Do you and your team gather and manage requirements and feature requests for your products and/or services?
If yes, you already know that managing these requirements consumes a lot of time and resources. If you’re like other companies, you also run into a lot of hassles in managing the requirements, sharing them
with other teams, and ensuring that they get implemented to meet customer needs.
A proactive Help Desk team will have Incident Management Communication Plan in place to follow when an outage to a service occurs. In advance of an outage, it is important to develop a well thought-out Incident Management Communication Plan detailing how people will be initially notified, what information they need, when status updates will be communicated, and what resolution steps occur when a service has been restored. Answer the following questions about the state of your Incident Management Communication Plan.
Process Automation Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Identify and eliminate the repetitive processes and decrease manual work by using our visually appealing Process Automation PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Our business process automation PPT visuals, help you to automate the processes and use secured software to perform the different tasks. The robotic process automation PowerPoint slide deck contains current state analysis, automation implementation areas, such as the market department, human resource department, finance department, etc. Discuss the challenges faced by the company which arises the need for automation by using business process reengineering PPT slideshow. Showcase different business automation processes such as file transfer, report generation, order entry, spreadsheets, etc. After that, describe automation implementation areas, including marketing, human resourcing, finance, and accounting. The presentation also provides the details of marketing automation software, CRM system, the timeline for implementing marketing automation in the company. Details like challenges faced by the HR department due to lack of automation, impact of automation on HR management can be presented with company automation PPT layouts. Download our ready-to-use business automation PPT slide deck and overcome the gap between business and technology by offering automated solutions. https://bit.ly/2SolU4W
Getting the Most Out of Your Supply Chain: A How-To Guide for Executing Conti...HighJump
Continuous process improvement is an ongoing initiative to find more efficient ways to execute different processes within your supply chain. Learn how your business can adopt this strategy and the benefits it will see in this how-to guide from HighJump Software. For more information, visit highjump.com or call +1 (800) 328-3271.
A proactive Help Desk team will have Incident Management Communication Plan in place to follow when an outage to a service occurs. In advance of an outage, it is important to develop a well thought-out Incident Management Communication Plan detailing how people will be initially notified, what information they need, when status updates will be communicated, and what resolution steps occur when a service has been restored. Answer the following questions about the state of your Incident Management Communication Plan.
Process Automation Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Identify and eliminate the repetitive processes and decrease manual work by using our visually appealing Process Automation PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Our business process automation PPT visuals, help you to automate the processes and use secured software to perform the different tasks. The robotic process automation PowerPoint slide deck contains current state analysis, automation implementation areas, such as the market department, human resource department, finance department, etc. Discuss the challenges faced by the company which arises the need for automation by using business process reengineering PPT slideshow. Showcase different business automation processes such as file transfer, report generation, order entry, spreadsheets, etc. After that, describe automation implementation areas, including marketing, human resourcing, finance, and accounting. The presentation also provides the details of marketing automation software, CRM system, the timeline for implementing marketing automation in the company. Details like challenges faced by the HR department due to lack of automation, impact of automation on HR management can be presented with company automation PPT layouts. Download our ready-to-use business automation PPT slide deck and overcome the gap between business and technology by offering automated solutions. https://bit.ly/2SolU4W
Getting the Most Out of Your Supply Chain: A How-To Guide for Executing Conti...HighJump
Continuous process improvement is an ongoing initiative to find more efficient ways to execute different processes within your supply chain. Learn how your business can adopt this strategy and the benefits it will see in this how-to guide from HighJump Software. For more information, visit highjump.com or call +1 (800) 328-3271.
GUIDE TO ERP IMPLEMENTATION FOR AGENCIES- For every organization, there comes a time when it outgrows
the capacities of its homegrown systems. Implementation
of ERP becomes essential for the functioning of such companies.
Product Backlog - Refinement and Prioritization TechniquesVikash Karuna
This presentation describes the important techniques used in Product Backlog refinement and prioritization in Agile development. The various techniques described here are very useful for product managers, product owners, scrum masters, and agile teams.
ANI | Business Agility Day @Gurugram | Are you a responsible Business | Dilje...AgileNetwork
Abstract:
In today's ever-changing environment, every business needs to deliver to its customers and stakeholders. Customers need the best value for money and convenience and Stakeholders need Return on their investment. Until business need, this cusp and ready to embrace the changes needed, would not be a successful business. This requires the utmost ability to respond to the changes in the environment. This requires business agility.
Key Takeaways:
1. Why business agility is very crucial in today's environment?
2. How to be agile as a business
3. Role of technology in this agility
4. Common principles between Business Agility and Software Agility
5. Ingredients to business agility.
IBM Cloud Service Management and Operations Field GuideCarol Wingfield
The easy to digest IBM Cloud Service Management and Operations Field Guide documents IBM’s approach to designing, implementing, and continuously improving the operations management processes you use in your enterprise.
Please always visit ibm.biz/csmo-field-guide for the latest version.
Join our webinar to learn best practices for maximizing user experience and productivity in Service Cloud. Learn from our Salesforce PM and UX service leads on how you as an #AwesomeAdmin can create engaging experiences for your agents and help them solve cases faster with pre-built apps and automation.
Successful business change - whether it's a new process or a new software application - relies on user adoption. But organizations often encounter hurdles along the way.
Are you rolling out new technology to your users? Revamping your current processes? Want to help your users quickly adapt to what's new and different? Learn how to clear 3 hurdles on your way to the user adoption finish line.
Smart Personnel Action Form (PAF) for Termination for PeopleSoft by Smart ERP Solutions, highlighting an automated electronic PAF with ERP Gadget features to streamline, automate and enhance the Termination process including robust workflow approvals--while avoiding customizations.
The JDA Store Operations suite provides store managers with the unparalleled ability to consistently and profitably optimize people, space, inventory and processes in order to balance the increasing demands of customers from outside the store with the needs and expectations of customers inside the store. The suite combines JDA’s industry-leading budgeting and scheduling, space and inventory management, workforce management and task management systems with in-store picking capabilities, all of which are supported by the industry’s most seasoned team of service professionals to guide the process and deliver an integrated, comprehensive, cloud-based store operations solution.
