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  • Wild Pear tree dating back 250 years hit by HS2 virus outbreak?

    Wild Pear tree dating back 250 years hit by HS2 virus outbreak?

    The second oldest England’s tree voted tree of the year five years ago was chopped down to make way for the high-speed rail link despite promises, petitions and available technology to reroot it in a safer place.

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  • Resilience Association Next Webinar: AGILE Workplace Evaluation

    Resilience Association Next Webinar: AGILE Workplace Evaluation

    19 October 2020|Business Continuity-Resilience, Business Management, Good Governance, Performance management, Sustainability COVID-19 Exit Surgery & Strategy: Agile Workplace Advantages and Disadvantages (Free Zoom event) | Thu, October 22, 2020 | 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM BST About this Event and Booking The Resilience Association is pleased to provide you with another COVID-19 Exit Strategy Free to attend Webinar,…

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  • Data Management and ETL/ELT: Discipline and Order Are Your Choice

    Data Management and ETL/ELT: Discipline and Order Are Your Choice

    “There is nothing wrong in doing things right, first time” is Reason’s motto. Make Sense of your Data and ETL/ELT quality management. When it comes to data management and all ELT/ETL and data lineage matters in business, one can see what is physical such as cables but not what is travelling inside the cables and…

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  • How we present information matters as much as if not more than information itself

    How we present information matters as much as if not more than information itself

    Something a bit more enjoyable for Sunday: two visualisations reminding us that how we represent information is as important as the information itself. This point is often overlooked. Many visualisations focus on either the Wow! effect (with a sad “So what…”  question following as the reader can’t make any sense of the visualisation), or hold…

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  • ECJ, Schrems 2 and (real-world) data protection in the EU

    ECJ, Schrems 2 and (real-world) data protection in the EU

    Sharing a perspective and a few facts. Much has been said since the ECJ struck down the #PrivacyShield for US-EU data transfer. Earlier this week, James Sullivan, Jr. from the U.S. Department of Commerce shared a White Paper outlining the information that can help both US and EU organizations in this context. Interesting that the ECJ focuses on aspects related to…

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  • Your call is very important, which is why you are talking to a bot

    Your call is very important, which is why you are talking to a bot

    Technology is about serving human beings. Interestingly, some plan otherwise. Illustration with customers’ contempt by pushing costly, useless, dystopian bot assistants.

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  • DataVirus threat: targets are now your brain and decision-making

    DataVirus threat: targets are now your brain and decision-making

    Do you know what it is about behind the data you trust and use? Recently I had the opportunity to contribute to a LinkedIn post on what new can be said about data that wouldn’t have already been said. A rather difficult but very good question. Most approaches to data usually relate to the importance of its…

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