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Is SaaS dead? Not quite, but it’s evolving rapidly

CIO Business Intelligence

Implications for CIOs For CIOs, this trend towards vertical SaaS and composable solutions presents both opportunities and challenges. This shift is partly driven by economic uncertainty and the need for businesses to justify every expense. For CIOs and business leaders, this evolution presents both challenges and opportunities.

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly on Data

In the best case scenario, the trained neural network accurately represents the underlying phenomenon of interest and produces the correct output even when presented with new input data the model didn’t see during training. Machine learning adds uncertainty. You’ll become familiar with the problems that real-world data presents.

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Only engaged service teams can deliver next-level customer loyalty in an era of uncertainty

CIO Business Intelligence

They’re people — each with their own unique circumstances at home, families to support, and worries about the uncertainty that comes with a volatile global pandemic. By investing in an engaged workforce, service leaders provide their agents with an opportunity to be more creative, present, and honestly, themselves.

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3 ways to avoid the generative AI ROI doom loop

CIO Business Intelligence

The risk is exemplified by the case of an executive canceling Microsoft Copilot subscriptions supposedly because “he compared the slide-generation capability of Microsoft’s AI tools to ‘middle school presentations.’” That presentation in question sits inside two workflows. or the dreaded ‘ meeting before the meeting ’)?”

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Decision Making with Uncertainty Requires Wideward Thinking

Andrew White

COVID-19 and the related economic fallout has pushed organizations to extreme cost optimization decision making with uncertainty. Everything Changes. As a result, Data, Analytics and AI are in even greater demand. Every decision by every executive leader need information: What investments to furlough or delay, or accelerate?

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How CIOs can be pillars of stability in an uncertain world

CIO Business Intelligence

The economists lament, “ A thick fog of uncertainty still surrounds us.” Uncertainty is our jam.” minutes of downtime per year), and expanding digital capabilities in a world characterized by massive economic, political, social, and technological uncertainty. After all, uncertainty is the one certainty.

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Uncertainties: Statistical, Representational, Interventional

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

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.