The JDA Store Operations suite enables you to:
◾ Schedule associates efficiently to optimize customer shopping experiences
◾ Assign, monitor and report on merchandising and fulfillment tasks
◾ Maximize merchandising, sales, fulfillment and returns processing
◾ Leverage cloud for agility, visibility and return on investment
JDA Store Operations helps to strike a balance between the emerging demands for service, fulfillment and returns with the traditional functions of merchandising and sales, driving unprecedented efficiency and responsiveness.
◾ Maintain real-time visibility and accuracy for both internal and external needs
◾ Protect the brand and preserve margins
◾ Enhance productivity and agility in every aspect of store operations
Do your really need a CRM ? If this is a question you are grappling with, then this is definitely a no miss presentation for you.
Takes you through the stages invovled in CRM consultancy to final successful implementation
Services Strategies for Saas Software CompaniesAndrew Marks
This deck is relevant not only to cloud based software companies but also those with an on-prem model. Specifically focused on services strategies and customer success in general, the content dives into some of the considerations and strategies around designing and building a services organization and driving the cross organizational cooperation necessary for a company to be successful focusing on not just customer acquisition but customer retention.
The paper is a overview of how enterprises can adapt to agile software delivery. This is a high level overview of the 2 most common ideas in enterprise agile - Scaled agile framework and Lean PMO.
Client Onboarding: Effectively Managing the Client LifecycleDoxim Inc.
The first 90-120 days of your client’s lifecycle is commonly referred to as client on-boarding period. This period represents one of the best opportunities for a wealth management firm to engage with the client and maximize business opportunities. It is also represents an account administration challenge in terms of account opening, asset transfers, needs assessments and data capture. Download this presentation to discover more about:
- The 3 Stages of Client Onboarding
- Client Onboarding Best Practices
- Doxim's onboarding solution - Doxim OpenAdvantage
Visit www.doxim.com for more information.
We hear the term “DevOps” frequently in current press, popular books, and presentations from many product vendors. The DevOps concept focuses on how to build deep integration between Development and Operations, organizations who have historically been at odds. This has been brought about, in part, by the need to increase the velocity of delivery from development into production, while ensuring that the Production environments are always running.
Many of the difficulties are well understood, and documented in those same DevOps articles, books and presentations. One of the big problems to solve is ensuring that everyone is working with the same processes, systems, and tools, throughout the product development and delivery cycle.
The Development team needs to know that changes they deliver to Operations will work in Production, so they need to develop and test their changes in environments that match Production systems. The same automation scripts Operations use in Production should be used in the early test VMs and pre-Production test labs. Any changes to the system that were required by the Developers would be made in the automation scripts directly, and included with their updates. Those scripts then document the modified environment, improving the ability to review changes with the Operations team before they would be applied.
The Operations team needs to know that what they are deploying has already been proven to work in Production, or spend critical time re-validating changes during “outage windows”. Automating system setup and configuration is not new, but historically the scripts were monolithic, requiring the Operations team to modify the core code when moving from test labs into Production. Separating the actions in the automation code from the environmental data (such as server names & accounts) simplifies the updates, and reduces the risk of error. In addition, by restricting changes to what is in automation scripts, updates can be validated in advance, rolled back if something bad occurs, and all common systems can be ensured to be consistent.
The development of PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) was based in part on these requirements.
GUIDE TO ERP IMPLEMENTATION FOR AGENCIES- For every organization, there comes a time when it outgrows
the capacities of its homegrown systems. Implementation
of ERP becomes essential for the functioning of such companies.
Product Backlog - Refinement and Prioritization TechniquesVikash Karuna
This presentation describes the important techniques used in Product Backlog refinement and prioritization in Agile development. The various techniques described here are very useful for product managers, product owners, scrum masters, and agile teams.
ANI | Business Agility Day @Gurugram | Are you a responsible Business | Dilje...AgileNetwork
Abstract:
In today's ever-changing environment, every business needs to deliver to its customers and stakeholders. Customers need the best value for money and convenience and Stakeholders need Return on their investment. Until business need, this cusp and ready to embrace the changes needed, would not be a successful business. This requires the utmost ability to respond to the changes in the environment. This requires business agility.
Key Takeaways:
1. Why business agility is very crucial in today's environment?
2. How to be agile as a business
3. Role of technology in this agility
4. Common principles between Business Agility and Software Agility
5. Ingredients to business agility.
IBM Cloud Service Management and Operations Field GuideCarol Wingfield
The easy to digest IBM Cloud Service Management and Operations Field Guide documents IBM’s approach to designing, implementing, and continuously improving the operations management processes you use in your enterprise.
Please always visit ibm.biz/csmo-field-guide for the latest version.
Join our webinar to learn best practices for maximizing user experience and productivity in Service Cloud. Learn from our Salesforce PM and UX service leads on how you as an #AwesomeAdmin can create engaging experiences for your agents and help them solve cases faster with pre-built apps and automation.
Successful business change - whether it's a new process or a new software application - relies on user adoption. But organizations often encounter hurdles along the way.
Are you rolling out new technology to your users? Revamping your current processes? Want to help your users quickly adapt to what's new and different? Learn how to clear 3 hurdles on your way to the user adoption finish line.
Smart Personnel Action Form (PAF) for Termination for PeopleSoft by Smart ERP Solutions, highlighting an automated electronic PAF with ERP Gadget features to streamline, automate and enhance the Termination process including robust workflow approvals--while avoiding customizations.
The JDA Store Operations suite provides store managers with the unparalleled ability to consistently and profitably optimize people, space, inventory and processes in order to balance the increasing demands of customers from outside the store with the needs and expectations of customers inside the store. The suite combines JDA’s industry-leading budgeting and scheduling, space and inventory management, workforce management and task management systems with in-store picking capabilities, all of which are supported by the industry’s most seasoned team of service professionals to guide the process and deliver an integrated, comprehensive, cloud-based store operations solution.
