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• BrandPost: Enterprise Architecture: The Scarce Skillset in Big Demand

  18-09-2017 23:12
   Three years ago, demand for enterprise architects —  those who focus on building a holistic view of an organization's strategy, processes, information, and IT assets in order to support the most efficient and secure IT environment — was declining. Some were whispering that the days of the architects were over. But this unique skillset has recently staged a major comeback: According to the Harvey Nash/KPMG 2017 CIO Survey, enterprise architecture (EA) has become the fastest
  
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• How to make meetings suck less (time and productivity)

  18-09-2017 21:58
  No self-respecting business wants to advertise itself as inefficient, unfocused, and directionless, regularly wasting tens of thousands of dollars for no tangible reason. Yet, that's exactly what happens every day as businesses around the globe force their workers to spend time in meetings that provide no meaningful return on that investment of time and energy."Meetings rarely result in actionable work,” says Carson Tate, founder and principal of Working Simply, and author o
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How China is en route to becoming a digital superpower

  18-09-2017 19:55
  Over the past couple of years, China has made significant progress and built a solid digital foundation. It is now on the verge of a digital transformation that will enhance productivity and elicit economic growth. At the end of 2015, China already had 688 million internet users and 620 million mobile internet users. Out of these, 413 million utilized e-commerce, collectively producing $623 billion in online sales, which accounted for 12.9 percent of China's total retail transactions. By 2018 at
  
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• What to do when your CRM project fails

  18-09-2017 15:40
  There are at least a dozen oft-quoted industry analyst reports that estimate the failure rate of CRM projects. The analysts' methodologies and standards vary, so the resulting failure numbers are all over the place — between 18 percent and 69 percent.Most of the numbers seem to center around the question, "Did the project meet expectations?" This is a profoundly fuzzy standard — and, in fact, it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Children don't want to eat their spinach, so it tastes
  
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• 48% off Sycees Plug-in LED Night Light with Dusk to Dawn Sensor, 6-Pack - Deal Alert

  18-09-2017 15:29
  These night lights turn themselves on & off from dusk to dawn, have offset prongs that won't block your second outlet, and feature long lasting LED bulbs that won't make any noticeable impact on your energy bill at only 2.2 Kwh per year. Their frosted white diffuser ring puts out just the right amount of soft light for you to find way in the dark without having to turn on any overhead lights. A pack of 6 is currently discounted 48% down to just $12.59. See this deal on Amazon.To read th
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Effective partnerships drive innovation

  18-09-2017 14:40
  What makes a great partnership?The business world today is in a state of flux. New companies enter the ecosystem every day, bringing with them new technologies and business models, any one of which could transform an entire industry from the ground up. Most companies want to use this current of change to drive innovation. But the magic bullet is elusive as ever — the question is how best to drive innovation. For many, acquisition seems the only path to take through these disruptive forces
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How introverts could be the silent solution to IT project management problems

  18-09-2017 13:00
  I received a nice email this week from Sarah, a regular reader of my blogs. It was a line of thanks for a previous post that had apparently “helped with some serious issues” and “improved output.” Praise indeed!I was quite excited about this. I often blog about methodologies, governance and other project management topics, I wondered which had been the stimulus for such positive feedback. I was surprised, as I read on, that the blog that had caused such an impact was not
  
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• How Adobe's CIO redefined her IT org’s identity

  18-09-2017 12:00
  Replacing a CIO often proves challenging for even the most harmonious and well balanced technology organizations. But what happens when a marquee maker of marketing and creative software goes several months without a seasoned IT leader? It becomes rudderless. That's the situation Cynthia Stoddard encountered when she joined Adobe Systems in June 2016 — seven months after CIO Gerri Martin-Flickinger left for Starbucks.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Ins
  
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• 8 hot IT hiring trends — and 8 going cold

  18-09-2017 12:00
  We’re seeing a number of shifts this year in hiring as technologies mature, new ones emerge and companies work to cut costs by blending full-time IT staff with contract work.While some see the gig economy as a flexible new way to work, one that appeals to solo entrepreneurs, others see a general consequence of the Great Recession. Either way, the gig economy is experiencing growing pains. And growing it is: 40 percent of the workforce is expected to be part of it by 2020, according to a re
  
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