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In January, I discussed key developments with IBM's Watson natural language understanding and analytics question-and-answering system (see "IBM Bets the Future on Watson").
Corporate leadership needs to understand that the threat is real and it is only going to get worse. Security measures need to be better observed, and GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) automation is mandatory. Importantly, risk needs to be reevaluated, particularly for those areas that are likely to be subjects of attacks.
This Executive Update examines key trends and developments around the application of predictive maintenance in industrial and enterprise operations and discusses a real-world application example intended to optimize earth-moving equipment used in mining operations.
Some of us -- who tend to be leaders -- almost enjoy making decisions, but are such people better decision makers than others who are more deliberate? Not necessarily. Decisiveness is generally considered a virtue, but being decisive for its own sake can be as dangerous as protracted vacillation.