The JDA Store Operations suite enables you to:
◾ Schedule associates efficiently to optimize customer shopping experiences
◾ Assign, monitor and report on merchandising and fulfillment tasks
◾ Maximize merchandising, sales, fulfillment and returns processing
◾ Leverage cloud for agility, visibility and return on investment
JDA Store Operations helps to strike a balance between the emerging demands for service, fulfillment and returns with the traditional functions of merchandising and sales, driving unprecedented efficiency and responsiveness.
◾ Maintain real-time visibility and accuracy for both internal and external needs
◾ Protect the brand and preserve margins
◾ Enhance productivity and agility in every aspect of store operations
Do your really need a CRM ? If this is a question you are grappling with, then this is definitely a no miss presentation for you.
Takes you through the stages invovled in CRM consultancy to final successful implementation
Services Strategies for Saas Software CompaniesAndrew Marks
This deck is relevant not only to cloud based software companies but also those with an on-prem model. Specifically focused on services strategies and customer success in general, the content dives into some of the considerations and strategies around designing and building a services organization and driving the cross organizational cooperation necessary for a company to be successful focusing on not just customer acquisition but customer retention.
The paper is a overview of how enterprises can adapt to agile software delivery. This is a high level overview of the 2 most common ideas in enterprise agile - Scaled agile framework and Lean PMO.
Client Onboarding: Effectively Managing the Client LifecycleDoxim Inc.
The first 90-120 days of your client’s lifecycle is commonly referred to as client on-boarding period. This period represents one of the best opportunities for a wealth management firm to engage with the client and maximize business opportunities. It is also represents an account administration challenge in terms of account opening, asset transfers, needs assessments and data capture. Download this presentation to discover more about:
- The 3 Stages of Client Onboarding
- Client Onboarding Best Practices
- Doxim's onboarding solution - Doxim OpenAdvantage
Visit www.doxim.com for more information.
We hear the term “DevOps” frequently in current press, popular books, and presentations from many product vendors. The DevOps concept focuses on how to build deep integration between Development and Operations, organizations who have historically been at odds. This has been brought about, in part, by the need to increase the velocity of delivery from development into production, while ensuring that the Production environments are always running.
Many of the difficulties are well understood, and documented in those same DevOps articles, books and presentations. One of the big problems to solve is ensuring that everyone is working with the same processes, systems, and tools, throughout the product development and delivery cycle.
The Development team needs to know that changes they deliver to Operations will work in Production, so they need to develop and test their changes in environments that match Production systems. The same automation scripts Operations use in Production should be used in the early test VMs and pre-Production test labs. Any changes to the system that were required by the Developers would be made in the automation scripts directly, and included with their updates. Those scripts then document the modified environment, improving the ability to review changes with the Operations team before they would be applied.
The Operations team needs to know that what they are deploying has already been proven to work in Production, or spend critical time re-validating changes during “outage windows”. Automating system setup and configuration is not new, but historically the scripts were monolithic, requiring the Operations team to modify the core code when moving from test labs into Production. Separating the actions in the automation code from the environmental data (such as server names & accounts) simplifies the updates, and reduces the risk of error. In addition, by restricting changes to what is in automation scripts, updates can be validated in advance, rolled back if something bad occurs, and all common systems can be ensured to be consistent.
The development of PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) was based in part on these requirements.
The FEA consists of a set of interrelated “reference models” designed to facilitate cross-agency analysis and the identification of duplicative investments, gaps and opportunities for collaboration within and across agencies. Collectively, the reference models comprise a framework for describing important elements of the FEA in a common and consistent way. Through the use of this common framework and vocabulary, IT portfolios can be better managed and leveraged across the federal government. This chapter introduces the purposes and structures of the five FEA reference models: • Performance Reference Model (PRM) • Business Reference Model (BRM) • Service Component Reference Model (SRM) • Technical Reference Model (TRM) • Data Reference Model (DRM)
El Centro de Excelencia y Apropiación en Internet de las Cosas (CEA-IoT) es una alianza entre universidades, líderes tecnológicos mundiales y empresas ancla para potenciar el desarrollo económico del país desde el desarrollo tecnológico y la innovación a través de las tecnologías del Internet de las Cosas, buscando resolver las necesidades de diferentes sectores productivos del país. El CEA-IoT es una iniciativa impulsada desde el Ministerio de las TIC, con el apoyo de Colciencias, y corresponde a una estrategia que busca posicionar a Colombia como líder regional en TIC.
It is very difficult to come up with a single, consistent notation to cover the wide variety of data, models and algorithms that we discuss. Furthermore, conventions difer between machine learning and statistics, and between different books and papers. Nevertheless, we have tried to be as consistent as possible. Below we summarize most of the notation used in this book, although individual sections may introduce new notation. Note also that the same symbol may have different meanings depending on the context, although we try to avoid this where possible.
Synergist System Selection & Implementation GuideThe Agency Works
If your agency is considering getting a new project management system, here's a useful guide to selecting and implementing the right system for your business.
Requirements Diligence: The Cornerstone to Ecommerce Project SuccessElastic Path
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Whether you are building your requirements for an in-house developed project or just trying to deciding what to do, requirements are the cornerstone of success and need to go beyond a wish list of needed features and capabilities. This one-hour webinar will cover key strategies and tactics to help you build the most effective, bullet-proof requirements to ensure project success.
Featuring: Bernardine Wu, CEO of consultancy, FitForCommerce
By focusing on organizational enablers and robust software engineering practices, e-commerce companies can shorten the development lifecycle, outmaneuver the competition and remain relevant in the eyes of customers.
7 Questions to Ask Your Prospective Outsourced Product Development Vendortrigentsoftware
This SlideShare on `7 Questions to Ask Your Prospective Outsourced Product Development Vendor' will help you narrow down your choices for selecting the best outsourcing partner for your product development
Digital Agency Coaching - Free Digital Agency Proposal TemplateLee Goff
Winning deals and being a successful agency doesn’t mean you have to be the lowball offer, in fact the best agencies never are.
