Rocket-Powered Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Requirements drift is a challenge in any development project (when the desired outcomes are changed, sometimes without notifying the development team), but the latter three are more apropos to data-intensive product development activities (which certainly describes AI projects).

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 20, 2022

One of the ways that smart business leaders can create successful data strategies is to utilize lean thinking. Lean Thinking and Big Data Can Be Merged for Superior Decision-Making. It is a lot easier to get the most bang for your buck with time and financial resources if you know how to take advantage of data analytics tools.

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DataKitchen

AUGUST 24, 2023

They have built data and analytic systems with great hope of success. As an industry, we have a conceptual hole in how we think about data analytic systems. We build them and put them into production, but then we hope all the steps data goes through from source to customer value work out correctly.

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DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Lean DataOps delivers “ bang for the buck” by prioritizing activities that will most impact the productivity of the individual or team. As productivity improves, you can widen the DataOps circle and carefully invest in strategic process change that serves as the foundation for further improvements in team velocity. Production DataOps.

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Testing Metrics Measurement Dashboards 246

O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

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’re responsible for the design, the product-market fit, and ultimately for getting the product out the door. Why AI software development is different.

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DataKitchen

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Their entire data analytics team had been hastily yanked into an impromptu “war room” to tackle an emergency data issue. War rooms steal productivity. A well-functioning data analytics team should proactively foresee and mitigate problems before they balloon into full-blown crises.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

Evolving enterprise needs often outpace the product roadmaps of SaaS cost optimization solutions providers. Cloud cost management remains a critical CIO priority. And that’s all before considering the need to fuel new AI initiatives , which can push cloud costs up further.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2024

Over the past decade, CIOs have invested significantly in digital transformation initiatives in an effort to improve customer experiences, build data analytics capabilities, and deliver productivity enhancements with automation. Unfortunately, the business impact of many digital transformations continues to fall short of expectations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2023

This underlines the need for organizations to embrace change and adopt a more agile and forward-thinking approach to digital transformation skills in order to overcome challenges and achieve digital transformation,” says Monika Sinha, research vice president in Gartner’s CIO Research group.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

New projects can elicit a sense of trepidation from employees, and the overall culture into which change is introduced will reflect how that wariness is expressed and handled. But some common characteristics are central to AI transformation success. Agility Around 86% of software development companies are agile, and with good reason.

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Smarten

APRIL 25, 2024

How Can I Ensure Data Quality and Gain Data Insight Using Augmented Analytics? These enterprises will typically focus on building a team of data scientists or business analysts to help with this task OR they might take on an augmented analytics initiative to provide access to data and analytics for their business users.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2024

As businesses digitally transform, technology is increasingly integrated into every activity, and the CIO is becoming more of a catalyst for data-driven value creation through analytics, new AI model training, software development, automation, vendor engagement, and more.

Digital Transformation 91

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Whether you’re looking to deliver a new product release, fix an issue, or enhance a service, the longer you make customers wait, the worse for your business. The organization changed legacy approaches to product management and project investment. In today’s digitally transforming world, time is of the essence.

Management 144

Management Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit ROI 144

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

After all, in today’s rapid-paced business world, a creative, productive IT team is vital for staying ahead of the competition, increasing revenue, and becoming a market leader. This requires managing teams in a way that doesn’t compromise short-term productivity or stifle long-term vision, creativity, or morale,” Campbell says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 18, 2024

By all accounts, 2024 will be a good year on the CIO hiring front. Global spending on technology is predicted to be up by virtually all forecasts. Most midsize and large organizations are spending significantly on cloud capabilities. Cybersecurity has been pegged as a top priority for funding in many industries.

IT 126

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2023

So if you’re thinking about when many of my colleagues were doing a lot of the heavy lift on process optimization, we were thinking about it from an operating company and looking at ways to standardize, simplify, or automate the execution of those processes.” We have to think about that population differently.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Data shows that people continue to use our products on a more continuous basis. “Our Data shows that people continue to use our products on a more continuous basis. We have to think about that technology and how it’s layered together as an IT organization. All of these things have been transformational for our business.”

IT 133

IT Modeling Digital Transformation Data Governance 133

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

On the food side, we’ve come out with innovative products, so we’re not just selling chicken anymore. We need the data to understand what additional new products we should produce. The data can also help us enrich our commodity products. How are you populating your data lake?

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Data Lake Data-driven Dashboards Risk 132

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2023

Kirk Ball, EVP and CIO at Giant Eagle Giant Eagle Another evolving priority is their ability to effectively manage data and create an analytics platform that provides insights into the stories the data is telling, and, in turn, reveal those stories to decision makers across different functions in the business. “We

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Strategy Interactive Digital Transformation Technology 108

Smart Data Collective

MARCH 4, 2022

Two of the biggest advances in technology that are influencing the direction of business are social media and data analytics. Smart businesses will need to know how to leverage data analytics to make the most of their social media strategies. Data Analytics and Social Media Are Collectively Shaping the Future of Business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2024

When it comes to cloud native application platforms, we’re at an important evolutionary point: will the best practice for platforms be to build or to buy? Should you choose the components you need for a platform and integrate them together, or should you buy a pre-integrated platform? Before I get to why, what even is a “cloud native platform”?

