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• Project management salaries: Talent gap reveals long-term growth

  13-11-2017 22:00
  Organizations are increasingly relying on project management professionals to implement strategic initiatives, drive change and deliver on innovation. And whole industries just now realizing the value of project management are expected to spur a boom in demand for project management skills in the coming decade, according to the a recent report from the Project Management Institute.Project managers, especially, bring a valuable set of skills and knowledge that organizations will increasingly need
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Long live levity: the benefits of becoming a funny leader

  13-11-2017 20:49
  Do you ever wonder how you manage to maintain your sanity from day to day? The office can be a stressful place, which I’m certain I don’t need to tell you (ignore the fact that I just did – it was more of a rhetorical device). Anyway, the frequency with which things can go quickly and unexpectedly wrong is enough to make me want to stay home some days, safely cocooned in my house, kept happy and warm by Netflix and some varietal of delicious snack. It’s these moments at t
  
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• The 6 keys to Matson's global digital transformation

  13-11-2017 19:19
  Matson (formerly Matson Navigation) is an organization with global ambitions. The 135-year-old public shipping company has continued to transform itself from a Hawaiian regional institution to a multiregional player. Its Pacific expansion — from Alaska to Guam and from New Zealand to China — has been rigorous by any measure.Success hinged not only on establishing new trade routes, but also on fulfilling a corporate obligation “to do so without diluting our brand, without erodin
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why holiday mobile commerce is an opportunity for brick-and-mortar retail

  13-11-2017 19:15
  Mobile commerce is on the rise. But the sound of tapping and texting this holiday season shouldn’t be heard as a death knell to brick-and-mortar retail. The fact is mobile devices aren’t going away – but neither is in-store shopping. As consumer shopping habits evolve to incorporate mobile devices and digital commerce, these mobile interactions are creating new data flows representing never-before-seen insights that retailers can use to their advantage. Retailers have opportuni
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: AI will take over the world – and that’s a good thing

  13-11-2017 19:02
  The impending rise of intelligent machines and “Super AI” systems has been heralded in many headlines this year.  Many prominent business people and scientists have discussed the possibilities for what smart computers can do.  The conversations have touched on many areas, some mundane and others quite sensational.  In August of this year, over 100 prominent business leaders sent an open letter to the United Nations calling for a global ban on “Lethal Autonomous W
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Blockchain IDs need international consensus

  13-11-2017 17:20
  In most countries around the world, citizens carry identification for those times when it’s necessary to prove to an authority figure who they are. It can be something as simple as a trip to the post office to prove that they’re the intended package recipient, or urgent times like a hospital visit that requires the staff notify close family.For business, the idea of an ID is important for paying taxes, complying with regulations and organizing finances. When traveling, countries have
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Intelligent image and video management for the enterprise

  13-11-2017 16:45
  An often-overlooked aspect of enterprise data management is the acquisition, storage and usage of image and video data. An enterprise can generate tons of images depending on the industry it is in or how digital it is. For example, the healthcare vertical generates terabytes of images or physical security enterprise can generate large amounts of video files. As image and data quality goes up – driven by better capture, transfer, processing and compressing technologies – the ability t
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Future of the corporate data center: what if we are all wrong?

  13-11-2017 16:25
  There is perhaps no form of conventional wisdom within today’s IT industry that is more widespread or more generally accepted than the belief that commercial enterprises – large and small – will eventually move the vast majority of their IT systems into the cloud. Clear examples of this conventional wisdom abound: Gartner predicted that by 2021, more than half of the global enterprises using cloud today will adopt an all-in cloud strategy;
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• IDG Contributor Network: The top 10 internal issues impacting vendor relations

  13-11-2017 16:00
  Len Riley Have you ever completed a major negotiation and wondered why it was so difficult?  Your instinct may be to direct the blame toward your partner.  I suggest starting with self-reflection.Self-reflection is not natural.  It is a learned behavior requiring time and honesty.  You may find your company spends little time reflecting on its partnership approach due to negotiation fatigue or competing priorities and politics associated with a ‘post-mortem.’
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The tyranny of service providers’ global rate cards

  13-11-2017 15:42
  As their enterprise clients move to digital business models, which are clearly superior in productivity, business alignment and speed, legacy service providers seek to shift their offerings to the new digital world too. Seems like a great match, right? So, what’s the problem? The problem is the service providers are accustomed to a very profitable offshore factory delivery model. Inconveniently, the new digital business models don’t align well with this old tried-and-true mainstay. E
  
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• Is your digital transformation behind the curve? See how you compare

  13-11-2017 14:39
  Making digital transformation work around the worldImage by ThinkstockBusinesses around the world are undergoing, or at least planning, digital transformations. Yours might be one of them.Getting it right is not just about choosing the right technology and recruiting the best talent: It's also about encouraging an appropriate business culture and collaborating with other organizations. Some businesses are proving more successful at this than others.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• What’s the difference between a chief data officer, chief digital officer, and chief analytics officer?

  13-11-2017 12:00
  IT is changing at a rapid pace, and so too is IT leadership. With digital transformation a top concern for many organizations and the analytics revolution in full force, companies are carving out new executive roles that might otherwise fall under the guardianship of the CIO. Among the most popular technical additions to the C-suite are the chief data officer, chief analytics officer, and chief digital officer.Although the three titles describe distinctly different functions, there’s more
  
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• What is RPA? A revolution in business process automation

  13-11-2017 12:00
  More CIOs are turning to an emerging technology practice called robotic process automation (RPA) to streamline enterprise operations and reduce costs. With RPA, businesses can automate mundane rules-based business processes, enabling business users to devote more time to higher-value tasks. Others see RPA fitting into a larger context, as they take a more deliberate path to adoption, seeking to understand RPA's potential to work alongside machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to
  
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