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• IDG Contributor Network: Why driving process excellence is key to sustainable business success

  22-08-2018 23:20
  In 1976, Dr. Albert Yu and Dr. David Chung founded Umtech, a company that developed and manufactured the first personal computer to be sold in department stores — VideoBrain. However, for a variety of reasons, the consumer market wasn’t ready, and three years later, the company was assimilated into the structure of its biggest investor.In 1976, another computer company was also founded: Apple Computer Company, the brainchild of Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. Despite a c
  
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• BrandPost: From Hybrid Cloud to Hybrid IT

  22-08-2018 20:03
  Nobody thinks desktops and laptops are going away, but the device explosion has created an environment where enterprises need to support Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and who-knows-what-other platform, for just about every business application.Many enterprises are simplifying their users’ demand for mobility by adopting a digital transformation strategy that includes migrating applications to one or more clouds which requires a high level of synchronization between public cloud and on-pre
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Use UX design thinking to create an office people actually want to come to

  22-08-2018 19:50
  A decade ago, if you had to work over the weekend, you’d go to the office for the best high-speed internet, access to scanners, color printers—even to use your work computer. Those days are gone.Why? Because your office hasn’t kept pace with consumer technology. Today, your employees likely have a better home office than what you offer. Plus, there’s probably a nearby coffee shop serving single-origin pour-overs. And I bet that coffee shop is nicer than your office&mdash
  
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• BrandPost: 5 QUESTIONS TO ASK ON THE ROAD TO DATA EXCELLENCE – PART II

  22-08-2018 16:06
  In the second part of this three-part series, we will take a look at how to establish the foundations for a consistent approach to data across the organisation and a data-driven culture. As with the first post, which addressed data skills and literacy, I’ve provided a true or false set of questions you can ask yourself to gain a sense of where your organisation is on your journey to information excellence.Are we talking the same language?In any field of endeavour it is really he
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Best practices for your enterprise's successful IoT transformation

  22-08-2018 13:00
  Devices are becoming software-defined whether we like it or not. Take cars for example: the Porsche Panamera 2016 model has over 2 million lines of code in its onboard software, the 2017 model has over 100 million. As software-defined devices continue to gain momentum, they are becoming more connected to each other – and to the organizations that created them.Modern day connected devices have hundreds and thousands of sensors that communicate with one another, more frequently than a human
  
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• Sheltered Harbor ensures cyber resilience for financial services firms

  22-08-2018 12:00
  The 2014 hacks of Sony Pictures sent shockwaves through executive suites in every industry, but for many in the financial services industry, it was especially sobering. Pooling their resources, the industry responded with an initiative designed to step up the financial sector's cyber resiliency.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Redefining work in the digital age

  22-08-2018 11:55
  Intelligent digital assistants comb through big data to discover an obscure insight, triggering real-time rerouting of the supply chain and capitalizing on unmet demand. Software bots automate repetitive data entry tasks, freeing up knowledge workers to focus on analysis and ideation. At an industrial site, predictive analytics uncover a glitch and proactively initiate a fix, heading off the need to deploy operators to avert a downtime disaster.To read this article in full, please click her
  
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• How Autodesk is creating the digital workplace

  22-08-2018 11:30
  Rightly so, IT leaders are increasing their focus on their company’s customers in an effort to deliver the highest level of service to those wonderful people who buy their products and services. But while those external customers matter a lot, so do internal customers — employees who come to work every day. Prakash Kota, Autodesk’s CIO, understands the need to give employees a superior experience and is delivering on an innovative digital workplace strategy. --------
  
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