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• An inside look at 10 real-world digital transformations

  26-06-2017 23:50
  
  Locked in a footrace with rivals to lure new customers, companies are increasingly launching digital initiatives to expand or build digital capabilities aimed at making the business more efficient or improving top-line revenue growth.The trend toward digitalization is only gaining steam. CIOs currently devote 18 percent of their budgets in support of digital transformation, a figure expected to increase to 28 percent by 2018, Gartner analyst Andy Rowsell-Jones told CIO.com in October after surve
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How computational linguistics went from Cold War communications to transforming enterprise work

  26-06-2017 22:30
  
  The Cold War is often cited as the starting point for the scientific work around natural language processing (NLP) that has since evolved into computational linguistics, an artificial intelligence (AI) technology now in commercial use. The story goes, the phrase “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” once used to test the work that had been done, translated to Russian and back to English as “The vodka is strong, but the meat is rotten.” To say this technology&rsqu
  
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• BrandPost: C-Suite Role Is Evolving — What Do You Need to Succeed as Digital Investigators?

  26-06-2017 22:30
  
  Corporations across every industry continue to increase focus on compliance, as evidenced by the growing number of Chief compliance officers (CCO) within large enterprise. As the architects of their company’s compliance strategy, structure and processes these professionals must understand complex regulations and laws and simplify them down to required behaviors in a policy document. CCO responsibilities include education, monitoring and detection programs. The CCO serves as the primary con
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How technology is helping education reach refugee children

  26-06-2017 21:30
  
  We tend to think of refugee camps as temporary structures, but most of us fail to realize that many people live in them for several years. This presents serious challenges, specially for children who face serious danger of falling behind with their schooling or dropping out of education altogether as it can be very difficult to get qualified teachers to reach the camps on a regular basis.But now technology is bringing a cost-effective and viable solution to that problem, in a pilot project recen
  
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• One Colombian supercomputer, two collaborating campuses

  26-06-2017 18:04
  
  Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), Purdue University’s central IT organization, has led a multi-year, multinational supercomputing partnership in Medellín, Colombia. This academic collaboration, in concert with Medellín’s Universidad EAFIT, has accelerated "speed to science" in numerous ways, CIO Gerry McCartney says.The move represented a calculated risk that provided EAFIT with massive computing capacity, as well as increased interest from global researchers and
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Creating a Mobile-First Mindset

  26-06-2017 17:39
  
  How many times have you looked down at your device and wondered, “Did whoever created this actually ever check to see what the experience was like on a phone?”The way we work has shifted; IT now has the responsibility to take the lead on identifying and delivering consumer-like mobile experiences to employees – empowering people with consumer simple, enterprise secure technology to enhance the way they work.All too often, corporations fall into the rut of being so business-driv
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How smart cities are transforming driving

  26-06-2017 15:18
  
  Cities are getting smarter, and it is impacting on the manner in which people drive. By leveraging information and communication technology to aid the interaction between infrastructures, they are fundamentally changing the way people move from A to B. As cities embrace smart technology, it will likely improve traffic congestion, secure the roadways and open up the inner cities.In addition to advantages regarding safety and congestion, there are benefits for the environment as a whole with regar
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Ask not what your employee can do for you

  26-06-2017 15:10
  
  In his famous inaugural address on January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy urged his fellow Americans to “ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”Kennedy’s inspirational words remind us that the relationship between a government and its people is a two-way street: the government creates and enforces regulations for the well-being of its people, but the people must contribute to the well-being of the government.A similar relationship driv
  
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• BrandPost: 5G Is Nearer Than You Think: The 5 Things You Need to Know

  26-06-2017 15:04
  
   The vision of 5G is becoming more clear, but it will be some time yet before it becomes a full reality.  5G is expected to bring incredible speeds and a latency (responsiveness) of just milliseconds.  Leaders in 4G LTE are following the standards, and in some cases helping craft them, to stay at the forefront as the 5G world develops. Defining the Current State of 5G5G is the next generation of mobile networks.  The standards are not expected to be set until around 2019
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The CIO and the driverless car

  26-06-2017 14:00
  
  Well, not many of us have seen one yet (The closest I have come to one is the Tesla with its many autonomous driving features). But it could very well be a “platform disrupter,” which throws us off track if we don’t prepare for it.In my comments published in the Harvard Business Review I had opined that failure to recognize platform disrupters (and the self-driving car is one) can be very detrimental to corporate health and existence. (“......by focusing on the downstream
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 13 disruption quotes to kick-start your own innovation

  26-06-2017 14:00
  
  Disruption is one of those words that gets thrown around an awful lot. Every startup wants to be the next Uber and established businesses are scrambling to ensure they don’t get replaced by the next disruptive startup. As is often the case with buzzwords and any topic the hype machine gets hold of, the true meaning of disruption seems to have been lost recently.The term disruption or more specifically, disruptive innovation as we think of it today is often accredited to Clayton Christensen
  
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• The big-time benefits of a centralized data analytics team

  26-06-2017 12:00
  
  If data is the new oil, most companies are struggling not to drown in it. But not Micron Technology. The Boise-based chipmaker has created an early blueprint for what experts are calling the factory of the future, one almost entirely automated with software that analyzes data about products as well as the tools used to make them. By blending a centralized data management strategy with machine learning software, Micron is reducing waste associated with inefficient processes, boosting cumulative y
  
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• Hidden cloud migration gotchas — and how to avoid them

  26-06-2017 12:00
  
  Building a technology stack from scratch in the cloud can be a dream -- if you’re a startup. But if you’re an established company steeped in on-premises solutions, shifting to the cloud can mean unexpected hurdles and headaches beyond belief.Companies looking to make good on the benefits of moving to the cloud need to go in with eyes wide open. To be sure, the much discussed benefits of the cloud -- in terms of time to market, cost savings, the ability to scale resources as needed, a
  
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