Cost-Benefit 102

Cost-Benefit Software Recreation/Entertainment Insurance 102

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2024

One job with that kind of focus is an analytics translator —an enterprise role that emerged several years ago for data experts adept at decoding insights from AI and data science teams into relevant and relatable insights for business and product teams. People need to take the enigma out of AI and make it human,” Subbaiah says.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

However, over the decades, the supply chain has grown longer and increasingly intricate, which means consumers may find themselves more distant from the origin of the products they consume. Our dependence on supply chains is most pronounced in ensuring food supply. As a result, regulatory compliance is closer than it may initially appear.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2022

For some, leveraging data and analytics tools is proving to be an effective way to address the challenges. But the latest analytics tools, powered by machine learning algorithms, can help companies predict demand more effectively, enabling them to adjust production and shipping operations.

Analytics 145

Analytics Cost-Benefit Forecasting Manufacturing 145

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2024

Replacing the production platform Right now, PostNord is undergoing multiple transformations simultaneously to achieve its projected business goals. One of the transformations is technical and about getting an entirely new production platform in place. The digital customer journey must be frictionless,” he says. “We

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Testing Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Marketing 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2024

So it’s no surprise that companies continue to heavily invest in it since the release of Dall-E 2 and ChatGPT in late 2022, where they expect to see the greatest value in increased productivity, with some estimates showing improvements of 5% or more over the next 12 months, and headcounts to reduce by at least 5% as well.

IT 128

IT Consulting Testing Cost-Benefit 128

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2023

After walking his executive team through the data hops, flows, integrations, and processing across different ingestion software, databases, and analytical platforms, they were shocked by the complexity of their current data architecture and technology stack. Sound familiar?) It isn’t easy.

Machine Learning 144

Machine Learning Cost-Benefit Data-driven Strategy 144

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We’ve been lucky, I think, because we have interesting industry problems to crack,” Nilles says. Four years ago, German multinational Henkel found itself at a crossroads. We took it seriously and said we need to have software, data, and AI capabilities,” says Nilles, who signed on to the CDIO role at the time. “We

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 25, 2024

Ecommerce is dead The idea of an “ecommerce business” is an anachronism, a holdover from when breaking into the digital realm involved replicating product descriptions on a web page and calling it an ecommerce store. Commerce is a complex journey in which the moment of truth—conversion—takes place.

Strategy 84

Strategy Sales Marketing Consulting 84

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2024

People don’t think of a large, 100-year-old manufacturing company as high tech.” Ford Motor Co.’s s wholesale pivot to technology has transformed not only the automaker’s business operations but its corporate identity. “We But it is — and Ford now positions itself as a software-defined vehicle (SDV) manufacturer, Musser says.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Data analytics technology has been instrumentally valuable for the marketing profession. billion on marketing analytics within the next seven years. One of the biggest ways that data analytics is changing marketing is that it can help with marketing research. What are their products or services, and how do they promote them?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

Dr Setia, also the chairperson of the centre for digital transformation at the business school, teaches graduate-level courses on the leadership of digital organizations, strategic management of digital innovations, and digital transformation. Inadequate budgets, silos, and the fear of taking risks are the biggest roadblocks for going digital.

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Digital Transformation Strategy Risk Enterprise 98

Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 19, 2021

Data is an important part of any business, including areas that focus on product development. With data, you can analyze it and then incorporate your findings into the development stages of the product’s creation. As such, you end up with a final product that is a lot more effective than it would be without that influence of analysis.

Analytics 126

Analytics Cost-Benefit Software Testing 126

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2024

For now, most CIOs are deploying generative AI to enhance productivity and efficiency. Our examiners are welcoming the help from AI tools to take away the clerical and administrative functions so they can focus more on thoughtful analytics that cannot be merely programmed.” Gartner pegs this number at 77% of CIOs.

Cost-Benefit 128

Cost-Benefit Enterprise Unstructured Data Technology 128

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Agile calls for collaboration among cross-functional teams as well as end users, and promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, continual improvement, flexibility in responding to changes in requirements and early delivery of products. Any number of things can happen to cause delays and drive up costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

Successful AI teams also include a range of people who understand the business and the problems it’s trying to solve, says Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst for AI platforms, analytics, and data management at consulting firm Omdia. More companies in every industry are adopting artificial intelligence to transform business processes.

Machine Learning 145

Machine Learning Data Science Consulting Metrics 145

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Business analysts (BAs) are responsible for bridging the gap between IT and the business using data analytics to assess processes, determine requirements, and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders. What is a business analyst?

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IT Business Analysis Key Performance Indicator Cost-Benefit 128