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• IDG Contributor Network: Driving effective organizational diversity

  11-04-2018 20:58
  The members of the #CIOChat are diverse and worldly. We have, fortunately, several women CIOs as our most active participants. They asked recently that we talk about organizational diversity and best practices for diversity. This post represents a summary of that discussion.The value of diversity
  CIOs said that diverse teams create better outcomes and more effective organizations. They feel diverse organizations have a greater free-flow of ideas and this fact leads to better problem solving. CI
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IT effectiveness – the engine of digital transformation – is ailing. Why?

  11-04-2018 20:28
  In the May 1963 issue of Harvard Business Review, the renowned management consultant Peter F. Drucker coined the term business effectiveness as an attempt to achieve the best possible economic results from the available resources. In a similar vein, I refer to IT effectiveness as the strive to achieve the best business outcomes from the available technology spending, including investments and expenses.Despite the awe-inspiring pace of the digital revolution, mounting evidence suggests that the
  
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• Equal Pay Day 2018: Good news and bad news

  11-04-2018 20:10
  Equal Pay Day made its appearance again — the day in 2018 through which U.S. white women had to work to earn what the average U.S. white man earned in 2017. Black women’s Equal Pay Day isn’t until Aug. 20, and Latinas Equal Pay Day is Nov. 1.Depending on whom you ask, the gender wage gap is between 18 percent and 20 percent across all industries, though it is narrower in the technology sector. The gap widens, though, as women gain experience, according to a Hired report. And a
  
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• BrandPost: Engaging Procurement Users in an Experience-Focused Workplace

  11-04-2018 14:45
  The consumerization of IT may have been championed by millennials, but its impact is felt by every generation of workers, from boomers to Gen Zs. And as users gain more experience with touch-enabled devices, business units can drive up productivity by using tools that incorporate the same technology and/or user experience (UX).  The question is, how will this impact the procurement function? In other words, how can CIOs and CPOs work together to source and deploy procurement technology sol
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Enhanced IT productivity through the use of low/no-code software development

  11-04-2018 13:19
  I was very excited to schedule a meeting with the former CIO of a large pharmaceutical company, with approximately $1 billion in revenue, regarding has experience implementing the Quick Base no-code development platform.For those not familiar with low/no-code development, it facilitates the development of application software with a graphical user interface, instead of writing traditional procedural code.  This software development process has the dual benefit of faster development and the
  
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• How #MeToo and #TimesUp impact IT hiring

  11-04-2018 12:21
  Susan Fowler’s blog post about her “very strange year at Uber” went public over a year ago, on February 19, 2017. Since then, we've seen a tidal wave of other women speaking out about sexism in almost every industry you can think of.While naysayers claim that social movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp will result in companies refusing to hire women, what’s actually happening is quite the opposite, says Maia Josebachvili, Vice President of marketing and strategy at hiring
  
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• State of the CIO, 2018: IT-business alignment (finally) gets real

  11-04-2018 12:00
  For years, CIOs have been chasing the Holy Grail of IT-business alignment with limited success and plenty of indigestion.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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