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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

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They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. At the dawn of economic theory, agriculture was still the chief source of value creation, and much of that value created by the labor of serfs and tenant farmers was appropriated by those who owned the land. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing.

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VMware customers take wait-and-see approach amid Broadcom changes

CIO Business Intelligence

When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. Tan published a long blog post defending the changes on April 15, suggesting that consumer concerns aren’t going away.

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SAP’s new generative AI pricing: Neither transparent nor explainable yet

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprises subscribing to Rise with SAP, a bundle of services wrapped around the core S/4HANA Cloud ERP application, can now pay extra for Premium Plus, a package of some of SAP’s newest innovations. In other words, uncertainty abounds. In other words, uncertainty abounds.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO Business Intelligence

When you think about all the blocking and tackling a CIO needs to do for regular applications, that especially applies to AI.” For example, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is emerging as a key technique to make LLMs useful to work with your own data — but you don’t want to feed in all your data.

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Top IT exec recuiters weigh in on talent trends today

CIO Business Intelligence

Dan Roberts: In our conversation during the podcast about the nature of work, Abhi Dhar, TransUnion’s chief information and technology officer, asked who you think will ‘win’ when it comes to the expectations mismatch between management and the workforce. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity.

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Employee engagement: 10 best practices for improving your culture

CIO Business Intelligence

You can stop the quiet quitting by improving your work culture, so your people speak up before they nope out. Some people might want a quiet thank you; others prefer a public event. When you get rewards right, however, you will reap near instant benefits, according to Gallup. You don’t even need strong social skills.

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2021 Data/AI Salary Survey

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While it’s sadly premature to say that the survey took place at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic (though we can all hope), it took place at a time when restrictions were loosening: we were starting to go out in public, have parties, and in some cases even attend in-person conferences. Would your job still be there in a year?