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• IDG Contributor Network: Advice for buying or building a digital platform

  25-07-2018 22:12
  As digital technologies mature and become applicable, they present a tremendous opportunity for companies to rethink and rearchitect their business to create better client experience, better quality results and lower costs. These opportunities are broad and extensive. At the core of all digital transformations is the assembling and perfection of a digital platform. But companies need to better understand what’s involved in digital platform. Whether the objective for the platform is as gra
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Digital transformation and the law of small numbers

  25-07-2018 21:30
  A recent survey indicates that health care has made little progress toward value-based care (VBC) since last year, with more than two-thirds (67 percent) of physicians and health plan executives indicating that U.S. health care is still predominantly a fee-for-service system.The findings come at the same time that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a slew of proposals that have, among other things, reduced the amount of total incentives available for redistributio
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 7 negotiation tactics that are futile in cloud renewals

  25-07-2018 20:15
  Organizations and the procurement departments within often seek out “best practices” to help them achieve the most favorable outcome from their cloud renewal negotiations. Too often these good intentions backfire when there is too much reliance on past experiences and a belief that there is a one-size-fits-all approach that will yield optimal results.Here are seven of the most common negotiation tactics that often don’t work as intended or can even result in negative consequen
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why design thinking hasn’t saved your digital transformation – yet

  25-07-2018 18:47
  Design thinking was supposed to the secret sauce for accelerating digital transformation. How has design thinking worked for you? Has it lived up to its promise? Are your digital transformation efforts more effective?Accurate statistics on the successful use of design thinking in digital transformation are scarce. A McKinsey & Company report states that 70 percent of digital transformation efforts fail to achieve their desired results. Extrapolating from that dismal success rate, design thi
  
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• CIO to CEO: Next career path?

  25-07-2018 17:07
  While there isn’t yet a significant trend of CIOs transitioning into CEO roles, it’s absolutely undeniable that the people and process management skills developed within an IT leadership position are vital for driving growth across entire organizations.Interestingly, the newly minted CEOs to whom we spoke were not overly anxious to step into their roles. They agreed, however, that speaking the language of the business, and not that of IT, is among the reasons they were sought to ste
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why process is key for growing companies

  25-07-2018 17:03
  Have you ever heard of Solyndra? How about Jawbone? Or Abound Solar?Whether you’ve heard of these companies before or not, according to CBInsights, they’re three of the largest and most costly start-up failures of all time. Solyndra, a manufacturer of solar panels that received at least $1.22 billion in funding, filed for bankruptcy in 2011. Similarly, despite having raised $930 million, device maker Jawbone couldn’t hold onto its market share and is currently undergoing liqui
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How the Walmart-Microsoft partnership builds on the four strategic themes for digital transformation

  25-07-2018 16:30
  Walmart and Microsoft recently announced a five-year strategic partnership to further accelerate digital innovation in retail. This comes as a major announcement both for observers of the cloud wars as well as observers of the continuing digital transformation in retail. The agreement will leverage a broad base of Microsoft’s cloud, AI and IoT solutions for Walmart’s enterprise-wide use – including a wide range of external customer-facing services and internal business applica
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Traditional or transformational: what kind of CIO are you?

  25-07-2018 13:00
  There is a new type of CIO on the scene: the Transformational CIO. Transformational CIOs focus on external customers, innovate, think about the top line, drive business process evolution, and change the culture of the entire organization.The almost-extinct type of a CIO—one we would all like to forget—we’ll call the Traditional CIO. Little is written about the misery of the Traditional CIO. Traditional CIOs are focused on technology first, take orders from internal customers,
  
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• 7 steps to becoming a thought leader

  25-07-2018 12:00
  You're the sort of person who likes to solve problems. Co-workers and colleagues come to you for advice, ideas, insights and solutions. You also enjoy being a mentor, someone who doesn't mind investing his or her time in order to help people achieve their goals.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 10 best graduate programs for supply chain management

  25-07-2018 12:00
  You can start a career in supply chain management (SCM) with a bachelor’s degree, but if you’re looking to climb the ladder and push your career forward, you will want to explore a master’s degree in the field. SCM is becoming an important role in multiple industries, including retail, manufacturing, technology and the federal government.If you want to expand your expertise and get ahead of the competition, here are the top ten schools where you can get a master’s degree
  
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