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• IDG Contributor Network: Is active supervision slowly dying?

  08-01-2018 20:40
  “We had to fire her, because she kept taking her phone out in client meetings.”  “He doesn’t communicate.”  “He’s got a weird understanding of ‘casual Fridays’.”These are all quotes about newly-hired employees we see in the workplace.  Like our peers, my company invests significant time and dollars to recruit superstars who will dazzle our clients and enrich our culture.  And, as at many companies, new hires often r
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Will machine learning and AI change responsive web design?

  08-01-2018 18:35
  We see it every day – robots taking on tasks that we didn’t think possible just a few short years ago. This particular topic or task is employing AI to create responsive webpages that change and update automatically with new content. How do we keep up with the user demand for personalization at each level, and their insatiable quest for instant gratification? Sure, web developers have streamlined their content management systems and added features to automatically capture user input
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Vow to master your RFPs in 2018

  08-01-2018 18:15
  As we enter a new year and companies look for ways to improve their processes, there is no better time to review your templates and approaches to your vendor selection and RFP processes.  Below are nine techniques to improve your RFP preparation and RFP execution processes.Pre-RFP process improvements
  1. Strive to Improve your RFP preparations by classifying your teams into influencers, reviewers, and decision-makers
  If you’re a large, global and/or decentralized organization today,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IT leaders, get ready for 2018

  08-01-2018 18:15
  It’s said the only true constant is change. That’s certainly the case in the business world, and perhaps even more so in the technology industry, where dealing with disruptive forces has become the norm.Successful technology leaders have learned to not only deal with game-changing innovation, but embrace it and benefit from it. Knowing that new technologies will initially disrupt, but eventually improve, how you work and run your business is useful and sometimes takes a leap of fait
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Project-based learning coming to disrupt research

  08-01-2018 17:33
  Project-based learning – learning by doing – has been a proven training method for craftsmen and artisans for centuries and more recently, K-12 students and Software Engineers. Now, a former MIT professor and dean wants to bring the learning methodology to the research world.Introducing Station1, an alternative to regular universities, wants to reinvent the way research is done. The founder, Christine Ortiz, left her prestigious post as a professor and dean at MIT to start the proje
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 4 weather trends that will play out in 2018

  08-01-2018 16:54
  2017 was a crazy year for weather. Between monster hurricanes, devastating wildfires spread by howling Santa Ana winds and bone-chilling snowstorms, we’ve seen it all. And these extreme weather events did not stop when the calendar hit 2018. Winter Storm Grayson just tore up the East Coast, bringing snow from Florida up to Maine, along with hurricane force winds, snow, and coastal flooding.Severe weather isn’t going anywhere. So what are the best ways to deal with it in the new year
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Should the Board press pause on public cloud after Intel’s Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities?

  08-01-2018 13:00
  The past few days, there have been grumbles about the viability of the public cloud because of recently discovered issues with the hardware that Intel provides to all suppliers of all technology systems. Some commentators, like the respected Russel Brown of Verge, are calling out that this “CPU catastrophe will hit hardest in the cloud.”What might that mean for the board’s strategic investment decisions on the cloud? Here are five thoughts to help process what has happened.To
  
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• The 12 biggest issues IT faces today

  08-01-2018 12:00
  When CIOs aren’t being overwhelmed by data, they’re wondering who’s securing it. They’re dealing with the pressure of cutting costs while trying to stay nimble as they face difficulties with contractors and the challenges of moving data and services to the cloud. All the while, new threats emerge that require an evolving response.From finding qualified IT pros to keeping them from jumping ship, a range of sticky technology and personnel issues are giving IT pros cold swe
  
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• Monsanto finds room to grow with open source software

  08-01-2018 12:00
  Farming may be the oldest industry in the world, but the rise of the internet of things (IoT), mobility and other technologies present new challenges for agricultural companies. Scrambling to keep up with the explosion in crop data, Monsanto has turned to an unlikely source for help: open source technology.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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