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• BrandPost: The Big Pivot Podcast

  17-05-2017 21:35
  Digital transformation affects every business in every industry. And data is the foundation of digital business. CIOs must lead the charge to this new reality.The Big Pivot is a new podcast series that explores the business benefits of data-driven transformation. It’s designed for CIOs who want to have real impact on how their businesses serve customers, empower employees, and grow revenues.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• BrandPost: Digital Transformation’s Data-Driven Mandate

  17-05-2017 21:35
  
   
  Digital transformation affects every business in every industry. And data is the foundation of digital business. CIOs must lead the charge to this new reality.The Big Pivot is a new podcast series that explores the business benefits of data-driven transformation. It’s designed for CIOs who want to have real impact on how their businesses serve customers, empower employees, and grow revenues.The series features a CIO who fits the mold of the strategic executive who’s leveraging
  
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• Google adds smart reply to Gmail for iOS, Android

  17-05-2017 19:45
  
  Google is making it easier for people to dash off a quick email reply from Gmail on their smartphones. The Smart Reply feature, which offers a handful of contextually-aware, computer-generated responses, is coming to Google’s flagship email app for iOS and Android, the company announced at its I/O developer conference Wednesday.The feature provides users with three machine-generated responses, based on the content of whatever message the user is replying to. It’s built using machine
  
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• Google's new TPUs are here to accelerate AI training

  17-05-2017 19:09
  
  Google has made another leap forward in the realm of machine learning hardware. The tech giant has begun deploying the second version of its Tensor Processing Unit, a specialized chip meant to accelerate machine learning applications, company CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Wednesday.The new Cloud TPU sports several improvements over its predecessor. Most notably, it supports training machine learning algorithms in addition to processing the results from existing models. Each chip can provide 180
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 3 things you can learn about online marketing from tourism hot spots

  17-05-2017 18:00
  
  When you do traditional marketing work, it’s easy to hit a wall. We’re constantly inundated by media, resulting in Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) and, ultimately, in content burnout.Part of the problem, though, might not just be the volume of content we’re exposed to in this field, but the narrow scope of it. Siloed into traditional corporate concerns regarding finance, technology or other core industry topics, it can feel like all the angles have been covered. What’s left to
  
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• Why companies struggle to cultivate digital strategies

  17-05-2017 17:54
  
  Companies cultivating digital strategies are struggling to facilitate transformations because most CIOs are simply not equipped to be digital leaders. While enterprise CIOs can create functional technology systems, many lack the visionary skills required to be a change agent in the digital age, according to Shawn Banerji, managing partner of the technology, digital and data leaders practice at Caldwell Partners.Caldwell Partners Shawn Banerji, Caldwell PartnersTo read this article in full or to
  
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• SAP seeks to speed analytics with AI technology

  17-05-2017 16:39
  
  SAP wants to speed up how analytics adapt to change. It's doing that by embedding SAP Predictive Analytics' machine learning capabilities in S/4Hana."When you take something rules-based, you are not able to adapt predictions to new data," said Mike Flannagan, SAP's senior vice president for analytics, ahead of the company's Sapphire Now customer conference in Orlando."The power of machine learning is you are able to continually update the model. Your model is running against all the data it has
  
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• BrandPost: If Digital is a “Business Thing,” Vendors Must Be in the C-Suite

  17-05-2017 16:31
  
  In recent years CEOs have commonly handed off digital to CIOs or have hired Chief Digital Officers to own the digital realm. But as veteran CIO Larry Bonfante wrote in a recent piece for Heller Search Associates, they’ve got it all wrong. For every company trying to transform into a digital enterprise there is likely a misunderstanding of what digital is and the right strategic approach for embracing it.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• BrandPost: How Manufacturers Must Adapt in the Age of the Customer

  17-05-2017 16:22
  
  Products and processes have always been a priority – that’s understandable. Change has been continuous: manufacturers have been on a journey that has taken them from the sweat of physical production towards automation and robotic assembly. Now a connected future beckons, with the dizzying potential of sensor data and Internet of Things ‘smart’ products and connected devices. Despite economic uncertainty, it’s generating exciting new digital services and direct-to-co
  
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• 28% off Dizaul 5000mAh Portable Solar Dual USB Power Bank - Deal Alert

