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• BrandPost: Agile: Myths and Reality

  20-03-2018 23:53
  Businesses across all industries are becoming more agile—faster to see and pursue opportunities, willing to fail and learn fast, and increasingly responsive to customer needs—except when they aren’t! In a 2017 survey by Gatepoint Research, 70% of predominantly senior decision makers indicated they know that agile organizations can respond rapidly and effectively to dynamic business conditions, but fewer than half said their organizations were using agile methodologies to devel
  
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• BrandPost: IT Success: The 6 Guiding Principles for Effective SaaS Management

  20-03-2018 18:33
  Today, SaaS is the system of record.Organizations are trusting their mission critical data—like employee, customer, identity, and finance data—to SaaS applications. But as the world shifts to SaaS, IT is finding that industry best practices do not exist yet. There’s no ITIL for the modern SaaS environment.And there’s a lot that IT professionals don’t know about SaaS management. In fact, 78% of IT professionals are either teaching themselves how to manage SaaS apps
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: In ‘trustless’ payment systems, trust is still necessary

  20-03-2018 17:35
  One of the easiest ways to explain blockchain to an amateur is simply to describe it as method of transferring assets in a trustless manner. However, this definition presupposes that the blockchain initiate in question understands exactly why trust is so necessary, and how it was enforced before blockchain came about. Basically, trust must be established to ensure that the correct party is making the transaction, and that their currency is real. In a person to person exchange—the sale of
  
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• BrandPost: The 3 Scariest Security Blind Spots in SaaS Environments and Why They Exist

  20-03-2018 17:08
  Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is transforming the modern workplace as we know it.But as SaaS adoption continues to rise and empower collaboration, it also creates hard-to-see threats and unforeseen challenges for IT.Recent news headlines (like Hundreds of Companies Expose PII, Private Emails Through Google Groups Error, or Why Slack, Chatbots, And Freelance Workers Have Your IT Department Freaking Out) are indicative of these threats looming in the modern workplace. And with limited visibility i
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Artificial intelligence gives HR an opportunity to transform the enterprise

  20-03-2018 15:37
  [A special thanks to the co-authors Marissa Gilbert Golub and Bradley Hamilton.]Technological innovations have impacted almost every aspect of life over the past century. The steam engine and electricity allowed total labor productivity to grow at more than 2 percent per year and the total number of weekly work hours to drop from 60 to 40.The concept of artificial intelligence is not new but has recently come into view as a technology that is capable of revolutionizing the world and bringing a
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Lessons from M&A IT: How to use a value creation approach to drive your IT agenda

  20-03-2018 15:26
  In most cases, CIOs rightly focus on aligning IT strategy with the overall strategy for the business, and they attempt to meet those objectives in the most efficient manner possible. However, management’s short-term financial targets (eg. quarterly earnings) often force IT leaders to look for quick solutions to meet specific problems, as opposed to building a longer-term vision and executing upon it. Once the “short-term” solution is applied, however, it frequently become
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: United Nations blockchain pioneer prevents fraud of international aid payments

  20-03-2018 12:00
  Recently, I interviewed Joseph Thompson, co-founder and CEO of AID:Tech, a Tech Stars alum who also won the James Wolfensohn Game Changer Award and UN Sustainable Development Goal Pioneer 2017 for blockchain technology. Joseph has worked for BearingPoint, Ericsson, Litmus Group and PA Consulting Group. He sits on the board of Imprez.ie and is a member of the Irish Bitcoin Foundation. Joseph is a graduate of the Dublin Institute of Technology and National College of Ireland. What’s more, h
  
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• The two-track approach to encouraging career growth — and employee retention

  20-03-2018 11:00
  Every business needs to plan for future management — but it’s easy to forget about technical employees in the process. If you focus promotions only on management-related roles, you risk losing the loyalty of talented technical employees who may have little interest in managerial positions.The reality is that a sense of career growth is vital for all employees, so you need to create a plan that facilitates growth for leadership and non-leadership positions alike, says Brian Murphy, f
  
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