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• IDG Contributor Network: Looking for invisible machine intelligence

  26-09-2017 21:03
  Machine intelligence (MI) continues to be a fixture in the headlines – which is a good thing, since it’s a field that will likely impact every industry on the planet in coming years. But the more one watches the headlines, the more one senses that we’re too focused on visible manifestations, without full regard for the numerous ways intelligent machines may be able to improve society without most people even noticing.Put another way, there’s a lot of discussion around the
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How value stream mapping is Increasing business value

  26-09-2017 20:56
  Enterprises are under increasing pressure to drive value for the business, and the number one means to drive that value is now through the development of quality software. Perhaps it sounds simple enough, but the world of software delivery has grown increasingly complicated. With exponential numbers of tools and methods available today it can be challenging – especially for large, complex enterprises – to deliver software at scale and improve the customer experience synonymously.What
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Is everything becoming a project?

  26-09-2017 19:59
  We all have heard about the disruptions that are impacting our society and the business world: robotics, artificial intelligence, shared economy, blockchain, big data….But, there is one extreme disruption affecting our world that media and academia have completely missed. For more than 100 years, organizations have been run and structured in a very similar way: hierarchical; in which power, budgets and resources are divided over departments, the so-called “silos.”Management an
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Can blockchain make IoT faster and more secure?

  26-09-2017 15:50
  The Internet of Things is a concept that was popularized almost by accident. As Wi-Fi connectivity became easier to accomplish in years past, manufacturers began incorporating internet connections in everything from stuffed dolls to refrigerators. Regardless of the usefulness of such products, the result is a web of everyday objects, applications, and devices that constantly connect us to each other.This web creates immense amounts of data that has grown exponentially in recent years. Owners of
  
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• BrandPost: Right-sizing Public Cloud Instances Can Cut Costs 20%-40%

  26-09-2017 15:41
  In a recent post, we noted that many companies are struggling to control their public cloud costs, even though a key driver for moving to the public cloud in the first place was often to cut infrastructure expenses. There is a proven way to slash public cloud costs by as much as 20-40%, however: by right-sizing cloud instances.If that’s the case, why isn’t everyone already doing it? There are a number of reasons – ranging from the psychological to the technical – why righ
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How data can help CIOs empower tomorrow’s CMOs through AI

  26-09-2017 15:24
  Marketers, over the past decade, have become experts in leveraging emerging technologies to reach new audiences. The ability to utilize modern tools significantly increases ROI, and those tools demand a level of technical expertise. In 2012, Gartner predicted that by 2017 chief marketing officers would be more immersed in technology than chief information officers. That prediction has come true.CMOs are getting bogged down
  But we lose something when marketers become technologists. Because they s
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How doing good can help CIOs do better

  26-09-2017 15:00
  “Technology is poised to create a world of incredible prosperity and opportunity or incredible inequity, so our mission is to democratize technology to the world, and by so doing close the digital skills gap,” says Aaron Skonnard, President and CEO of Pluralsight.In an environment where the typical software engineer has to re-develop their skillset every 12 to 18 months to keep up with changes in technology, the learning platform that Skonnard founded 13 years ago has tapped into the
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: General Electric is NOT acting its age — and that's a good thing

  26-09-2017 15:00
  GE is leading the largest digital sales force transformation in the world. And we’re doing it by thinking small. Just like a startup. We are focused every day on thinking, acting and working like a startup. Each morning, we challenge ourselves to wake up with an entrepreneurial spirit and a risk-taking mentality that might seem surprising to some. Why? Well, we’re facing the reality that our customers have changed, and thus, if we want to continue to serve them well, then it’s
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Unlike the Staples Easy Button, there’s no GDPR Forget Button

  26-09-2017 13:55
  Several years ago, the Staples Easy Button became a popular advertising gimmick for the office supplies company. Originally just a picture in Staples ads, people clamored for a real Easy Button, so the chain made more than 1.5 million plastic buttons that repeated, “That was easy” when you tapped it.It’s the kind of magic that company executives would like now to solve their GDPR challenge. Companies that weren’t doing a good job of data privacy protection before this new
  
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• 6 tips for negotiating CIO noncompete agreements

  26-09-2017 12:00
  Technology's growing importance across every industry means companies are focused more than ever on cultivating strong IT leadership. Growth-hungry CEOs are calling on their CIOs to shepherd digital transformations, the better to win customers or at least improve business operations. That's great for the CIOs, right? Perhaps, but IT's heightened importance also means that companies are taking extraordinary measures to protect their CIOs, whom they view as strategic assets who can quickly become
  
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• 6 cloud cost management tips

  26-09-2017 12:00
  Operating your business in the cloud is fundamentally different than operating on premises. And when operations differ, so too do strategies for containing costs.Financially speaking, a datacenter requires a large capital expenditure for the building, additional capital expenditures for the servers and software licenses, and smaller but significant operating expenditures for powering the servers and cooling systems, and for maintenance and management.In the cloud, there are no capital expenditur
  
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