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Airbus abandons possible acquisition of Atos data division

CIO Business Intelligence

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

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Data creates the context for decision-making.

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Microsoft and Cognizant team up to boost enterprise Copilot adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

Bernard Marr, author of the book Generative AI in Practice: 100+ Amazing Ways Generative Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business and Society , sees the partnership representing a significant shift in how CIOs approach digital transformation.

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5 hot IT leadership trends — and 4 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Harvard’s McNulty says ongoing uncertainty is prompting more interest in futures and scenario planning.

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A Fresh Squeeze on Data

Cloudera

That’s why I am proud of our collaboration with Cloudera in making A Fresh Squeeze on Data – A picture book about problem-solving with DATA that encourages children worldwide to transform from passive spectators of technology disruption to active participants of positive change in their local communities and the world. .

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In AI we trust? Why we Need to Talk About Ethics and Governance (part 2 of 2)

Cloudera

Systems should be designed with bias, causality and uncertainty in mind. Uncertainty is a measure of our confidence in the predictions made by a system. We need to understand and provide the greatest human oversight on systems with the greatest levels of uncertainty. System Design. Human Judgement & Oversight.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

They are afraid of failure and the uncertainty of knowledge work, and so that’s stressful. Agile is an amazing risk management tool for managing uncertainty, but that’s not always obvious.” The key is recognizing that planning must be an agile discipline, not a standalone activity performed independently of agile teams.