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DEI MIA in new Meta AI advisory group

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The creation of a new group to advise on AI and technology product strategy by Facebook parent Meta Platforms has been criticized by an executive member of the Responsible AI Institute (RAI) for what on the surface appears to be an acute lack of diversity. “It was definitely striking, I will say,” said Alyssa Lefaivre Škopac, head of global partnerships and growth with the RAI, of a panel that is made up of four white male entrepreneurs.

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What is Brand Protection?

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A brand is more than just a logo or a product; it embodies a company’s values, promises, and identity. Brand protection encompasses a spectrum of strategies and actions to safeguard a company’s intellectual property, reputation , and consumer trust. From trademarks and copyrights to online presence management and counterfeit prevention, businesses must proactively defend their identity.

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

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Finding the return on investment for AI remains elusive for many organizations, even as they rush to adopt the technology. Difficulties estimating or demonstrating the value of AI technologies to the business have been or will be a top barrier to their implementation, according to a recent Gartner survey of more than 700 IT leaders at organizations that have adopted or plan to adopt AI.

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GOVCON Mergers and Acquisitions Highlights Mid-2024

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Mergers and acquisitions are almost always exciting and (ideally) transformative events. These acquisitions expand existing capabilities and add footprints in new customer markets. This is NOT intended to be a comprehensive list of all acquisitions, but instead a sample of ones we found interesting, and some illustrate major developments in the GOVCON market.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Is AI Improving Fairness in the Lending Industry?

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Dive into the role of AI in promoting fairness within the lending sector and its transformative effects.

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Business Crisis Management 101: From Panic to Recovery

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For businesses, crisis management is critical for corporate resilience and longevity. The difference between thriving and merely surviving, or even facing closure, often hinges on your company’s ability to manage crises effectively. Whether you’re facing a personnel crisis, navigating a financial crisis, or dealing with technological mishaps, you must equip yourself with robust strategies for managing unexpected challenges.

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Get ready to improve your competitive intelligence game with our four part webinar series!

FedSavvy

On June 5 we start a four part series to explore and explain a true intelligence analysis process and how you can use it to improve your GOVCON competitive intelligence game. We built this webinar series to bring to you an interactive and educational experience using lessons and techniques from our team of analysts. The webinar series is delivered by Brian Lindholm and Bryant Kimball.

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Ahrefs vs SpyFu in 2024: An Unbiased SEO Tool Comparison

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Choosing the right SEO tool is critical for the success of your online business in 2024. With so many options on the market, it can be challenging to determine which one best fits your needs. In this comprehensive comparison, we'll be pitting two of the leading SEO platforms against each other: Ahrefs and SpyFu. This guide is perfect for SEO professionals, digital marketers, and business owners who want to optimize their websites and outrank the competition.

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Securing Data in Transit for Analytics Operations

Dataversity

Most enterprises today store and process vast amounts of data from various sources within a centralized repository known as a data warehouse or data lake, where they can analyze it with advanced analytics tools to generate critical business insights. Modern data warehouse platforms such as Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, and IBM Db2 are built with […] The post Securing Data in Transit for Analytics Operations appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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AI is driving productivity and wage increases: Report

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Business sectors using artificial intelligence are seeing significant gains in productivity while AI skills are commanding higher wages, according to a new PwC report. Industries such as financial services, information technology, and professional services are seeing labor productivity growth nearly five times greater than industries with less AI integration, the consulting firm said in a statement.

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How Does Web Scraping Help E-Commerce Startups

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Running an e-commerce startup is exciting. You can make decisions and establish your place in a competitive market. However, this also means you need to understand and use data effectively. Information is available, including customer preferences, competitor tactics, and market trends. The challenge is figuring out how to gather and use this data to help your e-commerce platform grow.

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An Associate VP of Marketing Is All Lit Up About Data

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Lucas Johnson lights up when he talks about the impact good data has had on his marketing organization. Johnson is associate vice president of global marketing for Zippo, yet he jokes with his team that he doesn’t really do much—he’s just a catalyst for them to succeed. His overflowing inbox would dispute that, however, as would his achievements over the past three years.

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The Innovation Table | John Gomez on Leadership, Culture, and Innovation

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John Gomez has been a senior executive at several founder-led companies where he has helped develop and scale world-class brands. Before joining CoolerX, where he currently serves as President of this innovative in-store retail media tech startup, John was the President and Chief Executive Officer at KKR owned Cardenas Markets, where he led the effort to double the size of this $1B+ Hispanic food retailer.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How a Neuro-Symbolic AI Approach Can Improve Trust in AI Apps

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As a cognitive scientist, I’ve been immersed in AI for more than 30 years – specifically in speech and natural language understanding, as well as machine-based learning and rule-based decision-making. Progress in our field is always uneven, unfolding in fits and starts. Those of us in the AI field have witnessed multiple “AI winters” over the […] The post How a Neuro-Symbolic AI Approach Can Improve Trust in AI Apps appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Driving buy-in: How CIOs get hesitant workforces to adopt AI

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AI technologies have advanced at a dizzying pace over the past two years, but workforces at many enterprises remain hesitant to adopt them. A common assumption is that employees are reluctant to use AI-powered tools out of fear that these solutions will out-perform their own work, and in time, make them replaceable. While job displacement is certainly a concern, the reasons for this hesitancy are much more complex.

