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• BrandPost: CIO Interview with Allen Wuescher, VP and CIO of Toshiba International Corporation

  28-06-2017 23:22
  
  To a certain degree, every company is now a technology company. Even the industrial manufacturing division of consumer technology giant Toshiba is viewed through the lens of an expectation of advanced technology, which VP and CIO Allen Wuescher says does affect operations.Toshiba is clearly a technology company. How does that affect IT operations at Toshiba and your role as the chief information officer?The broadest U.S. audience knows of Toshiba in the consumer electronics space, so we are ofte
  
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• BrandPost: The Elastic Edge and the Network of the Future

  28-06-2017 21:53
  
  Cloud, mobile and IoT are three of the macro trends fueling digital transformation, but the underlying enabler is pervasive connectivity— driving the need to transform the Wide Area Network (WAN) and giving rise to the “Connected Enterprise.”The pace of change, brought on by digital transformation, is staggering. Businesses of all sizes, and across all industries, have to move and evolve faster than ever before. The penalty for not keeping up is no longer slowing sales—it
  
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• BrandPost: Packaged Applications: The Core of Your Business

  28-06-2017 18:12
  
  Like it or not, it’s packaged applications that keep businesses running. According to The Business Applications Landscape 2016 To 2020: SaaS Disruption And Vendor Proliferation Report released by Forrester, companies rely on packaged application software to support a range of business needs from customer-focused business technology applications to solutions for managing people, finances, operations, and products. These applications are at the core of business operations, ensuring things li
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 3 vanity KPIs tech marketers must stop obsessing over

  28-06-2017 17:39
  
  In a 2015 survey, 73 percent of marketers said they hoped to use data to better identify and target specific customers, with 71 percent saying they were doing just that. Meanwhile, of the 75 percent of marketers saying they wanted to use data to grow revenue, only one-third had reported success.Translation: the abundance of data at our fingertips is helping us achieve short-term goals, but, more often than not, fails to move the needles that really matter.In order to avoid the tail wagging the d
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Who’s driving digital transformation? Who should be?

  28-06-2017 17:30
  
  Over the past two decades, digital technology has disrupted entire industries, from music to hospitality to finance and beyond. Now companies of all sizes are undergoing their own digital transformations to align IT innovation with their own business objectives and stay ahead of this curve. But who is driving these efforts? Business or IT? And more importantly, who should be?Business at the vanguard
  At one level, the first question answers itself. If digital transformation is defined as a delibe
  
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• BrandPost: Building a Successful Customer Experience

  28-06-2017 15:45
  
  It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement — and more than a little concern — about digital transformation, the business phenomenon being enabled by cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), big data and analytics (BDA), mobility, social media, and security.What’s not to like about enhanced business agility and responsiveness — i.e., a 33% increase in speed to market; 40% increase in customer satisfaction; and 37% increase in new business revenue — in the e
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What's old is new again

  28-06-2017 15:04
  
  In 1843, Henry Ellsworth, the U.S. patent commissioner stated to Congress that “the advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.” In other words, anything worth inventing will have soon been thought of. While that was clearly not the case, it is true that many older ideas seem new when applied in a new context. Fast forward to a 1968 article in the Harvard Business Review, wherein a
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Unstructured customer data is a goldmine, here’s how to use it

  28-06-2017 14:00
  
  As companies become more connected and more skilled at data collection, there is a glut of information that many of them aren’t sure how to organize. Not to mention the number of stakeholders vying for access to that data often causes information to get watered down to make it useful for everyone. This prevents it from being used for more specific tasks. When it comes to customer success data, this is a real problem.The good news is there is enormous value in leveraging unstructured data t
  
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• CIO Career Coach: Create an IT investment culture

  28-06-2017 12:00
  
  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. Today’s topic is Creating an IT Investment Culture at your organization, or how to turn your business partners from naïve and begrudging consumers of IT into engaged, enthusiastic IT co-investors. For the longest time, I would talk to CIOs who complained that their
  
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• 10% off Bose SoundSport Pulse Wireless Headphones With Heartrate Monitor - Deal Alert

  28-06-2017 08:25
  
  Take your workout to the next level with Bose SoundSport Pulse wireless headphones. A built-in heart rate sensor makes it easy to track your performance without missing a beat of your music. The sensor measures your heart rate directly from your ear, delivering a highly accurate reading without interfering with your workout. And while you’re on the move, SoundSport Pulse wireless headphones stay secure. The StayHear+ Pulse tips are designed for stability even during intense workouts. Conne
  
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