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• IDG Contributor Network: Investments worth making today for a bigger business tomorrow

  03-10-2017 21:49
  Owning your own business poses a whole new set of challenges that employees do not have to deal with on a regular basis. As an employee, you simply have to focus on your job and not worry about the future of the company. As an entrepreneur, you need to make sure that you are making the right investments in your company that will make a difference in the future. Here are some investments that will pay off big for your business.Marketing
  Even if you have the best products and services in the
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 6 tips to pick the right ICO

  03-10-2017 21:36
  The introduction of smart contracts in blockchain enabled developers to create their own cryptocurrencies. This opened the floodgates for startups to launch their own initial coin offerings (ICOs) and token sales as their primary means of funding. ICOs have already been the buzz in tech and entrepreneurship for the good part of the year.On one hand, an ICO is a quick and lucrative way for ventures to raise capital. Record-breaking ICOs such as Tezos’ $200 million token sale showed that ICO
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Ladies and gentlemen, restart your IT funding engines

  03-10-2017 21:21
  Now that Google, Apple, Facebook and other muscle brands have revealed plans to enter the crowded field to win the highly coveted and competitive telecommunications, media and entertainment (TME) market, time is running out to restart your IT funding engines to ensure the tech geeks down the cube-riddled hall are firing on all cylinders.This should be done to a large extent by revving up internal funding sources that can transform IT departments from cost centers to revenue generators.Consumers
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What to do before, during, and after meetings to make them more effective

  03-10-2017 21:09
  Ever since I started working, I’ve been attending meetings, and I’ve witnessed them evolve from in-person gatherings held in the room down the hall to something quite different, typically attended by co-workers who join remotely from a variety of locations, enabled by a variety of devices. But has this transformation come with a cost? Are meetings as effective as they used to be?Prysm recently worked with an outside firm to explore workplace collaboration, and as part of that effort,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The CIO's big challenge: Keeping employees intellectually stimulated

  03-10-2017 19:45
   
  What do you intend to do to keep your employees intellectually stimulated and engaged even if their routine jobs may be relatively routine and mundane?
   
  My answer is PReDICTT.
   
  Yes, that's right. It's no typo. I mean PReDICTT. It's the acronym for a unique program I have initiated: Peers Reflecting on Developments in Current Technology Trends.
   
  The idea behind it is simple. In our roles as technology individuals, we are consistently exp
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Can managed services fit in a digital services model?

  03-10-2017 16:10
  The new digital business models are fundamentally disrupting the time-tested managed services model. As service providers introduce extreme automation into their service portfolio, enterprise customers tend to ask an important question: “Why do we need a service provider to exercise this function? Now that we’ve automated out 40-80 percent of the FTEs, wouldn’t we be better off owning the remaining people and locating them closer to the business?” The disruption of d
  
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• Hewlett Packard Enterprise opens app store for factories

  03-10-2017 16:04
  Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants to make it almost as easy for production managers to deploy new software to the factory floor as to their mobile phone.Its idea is to simplify the task of integrating new manufacturing execution systems with legacy ERP and PLM (product lifecycle management) systems using cloud-based deployment tools.To do that, it plans to put modern hardware on factory floors, hooking it up to a cloud-based app store — like a mobile phone for the factory, only bigger, as H
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The secret of successful business is data-driven decision-making

  03-10-2017 15:55
  Organizations need to realize that data has value. There is a voluminous amount of data involved in running a business. What this means is that its power has to be integrated now and then when making business decisions. With only a basic understanding of the importance of the data, it is possible to win more than you lose, and attract more success to your business. In fact, if you have the ambitions of gaining a competitive edge over your competitors, you will need to keep all your business deci
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 3 questions from employees on digital transformation and how to answer them

  03-10-2017 15:40
  I recently had the opportunity to speak to a small group on the sacrifices executives and employees need to make to drive a digital transformation. It was a group that included millennials just entering the workforce, boomers trying to leverage their experience and skills, and everyone in between. There were some that feared the pace of change and concerned on how to navigate their careers when every job function seems headed toward automation. There were others ready to embrace transformation b
  
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• What is a chief digital officer? A digital strategist and evangelist in chief

  03-10-2017 12:00
  Of all the new tech-related CXO titles, chief digital officer may the most loosely defined. At many companies, the chief digital officer is a customer-facing role that signals a commitment to a digital future. At others, the chief digital officer’s main responsibility is to strategically transform the company’s technological future in a way many CIOs don’t have the bandwidth to do.Sometimes, a customer-facing chief digital officer turns into an inward-facing one. Andrew White,
  
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• 10 internet of things success stories

  03-10-2017 12:00
  The Internet of Things (IoT) is beginning to have a profound effect on businesses and business models. From government, to utilities, to transport and logistics, IoT is changing industries. Here are organizations from five verticals undergoing transformation because of IoT technologies.Government
  The IoT is transforming municipal life through a number of smart city initiatives."Cities and city leaders are thinking more holistically about different uses of technology that are integrated and bring
  
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• BrandPost: Picking the Right Hyperconverged Infrastructure Deployment Model

  03-10-2017 01:00
  Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions have tremendous potential to help organizations optimize costs and improve business efficiencies—and thrive in the new digital economy.But HCI is still a relatively young technology that continues to evolve, meaning deployment models can shift quickly. For this reason, it’s important for organizations to understand what deployment options are available and which best fits their needs.3 Ways to DeployIt’s likely that many, if not mos
  
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