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• IDG Contributor Network: How much freedom should be given to microservice teams?

  22-06-2018 19:47
  Pre-microservices: complete centralization
  Until recently, IT was inherently a centralized function within an enterprise. Taking an application to production was an enormously expensive and lengthy process, requiring support from dozens of teams, millions in capital expenditures, and many months or even years of time. This led to CIOs standardizing on specific software and hardware products, multi-year vendor contracts, extended negotiations with vendors, centralized architecture review boards,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 3 ways CIOs can change the CEO’s perception of IT from cost center to strategic

  22-06-2018 17:12
  I fielded a question at last week’s Enterprise Transformation Exchange on how CIO can get their CEO and the Board to think of IT more strategically and beyond a cost center. While many CIO have had success moving from back office support functions and taking on strategic roles, others are still struggling to get their leaders to escape IT’s outdated mission of “keeping the lights on” or just “supporting the business”.A recent survey of 199 IT leaders confirms
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The eye-opening new world of alternative investor data

  22-06-2018 14:09
  Investors, whether they be day traders at home or managers of large hedge funds, are data hungry. They pore over earnings reports and company filings and jump to read news alerts. If they’re on the super-sophisticated side, they may be using data models. And if they’re on the cutting edge, they may be using new “alternative” data sets to inform their decisions.The emerging alternative data category turns the traditional approach to investment research on its head, provid
  
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• Tech industry should stand up and speak out against injustice

  22-06-2018 12:15
  Back in November 2016, I wrote about the “mixed signals” tech companies were sending in response to the presidential election. How GrubHub’s then-CEO Matt Maloney quickly and forcefully spoke out against bigotry and hatred, and how IBM’s Ginny Rometty went instead for a strategy of appeasement.I’ve also written about the tech industry’s failures to consider their moral and ethical responsibility to ensure technology is used to create a more just, equal, and s
  
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• CIO Spotlight: Chris Conry, Fuze

  22-06-2018 12:01
  Name: Chris ConryCompany: FuzeJob title: Chief Information OfficerTime in current role: One year in AprilLocation: BostonTo read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 6 steps to getting digital culture right

  22-06-2018 12:00
  Technology is fast becoming one of the most important tools for modern businesses, and digital transformation is the means by which your organization can leverage technology to its full potential. But not every company that undertakes a digital transformation is set up for success. To truly transition, your organization must overhaul its culture first.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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