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• How CIOs transform IT for the digital era

  01-06-2018 21:35
  Companies are facing a digital imperative to revamp business operations to better serve customers. To accommodate these shifts, CIOs are making sweeping organizational changes, adding key roles, reskilling employees, setting up innovation labs and experimenting with emerging technologies to meet strategic mandates issued by their CEOs and boards.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Migrating data to the cloud: back to the future?

  01-06-2018 20:11
  I won big at a recent “casino night” event by betting all my chips and hitting blackjack on the last hand.  After lots of adulation from my peers for my courage, and a small prize (we weren’t playing for money), they asked me why I risked the bet: “There was nothing at stake,” I replied.The same isn’t true for large businesses planning their migration to the cloud.  The promise of on-demand capacity, low-cost storage, and a rich ecosystem of open-so
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Lessons learned from the 12th State of Agile Report

  01-06-2018 20:02
  The software industry has grown enormously over the last few decades. For many businesses, software development is the most important aspect of the organization.  The software of an enterprise, for example, must deliver real value to customers, and represents the future of the company’s innovation as well as the vital first impression given to new customers or prospective customers. CTOs, CEOs, CIOs, investors and all levels of company management should be very interested in followin
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Is your company a retailer? Should it be?

  01-06-2018 17:51
  If you walk into a traditional retail store, there’s inevitably a salesperson standing near a display, folding or rearranging something, who asks some variation of the magic question: “What can I help you find today?” Their goal isn’t necessarily to straighten the display, or even to be polite, but rather to establish a relationship with that customer, discover their pain points and help them solve whatever they happen to be—finding the perfect graduation dress, th
  
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• Is Snap the next Uber?

  01-06-2018 14:29
  When engineer Shannon Lubetich left Snap last fall, she didn’t go quietly. According to a recently released memo, Lubetich took aim at Snap’s culture and hinted that the company mirrors many others in Silicon Valley: sexist, racist, hetero- and cis-normative with halfhearted attempts to improve diversity and inclusion.Here’s her email, as published by Cheddar. I’ve added punctuation and lightly edited for clarity:The time for my (and I guess Tim's) departure is near, so
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Governance as code: keeping pace with the rate of change in the cloud

  01-06-2018 14:19
  In my two-plus decades as a technologist, I’ve remained focused on solving the challenges of complexity. How do you collapse complexity, even as it’s increasing with every day, month, year? This is true across all of IT, but particularly with respect to the cloud.The last decade has spawned fantastic innovation in the cloud, but also complexity like we’ve never experienced. This rapid pace of change—and growing complexity of decentralized implementation—have the po
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 4 most in-demand cybersecurity skills

  01-06-2018 13:00
  There were more data breaches last year than any year on record, and that trend shows no signs of slowing down. First, it was Yahoo which recently announced that all 3 billion user accounts (not 1 billion like initially reported), were impacted by a data breach in 2013. Then, we saw data breaches and cyber attacks hit Uber, Saks Fifth Avenue, Equifax, and even city governments in 2017. Considering that the global average cost of a data breach is $3.62 million, according to the 2017 Ponemon Cost
  
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• 10 machine learning success stories: An inside look

  01-06-2018 00:10
  Fewer technologies are hotter than artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) and several enterprises are harnessing the technology, which mimics the behavior of the human mind, to woo customers and bolster business operations. And the trend will only gain more traction in the years ahead, as AI and ML will be a top five investment priority for more than 30 percent of CIOs by 2020, according to Gartner.Intuit is using Amazon Web Services to help its QuickBooks Assistan
  
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