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• Are you cooking with gas or is your top talent slowing you down?

  07-06-2018 16:28
  An NPR Marketplace story caught my eye a little while back. In the article, Aimee Drake, a manager at Portland’s three-location Cup & Saucer Café, explained just how hard it is to hire cooks in a tight labor market.“It is a very specialized skill, particularly for us, being a high-volume restaurant,” she said. Without enough cooks at the grill, frustrated customers wait longer for their orders. Even worse, there are days when a location can’t open at all. Havi
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: GDPR is a missed opportunity for real privacy protection

  07-06-2018 14:46
  The European Union’s well-publicized General Data Protection Regulation that went into force on May 25 is a much-needed update to its 1995 Data Protection Directive and in many ways a substantial improvement.  As leading privacy scholar Daniel Solove says it provides a “blueprint for protecting data that is more thorough and complete than nearly any other privacy law…”Unfortunately, it did not update its core premise of protecting privacy through a right of individ
  
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• Do you have what it takes to be an interim CIO?

  07-06-2018 12:19
  A growing number of IT leaders are joining the contracting community to become interim CIOs. Temporary leadership roles come with their own obvious challenges, such as speed-learning a company’s organizational structure, technology portfolio, and politics. But the interim CIO also has the opportunity to make vital changes in preparation for a permanent replacement. Success depends in large part on company culture, combined with the interim CIO’s skillset and adaptability.To read this
  
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• CIO playbook: 10 tips for leading IT in the digital era

  07-06-2018 12:00
  CIOs have never had greater opportunities to impact their businesses. With 81 percent of CEOs viewing technology as the biggest disruptive threat to their organizations, according to KPMG's new U.S. CEO Outlook 2018 report,  more IT leaders are getting leeway to invest in in strategic digital capabilities to reinvent their companies and disrupt competitors.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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