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• IDG Contributor Network: You get what you inspect

  08-08-2018 22:06
  As a young naval officer, one of the recurring themes that was instilled early on was that you will get what you inspect. The way to get good results was to inspect things yourself – frequently and often. This was true of uniforms and conditions on a ship.  Inspections instilled a discipline and a subtle message: we know, we care and we expect things to work well. On board ships that are at sea, there is a team of watch standers, each performing different roles and constantly mo
  
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• BrandPost: North of the Border, They Take an Integrated View of Data

  08-08-2018 21:07
  Based in Toronto Canada, ThinkOn is a born-in-the-cloud provider of storage, compute, and networking (IaaS) resources to an ecosystem of integrators and partners serving end users from many industries. Although they specialize in DRaaS, data vaulting, application hosting, and virtual data centers, they have recently joined the VMware Cloud Verified community to enhance their offerings. Here’s why that matters to ThinkOn, their customers, and their subscribers’ customers.We spoke wit
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 10 technologies every CxO needs to understand as they move into the future

  08-08-2018 20:35
  The ever-rising tide of technical innovation has washed over every functional area of the business, bringing ambiguity to roles that were once compartmentalized, and leading even the largest companies to rethink their organizational structure altogether.On one hand, the CIO has grown well beyond the traditional boundaries of the “IT help desk,” and now often plays a central role in guiding critical business strategies enabled by technology. The responsibilities have grown so diverse
  
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• BrandPost: From A to B: A CIO’s Guide to Navigating Transformation in the Digital Age

  08-08-2018 19:36
  In the era of business transformation, CIOs have the unenviable job of closing the gap between transformation and readiness to get their company on the path to a digital future. As my colleague, Nigel Williams, wrote in one of his blog posts, “The challenges facing CIOs today can’t be denied. At face value, the same could be said to be true for just about any role. But one CIO said his job was to take the company from point A to B faster.” CommVault
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• What is an agile coach? A valuable role for organizational change

  08-08-2018 12:00
  What is an agile coach?
  Agile coaches help train corporate teams on the agile methodology and oversee the development of agile teams to ensure effective outcomes for the organization. They are responsible for guiding teams through the implementation process and are tasked with encouraging workers and leadership to embrace the agile method. The agile coach’s ultimate goal is to arm agile teams with the right knowledge, tools and training so that they’ll be able to use agile to its fu
  
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• Reskilling IT for the AI era

  08-08-2018 12:00
  Data scientists, artificial intelligence experts and machine learning developers are in hot demand right now — so much, that these are some of the hardest jobs to fill.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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