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• BrandPost: Is Agile Blinding Your Business?

  01-09-2017 20:54
  Agile methodology has done a lot to reinvent the engineering landscape, and we’re now at a point where agile is showing up in other departments and organizations. Businesses are running agile legal, HR, and marketing teams.Companies have realized that to be effective, they have to push ownership and execution to the teams that do the work. The long-held notions of top-down planning and budgeting are no longer effective. Agile is much faster, and allows businesses to react to the rapid chan
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Blockchain might fatten your wallet – here’s what you should know

  01-09-2017 19:42
  Over the past several years there has been a lot of buzz about blockchain. Many of the major technology-focused research organizations and their analysts have penned articles about what blockchain may or not become. If you have read these publications you would know about the associations between blockchain and bitcoin as well as the various IT-intensive ways of validating financial transactions. But what you wouldn’t immediately understand is how blockchain is going to enable each of us i
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Who is winning in text message (SMS) marketing?

  01-09-2017 19:30
  As digital marketing continues to grow, there are clear indicators that mobile is a key driver of new markets, products and services that delivery digital marketing content. The shifts in the mobile marketing landscape are remarkable. In October 2016, web browsing on mobile devices overtook desktop browsing.[1] As of May 2015, more Google searches take place on mobile devices than on desktops in the U.S.[2] Marketing in the mobile channel now makes up 21% of online spending, up from a
  
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• BrandPost: Point Product Problems – Survey shows CIOs and IT managers prefer total solutions

  01-09-2017 17:57
  Background for an IT studyRapid advances in IT have accelerated change in industries through disruption and new business models.  However, CIOs and IT personnel find it increasingly difficult to build infrastructure from scratch everytime new software workloads are deployed.IT leaders today want to be more strategic and relevant to the business, focusing on digital transformation by creating new user experiences, better data analytics, and deeper digital innovation around their products and
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Do IT like Darwin

  01-09-2017 15:21
  It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. –Charles Darwin (misattributed)So it turns out most people think that Darwin never really wrote this or said it, though if you read his other works it clearly seems to fit within the realm of his general thinking.[1]What’s Darwin going to teach us about business in 2017?
  Darwin died in 1882. He was deceased before the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford, and some of the init
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 4 pillars of analytics strategies

  01-09-2017 14:50
  Why you need an analytics strategy
  If data is the new oil, then analytics is how we refine it. Analytics enable the extraction of high-quality, timely and actionable insights to help leaders make better-informed decisions.Most analytics functions nowadays are centralized divisions of decision science experts. They support internal teams, providing reporting, dashboards, custom analytics, business intelligence, and in some cases advanced data products that leverage deep industry knowledge.But wit
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Field support is evolving to help CIOs amp customer experience

  01-09-2017 14:33
  When customers feel that their problems are addressed quickly and competently, customer loyalty improves. This isn’t rocket science. But, unfortunately, CIOs have been struggling to keep up with the exploding demand created by the ongoing digital evolution.In the United States, the average household internet speed has increased by 44% in the past year. With all of this new bandwidth, smarter homes and internet-addicted customers are doing more than ever before with the internet.Telecom CIO
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Artificial intelligence in sales: 10 companies to watch

  01-09-2017 14:29
  Sales has changed a lot in the last several decades. We have gone from the door-to-door salesman, to the telemarketer, to the CRM, and now many sales technology companies are beginning to experiment with AI. In these successive developments, one theme has been consistent – empowering individual sales professionals to sell more.AI promises to be the next great leap forward. By operating as a second brain of sorts, AI can be trained to spot patterns and trends in large volumes of data that h
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Cloud computing and the costs: a love-hate relationship

  01-09-2017 14:23
  When talking with CIOs and other senior executives, cloud computing is often cited as the foundation of a given digitization strategy. It is typically associated with forward-thinking attributes known from mode-2 (see bimodal IT) such as greater flexibility and agility, faster time-to-market, and being a booster for innovation. However, despite the euphoria to leverage cloud computing to conquer the digital world and produce new top-line growth, behind the curtain, the quest for good old cost re
  
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• What is BI? Business intelligence definition and solutions

  01-09-2017 12:00
  What is BI?
  Business intelligence (BI) leverages software and services to transform data into actionable intelligence that informs an organization’s strategic and tactical business decisions. BI tools access and analyze data sets and present analytical findings in reports, summaries, dashboards, graphs, charts and maps to provide users with detailed intelligence about the state of the business.How does BI differ from BA?
  Business intelligence is also called descriptive analytics, in that i
  
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• How AI is revolutionizing recruiting and hiring

  01-09-2017 12:00
  Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaking up the recruiting process, changing the way recruiting agencies and sourcers discover and hire tech talent.AI and machine learning enable professionals to quickly analyze huge amounts of data and make decisions and predictions based on that, said Summer Husband, senior director of data science at Randstad Sourceright, in a presentation at the 2017 SourceCon event. Now, recruiters and sourcers are putting AI to work to help define a job posting’s &ldq
  
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