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• IDG Contributor Network: Strategic opportunities are waiting to be found. Are you ready?

  01-03-2018 21:50
  Oil reservoirs are available and merely waiting to be found by experts. Similarly, opportunities already exist for all organizations that want strategic outcomes. Here’s the key. Just as the oil industry needs an effective method to locate a reservoir, organizations need an effective method to find opportunities that have strategic potential.How did Airbnb generate revenues of $2.8 billion in 2017? “Airbnb has been breathing down hotels’ necks for years,” says a Digital
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The big picture – what the landscape looks like right now for CIOs building the digital store

  01-03-2018 20:43
  CIOs, strategists and IT specialists all have their own ideas about what they can learn from previous projects and where they think the business should be heading in the future, but the only way to get the big picture is to stand back and take in an objective view of today’s state of play.Looking good
  Retailers are facing huge challenges and may not be able to overcome their difficulties without a drastic turnaround. This message is now a regular theme in industry and national publication
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Digital is turning CIOs into business executives

  01-03-2018 17:01
  For 84 percent of CIOs at top-performing digital organizations, their role has substantially widened beyond IT, with innovation and transformation being their prime responsibilities, according to Gartner’s 2018 CIO Agenda report (registration required) — a global survey of approximately 3,160 CIO respondents from 98 countries.Nearly all (95 percent) of this year’s respondents expect the CIO role to change from operating to orchestrating IT as a result of digitization, which ge
  
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• BrandPost: Six lessons we’ve learned about the GDPR

  01-03-2018 16:47
  Data protection and privacy has always been a top priority at SAP. As well as being a leading cloud company responsible for processing large volumes of customer data safe and secure, we’re also a large global employer with nearly 88,000 employees around the world – and a significant proportion of these are based in the EU. Our existing global data protection and privacy policy outlines a minimum standard for handling personal data in compliance with current regulations. Like every o
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The capabilities and roles of world-class, master data management

  01-03-2018 16:39
  Data management enables the storing of everything from genomic data to Xbox scores to your Pandora playlists. If the data were unified, we’d have the beginning of master data management.Organizations have data throughout their environment that provide single views of key data entities common across their organization. Data management provides a single view of data. Master data management provides a complete view of your organization's data.Broadly speaking, civilization has witnessed five
  
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• BrandPost: New on the CIO Agenda: Helping Procurement Succeed in Digital Transformation

  01-03-2018 14:15
  With digital transformation becoming a key business strategy for enterprises, the CIO and IT decision makers may feel these days like the winners of the corporate popularity contest. They’re being asked to provide increasing amounts of support and advice to many internal business functions to ensure that their transformations are accomplished successfully.Procurement is no exception, and with its contribution to enterprise growth and competitiveness increasingly being recognized and prior
  
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• BrandPost: A 4-Step Formula for Better Collaboration Between IT and Procurement

  01-03-2018 14:15
  Over the past few years, technological developments like cloud-native platforms, AI-driven solutions, and robotic process automation (RPA) have been upgraded from “nice to have” to “must have” in the procurement function. Technology now drives procurement and has pushed a dramatic reengineering of its processes. As a result, the CPO’s remit has changed as well – much less tactical and much more strategic; more collaborative, especially with finance; and more
  
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• What is natural language processing? The business benefits of NLP explained

  01-03-2018 12:00
  What is natural language processing?
  Natural language processing (NLP) is the branch of artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with communication: How can a computer be programmed to understand, process, and generate language just like a person?While the term originally referred to a system’s ability to read, it’s since become a colloquialism for all computational linguistics. Subcategories include natural language generation (NLG) — a computer’s ability to create commu
  
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• 8 essential roles for a successful digital transformation

  01-03-2018 12:00
  Hiring enough software engineers, DevOps managers, cloud computing specialists and other roles required to facilitate IT transformations remain tall tasks for CIOs. But the talent crunch isn't limited to those with coding skills and algorithmic thinking: Enterprises are also struggling to hire staff with soft skills who can help shape the user experience around digital services.For a digital transformation to be successful, companies need storytellers, UX designers and product managers, among o
  
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