O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 25, 2025

They also realized that, although LlamaIndex was cool to get this POC out the door, they couldnt easily figure out what prompt it was throwing to the LLM, what embedding model was being used, the chunking strategy, and so on. They used some local embeddings and played around with different chunking strategies.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

This means that the AI products you build align with your existing business plans and strategies (or that your products are driving change in those plans and strategies), that they are delivering value to the business, and that they are delivered on time. Machine learning adds uncertainty. AI product estimation strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

An operationalized carbon-neutral strategy requires end-to-end visibility on climate data. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

Medium to long-term strategy Analysts point out that while several tech companies are reducing their workforce, Dell is one of the few who has recorded weak financial performance. Significantly, this comes after Dell’s recent announcement of a stringent return-to-office policy. Fourth quarter revenue was down 11 percent year on year.

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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 can significantly improve the company’s pricing strategy. They should utilize the abovementioned big data strategies to build their brands and maintain profitability.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLennan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. But the CIO had several key objectives to meet before launching the transformation.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Today’s business climate is rife with economic uncertainty that is causing IT leaders to do more with less while still innovating to support the business. A composable ERP strategy isn’t all butterflies and rainbows, though. Let’s dive in. A composable ERP solution is not limited by its core vendor’s capabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In this first episode of our 5-episode podcast , Essential Connections: The Business Owner’s Guide to Growth During Economic Uncertainty , we welcome Jamie Domenici, Chief Marketing Officer at GoTo. Navigating today’s turbulence requires a strategy that allows for agility and strength. Jamie’s advice?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2023

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax For all the deserved enthusiasm about the potential of generative AI, “ ChatGPT is not your AI strategy ” remains sound advice. That is a real job that bosses can do and will enjoy doing, and it will help your strategy effort. Does that definition resonate with you?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Saving money is a top priority for many organizations, particularly during periods of economic uncertainty. Today, security, networking, and IT teams are faced with reduced headcount, shrinking budgets, and the very real need to do more with less.

Uncertainty 98

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2023

The pressure is on to navigate economic uncertainty. Economic conditions aside, developing financial acumen was the leading skill CIOs surveyed at the December 2022 Metis Strategy Digital Symposium were looking to sharpen as they contemplate expanded roles in the C-suite.

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Srividya Sridharan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

These capabilities are becoming more crucial to stay ahead of uncertainty and change and get smarter about every aspect of your business: your customers, your suppliers and partners, your competitors, your employees, your processes, your operations, and your markets. The digital future is here.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLellan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. But the CIO had several key objectives to meet before launching the transformation.

IT 105

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 105

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2024

Dovico just hit the 90-day mark in her CIO role at Beyond Bank, so she’s still in the listening phase while new a new executive team and business strategies are launched and formalized across the broader organization. “So even with leveraging emerging tech, you need to think about your business model congruence.”

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O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Technical competence results in reduced risk and uncertainty. As AI maturity increases, a non-incremental, holistic, and organization-wide AI vision and strategy should be created to achieve hierarchically-aligned AI goals of varying granularity—goals that drive all AI initiatives and development.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2023

When he’s not immersed in cybersecurity, hybrid cloud strategy, or app modernization, David Reis, CIO at the University of Miami Health System and the Miller School of Medicine, spends his time working with the board of directors and top leadership to reimagine healthcare and take the lead driving digital transformation.

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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

MAY 2, 2022

Digital transformation is not a strategy —a strategy has an end point, a set of tactics designed to achieve that end point, and a timeline. IT strategy in the digital age. The path forward begins with strategy and strategy begins with conversations—conversations with customers, employees, suppliers, and stakeholders.

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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. Reputational management is another driver for boards to build tax planning into ERM strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax From the Wall Street Journal to the World Economic Forum , it seems like everyone is talking about the urgency of demonstrating ROI from generative AI (genAI). About Bryan Kirschner : Bryan is Vice President, Strategy at DataStax.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 12, 2023

The following five takeaways are insights that we have gleaned from our extensive customer engagements, global regulatory outreach program and the industry contributions of the IBM Financial Services Cloud Council: Allow your digital transformation ambitions (not your fears) to drive your cloud strategy. appeared first on IBM Blog.

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O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 22, 2019

Whether financial models are based on academic theories or empirical data mining strategies, they are all subject to the trinity of modeling errors explained below. All models, therefore, need to quantify the uncertainty inherent in their predictions. These factors lead to profound epistemic uncertainty about model parameters.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Leading this effort for Cedar Fair is CIO Ty Tastepe, who joined the company about two years ago and oversees its technology strategy, implementation, and operational support across all the company’s properties. Do you think this uncertainty or distrust will have an impact on the future design of cognitive systems and applications?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

The next generation of M&A strategy brings emerging digital capabilities to the forefront in support of both opportunities and risk mitigation. M&A strategy: Ask smart questions Deal strategy is the foundation supporting all aspects of M&A. Transparency : CIOs are often required to be the bearer of unfortunate news.

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Domino Data Lab

JANUARY 31, 2022

In a previous blog post we introduced the K-armed bandit problem - a simple example of allocation of a limited set of resources over time and under uncertainty. We saw how a stochastic bandit behaves and demonstrated that pulling arms at random yields rewards close to the expectation of the reward distribution.

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Jet Global

AUGUST 6, 2020

Andy Burrows is a UK-based finance consultant who coaches businesses all over the world to drive performance using data and financial strategies that work in practice, not just in theory. I always have a value driver tree in my strategy sessions, and employee engagement can go on that tree.

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Cloudera

JUNE 1, 2021

Cloudera will benefit from the operating capabilities, capital support and expertise of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) and KKR – two of the most experienced and successful global investment firms in the world recognized for supporting the growth strategies of the businesses they back. Our strategy.

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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. says CIOs should apply agile processes to their gen AI strategy. It’s not a hammer.

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TDAN

MARCH 31, 2020

The word “organize” is the root of the word “organization.” Organizations are compelled to organize their information. With that said, organizations can operate in an organized and holistic manner with the application of information governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Increased executive and board scrutiny on technology investments due to economic uncertainties is playing a role in IT leaders’ growing emphasis on risk management.

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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. Establishing such a vision will also strongly inform your briefing strategy.

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