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• BrandPost: Harvey Nash/KPMG 2017 CIO Survey Part 3: Tackling the IT Talent Gap

  20-11-2017 21:10
  As technology needs rise, industries change and digital disrupts, recruiting top IT talent becomes critical to organizational success. Yet, it is much easier said than done. Organizations face a host of challenges, starting with a supply and demand imbalance for emerging skills, the need to predict the company’s future course, and finally a deep, introspective view of the company itself and its people.According to the Harvey Nash/KPMG 2017 CIO Survey, big data, analytics, business analysis
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 technologies disrupting the app development industry

  20-11-2017 19:00
  There’s no denying the influence that technology has over our modern society. We live and breathe the stuff, whether we’re sitting at a desktop computer in the office or whether we’re checking our heart rates from our smartwatches, fiddling with our iPhones or talking to Amazon’s Alexa.Technology is disrupting every industry there is, and we’re all aware of that. But what’s even more interesting is the way that technology now moves so quickly that even relativ
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Excellence is not optional

  20-11-2017 18:37
  One Monday morning during the most recent season of Game of Thrones, I took a second in the elevator to the office to thumb through my Facebook feed on my phone. After a few updates from friends, I was impressed to see an advertisement for a Game of Thrones T-shirt featuring a picture and quote from Tyrion Lannister; amazingly taken from the episode that had just aired, barely 12 hour before.This kind of rapid product development and commerce would have been unimaginable 10 years ago, but thanks
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to narrow the CMO-CIO divide

  20-11-2017 18:30
  In a recent article, “CIO and the future of IT”, George Colony of Forrester Research offered an insightful assessment of the challenges and opportunities surrounding CIOs and suggested a number of strategic imperatives for future success:“Most companies suffer from a digital divide, because the IT function is separated into two parts – they are business technology (BT) overseen by chief marketing officers (CMOs) and back-office (BO) led by chief information officers (CIOs
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to manage the millennial mindset

  20-11-2017 18:15
  Why do business leaders focus so intently on millennials, that ubiquitous generation of workers who right now are between 22 and 40 years old? Their incredible buying power may be one reason, but their labor force strength certainly is another. Since 2015, millennials have comprised the largest segment of the U.S. workforce, which, according to Pew Research, means that “more than one-in-three American workers is a millennial.” With that reach and size, millennials are rapidly redefin
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Technology advances quickly, so why don’t the women who help drive it?

  20-11-2017 17:20
  We’ve heard a lot about harassment and discrimination against women in the workplace lately. I hope this renewed attention to an age-old problem means that change is coming. Real change, not just talk.A quick review of the facts about women in technology:Declining number of women computer science majors: While the percentage of women entering STEM fields in general has risen, the reverse trend is underway in computer science. The percentage of female computer- and information-science major
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The role of the CIO: a playbook for managing an SAP relationship

  20-11-2017 17:10
  Before Boston’s Big Dig, one of the largest public works projects in the U.S., was the Boston Harbor clean-up.  My mother was appointed by then-Governor Michael Dukakis to the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), the state authority responsible for the harbor clean-up.  Her duty was to represent the interests of our town, a community bordering the site of the proposed treatment plant, including negotiation of a mitigation agreement that would
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How AI can help to avoid Amazon Web Services disruptions

  20-11-2017 16:57
  Back in February 2017, an Amazon S3 service disruption in AWS’ oldest region (US-EAST-1) shut down several major websites and services, such as Slack, Trello, Quora, Business Insider, Coursera and Time Inc.Other users were reporting that they were also unable to control devices which were connected via the Internet of Things since IFTTT was also down.These kinds of disruptions are becoming more and more business critical for today’s digital economy. To prevent these situations, cloud
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to avoid the next epic transformation fail

  20-11-2017 16:45
  Why are technology transformations so challenging, with so many failures? Even when the technology has been deployed hundreds of times before, by many different organizations. Even when experienced implementation partners are selected to handle the transition, boasting pages of references. Even in these cases, so many implementations still experience massive budget overruns, overshoot delivery dates, and fall well short of expected benefits.In some cases, disruption becomes so bad that the busin
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why your webinar is not working

  20-11-2017 16:25
  Spoiler alert: The single point of failure for webinars often boils downs to this – failing to recognize that webinars DO NOT have a life of their own outside of a wider B2B marketing campaign. Attempting to treat them as a standalone marketing tool and relying on them to single-handedly deliver the MQL goods is a recipe for disaster. Here’s why.When was the last time you were satisfied with your webinar’s ROI?Marketers love webinars. There isn’t one B2B CMO that I speak
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Migrating into the cloud: easier said than done

  20-11-2017 16:12
  Digital transformation is driving organizations to revamp their IT landscape, with many firms choosing to forge ahead using cloud-based solutions. Cloud computing is often associated with cost savings, yet many organizations underestimate the resources needed to complete the transition and transformation phase, which can quickly lead to substantial cost overruns. While replacing existing legacy applications with a native SaaS offering might be a straightforward exercise, migrating business-criti
  
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• Today, Eufy Genie Speaker With Alexa is Just $19.99 - Deal Alert

  20-11-2017 15:50
  This Alexa-enabled smart speaker from Eufy is discounted 43% today on Amazon as part of their "Black Friday Week" event (see all of today's active deals here). Stream music from Spotify, Pandora, SiriusXM and others. Control smart home devices. Ask for weather, sports score, news and more. Eufy Genie currently averages 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon where Its typical list price has been reduced 43% to just $19.99. See it on Amazon here.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Architecture firm transforms client experience with secure cloud collaboration

  20-11-2017 12:00
  Changing the culture for an 82-year-old architectural firm that has traditionally treated technology as a support function is no easy feat. But it's one Perkins+Will CIO Murali Selvaraj has embraced, implementing single sign-on and collaboration software to help the firm win more business.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 5 information security threats that will dominate 2018

  20-11-2017 12:00
  If you thought 2017 was a dire year for data breaches, wait until 2018. The Information Security Forum (ISF), a global, independent information security body that focuses on cyber security and information risk management, forecasts an increase in the number and impact of data breaches, thanks in large part to five key global security threats that organizations will face in 2018."The scope and pace of information security threats is jeopardizing the veracity and reputation of today's most reliabl
  
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