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• IDG Contributor Network: What you must know about business travel in an age of surveillance and censorship

  26-04-2018 20:00
  Ever since devices became the mainstay of road warriors, business travel has always been a minefield when it comes to IT security, with new threats constantly arising. The rise of “bring your own device”--now the popular acronym “BYOD”--starting in 2009 meant an exponential increase in every organization’s attack surface as enterprises inherited the device vulnerabilities of individual employees. In 2014, we all got a wake-up call from DarkHotel, reminding us
  
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• What is compensation planning? A guide to retaining top talent

  26-04-2018 19:33
  It’s a simple formula: If you’re not paying valued employees market wages, you will lose them. And the best way to ensure you’re paying competitive rates is to build a compensation plan that reflects the true value of your employees.Savvy companies know a well-structured compensation plan can help attract and retain elite talent, especially in fast-paced industries such as technology, says Mykkah Herner, modern compensation evangelist for cloud compensation software solutions
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Assess before you leap

  26-04-2018 18:00
  I came across this quote by Yogi Berra the other day, and it truly encapsulates the intent behind this article:
  “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up somewhere else.”
  As organizations strive to continue responding to market changes and opportunities, there is an increasing need for solid operational and strategic information to better support the business. As a result, many organizations are embarking on enterprise data initiatives to modernize their capa
  
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• Blockchain for midmarket companies: Identifying use cases

  26-04-2018 16:50
  Wal-Mart began using blockchain to track pork production from China to dinner tables in America. Today, midmarket grocers in the U.S. are, at the urging of the National Pork Board, looking to understand the retail giant’s model for food supply chain management.James Alexander, senior vice president at Info-Tech Research Group, helped succinctly separated the noise from the reality of Bitcoin as the cryptocurrencies news coverage exploded late last year amid record investment return rates.
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 enterprise trends that will drive digital transformation

  26-04-2018 16:12
  The world’s biggest commercial brands and consumer technology companies are constantly being challenged and upended by disruption. The same is true in the B2B world. In fact, a recent survey revealed that 85% of enterprise decision-makers feel they have just two years to make significant inroads on digital transformation before suffering financially or falling behind their competitors.For enterprise organizations, a digitally transformed future must be a data-driven one. Whoever can use t
  
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• BrandPost: The Characteristics of an Agile Enterprise

  26-04-2018 15:02
  Every company wants to be an agile business, able to quickly take advantage of opportunities and stay ahead of customer demands. But for most, this requires fundamental changes in thinking and processes.For most, agility goes hand in hand with digital transformation and the ability to quickly develop new products and services to meet changing customer needs and get a jump on competitors in pursuing new opportunities.As they seek to become fleet of foot and more digital, enterprises must create
  
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• BrandPost: Utilizing Containers for HPC and Deep Learning Workloads

  26-04-2018 14:01
  In application-development circles, containers have gotten a lot of attention in recent years — for many good reasons. To name a few advantages, containers simplify and accelerate the process of building and isolating applications. They are lightweight and come with low overhead. And they enable easier application sharing and reproducibility, because the container image includes both the application and its development environment.Especially when it comes to deep learning (DL) frameworks,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Avoid cat herding: adopt a consistent decision-making process for project management

  26-04-2018 13:26
  Most business decisions are made by more than one person. Getting input and buy-in from a group of people can be a daunting task considering how much human psychology and politics influence the decision-making process. To complicate things further, decisions are often made under time pressure. People are rarely at their best when stressed, provoking decision-makers to rely on their gut feelings for snap judgments.It’s no wonder problems arise when decisions aren’t tracked. When you
  
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• IT culture change key to Merakey’s digital transformation

  26-04-2018 12:00
  Most CIOs waste little time putting their stamp on IT departments when they join new companies. But Tom Morgan faced different challenges when he joined Merakey, which provides mental health services and education, in 2015. As the new vice president of IT, Morgan first had to ease tensions between the nonprofit organization's 10,000 clinicians and office workers and the tech staff, whom clinicians and office workers claimed were barely responsive to help requests.To read this article in full, pl
  
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• How many tech execs does your board really need?

  26-04-2018 12:00
  How many techies need to be part of your company’s leadership team? From CIO to CSO to CTO, there’s no shortage of tech titles to choose from. But does your company really need all these roles? CJ Das with Simple Tire says no: Tech needs representation in the C-suite, yes, but not a lot of people. His title is chief information officer (CIO) and that’s the only upper management position he says his company needs.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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