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• BrandPost: 5 Tips for Keeping Remote Employees Engaged and Effective

  08-05-2018 21:02
  When it comes to working remotely, 16th century poet John Donne may have said it best: “No man is an island entire of itself …” Yet too often, remote workers exist on virtual islands, cut off from the day-to-day rhythm of business and one step removed from company and team goals. This experience can be isolating for employees -- and costly for business.Keeping remote teams on-task and engaged is a problem worth solving -- and fast. The number of U.S. residents who work remote
  
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• BrandPost: Not Ready for GDPR? There’s Still Hope

  08-05-2018 20:35
  For months it’s been looming. Now, effectively, it’s here. And only a scant few organizations are ready for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).As the GDPR compliance deadline goes into effect this month, just 11% of 700 organizations surveyed by ESG earlier this year said they were completely prepared, and only 33% said their incident response plan meet GDPR requirements. The potential fines for non-compliance (and breaches) are steep: 20 million eu
  
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• BrandPost: Essential Keys to Hybrid Cloud Survival

  08-05-2018 20:33
  The hybrid cloud approach, using a combination of on-premise, private, and third-party cloud computing services to tailor cloud delivery to fit the varied needs within the organization, is more popular than ever. Today, more than 65% of companies implement a hybrid cloud environment, according to Forrester Research, and that is expected to climb.But many companies also struggle with the complexities of hybrid cloud delivery models that result from adding internal or external cloud platforms to
  
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• BrandPost: Digital Transformation: How Is Your Organization Adapting?  

  08-05-2018 18:50
  Talk of digital transformation is everywhere—at conferences, at the watercooler, in the boardroom. And organizations are at various stages in the process. Some are appointing a chief digital officer (CDO), while others are looking to their CIO or CTO to lead the way. But successful transformation isn’t about a functional role; it’s a way of thinking.Changing perspectives, however, is often the biggest stumbling block to any transformative initiative. In a 2017 Harvey Nash/KPMG
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: AI and the future of work

  08-05-2018 18:26
  AI means lots of different things to different people. But the really important development in the last decade has been the spectacular improvements in machine learning, a version of AI that allows software to exhibit cognitive capacities through training by examples.  The most stunning advances have been in pattern recognition, such as voice or facial recognition, and also in cognitive performance with programs such as AlphaGo Zero, that basically taught itself to play Go better than any
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: State of the corner office: the evolution of the Chief Operating Officer

  08-05-2018 17:40
  In the last decade, traditional C-Suite titles have expanded to include new roles like Chief Brand Officer, Chief Diversity Officer and Chief Happiness Officer. These changes in leadership functions reflect new priorities for businesses and underscore the importance of a C-Suite that can adapt and evolve to better meet the needs of shareholders, employees, customers and other constituencies.  The COO role is not exempt from the leadership transformation. Historically thought of as the
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Onboarding your new co-worker – AI

  08-05-2018 17:36
  As artificial intelligence (AI) makes its way into the business world, it helps to view this process as onboarding a new and highly qualified team member. There is typically an initial training period where the individual learns their new role as well as how the business works and its values. Organizations have processes and people in place to impart this kind of knowledge on new colleagues and help them learn the ropes, so they can communicate and collaborate effectively with others.To a certa
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IT’s 4 potential roles in digital transformation

  08-05-2018 15:49
  There are four distinct roles that IT can potentially play in its company’s Digital Transformation (DX) activities.  These roles, illustrated in Figure 1, are Observer, Requestor, Implementor and Leader.   The role that IT is allowed to play is based on two primary determining factors, IT’s organizational clout within the overall company and IT’s willingness and ability to innovate. Eric BloomFigure 1To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Digital transformation is driving hybrid cloud investment trends

  08-05-2018 13:15
  Hybrid cloud is one of those terms that seem to have different definitions depending on who you speak to. I simply look at it as an environment that enables you to run your applications and share data simultaneously across multiple clouds. Not to oversimplify it, but organizations need flexibility and elasticity in the cloud when dealing with and responding to the real time changes and demands of the business. In fact, hybrid cloud is one of the emerging digital workplace trends for 2018 and be
  
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• Should you let IT teams choose their own collaboration tools?

  08-05-2018 12:00
  Collaboration is often most productive when it is driven from the bottom up. IT staff given the freedom to explore collaboration and team communication tools are adept at customizing and specializing the solutions they use to manage their workflows. CIOs who dictate which collaboration tools IT departments should use may be slowing down workflows, building resentment and undermining productivity and engagement.While security and “shadow IT” concerns remain, loosening the reins to gi
  
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