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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

The Unicorn Project: A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data (IT Revolution Press, 2019) tells the story of Maxine, a senior lead developer, as she tries to survive in a heartless bureaucracy overrun with paperwork and committees. Novels that entertain and teach Kreslins Jr. Practical, indeed.

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12 Cloud Computing Risks & Challenges Businesses Are Facing In These Days

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It provides better data storage, data security, flexibility, improved organizational visibility, smoother processes, extra data intelligence, increased collaboration between employees, and changes the workflow of small businesses and large enterprises to help them make better decisions while decreasing costs.

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

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Cloud technology and innovation drives data-driven decision making culture in any organization. Companies planning to scale their business in the next few years without a definite cloud strategy might want to reconsider. Cloud washing is storing data on the cloud for use over the internet. Hadoop was developed in 2006.

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Stay-at-home Sales Propels Turkish Bathroom Pioneer into a Digital Transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Employees were forced to use more than two systems to retrieve data. As a data-driven company, it had been conceptualizing the project for several years, allocating a budget and formulating a time plan in 2018. When we adopted it, it was 2002,” Güldür said. “We Customer information could not be managed with one click.

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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2017, The Economist declared that data, rather than oil, had become the world’s most valuable resource. Organizations across every industry have been and continue to invest heavily in data and analytics. But like oil, data and analytics have their dark side. Data limitations in Microsoft Excel. 25 and Oct. The culprit?

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What is a chief data officer? A leader who creates business value from data

CIO Business Intelligence

The chief data officer (CDO) is a senior executive responsible for the utilization and governance of data across the organization. While the chief data officer title is often shortened to CDO, the role should not be confused with that of the chief digital officer , which is also frequently referred to as CDO.

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Scaling AI? First—get your data storage right

CIO Business Intelligence

As the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, Beane used data and analytics to find undervalued baseball players on a shoestring budget. In 2002, his data-driven baseball team achieved a 20-game winning streak and the American League West title, competing against franchises spending over twice as much recruiting players.