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• BrandPost: Creating a Competitive Advantage Through Collaboration

  07-09-2017 22:10
  In the fiercely competitive pharmaceutical industry, the most successful companies are  highly collaborative, coordinating  development, testing, production, and education teams and processes  to launch new drugs. Increasingly, organizations are turning to enterprise work management platforms to make this kind of coordination possible; in fact, in a recent survey of IT decision makers, 84% said that companies that do not strategically deploy a work management platform will be at a
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Who’s on your advisory team?

  07-09-2017 17:37
  Can you make it on your own? It takes more than hard work to advance your career; even senior managers are not guaranteed job security due to restructuring, shifting priorities, and location strategy. Navigate organizational instability by expanding your circle and building an advisory team. Three players to consider for your team are sponsor, mentor and coach. These roles are often confused, but each serves a different purpose: Your sponsor speaks about you, your mentor speaks to you
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Digital transformation: what it is and how to pull it off

  07-09-2017 14:32
  We IT professionals are often too close to it to see it, but if you take a step back you might notice that tech is everywhere now.In 2017, many of us spend our days staring at one screen or another. We’re getting used to talking to smart devices in our homes and expecting them to understand what we say. We use machines to navigate tasks like food shopping or hailing a ride that didn’t used to require a layer of technology.This pervasive spread of technology isn’t confined to th
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why you may be looking at AI all wrong

  07-09-2017 14:24
  It’s getting pretty hard to escape Artificial Intelligence ("AI"). I don’t mean the impact that AI will have on your life — I just mean the idea of AI. In the business and technology press, a single day does not pass without some reference to the impact that AI is having — or will have — on, well, everything.Nearly every story is ominous. Either it’s a story about how AI is going to bring about the destruction of the human race or, only slightly less forebodin
  
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• How Mastercard is preparing for contextual commerce

  07-09-2017 12:00
  Ed McLaughlin foresees a future of frictionless commerce in which cars pay for gas and parking, video game systems order more games and printers order paper and ink. As Mastercard's Ed McLaughlin, president of operations and technology, Mastercardsees it, everyday devices equipped with sensors will increasingly make payments based on their surroundings."Every one of these connected devices is a commerce device," McLaughlin told CIO.com from the sidelines of the CIO100 Symposium recently. "W
  
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• 7 data science certifications that will pay off

  07-09-2017 12:00
  Data scientist is one of the hottest jobs in IT. What’s more, it's the best job you can get, period, according to data from Glassdoor. If you're looking to get into this field, or you want to stand out against the competition, look no further than data science certifications.Data science is important to nearly every company and industry out there, but the skills that recruiters are looking for will vary across businesses and industries. Certifications are a great way to gain an edge becaus
  
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• Business intelligence vs. business analytics: Where BI fits into your data strategy

  07-09-2017 00:33
  Traditionally, enterprises have focused their data strategies around business intelligence (BI), but the rise of predictive and prescriptive analytics platforms, in part thanks to machine learning and artificial intelligence, is changing the equation. Even business intelligence itself is evolving, tipping in capabilities previously exclusive to business analytics platforms. Analysts and consultants agree that understanding the distinctions between business intelligence and other analytics p
  
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