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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 signs it’s time to upgrade your ERP system

  09-02-2018 17:55
  Businesses often spend considerable time internally debating whether or not they should update their ERP system to the latest version, with many unsure just how they can tell whether the time is right or not to sanction an upgrade.While some businesses may be sceptical of the upheaval that is associated with upgrading, often the disruption and cost are dwarfed by the benefits to profits and efficiencies that come with being on the latest update of an ERP system.To help you better gauge whether
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The 3 principles of modernization success

  09-02-2018 16:35
  Enterprises are seemingly stuck.They have a bunch of legacy applications hanging like albatrosses around their necks, inhibiting their ability to compete and deliver new experiences to their customers, employees, and partners.As a result, there is tremendous pressure to refresh interfaces and update these legacy applications to make them fit into our expectation of how a modern application should function.For some applications, the decision is easy. Whether because of their simplicity or critic
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The truth about SaaS vendor management

  09-02-2018 15:45
  Several years ago, Alan Hackney, former CIO of John Hancock and now Health Information Technology Officer for the State of Connecticut, told me that “CIOs were becoming the orchestrator of business services versus the builder of operational business services. Building stuff”, he said, “is now table stakes. Cloud and loosely oriented partnerships is bringing vendor management to the forefront.”Given this, I wanted to hear from the CIOs in the #CIOChat about their perspect
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Board and management responsibilities for information security

  09-02-2018 15:31
  The problem
  Failure of boards and mangers to address information security is expensive and the preventable, poorly handled Equifax breach may end up costing the company as much as $1.5 billion in direct costs by the time it all plays out (SeekingAlpha, 9/29/17). This lack of management attention was clearly demonstrated when Equifax acting CEO, Paulino do Rego Barros, Jr. told a congressional hearing “he wasn’t sure whether the company was encrypting consumer data.”This proble
  
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• How VR can improve anti-harassment training

  09-02-2018 12:15
  Remember your company’s last sexual harassment training? It’s understandable if the answer is no; these trainings are outdated and ineffective. Most studies show that training is based on content from the 1980s and the 1990s, and even that’s focused on how to avoid litigation – not on actual strategies for preventing harassment in the first place.Other studies show that sexual harassment didn’t decline in organizations that provided training. In fact, this article
  
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• 5 ways your recruiting process is broken — and how to fix it

  09-02-2018 12:00
  HR recruitment is a $200 billion industry. But if you think that’s a lot of money, you should see what bad hires cost. Nashville-area research provider Work Institute says 34 percent of employees quit within their first year, costing US businesses $536 billion a year. In tech, turnover is even higher. Coders may consistently tell recruiters they’re not looking for another job, but the statistics say they’re prone to jump ship. According to job search company Paysa, the average
  
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