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• IDG Contributor Network: Wrap it up and put a bow on it

  13-12-2017 20:30
  It is December.  You are running out of time to get things done this year.  You are probably engaged in a flurry of activities to wrap things up in advance of all your non-IT counterparts scattering to the winds for the holidays.  So, in about two weeks, you and your IT team are going to be able to take a breath.  I hope.If you find yourself in that situation, there are probably a thousand things you can do.  Here are my ideas for what to do during this brief respite:You
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Is it the end of coding in the enterprise?

  13-12-2017 20:30
  Coding has never been a particularly desirable or efficient exercise within enterprise organizations. Most of the executive team has little idea what developers actually do, and, truth be told, they don’t really want to be in the business of producing software in the first place.Still, enterprise leaders have had little choice — they needed software to run their businesses, and there was a limit to what they could purchase off-the-shelf. As a result, there has been a constant see-saw
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Businesses of all sizes have a lot to learn from the startup world

  13-12-2017 20:00
  The top business headlines of 2017 sent a clear message to executives around the world: innovate better, faster and more efficiently or get left behind. Many retailers watched as the Amazon and Walmart storm closed in, blockchain trickled into unexpected industries, and driverless cars sent shockwaves through the traditional automotive space, just to name a few examples.This level of disruption demonstrates the nature of our hyper-competitive business environment today. It also begs the question
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why 2018 will be the year of mobile data measurement and insights

  13-12-2017 18:20
  As a CEO of a bustling mobile tech firm, it’s my job to balance day-to-day responsibilities with the need to step back and observe, to spot the signs of important trends that affect our business. It isn’t difficult to spot one trend I believe will define 2018 for the mobile location data space: measurement. In my estimation, next year will be the year of mobile location-based measurement and insights.Let me explain. Businesses, particularly advertisers and marketers, have employed da
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: GDPR: prepare your ERP system

  13-12-2017 17:15
  The 25th of December will carry extra significance this year, with the day marking five months until the European Union’s (EU) new data regulations come into force.While we are not recommending that those who process and manage data spend their Christmas locked up in a room devising a plan of how their business is going to comply with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it is of utmost importance that you consider how your organisation is going to meet the requirements sooner rather
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IT modernization becoming a major growth driver in IT services

  13-12-2017 16:45
  An emerging trend I refer to as IT modernization is garnering significant enterprise IT projects. The last time businesses saw a similar strategy take place was in the shift from mainframes to client-server environments. Here’s my take on the landscape for this new IT strategy along with the implications for services.The strategy begins with segmenting workloads into that part of IT that can and should be modernized and putting the rest of it in cold storage because, at this point, it does
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: With great power comes great responsibility

  13-12-2017 16:20
  History will someday document this era as the Silicon Valley gold rush. Consider the fact that very few of the 49ers made their mark by striking gold. Rather, those creating the infrastructure, materials (Levi’s jeans!) or services for the thousands flocking to the state minted the foundations for society and culture.Almost two centuries later, that’s what we’re doing here today, in tech. We’re creating incredible opportunities and successes by developing the ecosystem. I
  
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• New Amazon Echo Discounted $20 Right Now - Deal Alert

  13-12-2017 14:59
  Amazon has a discount of $20 active right now on their all new Echo smart speaker, which features a new speaker, new design, and is available in a range of styles including fabrics and wood veneers. Echo connects to Alexa to play music, make calls, set alarms and timers, ask questions, control smart home devices, and more --
  instantly. Echo averages 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 2,200 reviewers, and with the current discount you can grab it for yourself (or someone else) now for just $79.
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Guilty of millennial profiling: all of us

  13-12-2017 13:30
  Stop searching the Internet for secrets about “millennials,” and instead get to know the individuals within all these labeled groups.
  
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• To innovate, look outside your industry

  13-12-2017 12:15
  Craig Richardville, chief information and analytics officer (CIAO) of Carolinas HealthCare System, one of the largest healthcare systems in the country, has been a force of innovation for many years. His IT organization has been winning awards for technology innovation since the early 2000s, and Richardville has received CIO of the Year awards from the Charlotte CIO Leadership Association, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Healthcare Information and Management S
  
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• 20 ways to rekindle your passion for IT

  13-12-2017 12:00
  It creeps up slowly and then, suddenly, overwhelms its victim: the feeling that IT has become just another job, not a driving passion.For Alan Zucker, the moment arrived over a decade ago, shortly after he left his job at MCI Communications. "We were innovative and implemented new products every few months to take customers and revenue from AT&T and the Baby Bells," he recalls. "The culture was entrepreneurial and empowering; it was a great place to work."Zucker's next job, a director at a l
  
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