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• IDG Contributor Network: 6 ways to improve data management and interim operational reporting during an M&A transaction

  02-05-2018 19:51
  When considering the impact of executing a strategic acquisition for your company, access to data and visibility to operational reporting is paramount.  Not having it would be like driving a car without seeing the dashboard.  While you may know where you are going, you may not be clear on how quick you can get there, or even if there is enough gas in the tank to get you to your destination.   Even worse, your competitors may have faster cars, with more insightful dashboards,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 imperatives for CIOs in this ‘measure everything’ era

  02-05-2018 17:29
  You’ve heard the old adage, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure,” and its corollary, “Without measurement, everything is a guessing game.” No executive wants to be in the position of guessing how his or her business unit is doing.Thus, the business world has entered a new era where everything – from websites and retail floors to automobiles and manufacturing lines and more – is being “instrumented” or “sensorized&rdquo
  
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• BrandPost: Transitioning from Agile Development to Agile Business

  02-05-2018 14:32
  Many companies in the early stages of agile development often focus their efforts on pockets of opportunity within existing business lines, or new areas in which they hope to gain early leadership. That often leads to early wins and excitement, but scaling up to address the enterprise at large may seem elusive.Agile development is often initiated as a pilot project with a small team, to test out new methodologies and tools aimed at bringing new products and services to market faster. Typically,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What #GDPRjokes tell us about the coming regulations

  02-05-2018 13:19
  GDPR humor
  The hashtag #GDPRjokes is currently trending on Twitter. Here is a flavor: “Knock knock. Who's there? John. The following question is optional and is not a precondition to being let in. John who?”; “Doctor, Doctor!” “Why have you captured my professional title when it isn’t relevant to your stated use of my data?” It seems there is no traditional joke template that cannot be re-written to take account of the imminent General Data Protection R
  
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• Why customer service needs artificial intelligence

  02-05-2018 12:30
  There is no hotter topic with CIOs than digital transformation. Going digital has become the primary mandate for IT leaders as companies look to leapfrog one another. When it comes to digital transformation, there is no single project that can take a company from where they are today to being fully digitized. Rather, digital transformation is a set of smaller projects that will eventually lead to the evolution of the company.Although projects can vary widely by industry vertical, many of them h
  
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• AI in the supply chain: Logistics gets smart

  02-05-2018 12:00
  For California-based Infinera, 2017 was not an easy year. The manufacturer of telecom equipment saw revenue drop from $870 million in 2016 to $740 million in 2017. Gross margin went down from 45 percent to 33 percent. In the end, the company, which employs about 2,000 people across the U.S., Canada, China, India, and Sweden, reported a net loss of $195 million for the year, compared to a net loss of $24 million in 2016.
  To turn things around, one of the things the company is focused on is techno
  
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• 6 business analyst certifications to advance your analytics career

  02-05-2018 12:00
  Certifications for business analysts are still emerging, but there’s already a handful of organizations offering exams to certify your business analytics skills. Business analysts help organizations make the most of the data they collect by finding trends, patterns and errors that might otherwise go unnoticed. Successful business analysts have the skills to work with data, the acumen to understand the business side of the organization and the ability to communicate that information to peo
  
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