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Which browser do you use at work?

Applications & Platforms

Internet Explorer

Microsoft Edge

Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox

Safari

Brave

Other

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As a technology executive, what keeps you up at night?

People & Leadership

Hiring / Retaining talent

Eng not moving fast enough

Marketing not moving fast enough

Sales not moving fast enough

Other (please comment)

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How long does an employee typically stay within your team?

Talent Management & Performance

< 1 year

1-3 years

4-5 years

> 5 years

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What is your favorite browser?

Applications & Platforms Productivity Tools

Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox

Safari

IE (Edge)

Other (write a comment)

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Is AI going to affect the number of jobs in your company in the next 12 months?

Culture & Values AI & Machine Learning

Yes, more jobs created

Yes, jobs lost to AI

Other (please comment)

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Do you develop hybrid apps on you company?

Mobile Software Development

yes

intend to

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What do you consider the most intimidating part about starting a company?

Culture & Values

A good idea

The high chance of failure

Not getting a salary for a while

Raising funds

Other (please comment)

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Which technology trend will have the greatest impact on our industry over the next year?

Disruptive & Emerging Technologies AI & Machine Learning Augmented & Virtual Reality (AR/VR)+2 more

IoT/IoE and smart home tech

AR and VR

Big Data

Machine Learning

Automation

Blockchain

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Choose your preferable search engine and mention the reason below:

Cloud Data & Analytics Business Intelligence+4 more

Solr

Elasticsearch

Algolia

Other (Please specify)

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In your opinion, what is the most productive work style of your team?

People & Leadership Team & Organizational Design Talent Management & Performance+1 more

Flexible hours (no more than 8hrs/day)

Fixed schedule (8am-5pm/9am-6pm)

Partially in the office and partially remotely

Unconditional (may work more or less than 8 hours)

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We moved into our current office at the start of COVID. We have space for about 100 people, but since COVID we've never had more than 15-20 people in the office. I'm concerned that if we return with all 100 staff, our internal wireless network and up/down internet pipe may not be able to handle the load. What tools have you use to simulate network loads?

Joel GerberSVP, Technology in IT Servicesa month ago

Try iPref.

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I'm curious what are companies doing with regards to educating and training their organizations on AI (the "what", the tools, the how to use those tools/create good prompts, etc.), and also who is taking the lead efforts on driving the training (e.g. is it product development, IT, corp comms, or other functional areas)?

Disruptive & Emerging Technologies AI & Machine Learning

Joel GerberSVP, Technology in IT Services3 months ago

At Canal Barge we have several groups collaborating on this:
1) We have a Cybersecurity Core Team that reviews the evolving situation and creates acceptable use policies and guidelines.
2) We have an internal communications ...read more

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What is your company's approach to Marketing Technology (MarTech?). Is it embedded within IT? Separate organization? If separate organizations, what are the roles and responsibilities between IT and your MarTech team?

Process Management

Joel GerberSVP, Technology in IT Services3 months ago

The technical infrastructure needed to support this function sits in IT, but the execution of the marketing activities lives within the aligned business function (marketing, sales, etc).

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Google Gemini vs Github CoPilot ... how should we think about this? Is this article accurate? https://rahulqalabs.medium.com/github-copilot-vs-google-gemini-a-comparative-analysis-a36e198eb864

Generative AI

Joel GerberSVP, Technology in IT Services4 months ago

There's a comment that is slightly incorrect about GitHub Copilot. The public version does use your prompts and completions to enhance the model, but you can purchase the Business or Enterprise level to keep your prompts ...read more

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What is the quickest AI value play in healthcare?

Disruptive & Emerging Technologies AI & Machine Learning IT Strategy & Roadmap

Joel GerberSVP, Technology in IT Services4 months ago

So many areas. The Ohio State University is using it to better determine drug efficacy. There are areas of transcription that seem very promising. It's a very broad question. I'd start with use cases where you have someone ...read more

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What's one simple/practical way IT leaders can encourage a culture of experimentation and continuous learning of generative AI technologies within their teams? Something that just about any org can do regardless of team size, budget, etc.

Disruptive & Emerging Technologies Personal Development Training & Certification+1 more

Joel GerberSVP, Technology in IT Services6 months ago

Be intentional about it. Designate time for labs, experimentation, coding, etc. Jealously guard that time, because it will be easy for it to be the first thing scratched from the calendar when project or support demands boil ...read more

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Those of you who are using GenAI tools for coding: can you share your most successful/reliable Python prompts?

Engineering AI & Machine Learning Generative AI

Joel GerberSVP, Technology in IT Services6 months ago

It is extensive and hard to answer since what you are prompting for will vary based on what you are trying to do. We implemented GitHub Copilot Enterprise (private, nothing is shared, etc.) for most of our developers. Prompts ...read more

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We are looking to move our time tracking and scheduling solution from a legacy solution. We have Workday as our HR HCM (including payroll) with some other countries using workday with ADP integration for payroll. We are over 3000 employees who do punches, What solutions do you use and what are your pros and cons? We go Workday pricing but compared to our current legacy solution we were shocked at the pricing. Has anyone had experience with workday in this space and advice / comparison with other vendors?

Joel GerberSVP, Technology in IT Services6 months ago

We just implemented Acumatica for our ERP/Time Tracking solution. It offers open APIs so integrations with other platforms (UltiPro is what we use for payroll) and is very reasonable cost-wise.

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How are you navigating and adapting to Generative AI applied to Software Development?

Generative AI Software Development

Joel GerberSVP, Technology in IT Services7 months ago

We've begun to train a group of developers on tools (Github Copilot, Cursor.so) and are working with clients to implement policies and procedures to integrate generative AI as part of our core software development se...read more

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Has your company taken steps to build a private LLM? What was the main factor driving the decision to go private vs. public?

AI & Machine Learning Generative AI

Joel GerberSVP, Technology in IT Services7 months ago

The main factor driving the decision to go private vs. public was centered around data security and confidentiality. Operating in a private environment allows for greater control over sensitive data, reducing the risk of ...read more

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Is anyone using AI to aid in the generation of RFPs?

Disruptive & Emerging Technologies

Joel GerberSVP, Technology in IT Services8 months ago

Hello,
it is one of the use case under evaluation but I can be more detailed as soon you share your needs.

Cheers.

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