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Call for Proposals is Now Open for IntelliCon Barcelona 2024

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INTELLICON BARCELONA 2024 "DATA-DRIVEN INTELLIGENCE IN CI AND THE INTELLIGENCE ECOSYSTEM" Dec 3 - 5, 2024 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Submit Your Presentation Proposal For SCIP Barcelona 2024 Whether you are interested in presenting a general session, breakout session, academic session or workshop, SCIP has opportunities for them all! We kindly encourage members of our community to center their submissions on the following key areas: Intelligence Best Practices and Tools for Organizational Success Data-D

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Anecdotes Have No Place in Decision-Making for a Senior VP

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Troy Draper is a data guy. So when he joined the leading tile brand, Dal-Tile, as senior vice president of operations and customer experience, he was surprised to learn that data was lacking. Instead, opinions and stories from the field drove their decision-making. With a background that includes business intelligence (BI), Draper needed more than stories—he needed facts.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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The Innovation Table | John on Leadership, Culture, and Innovation

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John Gomez has been a senior executive at several founder-led companies where he has helped develop and scale world-class brands. Before joining CoolerX, where he currently serves as President of this innovative in-store retail media tech startup, John was the President and Chief Executive Officer at KKR owned Cardenas Markets, where he led the effort to double the size of this $1B+ Hispanic food retailer.

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Taming Access Creep: Strategies to Rein in Unnecessary Privileges

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One of the most pervasive cybersecurity challenges is “access creep” – the gradual, often unnoticed accumulation of access privileges by employees beyond what their current role requires. This phenomenon occurs when initial access rights granted for specific roles are not revoked as employees change positions or their job duties evolve. Over time, this unchecked accrual […] The post Taming Access Creep: Strategies to Rein in Unnecessary Privileges appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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IT leaders look beyond LLMs for gen AI needs

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With the generative AI gold rush in full swing, some IT leaders are finding generative AI’s first-wave darlings — large language models (LLMs) — may not be up to snuff for their more promising use cases. LLMs, with their advanced ability to comprehend and generate text, have become a near stand-in for generative AI in the collective mindshare. Along with code-generating copilots and text-to-image generators, which leverage a combination of LLMs and diffusion processing, LLMs are at the core of m

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Special Edition! A note from Wink.

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We delayed the newsletter this week to coincide with the publishing of Wink’s Sales & Market Report’s annuity report. We’ll be following up with the life report next week. This week also brings a special anniversary, 19 years ago on May 27th, Sheryl Moore founded Wink! Wow, it’s really been 19 years since Wink began. For that, we offer our sincerest and heartfelt gratitude to all of you, our colleagues, subscribers, partners, and friends.

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A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence Governance

Speaker: Marius Moscovici, CEO Metric Insights & Mike Smitheman, VP Metric Insights

While the proper governance of data is clearly critical to the success of any business intelligence organization, focusing on data governance alone is a huge mistake. Organizations continually fail to generate ROI on their governance initiatives because they are too narrow in scope. To be effective, Business Intelligence (BI) governance must cover both data and visualizations.

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Securing Remote Work: Best Practices For Ensuring Workplace Security In a Virtual Environment

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SCIP Insights Securing Remote Work: Best Practices For Ensuring Workplace Security In a Virtual Environment With startup culture on the rise, work from anywhere has become the new normal. Different countries like Spain, Croatia are also giving digital nomad visas so that people can work from anywhere in the world. This has a very distinct impact on workplace security which needs to be addressed.

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Net Sentiment Score: Definition, Best Practices and Uses

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Net Sentiment Score, often mentioned in sentiment analysis , is a compelling metric that captures the pulse of public opinion. Think of it as a barometer measuring the prevailing winds of sentiment about a product, service, or brand. Businesses can gain valuable insights by measuring the positive and negative feedback in the digital sphere. This metric helps determine if customers are enthusiastic supporters or vocal critics.

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Technology Audit Processes Are Broken, but Attention and Automation Can Fix Them

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Technology audit processes have become increasingly important, as they tie directly to adherence to an ever-growing list of compliance frameworks and mandates such as NIST, CIS, SOC 2 ISO 27001, and others. A component of all these regulations pertains to the integrity of enterprise technology management and requires an up-to-date and accurate inventory of all […] The post Technology Audit Processes Are Broken, but Attention and Automation Can Fix Them appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Reducing CIO-CISO tension requires recognizing the signs

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CIOs and CISOs operate in high-stress environments that can at times place additional strain on their relationship, further distracting them from achieving beneficial outcomes. In my own career, I’ve been a CIO and a CISO, so I have firsthand experience with this issue from both perspectives. Defusing the situation so that the relationship is workable, healthy, and respectful for both parties can be challenging, especially for CISOs, who often reportto the CIO.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission