Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Through it all, best practices such as AIOps and DevSecOps have enabled IT teams to efficiently and securely transform. As the analyst firm noted, organizations increasingly realize that digital capability is at the heart of execution, whether that’s to offer new products and services, minimize risk, or improve operational efficiency.

Strategy 184

Strategy Artificial Intelligence Innovation Healthcare 184

Edge Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2019

Let me start by clarifying that the transformation I’m focused on isn’t the transformation involved in moving from one business to another (let’s say, moving from being a retailer to becoming a clothing manufacturer). Front line management: Shift from control and enforcement to coaching and development.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. We’ll see more innovation if emerging AI tools are accessible to everyone, such that a dispersed ecosystem of new firms, start-ups, and AI tools can arise. But not all rents are bad.

Social Media 91

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 91

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Our experimentation and causal inference focused data scientists help shape business decisions, product innovations, and engineering improvements across our service. We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Roxy Du (Product Innovation) [Roxy D.]

Analytics 207

Analytics Innovation C++ Engineering 207

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

With its high bar for data privacy and security, lessons learned in health care could inform development and practice in government and other regulation-heavy industries. But development has been underway for years already. Their work could inspire innovations in other spaces with similar characteristics. Real estate.

Blockchain 64

Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 64

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. Comments (). Contact Info.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. Previously, the top priorities for IT departments were equipping data centers with hardware, purchasing software, and further developing proprietary software.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Such innovation in AI algorithms and approaches results in an increase in model size, exponential growth in the compute needs, caching of temporal states, and multiple models to run simultaneously. Generative and Interactive Visual Workloads.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Strong AI is considered to be the biggest threat to humans by many scientists including Stephen Hawking who stated that: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race…. Machine learning focuses on the development of algorithms that can analyze data and have the capability to make predictions.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. Take GoSquared , a UK startup that runs all its development and production processes on AWS, as an example.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. The argument for this invisible efficiency is that economic models have simply failed to change in ways that reflect this phenomenon.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

Of course, in software development, we often see highly skilled, abstract thinkers in the secondary labor market and lower skilled, concrete thinkers in the primary. However, the transient nature of the contract means that all members of the consultant organization are part of the retailer's secondary labor market.

Software 49

Software Software Development Retail 49

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

We’ve developed the fundamental skill of managing the “blast radius” of a failure occurrence such that the overall health of the system can be maintained. Developing software services that need to be operated is radically different from building software that needs to be shipped to customers. Primitives not frameworks.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

The thinking was that by owning the supply chain from raw materials to retail outlets, a firm had direct control over its entire cost structure, making it better able to squeeze efficiencies out of it and being less susceptible to supply shocks. As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Developers need efficient methods to store, traverse, and query these relationships. In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

In the 1970s, the predominant business strategy was vertical integration: own the value chain from raw materials to retail outlets. When companies first invested in computer technology by buying mainframes and hiring programmers, they did so to create efficiencies in their administrative operations.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

There isn't much you can do to squeeze operating cash flow efficiency from the asset-heavy business, aside from minimizing overhead costs associated with investing activity. But you can squeeze the operating company for efficiencies, reducing total labor costs with things such as customer self-service. The operating company is, though.

Airlines 40

Airlines Entertainment Retail Efficiency 40