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Airbus abandons possible acquisition of Atos data division

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All this uncertainty will be disturbing for CIOs at the healthcare, manufacturing, and defense companies that Atos currently supports, and will do little to help it grow its order book. That last remark is an allusion to criticism of its now-failed deal with EPEI , controlled by a Czech billionaire, on national security grounds.

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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

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Decision support systems definition A decision support system (DSS) is an interactive information system that analyzes large volumes of data for informing business decisions. A DSS leverages a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to help users make decisions.

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Microsoft and Cognizant team up to boost enterprise Copilot adoption

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The partnership between Cognizant and Microsoft may help ease some of that, as Cognizant’s consulting services can help enterprises find ways to leverage copilots as part of their business processes. Copilot, like other AI tools, should be seen as an assistant that requires human oversight to ensure accuracy and reliability,“ he said.

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How to Move from Real-Time Data to Real-Time Decisions

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Hubbard defines measurement as: “A quantitatively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on one or more observations.”. This acknowledges that the purpose of measurement is to reduce uncertainty. And the purpose of reducing uncertainty is to make better decisions. The customer is frustrated, and the business loses revenue.

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5 hot IT leadership trends — and 4 going cold

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But one’s knowledge of the business and ability to drive business value will prove the exception. Hot: Getting comfortable with uncertainty To address disruptions across multiple aspects of the business, organizations need to be able to pivot quickly, says DeVry University CIO Chris Campbell.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

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Business leaders get scared and say, ‘Tell me the plan so I can sleep at night,’” said Ronica Roth, co-founder and principal of The Welcome Elephant. They are afraid of failure and the uncertainty of knowledge work, and so that’s stressful. So, how can CIOs define an agile mindset in their organizations? “An

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Ask yourself: How can genAI put your content to work?

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to ask questions against the 2,000-plus articles, 100-plus videos, and three books (and more) that he’s produced in his career. He specializes in removing fear, uncertainty, and doubt from strategic decision-making through empirical data and market sensing. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning