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• IDG Contributor Network: Who ‘owns’ the healthcare consumer of the future?

  16-04-2018 17:55
  CVS and Aetna are merging. Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway are forming a joint venture aimed at reducing health care costs and improving outcomes. Cigna is acquiring Express Scripts. The proposed mergers promise a revolution that could fundamentally alter the current healthcare landscape and the relationships between providers and patients. With these giant corporations betting big on healthcare, a logical question to ask is: What’s behind it all?The answer is simple: owner
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to determine the value of enterprise data

  16-04-2018 17:43
  Today’s enterprises have an enormous amount of data with which to work, including traditional, structured data, as well as dark data that enterprises are now lighting up with breakthroughs in natural language processing, data extraction, and classification technologies.Capitalizing on insights derived from data, users across an enterprise can make better decisions, evaluate risk, and find ways to engage and keep customers. While this information is certainly valuable, what is the exact va
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Gender diversity doesn’t happen without advocacy

  16-04-2018 15:00
  In my "It’s time to walk the walk,", I wrote about the need for companies to move from talk to action on increasing overall diversity in their IT organizations and their leadership teams. However, the urgency behind this issue is not simply one of fairness and equal opportunity. This is an existential issue for corporations that are fighting to win the War for Talent and to have the right people in the right roles to be competitive today and tomorrow. Simply put: companies that aren&rsquo
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why the customer experience is the future of monitoring

  16-04-2018 14:51
  From the earliest days of the modern computing era, IT and business leaders understood that once you deployed technology to run an important part of the business, you needed some way of monitoring and managing that technology.There’s been a robust market for monitoring solutions ever since.As the technology stack became more complex and as organizations deployed technology in ever-more critical functions, the relative importance of monitoring solutions continued to rise. It was a simple e
  
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• BrandPost: Four Best Practices to Reduce the Pain of an Oracle License Audit

  16-04-2018 12:00
  By Jeremy SaylerThe words “license audit” are guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of any Oracle customer today. At best, going through the audit process is a hassle. At worst, it can result in an unexpected hit to the IT budget – even if you’ve been trying in good faith to play by the vendor’s rules.Across the globe, CIOs are working to optimize IT budgets and reduce the burden of costly annual vendor maintenance fees. They want to focus on driving innovation
  
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• 11 bad hiring habits that will burn you

  16-04-2018 12:00
  Ask IT experts what’s wrong with the hiring process and the same problems appear. It takes too long. Job descriptions aren’t on point. The hiring tools are out of date. There’s too little communication. And diversity goals remain unmet.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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