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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly on Data

Machine learning adds uncertainty. Underneath this uncertainty lies further uncertainty in the development process itself. There are strategies for dealing with all of this uncertainty–starting with the proverb from the early days of Agile: “ do the simplest thing that could possibly work.” What delivers the greatest ROI?

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Advice from procurement: How to evaluate and propose new IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

As the world continues to experience economic uncertainty, IT leaders look to tighten budgets, consolidate tools and resources, and generally become more risk-averse when evaluating new investments. So how can you request a new investment from your decision-makers while ensuring minimal costs and maximum ROI this year?

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Customer service, especially field service, helps companies outperform competitors and drive growth

CIO Business Intelligence

In economic uncertainty, it’s natural for executives to explore where to reduce spending, trim the fat , so to speak, and cut enterprising investments as a matter of caution. But this thinking is also counter-productive for all the reasons that make uncertainty so predictable. There’s much to be done.

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What’s so Special About 50:50?

Andrew White

As such an ROI would have been impossible. See Data and Analytics Strategies Need More-Concrete Metrics of Success. In summary therefore we could say that half of IT investments might be ROI based; the other half are justified using things like faith, hope, and charity. The article notes this as cognitive uncertainty.

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What’s New and What’s Next in 2023 for HPC

CIO Business Intelligence

Though composable infrastructure may remove the restrictions of traditional architectures, there’s debate [3] about whether it can scale and whether the ROI would be reached by increased flexibility and utilization. Yes, specific AI workflows require special hardware configurations.

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Human-centered design and data-driven insights elevate precision in government IT modernization

IBM Big Data Hub

Government executives face several uncertainties as they embark on their journeys of modernization. Each recommendation was grounded in the user research conducted and validated to render significant return on investment (ROI) to the business mission of AZDCS. frequency (how many occurrences?), time (how much time is lost?)

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Humans-in-the-loop forecasting: integrating data science and business planning

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

This classification is based on the purpose, horizon, update frequency and uncertainty of the forecast. The ROI of human involvement When it comes to human involvement, the key difference is in the magnitude of costs associated with any one forecast cycle. This defines the ROI on the investment of human time.