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• BrandPost: Funding Education Technology for Students with Disabilities

  13-09-2017 21:27
  From small, rural districts to the largest city schools, technology has revolutionized education for students with disabilities. Educators often face major obstacles to engage students with disabilities, and research has shown that most of these students can and do benefit from technology in the classroom.The great news is that there are multiple dedicated federal and state grant programs available today to support the special education technology needs of districts, and supplement district init
  
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• BrandPost: Forming a Data Analytics Practice:

  13-09-2017 19:23
  The Business Problem
  The first thing to consider when starting an analytics practice is your core business. Are you in manufacturing or healthcare? Are you a service provider or a pharmaceutical startup? Below are a few examples that show how data analytics could benefit certain industries.Manufacturing: If you are in the business of manufacturing, there are several problems that data analytics can help with, including increasing productivity, reducing labor costs, and preventative maintenance.
  
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• Amazon Discounts Fire 7 by $15, Fire HD 8 by $25 For Prime Members - Deal Alert

  13-09-2017 15:15
  Amazon's best-selling tablets feature vibrant displays, generous battery life, Alexa, parental controls, and everything you need to surf, check email, watch Netflix, read books, and more. If you're a Prime member, you can get get the Fire 7 for as low as $34.99 after a $15 discount, or the Fire HD 8 for as low as $54.99 after a $25 discount. If you're looking for a tablet that won't drain your bank account these are solid considerations especially at these discounted prices. To re
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Does the conversation on coding already need to change?

  13-09-2017 15:06
  It feels like it just started, yet the current conversation on coding may already need to change. What was once the language of nerds and introverts is now mainstream culture. “The next blue collar job is coding,” says Wired magazine. In Britain, coding classes are now compulsory for students aged 5 to 14, and there are calls to do the same in the U.S., as if the future of our children and nation depends on it.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Is data the currency of the future?

  13-09-2017 14:43
  The advent of the internet and our subsequent reliance on it for everything means that society’s most essential functions have quickly been digitized. As little as twenty years ago, information was transmitted through ancient PBX systems, newspapers and cable television.Now, important announcements from the White House can be streamed on Facebook, or read on Twitter. The products and applications we use, the places we go, the messages we send and the calls we make all represent millions of
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Data governance stumble

  13-09-2017 14:41
  Data has become the lifeline that is necessary for most businesses to function with increased efficiency and operational performance. Organizational leaders and staff are racing towards developing effective data governance models that focus on high quality data in order to drive the business forward. Systems such as ERP, CRM and supply chain management are dependent on the high quality and complete data across the entire organization.These data challenges have led to many organizations overempha
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Should CIOs embrace green energy?

  13-09-2017 14:34
  On the surface, this might seem like an obvious “Yes!” I can hear you yelling at your screen from here. But let’s slow down and take a step back.CIOs have a limited budget, with lots of existing demands on their financial resources. And, going greener could turn into a political battle. Is it wise to cash-in your goodwill with other members of the C-suite over something as boring as clean air and reducing the risk for cancer?Let’s see if the showdown with Scrooge McDuck i
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The evolution of the business architect

  13-09-2017 14:24
  This article is a summary of a whitepaper by Mike Clark and Whynde Kuehn with the same title.Role of the business architect
  The business architect role was envisioned to be a strategic, senior role responsible for architecting new organizations or re-architecting aspects of existing ones in response to change. Because of technology, the volume and rate of change that organizations face has increased so significantly that most are performing enterprise-wide transformation and becoming more agile.
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: As an IT leader, what do you do when you don’t know what to do?

  13-09-2017 14:20
  A successful business, regardless of the industry, has similar attributes.In my last article, I outlined gaining shared purpose as one of the patterns of successful companies. Lack of a shared purpose, in a business, foster silos where individual organization parts otherwise undermine the collective progress.Another pattern is how people in a business operate when things are uncertain and ambiguous.While I was at Sage and responsible for its Product & Technology organization in North America
  
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• The digital mindset at TIAA is all about their customers

  13-09-2017 12:15
  When you are the head of Client Services and Technology at a 100-year-old financial services organization, you cannot take a “digital mindset” for granted. Rahul Merchant, who joined TIAA in 2015, tells us how he defines and cultivates digital thinking for the financial services firm with more than $954 billion in Assets Under Management. Hint: It’s all about the customer.------------------------------------------------ How do you define “digital thinking” in t
  
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• Your crisis management playbook: What to do when the worst happens

  13-09-2017 12:00
  Every CIO deals with systems outages, and more and more have endured with cyber attacks. But geopolitical threats, disasters and loss of life are inconceivable to many.Dana Deasy, who in September will retire as CIO of the storied $99 billion financial services company JPMorgan Chase, has experienced all of those, and more.But there’s a kicker: Most of those crises had little or nothing to do with technology itself. “If I go over my 30-year career, the vast majority of things I&rsquo
  
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• 10 signs your CRM system needs an overhaul

  13-09-2017 12:00
  Nothing lasts forever and that includes CRM implementations. At first, your CRM system won praise for increasing productivity. Over time, the story has changed. Complaints from customer service, the sales department and other units have emerged. Through the corporate grapevine, you find out that users are quietly switching to “shadow CRM” arrangements such as using spreadsheets or using one-off CRM solutions in the cloud. Eventually, these problems come to a head. It’s time to
  
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