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• IDG Contributor Network: Want a job in data analytics? Here’s why you should consider health and wellness

  25-01-2018 17:35
  According to LinkedIn’s 2017 U.S. Emerging Jobs Report, the number of data scientist positions at American companies has grown by over 650 percent since 2012. And yet, only 35,000 people in the U.S. currently have the requisite skill-set to fill these job openings, leaving companies in nearly every sector desperate for qualified candidates.That means job-seekers who do possess these coveted qualifications will likely have their pick of roles over the next few years. But while the tech, en
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Log-scale gains for your digital transformation

  25-01-2018 16:45
  We are living in pivotal times. Compute power has reached unprecedented levels and is affecting how we do business at every level. Those who embrace those technological advances accelerate their business velocity by orders of magnitude and develop an unfair advantage versus their competition. Technology is driving business velocity, and is increasingly determining winners and losers.Digital transformation
  The fundamental changes businesses undergo to take advantage of the unprecedented power of
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: A process model for measuring relationships with COBIT

  25-01-2018 16:15
  How do you measure the business-partner relationship with your provider organization? Apply COBIT 5.CIOs have recently reinvigorated the dull IT liaison role by coining it “the business-relationship manager.” This role is accountable for the relationship between information technology and the business partners.Before business-relationship managers skip off to schedule strategic road-mapping discussions, relationships need to be measured. Asking questions about perceived value realiz
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Leveraging business capabilities for strategic planning

  25-01-2018 15:53
  [This article was co-written by Leila Chouai]If you’re not thinking like a software company, you’re already behind.Software companies focus on codifying and then scaling everything they do. To do that, business subject-matter expertise and technical expertise must become one in the same, converging once siloed disciplines.In a recent interview with Metis Strategy, Cathy Bessant, Bank of America’s Chief Operations & Technology Officer, explained that convergence must apply
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Taking machine learning to new heights using Docker containers

  25-01-2018 15:44
  There is a lot of hype around machine learning with developers today, and rightfully so. They say machine learning really is the new artificial intelligence (AI). So how does this apply to Docker containers? We’ve talked extensively about machine learning in past articles, and you are probably feeling fairly confident on your understanding of it at this point. However, to best explain the use of machine learning combined with Docker, we must first learn the fundamentals of Docker containe
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 ways for public sector leaders to accelerate innovation in 2018

  25-01-2018 13:30
  Leaders in public sector organizations are facing ever-increasing demands and expectations from their constituents to deliver services more effectively and efficiently, to streamline processes, improve productivity, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction all the while dealing with limited resources in terms of personnel and budgets. In this environment, innovation – and, more specifically, accelerating the pace of innovation – is both a necessity and a challenge in ter
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Who cares about your IT initiative?

  25-01-2018 13:00
  Sure, we all want our IT initiatives to succeed. We regularly evaluate our projects, in-flight or upon completion, looking for tangible lessons to learn. We apply these strategic and tactical takeaways in hopes of increasing the chances of success for each subsequent initiative. We seek approaches that work for different industries, organizations, teams, and technologies.But looking back at the many IT projects I’ve been a part of in my career, I can’t help but notice a common theme
  
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• Want a more diverse workforce? Hire bootcamp graduates

  25-01-2018 12:00
  While the IT industry struggles with diversity and inclusion, bootcamps and apprenticeships have been producing diverse graduates for the past few years – and 2018 could be the year those graduates shift the industry’s demographics for the better.Bootcamps and apprenticeship programs attract applicants and students from all walks of life, including all socioeconomic classes and every race, ethnicity, gender, age, ability and sexual orientation. And the number of people enrolling in
  
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• 5 artificial intelligence trends that will dominate 2018

  25-01-2018 12:00
  2017 saw an explosion of machine learning in production use, with even deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) being leveraged for practical applications."Basic analytics are out; machine learning (and beyond) are in," says Kenneth Sanford, U.S. lead analytics architect for collaborative data science platform Dataiku, as he looks back on 2017.Sanford says practical applications of machine learning, deep learning, and AI are "everywhere and out in the open these days," pointing to the "su
  
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