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• IDG Contributor Network: Predictions for the digital transformation of mobile telecom management in 2018

  05-12-2017 22:00
  If you thought 2017 was the year of digital transformation in the mobile telecommunications industry, just wait until next year.During the past year we have seen increasing pressure to reduce or eliminate international roaming charges by the cellular carriers; more sophisticated cyber threats, even against Wi-Fi networks, and a general re-thinking of the cost-benefit equation in BYOD (bring your own device) mobile policies.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 7 considerations when creating a corporate innovation lab

  05-12-2017 21:45
  Technology is transforming our world at an unprecedented rate. New technologies like virtual assistants and augmented reality are changing consumer expectations faster than ever. The impact of cybersecurity breaches is intensifying. And digital enablers are allowing upstarts to steal market share from incumbents in a matter of months or years, rather than decades.While it is tempting to believe that these disruptive times will eventually stabilize, our analysis suggests that the rate of technolo
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Sherlock Holmes – the original enterprise architect?

  05-12-2017 19:56
  What might have been ‘elementary’ for the fictional detective isn’t always apparent to business leaders facing challenging circumstances. Companies today possess large amounts of data, but don’t necessarily have the context with which to draw valuable insight. That’s where enterprise architecture can help.For example, consider one of our customers, a very large corporation that planned to sell several brands.  Needing a smaller workforce, the company wanted to
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How consumer technologies are impacting IT

  05-12-2017 18:00
  As technology advances and becomes a larger a larger part of our daily lives, so has the line between our work lives and personal lives become more and more blurred. As IT leaders, we need to be cognizant of how technology is a growing part of that blurring, as well as be proactive in thinking about how we enable our users to gain leverage over both their business and personal technology needs.A decade ago, employees were grateful just to have a standard laptop and a basic phone – now they
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to maintain progress toward becoming a collaborative digital workplace

  05-12-2017 17:34
  It’s important to determine where your company currently sits along the path towards becoming a truly collaborative digital workplace. But once you’ve made that determination, what’s next? How can you keep your organization moving forward?Here are the key things you need to do:1. Keep it real
  Remain pragmatic about your collaboration maturity, and stay true to the strategic roadmap you’ve developed. That’s not to say things won’t need to be tweaked now and the
  
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• BrandPost: Reining in Your Attack Surface

  05-12-2017 15:00
  It’s growing by leaps and bounds, and we can largely blame it on the IP addressing scheme. The attack surface of the modern enterprise is expanding at a rate that strains the ability of IT and security teams to keep track of it, let alone manage and secure it. Can you envision how many points of access your organization may need to defend? In a shockingly short period of time in 2017, HBO, Equifax, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission landed in what FoxBusiness labeled
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: CIOs, listen up: voice recognition meets the printer!

  05-12-2017 13:00
  AWS:reinvent 2017, held November 27 to December 1, 2017, lived up to its promise as “AWS kept the announcements coming at a frenetic pace this week.”Amongst the ones that interested me a lot was “Amazon is putting Alexa in the office.” The reason that it piqued my curiosity was that amongst the first custom skill use cases that Alexa for Business touts as part of its Alexa Skills Kit is related to printers in an office environment (full disclosure: I work a
  
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