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• IDG Contributor Network: Think you’ve created an agile business culture? Not so fast

  04-12-2017 20:30
  At first, it was just a whisper. Someone from Marketing was complaining to a colleague from Sales about the new home-grown sales and marketing automation system that IT installed last year. The system wasn’t working right, it was too hard to use, and the features weren’t exactly what Marketing needed. The marketer’s point: IT was to blame.Eventually, that whisper became a roar. Now, the entire Marketing department was up in arms, and the Sales organization had joined in: &ldquo
  
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• BrandPost: Competing to Win with Great Data

  04-12-2017 20:06
  For decades, the formula for success in real estate boiled down to three simple words: “Location, location, location.” But as the Internet transforms the global economy, successful real estate companies are retooling their tradition-bound businesses to leverage data in an increasingly digital world.Indeed, a more fitting industry mantra nowadays might be “data, data, data.” Data has never been a more valued asset in the real estate industry.“Clients are demanding th
  
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• BrandPost: Digitally-enabled GBS Part 2: Disrupt or be Disrupted

  04-12-2017 18:35
  In part 1 of this two-part series, we discussed the power of disruptive digital technologies and why and how they are transforming the entire business world, including the Global Business Services (GBS) organization.The question is, how can GBS organizations mature and rise to the digital challenge? After all, the times they are “a-changing ” — and according to Anshul Varma, a managing director in KPMG’s Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory practice, the old way of do
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Staying competitive, one API at a time

  04-12-2017 18:15
  When you enter the bustling business complex that houses DBS, Singapore’s largest bank, you weave through a multi-ethnic phalanx of workers scurrying to and from their lunch breaks. Though business is done in English, Singapore is a melting pot of Asian ethnicities and languages. Noodle shops and satay houses abound, and the ding of security badges opening turnstiles becomes background music.That the bank’s Head of Consumer Banking Technology is a mom, a graduate of the Warsaw School
  
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• Need Stocking Stuffers? See Amazon's Highest Rated Tech Deals Under $25 - Deal Alert

  04-12-2017 15:34
  This month, you'll probably need to buy stocking stuffers and cheap little gadgety things for co-workers, extended family members, or to fill in gaps last-minute when you find yourself asking, "Did I buy enough?".  Amazon has deals running every day, so we've filtered their list of active deals down to just the tech categories, and only the deals $25 or less with 4 or 5 star ratings.  Discounted USB cords, chargers, phone accessories, BlueTooth speakers, splitters, and other gadgets. H
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: A change success manager could revolutionize your business

  04-12-2017 14:10
  I was speaking with a headhunter recently about some of the roles she was recruiting for and there was one that captured my attention. It was a posting she had for a customer success manager at one of your favorite three letter software companies. And, as she extolled the merits of the role I found myself thinking that the management practice of organizational change is still so immature. There are still so many missing tools and mindsets in the organizational behavior area of management science
  
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• 5 tips for speeding up the hiring process

  04-12-2017 12:00
  Tech skills are in high demand — and tech candidates with the hottest skills can land multiple job offers at once. If you’re looking to fill a tech skills gap at your business, you need to make sure you work fast to extend a final offer before someone else does. But you don’t have to “compromise quality” to speed up your hiring process, says Tom Gimbel, founder and CEO of LaSalle Network.“Companies that care about culture may still conduct various rounds of in
  
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• 20 ways to kill your IT career (without knowing it)

  04-12-2017 12:00
  Planning your IT career in a shifting tech landscape can be difficult, especially when your big plans can be wiped like a hard drive. Learning new tech skills and networking are obvious ways to solidify your career. But what about accidental ways that could put your career in a slide? Hidden hazards — silent career killers? Some tech pitfalls may not be obvious.To tease out notable ways people end up hurting their prospects, we talked to a number of IT pros, recruiters, and developers abou
  
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