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• BrandPost: Digitally Empower Your Frontline Workers with the Right Tools

  21-03-2018 20:17
  Your frontline workers are the first to engage your customers, the first to represent your company’s brand, and the first to see your products or services in action. They’re your nurses, flight attendants, teachers, electricians, construction workers, sales associates or store managers, first responders, personal trainers, etc. Do your frontline workers have access to the necessary technology and tools that help them be as productive as possible?We’ve received lots of feedback
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 reasons why technology selections matter in digital transformation programs and tips on evaluating winning platforms

  21-03-2018 19:25
  Organizations need to implement faster, so it’s easy for technology leaders to underinvest in the time and effort applied to vendor analysis and technology selection. In addition, many technologies are being marketed and sold to non-IT executives that have limited skills to determine how technologies fit into the business architecture, assess the skills required to deliver business results, or manage a plan from proof of concept through adoption.There are many technologies out there to se
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The importance of integrating legacy enterprises

  21-03-2018 19:01
  Jeanne Ross of MIT-CISR suggests that for established companies, “competitive advantage (today) comes from taking capabilities that others may or may not have and integrating them in ways that make something extraordinarily powerful.”So where are CIOs at in terms of wiring together their enterprise business capabilities to win? And are their efforts generating the kind for business advantage that Jeanne describes? These are the questions that I asked in a recent #CIOChat.Linking dis
  
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• EU plans special tax on digital services revenue

  21-03-2018 18:35
  The European Union plans to make some digital service providers pay tax in the countries where they do business. The move that will affect not just Google and Facebook but major European companies too -- and perhaps make it easier for startups to enter the market. There are two parts to the proposal: A quick fix, under which businesses will pay tax on their revenue from certain digital activities that mostly escape taxation, accompanied by a broader reform of the business taxation to
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Female engineers need to fight their own battles

  21-03-2018 16:49
  There is no shortage of advice for women who want to forge technical careers in high tech.They should graduate from the best college, move to the cities where the gender pay differential is least, and join one or more advocacy groups that promote women in technology positions. If worse comes to worst, they can quit. But that hardly seems optimal.Women who have made their mark as software engineers or developers in the tech world say while females do have their work cut out to get the pay and re
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: TOGAF and defining a digital vision

  21-03-2018 15:34
  Oh, TOGAF, you nearly 700-page behemoth of controversial architecture framework text.  Why are you both so loved and loathed in the enterprise architecture world?  I like The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), but I do not view it as the be-all-end-all tome of EA.  This shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to those who either know me or read my last article, "The enterprise architecture paradox," as TOGAF is indeed a collection of “loosely coupled concepts arou
  
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• BrandPost: The Transformation of HR: Part 2 Overcoming data analytics challenges for smarter decision-making

  21-03-2018 15:23
  In Part 1 of this two-part series on redefining the HR function and its business value through technology, we honed in on an emerging dichotomy between HR organizations.On one hand, we have HR organizations that are boldly shaping the future of their business with cloud-based platforms that take advantage of intelligent automation (IA). But we also have others that struggle with uncertainty and an enterprise-level focus.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Empowering everyone to be a developer with continuous learning

  21-03-2018 14:47
  There’s never been a better time to be a developer. Companies today depend on great developers to drive customer loyalty, to build apps their customers love, to solve customer problems. But companies are experiencing a serious developer drought. According to Forrester Research we’ll need 500,000 more developers in the next decade.The problems behind this massive skills gap are systemic. First, the cost of higher-ed continue to rise, so careers in tech are increasingly only available
  
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• SAP settles licensing dispute with AB InBev

  21-03-2018 13:05
  SAP has quietly settled its $600 million software licensing dispute with Anheuser-Busch, the U.S. subsidiary of beverage conglomerate AB InBev.“The parties settled the dispute on 30 June 2017 and the matter is now closed,” AB InBev said in its 2017 Annual Report, published Tuesday.[ Comparison shopping? See "The best ERP systems:10 enterprise resource planning systems compared," with evaluations and user reviews. | Learn why companies are increasingly moving to cloud ERP and how to
  
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• MLB hits home run by shifting its communications to a private cloud

  21-03-2018 12:30
  Every industry is being impacted by digital transformation. The ability to improve the experience of those who interact with organizations is now a top priority for organizations of all sizes in almost all verticals. The first step in digital transformation is to modernize the underlying infrastructure, since this will bring the necessary levels of agility, scale and resiliency required to fuel digital initiatives.The sports and entertainment industry is certainly not immune to this trend. In f
  
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• BrandPost: Creating the CIO/CPO Connection: Meet the Chief Procurement Officer

  21-03-2018 12:00
  Who is involved in today’s technology research and purchasing decisions? Increasingly, business units must collaborate with IT on both on-premises and cloud solutions. It’s no different with procurement, where a new partnership between the CIO and the CPO can drive new business value and open new opportunities for innovation.From the CIO’s perspective, digital transformation impacts the entire business – albeit some departments are easier and faster to transform than oth
  
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• Organizing for digital industrial leadership

  21-03-2018 11:15
  Once you’ve pulled all of the traditional levers of productivity and you are stagnating at 1 percent annual productivity gains, where do you go? For oil and gas giant Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), the answer is digital industrial leadership. Jennifer Hartsock, CIO, explains how she uses a product management model and strong business partnership to leverage data and analytics for real business outcomes.What is “digital industrial leadership”?
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• 9 machine learning myths

  21-03-2018 11:00
  Machine learning is proving so useful that it's tempting to assume it can solve every problem and applies to every situation. Like any other tool, machine learning is useful in particular areas, especially for problems you’ve always had but knew you could never hire enough people to tackle, or for problems with a clear goal but no obvious method for achieving it.Still, every organization is likely to take advantage of machine learning in one way or another, as 42 percent of executives rec
  
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