But if you’re an up and coming agency that isn’t quite as reputable and established how do you validate the higher price?
The simple answer is this: a superior digital agency proposal.
A superior proposal is organized but creative, concise and still detailed. So as an agency owner with a hundred and one things on your to-do list, how do you write a proposal in a timely manner that fits this contradicting criterion?
You start with a proposal template that has been fine-tuned over the course of a decade and has already proved its success. Then you take that outline, plug in some personalized and customized information, spice it up a bit, and voila!
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Investing in AI transformation today
The modern business advantage: Uncovering deep insights with AI
Organizations around the world have come to recognize AI as the transformative technology that enables them to gain real business advantage.
AI’s ability to organize vast quantities of data allows those who implement it to uncover deep business insights, augment human expertise, drive
operational efficiency, transform their products, and better serve their customers
Last year’s Global Risks Report warned of a world
that would not easily rebound from continued
shocks. As 2024 begins, the 19th edition of
the report is set against a backdrop of rapidly
accelerating technological change and economic
uncertainty, as the world is plagued by a duo of
dangerous crises: climate and conflict.
Underlying geopolitical tensions combined with the
eruption of active hostilities in multiple regions is
contributing to an unstable global order characterized
by polarizing narratives, eroding trust and insecurity.
At the same time, countries are grappling with the
impacts of record-breaking extreme weather, as
climate-change adaptation efforts and resources
fall short of the type, scale and intensity of climaterelated events already taking place. Cost-of-living
pressures continue to bite, amidst persistently
elevated inflation and interest rates and continued
economic uncertainty in much of the world.
Despondent headlines are borderless, shared
regularly and widely, and a sense of frustration at
the status quo is increasingly palpable. Together,
this leaves ample room for accelerating risks – like
misinformation and disinformation – to propagate
in societies that have already been politically and
economically weakened in recent years.
Just as natural ecosystems can be pushed to the
limit and become something fundamentally new;
such systemic shifts are also taking place across
other spheres: geostrategic, demographic and
technological. This year, we explore the rise of global
risks against the backdrop of these “structural
forces” as well as the tectonic clashes between
them. The next set of global conditions may not
necessarily be better or worse than the last, but the
transition will not be an easy one.
The report explores the global risk landscape in this
phase of transition and governance systems being
stretched beyond their limit. It analyses the most
severe perceived risks to economies and societies
over two and 10 years, in the context of these
influential forces. Could we catapult to a 3°C world
as the impacts of climate change intrinsically rewrite
the planet? Have we reached the peak of human
development for large parts of the global population,
given deteriorating debt and geo-economic
conditions? Could we face an explosion of criminality
and corruption that feeds on more fragile states and
more vulnerable populations? Will an “arms race” in
experimental technologies present existential threats
to humanity?
These transnational risks will become harder to
handle as global cooperation erodes. In this year’s
Global Risks Perception Survey, two-thirds of
respondents predict that a multipolar order will
dominate in the next 10 years, as middle and
great powers set and enforce – but also contest
- current rules and norms. The report considers
the implications of this fragmented world, where
preparedness for global risks is ever more critical but
is hindered by lack o
A big convergence of language, multimodal perception, action, and world modeling is a key step toward artificial general intelligence. In this work, we introduce
KOSMOS-12
, a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) that can perceive
general modalities, learn in context (i.e., few-shot), and follow instructions (i.e.,
zero-shot). Specifically, we train KOSMOS-1 from scratch on web-scale multimodal corpora, including arbitrarily interleaved text and images, image-caption
pairs, and text data. We evaluate various settings, including zero-shot, few-shot,
and multimodal chain-of-thought prompting, on a wide range of tasks without
any gradient updates or finetuning. Experimental results show that KOSMOS-1
achieves impressive performance on (i) language understanding, generation, and
even OCR-free NLP (directly fed with document images), (ii) perception-language
tasks, including multimodal dialogue, image captioning, visual question answering,
and (iii) vision tasks, such as image recognition with descriptions (specifying
classification via text instructions). We also show that MLLMs can benefit from
cross-modal transfer, i.e., transfer knowledge from language to multimodal, and
from multimodal to language. In addition, we introduce a dataset of Raven IQ test,
which diagnoses the nonverbal reasoning capability of MLLMs.
We present a causal speech enhancement model working on the
raw waveform that runs in real-time on a laptop CPU. The proposed model is based on an encoder-decoder architecture with
skip-connections. It is optimized on both time and frequency
domains, using multiple loss functions. Empirical evidence
shows that it is capable of removing various kinds of background noise including stationary and non-stationary noises,
as well as room reverb. Additionally, we suggest a set of
data augmentation techniques applied directly on the raw waveform which further improve model performance and its generalization abilities. We perform evaluations on several standard
benchmarks, both using objective metrics and human judgements. The proposed model matches state-of-the-art performance of both causal and non causal methods while working
directly on the raw waveform.
Index Terms: Speech enhancement, speech denoising, neural
networks, raw waveform
Artificial neural networks are the heart of machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence
protocols. Historically, the simplest implementation of an artificial neuron traces back to the classical
Rosenblatt’s “perceptron”, but its long term practical applications may be hindered by the fast scal-
ing up of computational complexity, especially relevant for the training of multilayered perceptron
networks. Here we introduce a quantum information-based algorithm implementing the quantum
computer version of a perceptron, which shows exponential advantage in encoding resources over
alternative realizations. We experimentally test a few qubits version of this model on an actual
small-scale quantum processor, which gives remarkably good answers against the expected results.
