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. The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. Whats worse: Inputs are rarely exactly the same.

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The Data Visualisation Catalogue

OCTOBER 18, 2024

A Fan Chart is a visualisation tool used in time series analysis to display forecasts and associated uncertainties. Each shaded area shows the range of possible future outcomes and represents different levels of uncertainty with the darker shades indicating higher levels of probability.

Snapshot 84

Snapshot Uncertainty Forecasting Risk 84

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 30, 2024

While hyperscalers would prefer you entrust your data to them again the concerns about runaway costs are compounded by uncertainty about models, tools, and the associated risks of inputting corporate data into their black boxes. Moreover, organizations can create more guardrails while reducing reputational risk.

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Uncertainty Marketing Cost-Benefit Risk 122

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Data silos, lack of standardization, and uncertainty over compliance with privacy regulations can limit accessibility and compromise data quality, but modern data management can overcome those challenges. If the data volume is insufficient, it’s impossible to build robust ML algorithms.

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Data-driven Machine Learning ROI Uncertainty 111

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Dealing with uncertain economic environments, which can distract from sustainability issues: Energy prices, price inflation, and geopolitical tensions continue to fluctuate, and that uncertainty can impact focus on environmental sustainability. An operationalized carbon-neutral strategy requires end-to-end visibility on climate data.

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Uncertainty Measurement ROI Reporting 98

Smart Data Collective

MARCH 2, 2023

As a result, they will need to invest in data analytics tools to sustain a competitive edge in the face of growing economic uncertainty. Big data technology used to be a luxury for small business owners. It helps companies operate more efficiently, tap larger markets of customers, and solve some of their most complex challenges.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2022

According to John-David Lovelock, research vice president at Gartner, inflationary pressures are top-of-mind for most IT decision-makers at the moment, which creates a degree of uncertainty—high prices today could become even higher tomorrow. trillion, according to projections released by Gartner Research. in 2022, according to Gartner.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

Machine learning adds uncertainty. If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). You already know the game and how it is played: you’re the coordinator who ties everything together, from the developers and designers to the executives.

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Management Machine Learning Experimentation Metrics 363

Rocket-Powered Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

3) How do we get started, when, who will be involved, and what are the targeted benefits, results, outcomes, and consequences (including risks)? Those F’s are: Fragility, Friction, and FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt). It is important to realize that the usual “hype cycle” rules prevail in such cases as this.

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Strategy Experimentation Uncertainty Machine Learning 290

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Managing cybersecurity and other technology risks will be top of mind for CIOs in 2025 across Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), with 82% of 109 respondents saying it is a key priority for next year, according to Gartner.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

Gen AI has the potential to magnify existing risks around data privacy laws that govern how sensitive data is collected, used, shared, and stored. Gen AI has the potential to magnify existing risks around data privacy laws that govern how sensitive data is collected, used, shared, and stored. The risk is too high.”

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Uncertainty Risk Testing Enterprise 98

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2024

With uncertain economic conditions on the horizon, including stubborn inflation in many parts of the world, high interest rates, and volatile stock markets, CIOs face unique budgetary pressures for the year to come. A slim portion of IT leaders (8%) expect bumps of more than 10%, while 9% expect their budgets to stay the same or decrease slightly.

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O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Technical competence results in reduced risk and uncertainty. AI initiatives may also require significant considerations for governance, compliance, ethics, cost, and risk. Goals should be defined specifically and at a granular level for each stakeholder and relevant use case. AI Goals as a Function of Maturity. Conclusion.

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Advertising Cost-Benefit ROI Machine Learning 357

Cloudera

JULY 15, 2021

We recently hosted a roundtable focused on o ptimizing risk and exposure management with data insights. For financial institutions and insurers, risk and exposure management has always been a fundamental tenet of the business. Now, risk management has become exponentially complicated in multiple dimensions. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2023

The pressure is on to navigate economic uncertainty. Solicit input from trusted deputies and document the risks and implications of specific line items. Gartner’s downward revision of projected worldwide IT spending in 2023 from 5.1% What are the necessities in your IT budget to keep the lights on (KTLO)?

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Uncertainty Cost-Benefit Forecasting Insurance 98

Jet Global

MARCH 30, 2021

Tax planning is playing an increasingly important part in corporates’ enterprise resource management (ERM) strategies, driven by the many uncertainties created by political, economic, and pandemic-related trends. Take Responsibility for Risk Oversight. Take Responsibility for Risk Oversight. Foster an Appropriate Risk Mindset.

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Risk Management Risk Strategy Enterprise 98

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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Risk Software Interactive Modeling 335

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2024

In a business environment defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), the most successful CIOs are more than technology leaders; they’re “chief intentional officers.” That means pushing back against a lot of pressure, sometimes against the board or the executives.

