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• BrandPost: CIO Interview with Patty Morrison, CIO and EVP Customer Support Services for Cardinal Health

  16-02-2018 22:51
  Healthcare is rapidly changing on all fronts—governing policies, evolving workflows, and emerging technologies. Patty Morrison, CIO and EVP Customer Support Services for Cardinal Health, gave us a glimpse of how she is making sense of it all.With all the challenges and changes these days, how is technology helping stabilize healthcare?There is no doubt that healthcare is changing in the U.S. and around the world, and technology is critical to creating value. That value can range from bett
  
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• BrandPost: Is Splunk Big Data’s Big Solution?

  16-02-2018 22:07
  There’s been a security breach. It’s every CIO and CTO’s nightmare. Your tech team is at a standstill, with no idea what happened, and the clock is ticking. Suddenly, that quiet guy in the corner – yes, the one who wears the same black hoodie every day - has the answer. And how did he find it? Splunk – the Big Data analysis tool that may just be the best software technology a lone IT ranger ever sneaked in the back door of your enterprise.    &n
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How IT can both deliver business value and 'keep the lights on'

  16-02-2018 20:45
  While IT used to be limited to silos within an organization, today it is everywhere as more and more businesses become IT companies at heart. One of the dangers they face is that of “legacy suffocation,” where daily maintenance churn increasingly drains IT budgets and leaves diminishing funds for innovations. These companies gradually fall behind in the marketplace, sales slump, and it gets ever more difficult to attract the talent that could correct the situation.To highlight this
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to leverage weather to build a disaster recovery plan

  16-02-2018 20:37
  Each year, business continuity and disaster recovery professionals must plan for an increasing array of threats. As risks expand and diversify, professionals must incorporate more in-depth information into their disaster recovery plans to best prepare for the worst scenarios. While our recent business continuity survey found that cybersecurity is the top risk on most professionals’ minds, there is a more common and predictable threat: Severe weather.Severe weather and disaster recovery pl
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Becoming GDPR compliant quickly, effectively and risk-free

  16-02-2018 16:29
  The abbreviation “GDPR” is more and more often used in offices around the world. “GDPR” stands for General Data Protection Regulation, a new legislation approved by EU Parliament, which goes into effect in May 2018. As the date is approaching, discussions of how to achieve GDPR compliance is the hottest topic right now.Generally speaking, the main goal of the new legislation is the protection of freedoms and rights of all individuals located in the territory of European
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What does a CIO's 360 review even look like?

  16-02-2018 16:03
  While some organizations are beginning to question the value of annual performance reviews, the ritual persists at just about every business. A key element at many organizations has become the so-called 360 review.Amazingly this idea was actually developed in the 1950s, but they proved expensive and did not really take off until technology allowed them to be automated. Imagine making manual calculations and aggregations of performance on paper. But the question is whether these are valuable to
  
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• Chasing Grace Project highlights women in technology

  16-02-2018 12:05
  Jennifer Cloer has been a “storyteller” in the IT industry since the late 1990s. She was one of the original team members at the Linux foundation and became a prominent voice in the open source community, helping to distill complex concepts into easy-to-understand language and bring the ideas behind Linux to a wider audience and greater adoption. She’s even worked with Linus Torvalds himself.Now, she’s using her talents to share real stories of women in technology and he
  
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• Why your company needs a CHRO

  16-02-2018 12:00
  Uber. Binary Capital. Google. SoFi. These are just four high-profile HR disasters that devastated victims of harassment and negatively impacted each company’s brand, morale, engagement, and ability to attract and retain talent.While responsibility for the atrocious behavior behind these headlines lies with the perpetrators and those who enabled, facilitated and covered up these toxic incidents and hostile workplace cultures, a more strategic, better empowered HR department with C-suite re
  
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• 5 early warning signs of project failure

  16-02-2018 12:00
  Project failure is costly. While the Project Management Institute (PMI) last year reported that a 20 percent decrease in project failure rates versus the previous year, the amount of money lost to failed projects remains staggering, with an average of $97 million for every $1 billion invested in projects going to waste.There are many reasons why projects still fail but paying close attention to and addressing these five early warning signs immediately can help keep things moving in the right di
  
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