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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

From 2000 to 2011, the percentage of US adults using the internet had grown from about 60% to nearly 80%. Closer to the present, risk analysis focuses on social problems like bias, misinformation, and hate speech, or the potential spread of biological and nuclear capabilities. The market was maturing. I think not.

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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

1 Slowly but surely, institutional investors started to recognize that companies could potentially improve financial performance and risk management by focusing on ESG issues like greenhouse gas emissions. The CDP encouraged institutional investors to ask companies to report on their climate impact.

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Your AI journey: Destined for the ditch?

CIO Business Intelligence

That’s the current state of AI at Global 2000 enterprises, whose behavior set thus far in the AI space appears to be designed more to avoid embarrassment than to maximize value creation. Just about every communication with investors — e.g., the annual report, investor days, or earnings reports — now includes information about AI.

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Self-Serve Analytics Supports Continuous Improvement!

Smarten

McKinsey recently surveyed 2000 businesses and found that 83% of high-tech/media/telecom, 76% of banking, and more than 50% of consumer companies identified as continuous improvement organizations. There is good reason for these results. Continuous improvement improves results!

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Mastercard preps for the post-quantum cybersecurity threat

CIO Business Intelligence

We’re working proactively to mitigate the future risks related to quantum computing that could impact the security of the billions of digital transactions we process globally,” says George Maddaloni, chief technology officer of operations at Mastercard, explaining the impetus for the project. Miller agrees.

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The Role of Mainframe in Modern Business

CIO Business Intelligence

When people hear the term mainframe they typically think of a tall, black computer in a storage closet or some 2000’s pop culture reference (e.g., According to a recent survey from Rocket Software , the mainframe is still a core facet of IT infrastructure, with 80% of IT pros reporting the mainframe remains critical to business operations.

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insightsoftware Appoints Industry Veteran Michael Sullivan as CEO

Jet Global

January 23, 2022 – insightsoftware , a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions, today announced the appointment of Michael Sullivan as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Earlier in his career – in 2000 and 2004 – he was recognized by Ernst & Young as an Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. “As