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• BrandPost: SharePoint: Key Benefits and Migration Tips

  24-05-2018 22:23
  Your staff works remotely, moves from one client location to another, and uses various devices to get work done. To ensure that your staff can access the necessary content when and where they need it the most, many organizations adopt a Cloud-based content management solution, like SharePoint. When using SharePoint, the content your staff needs can be accessed via any device, from anywhere, with no restrictions (as long as they have a Wi-Fi connection and the authority to access the content).
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• IDG Contributor Network: 4 lessons for CIOs of the future

  24-05-2018 21:45
  Chief information officers face a bewildering array of technologies and sometimes-competing demands coming at them at what may seem to be light speed.The stakes are high. CIOs are charged with evaluating and implementing a buzzword-laden list of technologies—artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain—at a time when virtually every company feels the need to modernize its processes or die trying. Ok, that may be overstating the case, but not by much, in a world where incumb
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: We can rebuild vacations – we have the technology

  24-05-2018 21:11
  There was a time when the physical transportation of information was the limit for the speed of business. A message between companies had to leave a worker's desk, go through their company's mail room, the post office, another post office, the recipient's mailroom, and may even be filtered by a secretary before it reached the intended recipient. In those days, when you went on vacation, you could give your colleagues a phone number for your hotel if you wanted to, but other than that, they coul
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Creating an organization with service excellence as its foundation

  24-05-2018 20:34
  In "Service excellence in service management," I wrote about why service excellence matters and provided some first steps you can take towards it. Because of all the positive reactions and follow-up questions I received after presenting about this topic at the HDI conference in Las Vegas in April, a follow-up piece with some further steps makes sense.Creating a positive culture in a service management environment is an extremely important part of the path to provide service excellence to users.
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: From federated identity to consolidated identity: a look at the past, present and future

  24-05-2018 18:59
  Today, it is common to use your Google, LinkedIn, or Facebook identity to log into a website. However, in the first generation of the commercial Internet, this was not the standard experience. Virtually every internet service required users to create an account with a username and password. For services that were only used occasionally, having to create this account and remember all the associated passwords often created friction for new users.The invention of federated identity for the consume
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: China and the West are converging on consumer data protection policy

  24-05-2018 17:36
  The escalating economic and political tensions between China and the U.S have obscured a surprising and largely unrecognized area of convergence.  China is moving toward the West on consumer data protection policy.A recent op ed piece in FT summed up the prevalent, but mistaken, idea that “privacy simply isn’t an issue in China.” Baidu’s Robin Li also reflected this erroneous view with his recent comment that “the Chinese people are more open or less sensitive
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Does your startup really need a CMO?

  24-05-2018 15:25
  Hiring the right people for your startup is necessary to bring your dream to life. But hiring at the right time is equally important. Do you need a CMO now? Or is that overkill - both budget and skills wise. The answer depends on two things - what stage of the product lifecycle you are in and how much marketing expertise your current team has.  Can you handle it?
  Some common reasons startups feel the need to hire a CMO:
  To attract your first round of clients/users
  To create a buzz around y
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to overcome the bottlenecks between data lakes and analytics for customer engagement

  24-05-2018 13:30
  Competing in the business world today is all about knowing your customers. Consumers have come to expect personalized service and a satisfying experience, and anything less from the brands they interact with might cause them to take their business elsewhere.Many organizations in a variety of industries struggle to access the customer data they need to provide personalized and contextual experiences across all touchpoints. Recently, data lakes have been touted as the best way to manage the varie
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Foreseeing the future of EdTech

  24-05-2018 13:00
  In this article, I want to talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it is transforming the training and education sector. Before we get to that part, let’s quickly take a look at how formal and informal education has evolved side by side throughout history.Evolution of formal and informal education
  Formalized education has existed for thousands of years. Greek philosophers used to deliver lectures and teach their students long before the time of the Romans. It goes back hundreds of
  
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• 8 top-paying process and project management skills

  24-05-2018 12:00
  8 top-paying process and project management skillsImage by IDG / Getty ImagesDespite an overall leveling off of tech salaries in 2017, demand for specialized skills remains strong, translating to rising pay for IT pros with cloud, process management, and big data skills, according to the 2018 Dice Tech Salary Survey. In these areas, where skills are outpacing the national average, “salaries for skills where employers have to compete for a limited supply do come with a premium,” says
  
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• 7 change management certifications to boost your IT career

  24-05-2018 12:00
  Businesses are constantly evolving their use of technology, resulting in almost constant organizational change. But implementing change in any company, large or small, will require skilled professionals who understand the intricacies of change management.Change management is relevant across multiple industries, but it’s particularly important for businesses looking to improve processes, increase efficiency and reduce errors and risk in IT, project management and development.
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• BrandPost: Managing Private Clouds

  24-05-2018 00:45
  It seems every organization sets its sights on ‘the cloud’. The question is, do they know why? To answer that question, we spoke with Kaushik Balasubramanian, senior director of product development at Rackspace.Kaushik says that businesses are looking to get out of the data-center business and the associated rising costs of managing their own infrastructure. Many of these businesses are looking for someone else to manage their workloads. For most of these customers, the cloud is a c
  
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