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• BrandPost: 5 Bottlenecks to Business Agility, and How to Avoid Them

  16-05-2018 23:07
  Let’s imagine that your organization is made out of clay. Can you re-shape it to respond to changing business needs, or has it hardened into a state where any change causes it to crack or break? Agility is essential for quickly responding to changes coming from both inside and outside the organization. Without agility, you’re stuck with rigid skills, tools, and processes that will likely break — not flex and transform — when pressure is applied. Unfortunately, many busin
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How you can set your digital transformation project back to the Stone Age

  16-05-2018 19:30
  Older businesses are rapidly modernizing and automating their operations using technologies such as cloud computing, machine learning, sensors and smart devices. But those pushing these digital transformation projects need to think through exactly what problems they aim to solve, what pain can be eliminated, and the best way to do so.One thing they should not do is merely replicate what has been done manually in the digital world, said David Wilson, chief innovation officer for Bechtel, a leadi
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: On-prem serverless – missing the point?

  16-05-2018 19:00
  Serverless and containers are two of the fastest growing trends in IT. With several options available, including both public and private cloud options, which is the best for your organization? Are containers the future, or just a bridge leading toward serverless? As a business leader, it’s important to to consider the business value of each option. To do this, let’s look at the history of distributed server architecture and how different trends have affected the operational requirem
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The societal impact of AI

  16-05-2018 13:02
  In "Merging with the machine," I highlighted how the exponential acceleration of technology, combined with a focus on augmenting humanity with technology is driving a future where we begin to merge with the machine.In fact, as I pointed out, we are already augmented, by the smartphone you may be reading this on. This can drive significant changes to our time on earth, both positive AND negative.Technologists are often optimists by nature; it is a necessary trait to enable innovation. Otherwise,
  
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• How to make the most of meetings between IT and your business partners

  16-05-2018 12:15
  When Sanjay Shringarpure joined E. & J. Gallo Winery as CIO in 2015, he was curious about the cadence of the business.“I wanted to know what our cycles were for budgeting, sales and production, so that IT could develop a matching rhythm,” he says.He knew that if the company were in harvest mode, for example, the marketing department’s IT requests would not be prioritized. Or if the company were focused on marketing, the supply chain department’s IT resource needs mig
  
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• What is predictive analytics? Transforming data into future insights

  16-05-2018 12:00
  What is predictive analytics?
  Predictive analytics is a category of data analytics aimed at making predictions about future outcomes based on historical data and analytics techniques such as statistical modeling and machine learning. The science of predictive analytics can generate future insights with a significant degree of precision. With the help of sophisticated predictive analytics tools and models, any organization can now use past and current data to reliably forecast future trends and
  
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• 7 tips for battle-testing new technologies

  16-05-2018 12:00
  Courting new technologies is a risk for IT leaders, who must wisely allocate finite budgets to hardware, software and services they believe will support business operations. Bad bets can set the company back years and ultimately prove catastrophic for CIOs.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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