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Latest Read: Cybersecurity: The Insights You Need

Cybersecurity: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review.

Cybersecurity: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

So let’s start with the end in mind to avoid all misunderstandings: this is targeted to every leader and board member regardless of market or industry. They simply must fully comprehend why cybersecurity has been and always will be an ongoing risk.

This is a well written, high level and most importantly a non-technical overview of cybersecurity. This risk can no longer be overlooked by organizations and delegated like it was 1994. Today more than ever before cybersecurity impacts your bottom line, including non-technology based organizations.

And in 2024 we can simply cut to the chase. If your organization’s cybersecurity service is not AI based, it is time to pivot to a vendor that deploys machine learning services to protect your organization, your data and most importantly, your customer data. Just query your insurance carrier for a list of approved vendors that deploy AI cybersecurity services. For the most part the pandemic made this pivot mandatory.

In fact, cyber risk management can no longer be isolated to your organization’s CIO and CISO. This is simply an organization-wide issue. Today every organization’s technology services group have become the key component for organizational success.

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Latest Read: Generative AI : The Insights You Need

Generative AI: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Generative AI: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

The world discovered Generative AI in the beginning of 2023. ChatGPT introduced over 100 million users to the possibilities of Generative AI. In less than 18 months society has shifted. With Wall Street and Madison Avenue literally banking on new markets, business, education and our globally connected society are witnessing transformation. Microsoft’s $10 billion investment in OpenAI is perhaps the strongest indicator of what GenAI will be expecting to produce. However, there certainly remains a big hill to climb.

New AI startups are creating GenAI business models around generating text, images, code and even animation and video via Sora at rather amazing speeds. GenAI is certainly altering how humans create content on a scale and speed not previously understood by society, government, business and education. So get ready for disruption.

This book will help understand the baseline of GenAI and the potential to change the world. Yet for the organization who decides to jump right in, make sure you understand Chapter 3:?A Framework for Picking the Right Generative AI Project. AI is not the web and GenAI is not html. Organizations must understand risk. Just ask Samsung and you will quickly understand why tech companies are banning GenAI within their internal networks.

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Latest Read: Future Ready

Future ready: The four pathways to capturing digital value by Stephanie Woerner, Peter Weill, and Ina Sebastian.

Future ready : the four pathways to capturing digital value by Stephanie Woerner, Peter Weill, and Ina Sebastian

Stephanie is director and a research scientist at the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Stanford. She has done presentations and workshops for top management teams and boards of large global firms, been a subject matter expert for the Wall Street Journal CEO Council, and moderated a number of panels, including one on the future of financial services for the Federal Reserve.

Peter is professor of Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and chairman emeritus of the MIT CISR. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from NYU. He has also published in MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, and academic outlets. Ziff Davis recognized Weill as #24 of “The Top 100 Most Influential People in IT” and the highest-ranked academic.

Ina is a research scientist at the MIT CISR. She holds a PhDs in International Management from the University of Hawaii and is published in MIT Sloan Management Review, Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive, and academic outlets.

So, can you create a future-ready organization? Seems to be the hot topic in the new ChatGPT age of AI. Stephanie, Peter, and Ina are indeed addressing the real world of Schneider Electric’s IoT growth, CEMEX, WeChat, or even Fidelity Investments. Each has made a successful digital transformation to become as future ready as Amazon Web Services.

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Latest Read: HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2024

HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2024: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review

HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2024: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review

Perhaps no better way to close 2023 than by digesting HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2024. These articles are a great overview to insights by authors over the last year. Digital transformation is the most impactful as organizations are jumping into AI in markets still impacted by the pandemic.

This actually leads with a challenge for leaders. In “Managers Can’t Do It All” the combination of reengineering, digitization, AI initiatives and the lingering pandemic remote work efforts, the idea of what any “manager” role today has been completely altered.

Organizations must now realize that hiring new managers into your organization require making teams more successful than in the past, prior to the pandemic. their role in coaching has also dramatically changed.

To succeed, organizations must re-define a manager’s role. Case studies with Standard Chartered, IBM, and Telstra reveal these organizations help managers develop new skills, alter long standing processes yet also redefine roles and responsibilities in order to strengthen new organizational priorities.

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Latest Read: HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leading Digital Transformation

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leading Digital Transformation by Harvard Business Review published in January 2021.

HBRs 10 Must Reads on Leading Digital Transformation by Harvard Business Review

This outlines a much needed read on the hot topic of digital transformation. The issue to certainly understand is how this differs from digital disruption. There are several articles that really stand out and make this a valuable read for all organizations regardless of their AI maturity level.

A key must read is Leandro DalleMule and Thomas H. Davenport’s “What’s Your Data Strategy?” This was a bestselling article from HBR. and their article is another can’t miss addressing data. Simply put, in order to remain competitive in a post pandemic world, organizations must manage the quantities of data very carefully.

Perhaps their suggestion of ShadowIT leaving flawed n and duplicate data within an organizations will hamper any true embrace of AI.

In addition they address how organizations must strive to develop a balanced strategy between offensive and defense data management. this is a really great read. Again, looking at a post pandemic world, regardless of marketplace, organizational data must be viewed as a key strategy as we embrace data lakes.

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