenarios. In the face of uncertainty, investor relations are paramount.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 5, 2021

AI and Uncertainty. Some people react to the uncertainty with fear and suspicion. Recently published research addressed the question of “ When Does Uncertainty Matter?: Understanding the Impact of Predictive Uncertainty in ML Assisted Decision Making.”. .” AI Doomsaying. People are unsure about AI because it’s new.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

The Church of Agile is being corrupted from within by institutional forces that have refused or been unable to adapt to the radical humanity embodied in its collaborative, self-organizing, cross-functional teams. A hollowed-out husk of Scrum concealing taskmasters of Waterfall is the Trojan Horse of this betrayal. The broken promise of Agile.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This involves identifying, quantifying and being able to measure ethical considerations while balancing these with performance objectives. Systems should be designed with bias, causality and uncertainty in mind. Uncertainty is a measure of our confidence in the predictions made by a system. System Design. Model Drift.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Government executives face several uncertainties as they embark on their journeys of modernization. How to quantify the impact : Quantify, articulate and measure the expected long-term benefit of a capability to justify the investment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In the new report, titled “Digital Transformation, Data Architecture, and Legacy Systems,” researchers defined a range of measures of what they summed up as “data architecture coherence.” He specializes in removing fear, uncertainty, and doubt from strategic decision-making through empirical data and market sensing.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 19, 2021

Businesses worldwide, especially SaaS businesses, have discovered that smart, measurable content marketing is the key to achieving their business goals. Then, you can simply plan, create, measure, optimize and repeat. Data is the backbone of effective digital marketing, and content is not just king; it is the entire royal family.

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Jen Stirrup

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Information is pretty thin stuff, unless mixed with experience. – Clarence Day (1874–1935), American essayist. Why do organizations get stuck with their data? It is such a fundamental question. Often, this problem can be due to the organization concentrating solely on technology and data.

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O'Reilly on Data

JULY 20, 2021

The telephone in the kitchen was for everyone’s use. After the release of the iPad in 2010 Craig Hockenberry discussed the great value of communal computing but also the concerns : “When you pass it around, you’re giving everyone who touches it the opportunity to mess with your private life, whether intentionally or not. That makes me uneasy.”.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

The numerical value of the signal became decoupled from the event it was measuring even as the ordinal value remained unchanged. bar{pi} (1 - bar{pi})$: This is the irreducible loss due to uncertainty. by LEE RICHARDSON & TAYLOR POSPISIL Calibrated models make probabilistic predictions that match real world probabilities.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

First, you figure out what you want to improve; then you create an experiment; then you run the experiment; then you measure the results and decide what to do. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2023

Information, according to the mathematical theory that bears its name, reduces uncertainty. In this way, the information I have given you has cut your uncertainty in half. In this way, the information I have given you has cut your uncertainty in half. Everything we do in IT starts here, with the definition of a “bit.”

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DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The uncertainty of not knowing where data issues will crop up next and the tiresome game of ‘who’s to blame’ when pinpointing the failure. After navigating the complexity of multiple systems and stages to bring data to its end-use case, the final product’s value becomes the ultimate yardstick for measuring success.

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datapine

MAY 31, 2022

Everywhere you turn these days, “the cloud” is being talked about. It’s a hot topic, and as technologies continue to evolve at a rapid pace, the scope of the cloud continues to expand. Yes, this ambiguous term seems to encompass almost everything about us. The capabilities and breadth of the cloud are enormous.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 9, 2023

Like most CIOs you’ve no doubt leaned on ROI, TCO and KPIs to measure the business value of your IT investments. Those Three Big Acronyms are still important for fine-tuning your IT operations, but success today is increasingly measured in business outcomes. Maybe you’ve even surpassed expectations in each of these yardsticks.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 30, 2021

Humility Means Recognizing Uncertainty. Recognizing and admitting that uncertainty is a major step in establishing trust. A prediction might also be less certain when confronting data measurably dissimilar from the data it was trained on. That is exactly what we mean by humility in AI. Conclusion. AI you can trust.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 18, 2019

Uncertainties are a major roadblock in automating cybersecurity. The software developers can only automate what they’re certain about, and there is an enormous amount of uncertainty in the work at hand. There’s no question that the term is popping up everywhere as enterprises yearn to turn big data into a competitive edge.

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