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• IDG Contributor Network: Why data governance?

  03-01-2018 20:20
  Enterprise Data Management (EDM) seems to be at the top of many organizations’ strategies for 2018, as the importance of data to organizations continues to grow exponentially.  EDM plans may include modernizing an existing data warehouse to enable near real-time data, building a big data environment to support deeper analytics, focusing on and increasing digital capabilities and associated analytics, moving existing data and analytics to the cloud, increasing analytics capabilities i
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 6 New Year’s resolutions to enhance the ‘strategic’ in strategic procurement

  03-01-2018 19:39
  As the new year ushers in and you look for ways to improve the value you provide to your organization, we’ve compiled a list of 6 resolutions you can commit to that will enhance the strategic value of your procurement services.1. Commit to enrich your partnerships with finance, contracts, legal and IT architecture teams
  Just as important as your relationships with your external suppliers and service providers are your relationships within your organization. Strong relationships with finan
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The Big-D hit list: Disrupting the word disruption

  03-01-2018 19:15
  The problem with business jargon, which most of us use ad nauseam, is that it’s not merely annoying, it carries the real potential to block progress. Those nifty little words and phrases may make us sound ingenious within our respective tribes (and own minds), but they can also narrow our thinking to the point where we start cramming our strategies and plans into the same universally-defined small boxes. So, just when we believe we’re thinking “outside of the box,” we&rs
  
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• BrandPost: It’s 11:05 p.m., Do You Know Where Your Data Is?

  03-01-2018 19:06
  Last week, Uber revealed that it had suffered a data breach in 2016 that exposed the personal data of 57 million drivers and riders. This was more than just another breach, as scandal-laden Uber chose not to disclose the breach to victims and regulators, instead choosing to pay the hackers $100,000 to delete the data and hide the fact that the breach ever occurred.Some of the fallout follows a familiar script: public outcry, corporate apologies, and firing anyone that can be held
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Planning for disaster recovery

  03-01-2018 19:00
  The cost of downtime to business, company reputation, customer experience and trust has never been higher. Given the constant and connected nature of software driven businesses, customers and users have grown to be less forgiving and more fickle with their attention. An outage in a single service can impact all of its users. An outage in a multi-tenant platform has an exponential impact as it impacts the users of all the individual service providers running their services on the platform.Balanc
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Profits and people: two sides of the same coin

  03-01-2018 14:55
  Harvard Business Review released their 2017 list of the Best Performing CEOs in the World. The list is a who’s who of business leaders and Fortune 500 companies across every industry featuring executives like LVMH’s Bernard Arnault, Texas Instruments’ Richard Templeton, and Comcast’s Brian Roberts, to name a few.While HBR’s list looks at these leaders mostly from a financial perspective, in today’s competitive business environment revenue, earnings, and stock
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The connected business

  03-01-2018 14:00
  If one thing has become clear over the last year or two, it is that the winners and losers in industry after industry are determined by those that can lead or respond quickly to digital disruption. For this reason, it should come as no surprise that legacy organizations are increasing unsure about whether they can cross the digital divide and continue to flourish. Fortune magazine’s Alan Murray says the life of a public corporation is now less than 20 years and will quickly approach 10 ye
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Emerging digital workplace trends for 2018 and beyond

  03-01-2018 13:15
  In 2017, I wrote a lot about chatbots, plus the overarching theme of conversational experiences, workspaces, environments and platforms. All of that really served to underscore the growing reality of the paradigm shift towards conversational enterprises. With the rise of conversational workspace applications, there is a growing understanding of the need for conversational experiences within enterprise business processes and workflows.Via open APIs, Business application technology providers can
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 vital IoT lessons from 2017

  03-01-2018 13:00
  Once again 2017 was a busy year for the most dominant technology trend in business today – the Internet of Things. Gartner Research put the IoT at the peak of the hype curve in 2013 so the timely question is, “Are we in the ‘Trough of Disillusionment’ or climbing out toward meaningful adoption and business growth?” The answer this year is “No.” for some big players and “Yes.” for a few of the more agile technology companies. 1. GE stumb
  
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• Moving from CIO to corporate board requires a change in thinking

  03-01-2018 12:15
  Frank Modruson was a partner at Accenture for 16 years when he became CIO of Accenture for another 11 years. Since then, he has served on several corporate boards for publically traded or private companies, including First Midwest Bancorp, Forsythe Technology, LANDAUER, and Zebra Technologies. My readership tends to be hungry for stories about CIOs on corporate boards — and Frank and I go way back — so I asked him to talk about his experience.-----------------------------------
  
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• 8 ways you’re failing at change management

  03-01-2018 12:00
  Buying or implementing technology rarely delivers all benefits we expect. Sometimes it’s because the solution was overhyped by sales staff. Other times the technical implementation might be flawed. But the most common reason for falling short on expectations is poor change management.In the technology world, change management is often simplified to mean “training.” But this belief misses the strategic contribution change management brings to the table. The Association of Chang
  
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