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IT Risk Technology Uncertainty 122

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. If people need to go through multiple layers of approvals, they run the risk of building a very inefficient system. The past few years in IT have exemplified this.

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IT Cost-Benefit Uncertainty Digital Transformation 133

bridgei2i

JUNE 2, 2020

Episode 7: The Impact of COVID-19 on Financial Services & Risk. The Impact of COVID-19 on Financial Services & Risk Management. And then there’s uncertainty on when this will come back to normal, what will it settle down as, etc. PODCAST: COVID 19 | Redefining Digital Enterprises. Management.

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O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 22, 2019

All models, therefore, need to quantify the uncertainty inherent in their predictions. Yet, finance textbooks, programs, and professionals continue to use the normal distribution in their asset valuation and risk models because of its simplicity and analytical tractability. Image by Mike Shwe and Deepak Kanungo. Used with permission.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

If your organization is ambivalent about any of these things, you’re at risk of a genAI ROI doom loop, in which people may try very little and quickly run out of ideas. On the one hand, enthusiasm for getting out of “ pilot purgatory ” is a good sign. Or: “asking them to play ‘devil’s advocate’ always sharpens my thinking.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Cybersecurity risks This one is no surprise, given the scary statistics on the growing number of cyberattacks, the rate of successful attacks, and the increasingly high consequences of being breached. They’re wondering how AI technologies, such as ChatGPT and generative AI in general, will increase risks.

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IT Digital Transformation Reporting Finance 138

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

CIOs that aren’t embracing, testing, retooling, leveraging, and getting feedback from innovative concepts are putting their companies and businesses at risk of being left behind,” Mattmann warns. There’s no better type of job security than indispensability. Achieving indispensability isn’t as challenging as it may sound. Inquisitiveness.

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IT Optimization Uncertainty Testing 133

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2023

It helps reduce risk, increase efficiency, optimize resources, and improve both the customer and employee experience. When asked what keeps them up at night, IT leaders noted the need to improve overall IT performance (60%), followed by data security (50%), process risk and compliance (46%), and the need to improve agility (41%).

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IT Risk Management Risk Optimization 98

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Burnout is quickly becoming a widespread problem for IT organizations. The wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, mass tech industry layoffs, and the demand to keep pace with constantly evolving technology are all prominent factors contributing to a state of exhaustion among IT pros, according to industry surveys. And it can be hard to spot.

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O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Because of this trifecta of errors, we need dynamic models that quantify the uncertainty inherent in our financial estimates and predictions. Practitioners in all social sciences, especially financial economics, use confidence intervals to quantify the uncertainty in their estimates and predictions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While there is little doubt that companies have been cutting back on expenses generally in response to economic uncertainty, startups in particular have been feeling the pain of contracting budgets and reluctant investors. When we asked about the intensity of that pressure, 83% cited a moderate to high degree of pressure.

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IT Cost-Benefit Data-driven Manufacturing 128

Cloudera

JUNE 1, 2021

In summary, the next chapter for Cloudera will allow us to concentrate our efforts on strategic business opportunities and take thoughtful risks that help accelerate growth. It also means we can complete our business transformation with the systems, processes and people that support a new operating model. . Wrapping it up. What a day.

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Uncertainty Cost-Benefit Risk Strategy 144

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

More specifically, Rasmussen is boosting her spend on cybersecurity to help manage risk, a key element for enabling Ceridian’s planned global expansion. Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost.

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IT Business Driver Reporting Uncertainty 135

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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IT Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation ROI 138

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

Yet throughout the evening, the common denominator was the need to reduce uncertainty and manage risk. Yet throughout the evening, the common denominator was the need to reduce uncertainty and manage risk. Here are five main takeaways from the event.

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IT Uncertainty Manufacturing Data Processing 98

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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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. People IT leaders are under enormous pressure to do more with less and create an IT department that can optimize their organization’s resources and reduce exposure to risk.

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Optimization IT Digital Transformation Uncertainty 95

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Pre-COVID, agility became an aspiration and rallying cry for organizations seeking to embrace emerging technologies and pursue technology-enabled innovation, often to stave off digital disruption in their industries. Once the pandemic hit, that nice-to-have became an existential necessity. “As This goes beyond implementing agile methodology.

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IT Digital Transformation Technology Strategy 145

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

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. However such fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) can make it harder for IT to secure the necessary budget and resources to build services. Cleanse your data.

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Uncertainty Data Lake Consulting Risk 142

Aryng

JANUARY 8, 2024

Does it seem like 2024 is starting with more uncertainty compared to previous years? In times of great uncertainty leaders have to scrutinize the investment in strategic initiatives. In times of great uncertainty leaders have to scrutinize the investment in strategic initiatives. Charts like FRED certainly support that feeling.

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