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• IDG Contributor Network: Why more CIOs should grow into CEOs

  19-12-2017 21:05
  Sanjay Mirchandani is a rare breed. And to be honest, he can’t quite figure out why.For the last 14 months he’s been the CEO of Puppet, the Portland, Ore.-based company that specializes in helping companies automate the operations of their tech infrastructure.What makes him rare, he says, is that he’s a CEO who held a major role as CIO. For almost five years ending in 2013 he was global CIO for the data storage giant EMC.And at a moment when so many companies in nearly every in
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The ultimate guide to digital transformation and its impact on software development

  19-12-2017 20:55
  Industry Week recently reported that two-thirds of the top 2000 Global CEOs will have digital transformation at the core of their corporate strategy by the end of 2017. More ominous, Gartner predicted at this year’s annual Data Center Infrastructure and Operations Conference, that enterprises risk falling behind their competition, unless they implement digital transformation projects in 2018.Transformation, not tweaks
  Companies who pursue digital transformation cannot be satisfied with ini
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: If, buts and maybes: mind your IT project language

  19-12-2017 16:41
  I walked into a project management office recently, and on the wall, in large letters above the project leader's desk was the phrase:
  No "ifs," "buts" or "maybes"
  At first, it looked like one of those platitudes that you often see, sharing wall space with "Be the Change You Want to See" and "Teamwork Makes the Dream Work" (apologies if you have those on your wall). I asked the team leader, Malcolm, about the poster and he told me it was his own creation, to remind him of his personal philosophy
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: P2P lending reaps blockchain’s rewards

  19-12-2017 15:30
  The financial crisis of 2008 was widespread enough to cause massive reverberations in the banking world for years to come. Once the dust settled, regulators and businesses went about the process of creating a more transparent financial system, one that would avoid some of the pitfalls that led to the mortgage crisis. New laws were enacted that improved transparency, and opened the doors for smaller, tech-driven companies to compete with institutional lenders and financiers without requiring the
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 2018: the year of risk or reward?

  19-12-2017 15:17
  Best known for his contribution to the science of evolution in the 1800s, Charles Darwin declared: “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”As we get ready to greet 2018, we’re surrounded by a world that is witnessing huge technological and social changes heralded by the fast adoption and development of innovations such as cryptocurrency Bitcoin, blockchain, IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (artificial intelligence).
  
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• BrandPost: Who (or What) Can You Trust?

  19-12-2017 15:00
  What if whitelisting were transparent to the end user and automated?The simplest way to secure networks is to start with zero trust and “whitelist” each and every device that is authorized to connect to the network. Then you only have to deal with trusted devices, while everything of potential danger is excluded. The only problem with this approach: it’s hard and generally requires manual intervention, which usually leads to abandonment or, worse, ignoring policy.The distribute
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why banks will transform into marketplaces

  19-12-2017 13:15
  Speaking with global banking leaders last month at the annual Web Summit conference, all agreed that the future of banking will be defined by these very consumers. The reality is, though, that banks don’t have many touchpoints with consumers anymore and ultimately provide a utility service: consumers check their balances weekly or pay their mortgages annually. For payments, it’s far more likely consumers use unregulated apps like Venmo and PayPal. In Singapore, for example, ride-shar
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Success isn’t a straight line: survival requires continuous planning

  19-12-2017 13:00
  “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it,” said Ferris Bueller during his famous “Day Off.” The sentiment applies to IT these days.You’re busy day-to-day keeping the lights on, integrating legacy and new technologies, and trying to support your business colleagues as they anxiously attempt to incorporate technology in everything. How can you be sure your efforts are connecting to the bigger picture and achie
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 4 strategic themes for digital transformation in 2018

  19-12-2017 13:00
  Last year, my predictions for digital transformation were focused on the core DNA that organizations needed to put into place to achieve world-leading performance and results in digital transformation.In addition to perennial themes such as leadership, people and cultural competencies, these new strategic themes for digital transformation included disruptive technologies, platform business models, digital services mastery and leading practices in corporate innovation.Rather than focusing on disc
  
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• How to assemble a highly effective analytics team

  19-12-2017 12:00
  Effective data analytics can be a competitive differentiator today, giving companies keen insights into customer preferences, product development and usage trends, and market gyrations that others don’t see.To get the most out of their analytics efforts, businesses need to assemble a highly talented team to make sense of all the data that’s coming in from multiple sources, and to translate the analyses into real value for the organization.What does it take to create a crackerjack ana
  
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• 3 reasons you’re losing your talent to competitors

  19-12-2017 12:00
  Finding and retaining IT talent is one of the major issues CIOs face today. Whether launching a digital initiative, transforming into a data-driven organization or migrating workloads to the cloud, the skills and experience of your staff can make or break key strategic projects. So when you have strong IT talent, the last thing you want is for them to be eyeing the door.Identifying and addressing the reasons your employees might leave is incredibly important for companies trying to gain a compet
  
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• BrandPost: The Balance Between Going Fast and Being Safe: Can You Have Both?

  19-12-2017 00:46
  I sometimes like to tell a story about a computer science professor at my alma mater discussing the trade-offs of various data structures.It goes like this: A clever student tried to stump the professor. He asked: “What if I wanted a data structure that I wrote to but never read from?”The professor paused for a moment, and then responded: “In that case, I’d simply take the data and throw it away.”Put another way: If you’re never going to access the data, why s
  
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