We show that this quantum model of a perceptron can be used as an elementary nonlinear classifier
of simple patterns, as a first step towards practical training of artificial quantum neural networks
to be efficiently implemented on near-term quantum processing hardware
En los ̇ltimos 20 aÒos la Enfermedad de Alzheimer pasÛ de ser el paradigma
del envejecimiento normal -aunque prematuro y acelerado-, del cerebro,
para convertirse en una enfermedad autÈntica, nosolÛgicamente bien defini-
da y con una clara raÌz genÈtica. La enfermedad afecta hoy a m·s de 20
millones de personas, tiene enormes consecuencias sobre la economÌa de los
paÌses y constituye uno de los temas de investigaciÛn m·s activos en el ·rea
de salud.
Este artÌculo revisa el conocimiento actual sobre el tema. En esta primera
parte se analizan su epidemiologÌa, patogenia y genÈtica; se enumeran los
temas prioritarios de investigaciÛn; se revisa su relaciÛn con el concepto de
muerte celular programada (apoptosis) y se enumeran los elementos indis-
pensables para el diagnÛstico.
Palabras Clave
:Enfermedad de Alzhaimer; Demencia; GenÈtica; TerapÈuti-
ca.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities are growing at an unprecedented rate. These technologies have many widely beneficial applications, ranging from machine translation to medical image analysis. Countless more such applications are being developed and can be expected over the long term. Less attention has historically been paid to the ways in which artificial intelligence can be used maliciously. This report surveys the landscape of potential security threats from malicious uses of artificial intelligence technologies, and proposes ways to better forecast, prevent, and mitigate these threats. We analyze, but do not conclusively resolve, the question of what the long-term equilibrium between attackers and defenders will be. We focus instead on what sorts of attacks we are likely to see soon if adequate defenses are not developed.
There is an increasing interest in exploiting mobile sensing technologies and machine learning techniques for mental health monitoring and intervention. Researchers have effectively used contextual information, such as mobility, communication and mobile phone usage patterns for quantifying individuals’ mood and wellbeing. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of neural network models for predicting users’ level of stress by using the location information collected by smartphones. We characterize the mobility patterns of individuals using the GPS metricspresentedintheliteratureandemploythesemetricsasinputtothenetwork. We evaluate our approach on the open-source StudentLife dataset. Moreover, we discuss the challenges and trade-offs involved in building machine learning models for digital mental health and highlight potential future work in this direction.
La Hipertensión, es una de las mayores enfermedades que sufren los Hispanohablantes en el planeta . Es grato poder colocar este documento al público y haber podido hacer parte del equipo , ojalá sirvan a muchos las implementaciones. idioma más hablado según el foro Económico mundial - Me refiero al español ó castellano según sea -
segundo idioma y haber podido hacer parte de este equipo. Genuinamente, espero que se curen la mayor cantidad de personas con . Espero genuinamente puedan hacer algúna donación a este esfuerzo grupal. Espero Compartamos este "Paper" así como compartimos memes - En el sentido literal de la significancia-
** Refierase a Wikipedia sino tiene un diccionario a mano.
To thrive in the 21st century, students need more than traditional academic learning. They must be adept at collaboration, communication and problem-solving, which are some of the skills developed through social and emotional learning (SEL). Coupled with mastery of traditional skills, social and emotional proficiency will equip students to succeed in the swiftly evolving digital economy. In 2015, the World Economic Forum published a report that focused on the pressing issue of the 21st-century skills gap and ways to address it through technology (New Vision for Education: Unlocking the Potential of Technology). In that report, we defined a set of 16 crucial proficiencies for education in the 21st century. Those skills include six “foundational literacies”, such as literacy, numeracy and scientific literacy, and 10 skills that we labelled either “competencies” or “character qualities”. Competencies are the means by which students approach complex challenges; they include collaboration, communication and critical thinking and problem-solving. Character qualities are the ways in which students approach their changing environment; they include curiosity, adaptability and social and cultural awareness (see Exhibit 1).
In our current report, New Vision for Education: Fostering Social and Emotional Learning through Technology, we follow up on our 2015 report by exploring how these competencies and character qualities do more than simply deepen 21st-century skills. Together, they lie at the heart of SEL and are every bit as important as the foundational skills required for traditional academic learning. Although many stakeholders have defined SEL more narrowly, we believe the definition of SEL is evolving. We define SEL broadly to encompass the 10 competencies and character qualities.1 As is the case with traditional academic learning, technology can be invaluable at enabling SEL.
La expresión “futuro del trabajo” es actualmente uno de los conceptos más populares en las búsquedas en Google. Los numerosos avances tecnológicos de los últimos tiempos están modificando rápidamente la frontera entre las actividades realizadas por los seres humanos y las ejecutadas por las máquinas, lo cual está transformando el mundo del trabajo. Existe un creciente número de estudios e iniciativas que se están llevando a cabo con el objeto de analizar qué significan estos cambios en nuestro trabajo, en nuestros ingresos, en el futuro de nuestros hijos, en nuestras empresas y en nuestros gobiernos. Estos análisis se conducen principalmente desde la óptica de las economías avanzadas, y mucho menos desde la perspectiva de las economías en desarrollo y emergentes. Sin embargo, las diferencias en materia de difusión tecnológica, de estructuras económicas y demográficas, de niveles de educación y patrones
migratorios inciden de manera significativa en la manera en que estos cambios pueden afectar a los países en desarrollo y emergentes. Este estudio, El futuro del trabajo: perspectivas regionales, se centra en las repercusiones probables de estas tendencias en las economías en desarrollo y emergentes de África; Asia; Europa del Este, Asia Central y el Mediterráneo Sur y Oriental, y América Latina y el Caribe. Se trata de un esfuerzo mancomunado de los cuatro principales bancos regionales de desarrollo: el African Development Bank Group, el Asian Development Bank, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y el European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. En el estudio se destacan las oportunidades que los cambios en la dinámica del trabajo podrían crear en nuestras regiones. El progreso tecnológico permitiría a los países con los que trabajamos crecer y alcanzar rápidamente mejores niveles de vida que en el pasado
Superada la Guerra Fría, el orden mundial dirigido por Estados Unidos se ve cuestionado por China y Rusia, dos potencias revisionistas que están acercando sus alineamientos estratégicos. China está en camino de convertirse en la mayor economía del mundo y en una potencia militar formidable a la que irrita la hegemonía de Estados Unidos. Parece que China, más que derrocar el orden mundial establecido, busca remodelarlo, especialmente en Asia, con la instauración de un orden sinocéntrico en el que todos los países del área asiática ponganlos intereses chinos por delante de los suyos propios. Está por ver si China tendrá las capacidades para conseguirlo, evitando el conflicto con Estados Unidos.
