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• IDG Contributor Network: Are you passionately curious? It's IT project management's success secret

  28-06-2018 19:00
  It’s true, isn’t it? The more passionate about a task you are, the more likely you are to succeed. Even doing the dishes can be a chore or a fun twenty minutes reviewing the day with a loved one. Same with IT projects!I’ve been involved in some REALLY exciting IT advances. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always brought my A game and been REALLY proud of the delivered project and then, strangely, found myself getting EVEN MORE excited about the next project that had a less
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The GDPR and the effect on US ad tech

  28-06-2018 18:40
  It’s not just you. Since the European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) went into effect on May 25, companies have been ramping up those opt-in boxes, website banners, and emails updating you on the additional permissions needed to track your activity and process your data. And the user experience isn’t the only thing that’s changed. As the impact of the GDPR continues to be felt around the globe by both companies and consumers, it’s crucial to
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Secrets of managing really talented people

  28-06-2018 18:36
  Managers frequently complain that the toughest part of their jobs is managing underperforming individuals.   In my experience, that’s actually not true.  It’s usually pretty easy to characterize the gaps between job expectations and actual job performance, and to provide underperforming individuals with the coaching they need to bridge those gaps.  Conversations with underperformers may be difficult, but the empirical evidence that underpins such discussions is u
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Open government data is essential, but policies should not discourage public-private data partnerships

  28-06-2018 18:32
  The open government data movement came into its own with the Obama administration, at a time when governments—and society more broadly—was beginning to truly realize the value of government data, and open-standards were taking root as drivers of innovation.    The thrust of this movement was to identify all valuable Government data sets, and to require agencies to make them available to the public, at no cost, and in open-standard formats that ordinary citizens and en
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Use the right pricing model for third-party services

  28-06-2018 16:24
  Which pricing mechanism should your company choose when buying third-party services? What is the optimal contract length? And what is the best way to manage switching costs? These questions are even more important today than in the past because the services industry is switching to new pricing mechanisms for digital services. Understandably, these changes create consternation and confusion for buyers of services.  What comprises service prices? In this post, I’ll explain how pricing
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How big data has changed politics

  28-06-2018 16:13
  Data isn’t new, but we often forget that. In fact, even Sherlock Holmes recognized the power of data, as we can tell from one of his most famous quotes: “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”This is especially relevant to us in an age of fake news and in which politicians are arguably being held more accountable than ever thanks to our newfound ability to process and u
  
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• Makino leverages SD-WAN to fuel its digital transformation efforts

  28-06-2018 15:50
  Most old-school CIOs would never give the network a second thought. It’s been described to be as the pipes or plumbing of a company. Something you need, but it offers no strategic competitive advantage. Oh, the times have changed.We’re now connecting things and moving data everywhere, including the cloud, and that has put the network at the center of the business world. Today’s CIOs are pushing forward with digital transformation to improve operations, increase customer satisf
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: In business, the truth matters

  28-06-2018 12:54
  My wife and I found a lamp broken in our house a couple of months back. It was nothing particularly valuable, but the scene of the crime was littered with the telltale signs my two boys leave behind when they’ve been roughhousing. Instinctively, I isolated my persons of interest for questioning.My oldest son told a semi-plausible story that pinned the broken lamp on the family dog. I wasn’t convinced, but stranger things have happened. My youngest (and more imaginative son) told me
  
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• Workday transforms risk management into strategic advantage

  28-06-2018 12:00
  Risk management is becoming increasingly complicated, thanks to the growing volume and complexity of security threats, and it is leaving many organizations awash in security risk data without the means for assessing or contextualizing its potential business impact.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Shadow IT reconsidered: The case for losing control

  28-06-2018 11:58
  Employees who go off the reservation to acquire software outside official channels can provoke consternation and alarm in CIOs. But when the digital dust settles, IT organizations and the staff they serve often emerge from these events in a stronger relationship and with improved management.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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