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• IDG Contributor Network: Why tech careers need a makeover, fast!

  05-02-2018 20:46
  You’d think that American college students would be banging down the doors to major in software engineering, data science, or information technology.They aren’t, relatively speaking.To those of us in the technology field, the statistics should be stunning, and not in a good way: computer science majors, engineering majors, and biology majors COMBINED don’t come close to the number of humanities majors who graduate every year. Let’s face it, fellow techies: ours isn&rsquo
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The business landscape is changing – your company should, too

  05-02-2018 19:38
  According to a recent report, the United States dropped out of the top 10 in the 2018 Bloomberg Innovation Index for the first time in its history.For six years, Bloomberg has evaluated the business landscapes of countries around the world. The countries are given a score based on seven categories of criteria: research and development spending, manufacturing value added, tertiary efficiency, the concentration of researchers, patent activity, high-tech density and productivity.The countries rank
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The strategy journey

  05-02-2018 18:43
  What is your book about?
  The book is a guidance system full of templates, tools, case study examples and expertise from many industries thought leaders and practitioners, on how to build the foundations or architecture that unpin the growth, sustainability and ongoing transformation of a business and organisation in the current digital ecosystem.Who is your book for?
  The book is for anyone who wants to enhance and structure their own entrepreneurial capabilities as well as the entrepreneurial c
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Amazon in healthcare: disruption in motion or a nothing-burger?

  05-02-2018 17:57
  No company I know can stir up so much debate over so little detail in a public announcement as Amazon did last week. Judging by reactions to the announcement, to some it was a harbinger of the much-needed disruption of healthcare, but to others, it was a tornado in an espresso cup.Most of the focus of the discussion has been around whether Amazon will succeed where others have failed. The skeptics call this a nothingburger. They base their arguments on empirical data: look at Google, Microsoft
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Applying the 3-box solution to technology transformation

  05-02-2018 17:08
  I’m currently attending a six-week course entitled “Strategy is Innovation” designed by Professor Vijay Govindarajan (VG). He is a Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author, widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation.  While this course addresses the how an organization as a whole should implement the strategy as a way to innovate for the future, I was wondering if the same principles could be applied to a more s
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 infamous startup failures in 2017: pick your lessons

  05-02-2018 17:02
  Many startups emerge every year, aiming to rise and succeed. However, the painful truth is 90% of startups fail.There are many reasons why most startups shut down while a few thrive. The year 2017 saw several startup companies emerged, struggled and eventually shut down. Five of the most popular startup failures in 2017 are listed here. It is up to pick the lessons as you read on.1. Beepi
  Beepi was an online peer-to-peer marketplace for people selling, buying and leasing used cars. Used cars we
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: AI is hungry for fresh data...so why are you starving it?

  05-02-2018 16:51
  Businesses spent an awful lot of time talking about artificial intelligence and machine learning in 2017. It appears that 2018 is shaping up to be the year the talk trails off and morphs into reality.And that’s precisely the moment that CIOs and IT decision-makers at large companies are going to realize that for all the attention they’ve paid to enabling AI in their business, they may have neglected the critical resource that fuels it: Data.Data is always on the mind of Eric Schrock
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What is a product management manifesto and why do you need it?

  05-02-2018 13:00
  In the first part of this series, an initial look at Planview’s product manager philosophy – the “product manager manifesto” – focused on many of the critical cross-organizational roles the product manager plays. There’s no doubt that product managers wear many hats, including evangelist, product champion, sales liaison, developer and marketer, just to name a few.As a reminder from last time:
  You are both internal champion and external voice for your product/
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: A product management manifesto – what it is and why you need it, part 2

  05-02-2018 13:00
  In the first part of this series, an initial look at Planview’s product manager philosophy – the “product manager manifesto” – focused on many of the critical cross-organizational roles the product manager plays. There’s no doubt that product managers wear many hats, including evangelist, product champion, sales liaison, developer and marketer, just to name a few.As a reminder from last time:
  You are both internal champion and external voice for your product/
  
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• 8 early warning signs of IT disaster

  05-02-2018 12:00
  There may be something rotten in your IT department, and if you don't deal with it soon you could have a disaster on your hands.Things may look fine now. But the warning signs are already there; you just haven't noticed them yet.The network is suddenly glitchy, simple problems are taking longer to fix, and some things just keep breaking over and over. Every massive code release is followed by a blizzard of bug fixes. Shadow IT is now business as usual. And you're the last one to hear about chan
  
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