The increasing use of electronic forms of communication presents
new opportunities in the study of mental health, including the
ability to investigate the manifestations of psychiatric diseases un-
obtrusively and in the setting of patients’ daily lives. A pilot study to
explore the possible connections between bipolar affective disorder
and mobile phone usage was conducted. In this study, participants
were provided a mobile phone to use as their primary phone. This
phone was loaded with a custom keyboard that collected metadata
consisting of keypress entry time and accelerometer movement.
Individual character data with the exceptions of the backspace key
and space bar were not collected due to privacy concerns. We pro-
pose an end-to-end deep architecture based on late fusion, named
DeepMood, to model the multi-view metadata for the prediction
of mood scores. Experimental results show that 90.31% prediction
accuracy on the depression score can be achieved based on session-
level mobile phone typing dynamics which is typically less than
one minute. It demonstrates the feasibility of using mobile phone
metadata to infer mood disturbance and severity
Defin
ing artificial intelligence is no easy matter. Since the mid
-
20th century when it
was first
recognized
as a specific field of research, AI has always been envisioned as
an evolving boundary, rather than a settled research field. Fundamentally, it refers
to
a programme whose ambitious objective is to understand and reproduce human
cognition; creating cognitive processes comparable to those found in human beings.
Therefore, we are naturally dealing with a wide scope here, both in terms of the
technical proced
ures that can be employed and the various disciplines that can be
called upon: mathematics, information technology, cognitive sciences, etc. There is
a great variety of approaches when it comes to AI: ontological, reinforcement
learning, adversarial learni
ng and neural networks, to name just a few. Most of them
have been known for decades and many of the algorithms used today were
developed in the ’60s and ’70s.
Since the 1956 Dartmouth conference, artificial intelligence has alternated between
periods of
great enthusiasm and disillusionment, impressive progress and frustrating
failures. Yet, it has relentlessly pushed back the limits of what was only thought to
be achievable by human beings. Along the way, AI research has achieved significant
successes: o
utperforming human beings in complex games (chess, Go),
understanding natural language, etc. It has also played a critical role in the history
of mathematics and information technology. Consider how many softwares that we
now take for granted once represen
ted a major breakthrough in AI: chess game
apps, online translation programmes, etc
Vast
amounts
of
data, faster processing
power,
and
increas
-
ingly smarter algorithms are powering artificial intelligence
(AI) applications and associated use cases across
consumer,
finance, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation & logistics,
and government sectors around the world
-
enabling smarter
&
intelligent applications to speak, listen, and make decisions
in unprecedented ways. As AI technologies and deployments
sweep through virtually
every
industry, a wide range
of
use
cases are beginning to illustrate the potential business
oppor
-
tunities, a
nd inspire changes to existing business processes
leading to newer business
models.
In this paper, we propose an Attentional Generative Ad-
versarial Network (AttnGAN) that allows attention-driven,
multi-stage refinement for fine-grained text-to-image gener-
ation. With a novel attentional generative network, the At-
tnGAN can synthesize fine-grained details at different sub-
regions of the image by paying attentions to the relevant
words in the natural language description. In addition, a
deep attentional multimodal similarity model is proposed to
compute a fine-grained image-text matching loss for train-
ing the generator. The proposed AttnGAN significantly out-
performs the previous state of the art, boosting the best re-
ported inception score by 14.14% on the CUB dataset and
170.25% on the more challenging COCO dataset. A de-
tailed analysis is also performed by visualizing the atten-
tion layers of the AttnGAN. It for the first time shows that
the layered attentional GAN is able to automatically select
the condition at the word level for generating different parts
of the image
The Hamilton Project • Brookings i
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Introduction
Cognitive skills—that is, math and reading skills that are measured by standardized tests—are generally
understood to be of critical importance in the labor market. Most people find it intuitive and indeed
unsurprising that cognitive skills, as measured by standardized tests, are important for students’ later-life
outcomes. For example, earnings tend to be higher for those with higher levels of cognitive skills. What is
less well understood—and is the focus of these economic facts—is that noncognitive skills are also integral to
educational performance and labor-market outcomes.
Due in large part to research pioneered in economics by Nobel laureate James J. Heckman, there is a robust and
growing body of evidence that noncognitive skills function similarly to cognitive skills, strongly improving
labor-market outcomes. These noncognitive skills—often referred to in the economics literature as soft skills and
elsewhere as social, emotional, and behavioral skills—include qualities like perseverance, conscientiousness,
and self-control, as well as social skills and leadership ability (Duckworth and Yeager 2015). The value of these
qualities in the labor market has increased over time as the mix of jobs has shifted toward positions requiring
noncognitive skills. Evidence suggests that the labor-market payoffs to noncognitive skills have been increasing
over time and the payoffs are particularly strong for individuals who possess both cognitive and noncognitive
skills (Deming 2015; Weinberger 2014).
Although we draw a conceptual distinction between noncognitive skills and cognitive skills, it is not possible to
disentangle these concepts fully. All noncognitive skills involve cognition, and some portion of performance on
cognitive tasks is made possible by noncognitive skills. For the purposes of this document, the term “cognitive
skills” encompasses intelligence; the ability to process, learn, think, and reason; and substantive knowledge
as reflected in indicators of academic achievement. Since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, education
policy has focused on accountability policies aimed at improving cognitive skills and closing test score gaps
across groups. These policies have been largely successful, particularly for math achievement (Dee and Jacob
2011; Wong, Cook, and Steiner 2009) and among students most exposed to accountability pressure (Neal and
Schanzenbach 2010). What has received less attention in policy debates is the importance of noncognitive skills.
