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• BrandPost: Communications in the Cloud

  20-06-2018 19:46
  With its recent acquisition of Level 3 Communications, CenturyLink is around a $24 billion communications and managed-services powerhouse, with approximately 450,000 miles of fiber -- and customers in more than 60 countries worldwide. However, many enterprises may still think of them as ‘just’ a telecom company. Given CenturyLink was an initial VMware Cloud Verified partner, there is clearly much more. We spoke with Michael Joffe, Senior Director of Product Management at CenturyLink
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: It’s the culture, stupid

  20-06-2018 18:52
  This is my debut blog for my new IDG blog, “Building the Future – Together.” I believe it will take all of us – men, women and transgender, young and old, from every neighborhood from Detroit to Orange County and every village from Africa to China – to build a digital future that is inclusive for us all.Our tremendous dilemma
  We exist in a digital world. From shopping and buying food to banking and managing our finances to education and more, our lives increasingly
  
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• BrandPost: Are You Overlooking a Key Opportunity to Speed Up Your Business?

  20-06-2018 18:47
  On the way to becoming customer centric, data driven and digitally transformed, a surprising percentage of companies are still inefficient. That’s the conclusion of a recent Forrester Research report: “Refocus Process Automation To Rescue Your Digital Transformation.”Understandably, many companies have focused their digital transformation efforts on customer engagement; sales and marketing;  and other revenue generators, while cost centers such as HR continue using repeti
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The phases of digital transformation

  20-06-2018 13:00
  Enterprise leaders are learning that digital transformation isn’t really about transforming from one thing into another—there is no end state.Rather, it’s about gaining the agility to continuously evolve—not to just bolt technology onto the existing business but rather to leverage technology to change how the business operates, top to bottom, today and in the future.This distinction is both important and, surveys suggest, challenging. How exactly does a business gain the
  
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• How CIOs can last longer than 4.3 years

  20-06-2018 12:00
  The opportunities and challenges associated with digital transformations dictate that there has never been a better time to be a CIO. Acutely aware of technology's importance in driving business differentiation, more CEOs are empowering CIOs with the resources to conduct sweeping business changes designed to boost customer engagement and grow revenues.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Everything you need to know about Generation Z

  20-06-2018 12:00
  Just when you thought you had millennials figured out, along comes Generation Z. But how exactly do they differ from millennials — if at all? What does this next generation of tech-savvy, socially aware and entrepreneurial workers want? How can you attract, hire and retain them?New research from culture, compensation and career monitoring site Comparably set out to answer those questions by gathering data between March 2016 and April 2018. The study divided the millennial generation into
  
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• BrandPost: Biggest Obstacle to Innovation, IT Leaders Say: "Keeping the Lights On"

  20-06-2018 01:05
  By David RoweBusinesses want to innovate faster because they know successful innovators tend to be the most successful businesses. Yet if you survey IT and finance leaders, as we did recently in conjunction with Vanson Bourne, a technology market research firm, you will find many are dissatisfied with the pace of innovation happening in their organizations. The tremendous potential of digital business is very much on their minds, but they see too much of their actual IT spending going to what&r
  
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