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• IDG Contributor Network: CIOs will make the Chief Digital Officer obsolete in 2018

  08-11-2017 22:00
  When I look back at my time as a CIO, I often say it was only half-Dickensian. I bet you can guess which half! Legacy was rampant. Ops models and operating frameworks where based on dated theories. Just as folks felt like they were getting a handle on things, what happens but this thing called digital. Sprinkle in a whole new set of business models, emerging technologies, and customers more powerful than ever, and every step forward felt like two steps back.Shoot forward to today, and CIOs have
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: CIOs should focus on accurate, long-term NPS to measure loyalty

  08-11-2017 21:45
  CIOs build the foundation for companies that are looking to leverage every advantage in the digital age. Their efforts directly impact the customer-experience – from ensuring smooth operations behind the scenes, to enhancing customer-facing technology.For every new tech initiative, there’s a team that is responsible for designing, developing and executing a new solution. There are three key metrics that can identify the successful execution needed to keep customers: Was the new techn
  
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• BrandPost: Cradlepoint Executives Explain Gateway Management for IoT Networks

  08-11-2017 20:57
  Internet of Things (IoT) applications are becoming more prevalent, and organizations are implementing many of these into their business strategies. IT organizations that are not planning for IoT are at risk of being left behind in this time of digital transformation. As more and more devices become connected, organizations must understand the opportunities IoT will bring, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.In this post, we will have a Q & A and open discussion with Ken Hosac and Perry
  
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• BrandPost: Why Comprehensive Data Management is Key to AI Success

  08-11-2017 20:26
  Organizational leaders have widely recognized the promise of AI as the cornerstone of digital transformation and it’s no surprise that many are now attempting to accelerate its deployment and adoption.However, most of these same organizations are still struggling to increase adoption and interest in analytics. Even with the emergence of business intelligence (BI) platforms, promises of better decision-making can go unfulfilled without widespread adoption.For an organization to have any cha
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What CIOs can learn from Jimmy Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock

  08-11-2017 19:00
  In the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rear Window, James Stewart portrays a paranoid magazine photographer convinced one of his neighbors murdered his wife. Stewart’s L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries character is isolated in his small Greenwich Village apartment recovering from a broken leg. He passes the time watching his neighbors through a telephoto lens as he sits in a wheelchair before a window with a panoramic courtyard view. Jeff collects snapshots of the truth, and he spends hours
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 4 technologies that are enabling workplace transformation

  08-11-2017 17:51
  The great untethering of workers has become a game of musical chairs such as Millennials who drop into their cube the first hour, plop on a couch in an ‘idea room’ for the next two, then plug into a café with headphones on for much of the afternoon and wrap things up on the train ride home. Great for them, but a bit challenging for IT, HR and facilities teams concerned about keeping their workforce secured, collaborative and productive.Worker mobility is a mega trend, especial
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The missing link in IT collaboration

  08-11-2017 17:37
  Many of the investments companies make today are aimed at building a digital enterprise. Employees and customers work and interact in an on-demand world where speed is the most essential ingredient. And enterprises depend upon technologies that enable a productive, agile workforce.The digital transformation most organizations want requires effective collaboration amongst everyone in the enterprise; it is the underpinning of the office of the future — as well as the factory, store and wareh
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Looking for nails to hit with my blockchain hammer

  08-11-2017 17:30
  “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” —Abraham Maslow.
  Today blockchain seems to be everyone’s hammer in the world of cyber security.  A Google search for “blockchain IoT” found no less than two news articles per day in September describing the many ways that blockchain can solve security problems in the IoT.  Investment in blockchain startups is forecast to exceed $3B in 2017 on top of the billions being spent by established
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How blockchain is putting the power in the hands of indie game devs

  08-11-2017 17:15
  The moment a new technique, tool, or technology is introduced to the computing world, videogame developers go to work figuring out how to use it to make their games better. Advances in computer memory and processing allowed games to move from the second dimension to the third just as the internet took split-screen multiplayer and moved it online.Now, a new paradigm is emerging in the form of blockchain, yet the applications for such a technology are hard to pin down. Even gaming, an industry whe
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 2 lessons cloud native companies have for enterprise leaders

  08-11-2017 16:48
  If you’re reading this from anywhere but Southeast Asia, you’ve probably never heard of Grab. The company, however, is the region’s leading on-demand transportation and mobile payments platform. Think Uber and ApplePay rolled into one. Oh, and they’ve raised a ton of money (like in the billions) and are growing like crazy. You do the math.Industry observers like to call companies like Grab, ‘cloud-native.’ The assertion is that these types of companies were bo
  
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• BrandPost: 3 Trends Shaping Work Management

  08-11-2017 15:21
  We’re seeing a fundamental shift in the way that today’s leading organizations empower their workforce with technology. Enterprise technologies have traditionally formed a pyramid, with heavyweight specialist tools at the strategic pinnacle and work execution tools at the tactical foundation. But in fast-moving organizations, strategy doesn’t typically leak down from the specialist tools to the execution layers. Instead, IT leaders are learning to look at the work management la
  
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• BrandPost: Moving Beyond the Internet of Insecurity

  08-11-2017 15:00
  How Identity-Defined Networking overcomes the flaws of IP addressing There’s a fundamental conflict between providing access to networks and securing sensitive data and systems. And when the network is based on Internet protocols designed to allow any computing device to communicate with any other, it creates an environment ripe for hacking, deception, and data breaches. It also produces a never-ending tug-of-war between IT organizations and the business units and customers that are c
  
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• 15% off APC 11-Outlet Surge Protector with USB Charging Ports and SurgeArrest - Deal Alert

  08-11-2017 14:35
  Be it a lightning strike that destroys a home entertainment center or consistently fluctuating power that degrades the performance and shortens the life of your electronics – surges, lightning, and other power disturbances can have a devastating impact on the valuable electronics you rely on every day. The P11U2 from APC offers guaranteed surge protection. Connect and protect up to 11 electronics, and conveniently charge your mobile devices via 2 additional USB ports. Installation is
  
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• Export your IT people into the business

  08-11-2017 12:15
  As technology becomes as critical to businesses as oxygen, CIOs are looking for ways to change their IT operating model. The fundamental question facing most CIOs: How do we create a structure that distributes technology leadership, development, delivery and support across the enterprise?Mark Sims, CIO and vice president of business transformation at The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, has an answer. When he became CIO of the $3 billion lawn care and gardening products company in 2014, he inherited
  
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• How companies are creating data scientists in-house

  08-11-2017 12:00
  Ten years ago, companies were buzzing about big data, but few organizations beyond giants such as Amazon, Netflix and Google actively recruited IT pros with deep data chops. That has changed in the past few years thanks to improved tools and training, as well as evidence that data can drive business value. Now data science skills are in high demand in nearly every industry.A recent query of job search site Monster.com showed over a thousand full-time data science postings from employers spanning
  
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• Compensation planning: Your key to retaining top talent

  08-11-2017 12:00
  It’s a simple formula: If you’re not paying valued employees market wages, you will lose them. And the best way to ensure your pay remains competitive as the market evolves is to build a compensation plan that reflects the true value of your employees.Savvy companies know a solid, well-structured compensation plan can help attract and retain elite talent, especially in fast-paced industries such as technology, says Mykkah Herner, modern compensation evangelist for cloud compensation
  
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