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• IDG Contributor Network: Can working for a tech company improve your health?

  24-07-2018 20:34
  Like many employees of technology companies, I work remotely, which has its pros and cons. After starting a stressful new job, traveling frequently in cramped airplanes and being voluntarily tethered to my devices, I recently found myself with back pain and “tech neck” from many herniated disks, doctors said. I spent hours enduring tests, procedures, and physical therapy, none of which helped my productivity.I’d like to say there was some miraculous medical treatment that solv
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Fighting fire with fire: the rise of enterprise software’s big change agent

  24-07-2018 20:05
  CIOs engaged in driving digital transformation should consider Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety: It states that to persevere, a system’s internal structures must be as complex as the external forces challenging it. Your CEO, board, investors, and customers expect you to create the most advanced digital products and services. However, managing the complicated web of relationships, resources, interdependencies, and ever-changing conditions is requiring you to forge new territory in bu
  
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• BrandPost: Cloud Data Protection: A Buyer’s Checklist

  24-07-2018 19:37
  What are the requirements for data protection in an IT environment that includes both cloud and on-premises storage?Today’s demands are different than they were a year ago or five years ago. Think of the system – or systems – you purchased a few years back or inherited from an earlier IT leadership group. Are they really still appropriate for the modern data protection needs of your organization?New requirements are being driven by multi-cloud demands, GDPR requirements and re
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Using location data for stock picks? Watch for stale data models

  24-07-2018 19:15
  The use of alternative data sets for informing stock picks or long-term investments in industries such as retail, airlines, real estate and auto is growing. In the case of mobile location data, investors and others use it as a valid indicator of consumer interest or even sales. But without regular system updates, these indicators may be less than valid. In fact, the information used by money managers to make extremely important business decisions could be dated or even faulty because some locat
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: A new patent myth in Washington

  24-07-2018 16:30
  A new myth is making the rounds in Washington. It holds that the patent system is under assault and that the U.S. is losing its lead in global innovation thanks to aggressively overactive review procedures at the Patent and Trademark Office that are striking down valid, commercially important patents. The result, goes the story, is a patent drought in the United States, as discouraged inventors stay home rather than getting caught up in endless and unpredictable reviews of valid patents.The tro
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 3 fundamental keys to digital transformation

  24-07-2018 16:23
  A surprising number of enterprises underestimate the momentum of digitization, and more significantly, the behavioral changes and expectations that come with it. Every enterprise knows that the only way to combat digital disruption from a competitor is total digital transformation, yet an astonishing 84 percent fail to achieve it. A major reason for this is that digital transformation often means abandoning the status quo to ensure future survival.This is not an easy call to make when it means
  
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• XaaS success: Proving the value of ‘everything as a service’

  24-07-2018 12:00
  Consumerization of IT, in which technologies introduced in the consumer market spread to enterprises, was once exemplified by employees using their own smartphones and mobile applications to do their jobs. Now it's extending to the enterprise, as CIOs are rolling out sophisticated technology services that employees can access with minimal intervention from IT.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• How Verizon designs customer-valued chatbots

  24-07-2018 12:00
  Verizon didn’t set out to build a customer-facing chatbot. But around ten years ago, the company was hot off the launch of Fios, its fiber-optic network. And technicians were having problems. “[They] used to have a huge amount of difficulty when they needed to look at our systems to access [the] customer network or if they were in the field and they needed some help,” says Ashok Kumar, vice president of digital at Verizon. So the company developed IVAPP Buddy — an interna
  
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