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7 tips for better requirements management
1. Accompa White Paper
7 Tips for Better Requirements Management
Email:
Website:
Phone:
info@accompa.com
www.accompa.com
+1-408-689-8231
Learn 7 practical, proven & simple tips to improve your requirements
management process and build more successful products.
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7 Tips for Better Requirements Management
I. Introduction
Do you and your team gather and manage requirements and feature
requests for your products and/or services?
If yes, you already know that managing these requirements consumes
a lot of time and resources. If you’re like other companies, you also
run into a lot of hassles in managing the requirements, sharing them
with other teams, and ensuring that they get implemented to meet
customer needs.
The 7 tips that follow can help you and your team:
1. Save time spent in tracking and managing requirements,
2. Avoid project failures caused by missed & incorrect requirements,
3. Share requirements with other teams in a timely and efficient
fashion,
4. Delight your customers by consistently meeting their needs, and
5. Impress your executives by implementing an improved and
repeatable requirements management process.
While the authors of this white paper are employed by Accompa
Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based requirements management
software—we’ve tried to be as unbiased as possible. You don’t need
requirements management software to benefit from these tips—
although good requirements software can make it easier and more
repeatable.
II. 7 Tips for Better Requirements Management
More than 100 companies of all sizes (from Fortune-500 companies to
Startups) use our software to manage requirements. We’ve distilled
these 7-tips through our customer surveys and customer feedback.
These tips are proven, practical and can help improve your team’s
requirements management process.
Strive to implement as many of these 7 tips as possible—even if due
to organizational constraints you may not be able to implement all of
them.
We’ve distilled these
7-tips through our
survey of more than
100 companies of all
sizes (from Fortune-500
companies to growing
startups).
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7 Tips for Better Requirements Management
Tip #1: Capture 100% of Requirements
Sounds very basic, doesn’t it? But at most companies, ensuring that
all of the requirements coming from various stakeholders are actually
captured is a huge challenge. Why is this the case?
If you’re like most companies, requirements come to your team from
all directions. From customers. Prospective customers. Sales. Support.
Executives. Professional services. Business development. But that is
not all.
They come to you in all formats. Emails. Meetings. Conference calls.
Hallway chats. Instant messages. Word documents. Excel
spreadsheets. Napkins. You get the idea!
It’s no surprise then that capturing 100% of these requirements is a
huge challenge at most companies. Omitted requirements lead to
missing functionality and cause product shortcomings.
By implementing systematic processes in your team to capture 100% of
requirements—you can secure a big advantage over your competitors.
How to Achieve This:
• Create an easy to follow requirements capture process, including
a standard template to capture requirements.
• Create a template using Excel or similar spreadsheet software.
• Educate everyone in your team of this process.
• Get buy-in from everyone to follow this process, 100% of the
time.
• Follow up regularly with spot-checks to ensure everyone follows
it.
• Tools such as Accompa’s cloud-based requirements software can
help you implement this easily.
It’s no surprise then
that capturing 100% of
these requirements is a
huge challenge at most
companies.
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Tip #2: Proactively Verify Requirements
As discussed in Tip 1 above, requirements come to your team from
many different stakeholders in many different formats. It is not just
sufficient to capture them. You must also ensure that you verify them.
What do we mean by “verify”?
Most stakeholders from whom you and your team receive
requirements are not trained in writing requirements. As a result,
their requirements often tend to be vague, ambiguous and sometimes
even self-conflicting! They may also say that they want “Feature A”—
whereas in reality what they really need is “Function B” and they think
that “Feature A” is the only way to get “Function B.”
Ensure that your team proactively follows up with the source of the
requirements to verify their real objectives and needs. This will help
your team implement the right requirements and meet the real needs
of your customers—which, after all, is one of the most important roles
played by your team.
How to Achieve This:
• Define an easy-to-follow process to verify requirements, and
communicate the importance of doing this to your team.
• Verify immediately (within a day or two) following the receipt of
the requirement—people often tend to forget the reason for and
details of the requirements they asked for!
• Make it easy for the source of the requirement to provide further
details and clarifications.
• Record clarifications from the source for future reference.
• Accompa’s cloud-based requirements management software
includes features such as discussion boards that make it easy to
verify requirements and capture clarifications.
Requirements from
stakeholders can be
vague, ambiguous and
sometimes even self-
conflicting!
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Tip #3: Ensure Completeness of Requirements
Did you know that The Standish CHAOS Report, which surveyed 9,236
IT projects found that “Incomplete Requirements” was the second
most important reason for project failures.
Incomplete requirements lead to project delays, unmet customer
needs, lost deals, and ultimately product failure. As a result, it is
critical to ensure completeness of your requirements.
The following list includes examples to make your requirements more
complete (these are examples, the correct set of information varies for
each organization):
• Describe business needs and use cases underlying the
requirement.
• Document who asked for the requirement (i.e. “Source”).
▪▪ Be as specific as possible—identify individuals,
departments, or partners that requested it.
• Include functional as well as non-functional parts of the
requirement.
• Capture desired date and pending deals that depend on this
date.
How to Achieve This:
• Create a standard template that includes all the fields necessary
to ensure completeness of requirements.
• Train your team to follow the template, and take each field into
consideration while capturing the requirement.
• Communicate to stakeholders the importance of providing
complete requirements.
• Accompa’s web-based software can make it easy to create a
standard template (including mandatory fields) to ensure the
completeness of your requirements.
The Standish CHAOS
Report, which surveyed
9,236 IT projects
found “Incomplete
Requirements” was the
second most important
reason for project
failures…
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Tip #4: Prioritize Requirements Systematically
Prioritizing requirements benefits everyone—those who create it (such
as product managers, project managers, et al), as well as those who
consume it (such as personnel in Design, Engineering, QA, Marketing,
etc). And of course, it ensures that your company spends its resources in
the right areas.
