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• IDG Contributor Network: Why aren’t more women in computer science?

  04-06-2018 20:40
  When you think of computer scientists what image comes to mind? Is it a man or a woman?There was a steady growth of women entering professions including physical sciences, law, medicine and computer science until 1984 when something changed. The percentage of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged, even as the numbers of professional women kept rising. The event was the introduction of the personal computers, initially they were toys playing simple games which were marketing dire
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Let your people guide you when adding capabilities to the cloud

  04-06-2018 20:07
  As companies accelerate their migration to the cloud, they’re gaining more than efficiency and collaboration tools. In this new era of cloud adoption, it’s now possible to add powerful capabilities to the enterprise cloud, such as AI, blockchain, advanced analytics and IoT management.These new tools can transform businesses, but unlike migrating a database or enterprise resource planning (ERP) function to the cloud, for example, there’s no plug-and-play solution for adding the
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IT projects: do we actually ever learn 'lessons learnt'?

  04-06-2018 18:30
  Recent experience and the number of projects that fail to deliver suggest we could probably all do better at learning from lessons learnt.It is worth considering this for a moment – do you action the learnings or do challenges keep resurfacing time and again? Do you keep noting down the same points each project?It makes great sense to learn from lessons and instinctively you know this. Remember when you learned to ride a bike? How did the first attempt go? And the second and the third? Yo
  
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• 10 things you need in a CRM vendor proposal (and 3 you don't)

  04-06-2018 11:53
  If a significant customer relationship management (CRM) system project is on your agenda, here are checklist items that you need to look out for in vendor proposals.10 things a CRM proposal should include
  1. A project plan focused on user adoption. As I've written before, a CRM system without active users and a rich set of data is just an empty shell. This is not a matter of training or even indoctrination. In the project plan, every delivery phase should be focused on things that wil
  
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