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• BrandPost: How to Boost the Back Office by Moving to the Cloud

  09-08-2017 23:14
  When it comes to back office enterprise functions, from finance and HR to supply chain, challenges are everywhere. For instance, there is tremendous cost pressure facing companies who always want to do more with less. Then, there are the large, monolithic, heavily-customized on-premise ERP systems most organizations invested in during the early 2000s — to the tune of nine figures in some cases — that are now sprawling with bound-together applications and a complex web of integration.
  
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• Empower IT to lead digital transformation

  09-08-2017 19:53
  The consumerization of IT has completely changed expectations for service delivery across the business, and nimble CIOs know the only way to help keep their companies competitive is to extend an olive branch across lines of business and ensure IT is meeting the needs of a company’s users and customers. In the Technology Services Industry Association’s (TSIA) 2017 State of Support Services report (pdf), TSIA executive director Thomas Lah said the technology industry is in the fir
  
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• Data science key to Monsanto improving its supply chain

  09-08-2017 16:33
  Monsanto CIO Jim Swanson has outlined five key elements of Monsanto’s digital transformation: customer centricity, internal business process disruption, technology and automation, data and decision science, and leadership and change management.He views all of those facets as integral to breaking through the "clay layer" of mid-level employees, present in every organization, who may resist short-term changes in spite of long-term gain — the rank-and-file who can either inhibit di
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 3 ways that revenue recognition will impact IT

  09-08-2017 16:12
  Has your CFO been talking about something called revenue recognition that's supposed to go live next year? It’s a completely new five-step model that replaces over 150 pieces of existing guidance on how to recognize revenue and consistently applies the same approach across industries – so no more specialized industry rules.The five-step model is as follows:Identify the contract with the customer
  Identify the performance obligations
  Allocate the transaction price to the performance ob
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Diversity. #altogether

  09-08-2017 15:49
  In the Star Trek universe, Captain Picard faces a crisis regularly. The diverse viewpoints of his crew are his secret weapon: an empathic view, an emotionless "data" view, or a more forceful approach from his Klingon crew member. As the captain, he can tap into the diversity of his crew and knit together a large variety of responses to any situation he faces.Businesses faces new challenges every day, boldly going where no one has gone before. We all need a diverse team to advance, because we all
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Meet your software development deadline with these tips

  09-08-2017 15:36
  The goal of completing your software development initiative on time is pretty much a given, but in reality, deadlines are not always met. And when engineering a B2B or B2C software product, missed schedules impact an enterprise’s market plans and hurt revenue targets. Thus, the importance of accurate planning and meeting deadlines cannot be stressed enough. However, with the right mindset and good communication with your team, you can hit your development goal on time and with less pain.&n
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How AI is transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients

  09-08-2017 15:21
  The development of artificial intelligence has made staggering leaps forward in recent years, with products like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa now dotting living rooms and businesses across the nation. While AI has wasted little time in shaking up the foundations of most established industries, the field of healthcare, in particular, stands to be fundamentally transformed by this burgeoning technology.So what exactly does the future of AI hold for the healthcare industry? How are d
  
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• The benefits of applying product management discipline to IT

  09-08-2017 12:15
  What’s the difference between an application development team at a software products company and an application development team at a gas station/convenience store company? Well, for one thing, the software company generates revenue from its software products, so the software is treated like a product, with a product manager and a rigorous and automated software development life cycle (SDLC). The product manager at the software company is acutely aware of the competition, and the feat
  
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• 9 warning signs of bad IT architecture

  09-08-2017 12:00
  Chances are someone at some point spent countless brain cycles planning your organization’s IT architecture before handing the grand plan off to someone else to build it out, and then to someone else to maintain it as your computing environment inevitably grew. And, chances also are, somewhere along the line, best intentions faded in the face of expediency, departmental politics, and general mismanagement, eroding what was once a coherent architecture management strategy into an ongoing se
  
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• How to create a company culture that can weather failure

  09-08-2017 11:52
  Do you change processes after handling an incident, or do you just carry on and wait for the next problem? Instead of dealing with individual failures, think about creating a culture in your IT department that can not only handle problems but truly learn from them.Cloud providers are routinely better at learning from failure than most enterprises — because they have to be. It’s critical that they are transparent about failures to keep the trust of their customers, but it also hits th
  
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