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MARCH 23, 2023

Companies around the world are being urged to close the digital gender gap, especially after International Women’s Day. Although progress has been made, the gap remains in many countries, prompting questions about whether those in the industry are doing enough to address it. The development of new technologies has created demand for specialized workers with specific training, but women still face more challenges than men in this field due to the persistent gender gap.

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Crayon

MARCH 23, 2023

Here at Crayon, we recently published the 2023 State of Competitive Intelligence , a benchmark report based on a survey of CI leaders and stakeholders.

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CIO

MARCH 23, 2023

You might think that senior-level IT leaders have a lock on the art of landing jobs. After all, that’s partly how they reached such lofty heights, right? But you’d be wrong. CIOs, vice presidents, directors — all make similar mistakes when they are on a job prowl, executive recruiters say. The two most common, and most fatal, are talking too much during an interview and resumes that are either too braggadocious or that go on and on and on.

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 23, 2023

Artificial intelligence is the latest trend shaping the omnichannel experience for customers in many retail outlets. One of the biggest trends pertains to personalization. The Forbes Research Council wrote an article in October citing research showing that 71% of customers now expect a personalized experience. The article makes the point that AI is key to meeting that expectation.

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According to 3BL and TriplePundit’s Consumer Insights & Sustainability Benchmark two-thirds of U.S. adults actively seek and follow sustainability issues. This leaves room for businesses to fill in the gaps currently seen between consumer expectations and corporate ESG communication. This research reveals what issues consumers care about and how businesses can tailor their communications to different segments of consumers.

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CIO

MARCH 23, 2023

IT services and consultancy firm Accenture said it would lay off 19,000 staffers, or 2.5% of its workforce, over the next 18 months to reduce costs amid uncertain macroeconomic conditions. “While we continue to hire, especially to support our strategic growth priorities, during the second quarter of fiscal 2023, we initiated actions to streamline our operations and transform our non-billable corporate functions to reduce costs,” the company said in an Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

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CIO

MARCH 23, 2023

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax It’s high time to treat HR as every bit as important to your company’s artificial intelligence strategy as IT. Alongside all the evidence that getting your developers working on AI is good for your business, there’s mounting proof that even providing the opportunity to work on—and work with—AI has a positive effect on job satisfaction, recruitment, and retention.

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Chris Webb BI

MARCH 23, 2023

If, like me (and Ruth ), you spend your life in Power BI but have a lingering feeling that you should get round to learning Python for data analysis sometime then here’s something you should check out: the new Data Wrangler extension for Visual Studio Code. All the details are in the announcement blog post: [link] …and this video is a great introduction to what it does: Why is it interesting for someone like me?

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CIO

MARCH 23, 2023

Gartner recently cut their expected IT budget prediction from 5.1% to just 2.2% in 2023. This is three times lower than the projected 6.5% global inflation rate. 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.

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 23, 2023

AI technology offers a number of major benefits of small businesses and freelancers. The market for AI is projected to be worth nearly $1.6 trillion by 2030. We have talked about how businesses are using AI for marketing and tools like ChatGPT to create content more easily. However, one of the other benefits of AI is that it can help with your taxes!

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When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course. Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. To thrive in a challenging environment, sales teams need a rock-solid grasp of the fundamentals and the biggest force-multipliers they can get their hands on.

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CIO

MARCH 23, 2023

Staying in control and securing your data has never been more important! As data privacy regulations continue to evolve, businesses have had to adapt how and where they store data. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been the most newsworthy, requiring all businesses that operate in or have customers in the EU to change how they handle personal data.

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Chris Webb BI

MARCH 23, 2023

If you missed out on the big announcement last week about Tabular Model Definition Language and the future of Power BI version control at SQLBits last week, then the recording of the session has already been published: If you’re a professional Power BI developer you must watch this one! Mathias Thierbach (of [link] fame) has also published the slides here.

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CIO

MARCH 23, 2023

How many IT services vendors do you rely on? Splitting responsibility for the IT organization into multiple outsourcing vendors, overseen (or overlooked in some unfortunate cases) by a small IT management team, has become a popular practice. Hardly “ best practice ” — a meaningless but popular justification for doing things a certain way — but popular nonetheless.

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Weidert Group

MARCH 23, 2023

Hello, HubSpot customers and partners (and investors)! Did you celebrate a little recently? HubSpot’s CTO and cofounder, Dharmesh Shah, announced on March 6, 2023 that a new AI marketing tool, ChatSpot , will soon infuse functionality similar to ChatGPT directly into HubSpot CRMs. That announcement included a 19-minute demo, placing this major platform at the cutting edge of AI.

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A growing body of evidence shows that environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives are important to business growth. And it all relies on a simple fact: ESG issues matter to consumers. Consumers see businesses as crucial change agents and are willing to take their business to the competition if their current brand comes up short on ESG. In pursuit of identifying where such trends are today, 3BL Media and TriplePundit partnered with the research technology firm Glow to survey 3,648 U.S.

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MARCH 23, 2023

DataGalaxy is an innovative start-up from France offering software for data cataloging. Its “human-centric approach” addresses business users and is designed to enable them to efficiently create value from data. In doing so, DataGalaxy focuses on user-friendliness and consistent processes for business users, integration with other tools, adaptability and attractive pricing.

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Dataversity

MARCH 23, 2023

Sharing information about what’s happening with the unstructured data in your organization is much more difficult than it might appear. Miscommunication can negatively impact virtually every aspect of your organization, from your IT, storage teams, and app developers – all the way to the business and other end users. However, it is critical to have […] The post The Key to Unstructured Data Management: Communicating About Your Data appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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