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• IDG Contributor Network: How modern firms can capitalize on data assets

  06-08-2018 22:05
  Most companies are awash in business and consumer data – but they're struggling to extract full value out of it.  Only 40 percent of C-Suite executives say they're deriving the full economic potential of their data, according to a 2017 McKinsey survey. A recent study from Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Iron Mountain is even more pessimistic. Analysts found that two-thirds of senior business leaders in North America and Europe got either "little tangible benefit from their informati
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: A new paradigm for cloud training

  06-08-2018 20:08
  By 2020, nearly two-thirds of all enterprise IT infrastructure and software spending will be on cloud-based offerings.  As more companies move to the cloud, having the right skills has evolved into an enterprise core competency. Not surprisingly, many companies are finding themselves facing a shortage of the very capabilities they need most.To stay competitive, organizations must ensure that their internal capabilities are able to stay ahead of the innovations their businesses face. Hiring
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Strategic planning gets real when you connect strategy to delivery

  06-08-2018 20:00
  Remember the days when companies kicked off an annual strategic planning event with The Vision slide? A few strategy statements set goals, and quarterly reports showed an unsurprising lack of progress. We’ve come a long way since then. Or have we? The reality is, nearly half of all strategic initiatives fail because companies don’t connect strategy to delivery. Let me repeat. Half of our strategic visions never become reality.We are acutely aware that the rapidly changing business c
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Reaching the APEX

  06-08-2018 19:45
  So, if form follows function, than what exactly is the function of enterprise architecture and what form should it take?  I’ve been asked that question a few times recently and my answers have consisted of several layers, so I’d like to distill these different discussions into one answer in this post.The function of an enterprise (both for-profit businesses and non-profit entities) is to provide value to its customers or constituents.  They organize to produce this value i
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Where startups are impacting long-term change for CIOs

  06-08-2018 19:00
  CIOs have a daunting task to keep their current systems humming while also staying up-to-date on emerging technologies, especially with the tech landscape changing faster than ever and startups innovating across so many fronts.The challenge for CIOs, and even for us on the investor front, is to identify the new technologies that are long-term transformative as opposed to short-term trends. Right now, we see three areas where startups are driving significant change in the enterprise.ePrivacy is
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why companies end up spending more on digital technologies than anticipated

  06-08-2018 18:45
  Think about animals that travel and hunt in packs. Digital technologies seem to work the same way. Wolves, hyenas and wild dogs, for instance, are smaller and less powerful than larger animals such as mountain lions. Hunting in packs enables them to conquer animals larger than themselves. They work together to find the right opportunity. Similarly, digital technologies don’t come in isolation. They quickly demand a level of competence across a broad set of companion technologies – a
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Prioritizing projects

  06-08-2018 18:30
  Prioritizing projects is an extremely important activity for any organization, and the need exists for projects from business and operations functions as well as the Information Technology (IT) function. This all-inclusive enterprise view of project prioritization is important because operational projects, construction projects, business development projects, strategic projects, and organizational development projects often compete for the same scarce financial and Human Resources. Therefore, i
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: When an IT project isn't an IT project, engagement soars

  06-08-2018 17:51
  They are organizational change projects, they are operational streamlining projects, they are business strategy delivery projects, business alignment projects, etc, etc. It just happens that these things are being delivered through the medium of IT. So when IT is at the core of your delivery strategy or your business model, calling an IT project “an IT project” may be doing it a disservice.My PM friend Malc makes this point by telling the story of his first IT project and his most r
  
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• BrandPost: Cloud Data And GDPR – What You Need To Know

  06-08-2018 17:34
  If you use the cloud, then your GDPR strategies must include cloud data management. The good news is that these very important elements can be aligned and deliver benefits to the organization’s overall data strategy and feed directly into digital transformation programs.In the initial three blogs of this GDPR data breach series, I’ve looked at how security and data management principles overlap when it comes to data breaches. Whenever I talk to senior IT people and executives,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Can Centers of Excellence become a separate line of business in software outsourcing?

  06-08-2018 17:32
  Software outsourcing business is no more a trivial task in 2018. The software development outsourcing market has become super competitive. It keeps growing as well as top industry players. However, industry analysts continuously receive information that numerous companies are falling apart. Why does it happen?Along with day-to-day issues, companies deal with large-scale challenges. Globally, there are two major ones – customers and people.Customer challenge
  The ideal scenario for a softwa
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why organizations must act like software companies with agile, devops, APIs and analytics capabilities

  06-08-2018 17:15
  It is almost seven years to the day from when Mark Andreesen wrote a signature thesis on why software is eating the world. He wrote it nearly a decade after the internet bubble burst and he defended the growing valuations of technology companies based on increases in broadband access, the relatively low investment required to start a software company, and the increasing ability for companies built on software to disrupt legacy value chains.Then five years ago, Peter Sondergaard declared during
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Is your data center dust?

  06-08-2018 17:09
  Dave Cappuccio, a research VP at Gartner, made a bold declaration in a recent blog post: “The data center is dead.” Or at least it’s on its way. By 2025, 80 percent of enterprises will have shut down their data centers, according to Gartner research, as IT goes through a transformative shift. As Dave put it:
  “The role of the traditional data center is being relegated to that of a legacy holding area, dedicated to very specific services than cannot be supported elsewhere,
  
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• A CIO’s dashboard must show bench strength. Does yours?

  06-08-2018 16:54
  For most CIOs, the day-to-day work of getting products out the door takes priority over managing people. Many CIOs spend just minutes each month on the people part of the business. But to deliver on goals and promises, CIOs must know their bench strength — employee competency, plus the number of staff to do the work. When your dashboard shows technical bench strength, you’ll know whether your current team — from leadership all the way down to the front line — has the ski
  
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• Yamaha revs up digital strategy in race for new revenue

  06-08-2018 12:00
  Yamaha Motor Corp. USA is harnessing social media, customer data, augmented reality (AR) and information about its own vehicles to clear one of the biggest hurdles of the digital era: Creating a more direct path to consumers of its recreational vehicles, engines, robots and other machines. To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• How to build the next generation of IT leaders

  06-08-2018 12:00
  CIOs consistently list staffing as a top priority, with a tight labor market and a skills gap challenging their ability to build IT teams.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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