  17-05-2017 16:20
  
  Great for hikes, trips to the beach, or any sunny place you find yourself, this waterproof and shockproof power bank will harness the sun to keep you fully juiced all day. Features a hook for easy attachment to your pack or bag, eco-friendly silicone rubber, and comes in several colors. The solar power bank averages 4 out of 5 stars from nearly 800 people on Amazon (read reviews), where its typical list price of $24.99 has been reduced 28% to $17.99. See the discounted solar charger on Amazon.To
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How a 22-year-old accidentally flipped the WannaCry kill switch

  17-05-2017 16:14
  
  Last Friday, a huge cyber-attack infiltrated and crippled the computer systems of hospitals, schools, companies and government organizations, until a 22-year-old accidently shut it down. The malicious software shut down a reported 100,000 computers since its release early that morning. As the ransomware spread throughout networks and systems, reportedly through a known Microsoft vulnerability, people were treated to pop-ups stating that their information was encrypted unless a payment was made t
  
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• 36% off iOttie Easy One Touch 2 Car Mount Holder - Deal Alert

  17-05-2017 15:53
  
  Averaging 4.5 out of 5 stars from over 17,000 people on Amazon, this popular smartphone car mount locks and releases the device with just a push of a finger and features a telescopic adjustable arm. iOttie's mount opens to 3.2 inches in width, which makes it compatible with even "Plus" sized phones. The list price of $19.95 has been discounted right now 36% to just $12.75. See this deal on AmazonSee this deal on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• 6 steps for a future-ready cloud storage strategy

  17-05-2017 15:13
  
  Blame it on poor copy data management, compliance requirements or the internet of things (IoT), but data storage volumes are growing exponentially, and that growth shows no signs of abating. Managing skyrocketing storage demands on limited resources is a top challenge for many enterprises. To alleviate the burden, many organizations have turned to the cloud.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• BrandPost: Winning With Analytics & Automation

  17-05-2017 13:59
  
  Jim Foley, CTO of Joe Gibbs RacingJGR is a professional stock car racing team, with headquarters in North Carolina. As the company’s CTO, Foley is responsible for running a network that must analyze and transmit information during races in real time — to as many as 40 members of a car’s team, working in multiple locations on a track and at JGR headquarters. What roles do big data and analytics play in racing and in JGR’s network? At the race track there are several source
  
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• IBM makes leap in quantum computing power

  17-05-2017 13:28
  
  IBM has some new options for businesses wanting to experiment with quantum computing.Quantum computers, when they become commercially available, are expected to vastly outperform conventional computers in a number of domains, including machine learning, cryptography and the optimization of business problems in the fields of logistics and risk analysis.Where conventional computers deal in ones and zeros (bits) the processors in quantum computers use qubits, which can simultaneously hold the value
  
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• 5 steps to ending generational stereotypes

  17-05-2017 13:22
  
  Stereotypes of any kind are harmful to your organization. And generational stereotypes -- millennials are lazy, entitled and needy; baby boomers are cranky Luddites who hate change; generation X … well, hates everything and everyone -- are no different. Perpetuating these stereotypes negatively impacts diversity and inclusion as well as engagement, productivity and morale, and it makes teamwork and collaboration difficult, if not impossible.Some of the most pervasive stereotypes surround
  
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• CIO Career Coach: Bringing a product management mindset to IT

  17-05-2017 13:00
  
  Welcome back to CIO Career Coach, a video series I created with CIO.com and IDG.tv. This season, we’re discussing the skills that top CIOs are developing to be successful in the new era of IT. Last week we talked all about changing the culture in IT, or how to turn your team of order takers into order shapers. Today’s topic is "Bringing a Product Management Mindset to IT." For the last 30 years, IT’s role has been to support or enable a company’s business strate
  
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• Heftige hardware voor serieuze aanpak big data

  17-05-2017 11:03
  Hewlett Packard heeft gisteren de grootste single-memory computer ter wereld getoond, die onderdeel uitmaakt van de omvangrijkste R&D die het bedrijf ooit heeft opgezet: The Machine, dat onderzoek doet naar de ontwikkeling van memory-driven computing, een compleet nieuwe architectuur voor het big... lees meer
  
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• HR voelt zich niet gesteund door IT, rem op digitale transitie

  17-05-2017 10:12
  Van de Nederlandse bedrijven blijkt slechts de helft echt een begin te hebben gemaakt met de uitvoering van een digitale strategie. Nederlandse HR-managers geven vaker dan hun Europese collega's aan dat zij zich onvoldoende gesteund voelen door de IT-afdeling. Hierop duidt onderzoek in opdracht van Cornerstone... lees meer
  
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