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• 8 reasons good employees leave — and how you can prevent it

  02-02-2018 23:23
  When good employees leave, productivity sinks, morale suffers and colleagues struggle with an increased workload until you find a replacement. Add in recruitment and training costs, and on-boarding new hires can make for a difficult and expensive transition.A recent survey from NodeSource reveals that 37 percent of 103 organizations surveyed are worried about finding good talent, and 35 percent worry they won’t be able to build successful teams. Make no mistake, finding and retaining tale
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Information governance in the federal government

  02-02-2018 20:37
  Several years ago, I arranged for a representative from the New York State Archives to provide training in e-mail and document retention for one of my government clients. The trainer did a fantastic job and here are a couple of takeaways she provided:
  Never use your personal e-mail account for official business.
  Never use your government account for personal communications.
  Never, ever send official, intra or inter-agency business e-mail to anyone’s personal account.This organization also
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Implement an agile monetization ecosystem or else

  02-02-2018 20:15
  One transformational aspect of modern technology is its ability to lower the barrier to entry for launching new products and services. Individuals and companies with clever business ideas can, with proper expertise, deliver new digital services in days or weeks, whereas similar solutions in years past might have taken months or longer to develop.This is good news for progressive companies whose core systems are flexible, scalable and complement each other well. But what about companies whose co
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Mergers and acquisitions, digital transformation, the cloud and how to manage it all

  02-02-2018 18:00
  As the global economy continues to grow with no signs of a slowdown, companies continue to roll out innovation initiatives organically, engage in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity, undertake corporate restructurings and acquire new technologies at an unrelenting pace. A decade after the early adapters began using it, the cloud is the underlying IT infrastructure that organizations strive to master.Everything, it seems, is moving to the cloud. Forrester predicts that more than 50 perce
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: ‘You're fired!’ – one CIO’s strategy for greater effectiveness

  02-02-2018 17:03
  A poster of Lord Alan Sugar just appeared on the wall of a CIO I know. As it does every year, in fact.Lord Sugar is the central figure in the UK's version of TV show "The Apprentice.” Of course, had my CIO friend worked in the U.S., then it may have been a poster of Donald Trump on that wall. In Ireland, it might have been Bill Cullen, in Brazil Roberto Justus…but the slogan on the poster would have been the same ... "You're fired!" (OK, Roberto's would read 'Você está
  
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• Get 3 Years of NordVPN Service for Just $2.75 Per Month

  02-02-2018 16:43
  NordVPN promises a private and fast path through the public internet, with no logs and unmetered access for 6 simultaneous devices. They are currently running a promotion, but you'll have to use this link to find it. Its typical price has been discounted to $99 for 3 years of service. That's a good deal at just $2.75 per month.  See the $2.75/month NordVPN holiday deal here.
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why technology will never (fully) replace salespeople

  02-02-2018 16:25
  As Amazon’s recent launch of its cashier-less grocery store illustrates, automation isn’t a temporary fad. It’s a real trend that is having a greater impact every day across a wide range of industries. Unsurprisingly, this has led to concerns about robots causing actual human beings to lose their livelihood — some studies even speculate that up to 800 million workers worldwide could be replaced by the year 2030.These concerns aren’t just limited to manufacturing an
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to gracefully give and receive feedback

  02-02-2018 15:37
  How often do we let important things go unsaid at the office – avoiding the unpleasant task of giving honest feedback like the plague? I submit it’s far too often. We all have our reasons; We want to be perceived as someone who gets along with everyone, we don’t want to hurt others’ feelings, or, frankly, we want to keep our jobs. At worst, this results in failing to call out bad behavior, letting our colleagues say and do things that shouldn’t be tolerated. At bes
  
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• Meet the woman making sure fans get Super Bowl tickets

  02-02-2018 12:15
  I’ve never been the world’s biggest American football fan — hockey’s more my thing — but it’s hard to avoid the incredible excitement around the Super Bowl, especially since my hometown team made it to the big game this year. Fly, Eagles, Fly!Camila Franco grew up watching futebol and volleyball in her native Brazil — now she’s heading up the product team at StubHub, making sure Super Bowl LII ticketholders and American football fans worldwide hav
  
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• Don’t let crappy software drive your employees away

  02-02-2018 12:00
  Millennials are the largest generation currently in the U.S. workforce, and will make up 35 percent of the global workforce by 2020. So, if you’re not considering the professional needs of this generation of digital natives, who are used to intuitive, seamless technology that can help enhance their productivity, you’re putting your organization’s future at risk.Millennials’ threshold for poor user experience is exceedingly low, and technology that is cumbersome and
  
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• 4 data analytics trends that will dominate 2018

  02-02-2018 12:00
  Together with social, mobile and cloud, analytics and associated data technologies have emerged as core business disruptors in the digital age. As companies began the shift from being data-generating to data-powered organizations in 2017, data and analytics became the center of gravity for many enterprises. In 2018, these technologies need to start delivering value. Here are the approaches, roles and concerns that will drive data analytics strategies in the year ahead.Data lakes will need to de
  
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