Prioritization should ideally be based on ROI (return on investment) of
each requirement. There are many ways to measure the ROI—such as
Net Present Value (NPV), Payback Period, Rate of Return, and Internal
Rate of Return (IRR).
All of these metrics weigh how much it costs to implement a
requirement against the incremental revenue/profit generated by that
requirement.
In assigning priority for each requirement—in addition to financial ROI,
you should also take into account other factors such as competitive
differentiation, market trends, company strategy, and the needs of key
customers.
We recommend that you implement a simplified ROI metric that helps
prioritize requirements—for more concrete ideas, please read our ROI
white paper (PDF)
How to Achieve This:
• Keep prioritization simple and systematic. For example, use a scale
of:
▪▪ High, Medium, and Low
▪▪ P1, P2, and P3
• High/P1 could mean “Must Have”, Medium/P2 could mean
“Stretch Goal”, and Low/P3 could mean “Nice to Have, but Not
Essential.”
• Implement a simplified ROI metric that drives the prioritization
decisions.
• Add a column for “Priority” in your template and ensure that it
always gets completed.
• Accompa’s cloud-based requirements management software
provides a customizable way to calculate ‘ROI Scores’—and share
it across all teams.
Prioritizing requirements
benefits everyone —
those who create it, and
those who consume
it. Plus, it ensures that
your company spends
its resources in the right
areas.
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Tip #5: Communicate Across Teams in Real-Time
Communicating requirements in a timely fashion (as close to real-
time as possible) across all teams—product management, design,
engineering, QA, marketing, sales, support, etc—is essential to ensure
that the requirements are accurate, complete and properly understood
by everyone.
This is especially important as most of the industry adopts some form of
“agile” product development process—which often means
requirements constantly evolve, instead of being frozen at the beginning
of the projects that follow traditional development processes.
It is important to equip your team to communicate requirements on a
timely basis both internally (within your organization) and externally
(customers, partners, et al) depending on your organization and the type
of requirement.
Implement a process that enables everyone to know the up-to-date
status of a requirement easily.
How to Achieve This:
• Establish clearly defined communication process for requirements
and ensure that everyone understands the process.
• Educate everyone on the importance of communicating
requirements in a timely fashion.
• Make use of tools such as wikis and discussion boards—in addition
to emails and meetings. These tools capture communications in a
central archive.
• Accompa’s cloud-based requirements management software
includes centralized repository, discussion boards and email alerts
that make it easy to communicate across teams in real-time.
Communicating
requirements across
teams in real-time
can help ensure that
requirements are
accurate, complete and
well understood...
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Tip #6: Trace Dependencies
One area where a lot of teams can improve their requirements
management process is in tracing dependencies between requirements.
What do we mean by “tracing dependencies”?
Consider the following example.
For the next release of your product, “Requirement B” and
“Requirement C” depend on “Requirement A” being implemented.
Your original requirements document included all 3 requirements.
However, when the project is nearing completion, development
recommends that “A” be omitted to meet the dates. You check
with your Sales Manager who requested “A” to make sure this is
acceptable and she agrees. You drop “A” and release the product—
however, this also means “B” and “C” are not met. Important deals
are lost due to “B” and “C” not being met—your Sales Manager is
livid.
At many companies, a variation of the above scenario plays out all too
often. How can your team avoid this?
By documenting dependencies between requirements (i.e. “tracing
dependencies”). This will enable your team to do simple impact analysis
like:
If “A” is omitted from the release, how are other requirements
impacted?
How to Achieve This:
• Create a template that includes “Dependencies” field and ensure
that it is completed carefully.
• When writing requirements documents, clearly map out key
dependencies.
• When deciding to omit a requirement from a project during
the middle of the project, make sure to perform a dependency
analysis.
• Tracing dependencies between requirements is one area where
requirements management software such as Accompa can make
your life much easier.
An area where a lot
of teams can improve
their requirements
management process is:
Tracing dependencies
between requirements.
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Tip #7: Track All Changes to a Requirement
In the early days of the software and IT industry, most projects followed
a “waterfall” development process that froze requirements at the outset
of a project.
As we enter into the Internet age, most projects are following
some form of “agile” product development process in place of the
“traditional” processes. A key advantage of these agile processes is that
they accommodate evolving requirements—i.e. requirements change
throughout a project.
Being able to change requirements allows an organization to be more
nimble and flexible to meet ever-changing market conditions and
customer needs. But it also brings a new challenge to requirements
management process—that of “How do I track changes to a requirement
during a project?”
Tracking changes to each requirement and who made those changes
allows your team to understand how a requirement evolved, perform
root cause analysis, and alleviate personnel issues in a project team
related to these changes.
How to Achieve This:
• Of the 7 tips in this white paper, this one is probably the hardest
to implement without a requirements management software.
That said, tools such as wikis can enable you to track changes
and audit them in a much better way than spreadsheet or word
processor software.
• Accompa’s cloud-based requirements management software
automatically tracks all changes including what changed, the date
of change, and the person who made the change. You can easily
audit the change history as well as rollback at any time.
Being able to change
requirements allows
an organization to be
more nimble and flexible
to meet everchanging
market conditions and
customer needs...
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III. Summary
The 7 tips listed above are proven, practical tips—implemented by
companies of all sizes (from Fortune-500 enterprises to growing
startups) who use our cloud-based requirements management software.
You can implement these 7 tips without any requirements management
software - although software such as Accompa can make it much easier.
Start implementing these tips today. Even implementing just 1 out of
the 7 tips can help you save time and increase the productivity of your
team—and help you avoid project failures and meet customer needs on
a more consistent basis.
P.S. If you’d like to implement these 7 tips in a systematic and repeatable
fashion, we invite you to request a FREE trial or a personalized demo—
you can find out whether your team too can benefit from Accompa
as teams at more than 100 companies of all sizes (from Fortune-500
companies to growing start-ups) already have.
Even implementing just
1 out of the 7 tips can
help you save time and
increase the productivity
of your team.