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Where’s the ROI for AI? CIOs struggle to find it

CIO Business Intelligence

Gartner recommends CIOs thinking about deploying AI to first consider potential use cases , establish metrics to measure value, and run pilot programs before launching large-scale projects. The second-highest barrier to adopting generative AI specifically was the ongoing cost, Ramos notes.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

But this kind of virtuous rising tide rent, which benefits everyone, doesn’t last. Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. “In

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO Business Intelligence

However, the measure of success has been historically at odds with the number of projects said to be overrunning or underperforming, as Panorama has noted that organizations have lowered their standards of success. million in implementation costs. million in implementation costs. million over the following nine months.

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Business Intelligence and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Paul Blogs on BI

We are really missing data and so the metrics are incomplete and, as such, we should ask ourselves the question: “Are we measuring the right things?”. Controlling costs will be important for a lot of organizations in the coming months and I plan to write about this in an upcoming blog. Stay healthy.

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CIOs increasingly tap contract IT as talent gap filler

CIO Business Intelligence

The university extends employee benefits to contract workers. The UC San Diego technology department already engaged contract and freelance workers when Kellen arrived in 2016, but Kellen says more recent employment trends convinced him that he had to build a staffing strategy that incorporated more temporary workers. Best practices.

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Why Big Data Needs A Robust Off-Site Data Backup Method

Smart Data Collective

The backup facility’s cost, restoration capability, and efficiency of restoration all matter. Having a physical off-site backup is a much better redundancy measure. However, reasonable is a subjective measure. Cost of Backup. Closer sites for data storage mean lower cost, but a higher risk to the company.

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Ethics Sheet for AI-assisted Comic Book Art Generation

Cloudera

Scope, motivation, and benefits. The benefit of this task is to lower the labor and skill burden in generating images of a desired quality. Who benefits? Under a capitalist system of values, businesses and individuals that are consumers of art also benefit from increased productivity. Ethical considerations. Why automate?