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September 15, 2021
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September 15, 2021 | Volume 12 Issue 61
- LEAD ARTICLE: Laying the Corporate Cultural Groundwork for an AI Project
- FEATURED ARTICLE: The Principles of Project Management, Part 3
- FEATURED EVENT: Steve Will Presents IBM i Next Gen Apps — Directions for Developers on October 13
- NEWS HIGHLIGHT: IBM Watson Launches New AI and Automation Features to Help Businesses Transform Customer Service
- WEBCAST: 5 IBM i Security Quick Wins
- FEATURED VIDEO: Barcode400
- EVENT: OCEAN In-Person Special Event with IBM i Expert Patrick Behr
Lead Article - Analytics & Cognitive
Laying the Corporate Cultural Groundwork for an AI Project
Adapting your business to use artificial intelligence applications isnꞌt a matter of simply adding a new software package. Despite its potential benefits, AI can require significant changes to staff attitudes and corporate culture to be successful.
By John Ghrist
Forward-looking enterprises need to be considering adopting at least some aspects of AI, not because itꞌs in vogue but because your competitors are likely eyeing it if they arenꞌt already using it. Customer-facing services using AI are becoming common, critical business-information analysis apps are at work behind the scenes if not completely up front, and other AI apps are helping employees become more efficient in carrying out routine operations. That’s to say nothing of AI helping organizations find new lines of business, streamlining formerly thought- and labor-intensive procedures, and fundamentally altering business models and corporate culture.
Industry News
IBM Quantum Computer Demonstrates Next Step Towards Moving Beyond Classical Supercomputing
Analytics & Cognitive News
IBM News
IBM Industry News
Feature Article - Career
The Principles of Project Management, Part 3
Skills Required for Effective Project Management
By Colleen Garton and Erika McCulloch
Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from Chapter 1 of Fundamentals of Technology Project Management
To be an effective project manager you need a fairly diverse set of skills. To develop these skills, you need a certain level of talent in quite a few areas. For instance, you need to be organized. If you live your life in a totally chaotic way, never remember to pay bills on time, turn up late for everything, and hate having to live by a schedule, this is probably not a good career choice for you! An important note is that being a great engineer or an accomplished technical lead does not necessarily mean that you will make an effective project manager or that you will enjoy being a project manager. Project management should not be seen as the obvious next step on the career path of an engineer who is looking for what he or she should be doing next. Project management is a career in itself,…
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Featured Event
Steve Will Presents IBM i Next Gen Apps — Directions for Developers on October 13
RPG & DB2 Summit Keynote Open to the Public
System i Developer announces today that Steve Will, IBM i Chief Architect, will deliver the RPG & DB2 Summit Keynote address in an online forum that will be freely open to the IBM i community on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at noon (EDT).
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