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• BrandPost: The CIO’s Dilemma: Innovate AND Cut Costs

  27-08-2018 21:30
  “Digital technologies have significantly impacted most enterprises, and IT is on the front line of change,” writes Martha Rounds in CIO.com’s Spring 2018 Digital Magazine.1“In a recent IDC survey, 45% of CIOs and senior IT executives said that one of the top three objectives they’ve been given by their companies is to ‘create competitive advantage for the business’,” she continues. “Charged, as always, with delivering technology with reliabi
  
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• BrandPost: 5 Questions To Ask On The Road To Data Excellence – Part III

  27-08-2018 21:21
  In the last of this three-part series, we will address strategy, direction and the much misunderstood topic of policy. As with the first two posts, I’ve provided a set of questions you can answer as true or false to gain a sense of where your organisation is on your journey to information excellence.Do we know where we are heading?Given the majority of organisations now consider data as the most important company asset1, a well-communicated data strategy for the organisation is
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Enabling critical reporting capabilities during a strategic transaction

  27-08-2018 19:06
  In our last article, we discussed six different ways to improve data management and interim operational reporting during an M&A (merger and acquisition) transaction. We have received several excellent questions about the integrated/interim reporting section of that post, so we concluded that we should go a bit further into that particular topic, as it is one of the most critical areas to address during an M&A transaction.What are most IT leaders missing during an M&A transaction?
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• IDG Contributor Network: Artificial intelligence: clearing hurdles to get to value faster

  27-08-2018 18:11
  Earlier this year, I was on my way home from a conference when I learned my flight from Seattle to Denver was delayed. That by itself was no big deal – happens all the time. Unfortunately, it was the first leg of a two-flight trip, and the two-hour delay meant there was no way I was going to make my connecting flight out of Denver to Dallas. As frequent travelers know all too well, that’s when things start to get messy.Thankfully, I thought, I was a card-carrying, first-tier member
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Reduce your mean time to value (MTTV) with low-code cloud platforms

  27-08-2018 17:51
  If you spend any amount of time in the IT business, chances are you have seen some very creative technology solutions to business problems, often developed by people outside of the IT department. These solutions are generally run on some kind of platform that wasn’t quite built to host them – yes, I’m talking about you, Excel – and built to solve a problem where there was no other available or affordable solution. Sometimes these solutions are unknown to the rest of the
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why tech recruiters need more fun and games

  27-08-2018 17:44
  Businesses are competing tooth-and-nail for top tech talent but they must do more than hit the big universities if they want to actually fill these positions.Ask execs at any tech company be it a dewy startup or an established industry stalwart, and you’ll hear how hard it is to find, hire, and retain top tech talent.Recruiters say the biggest reason IT job growth has stagnated lies squarely on the supply side since there is huge demand for many tech positions. That is especially true now
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 design considerations for your design thinking workshop

  27-08-2018 17:19
  According to Forrester:
  “Design thinking is a creative problem-solving — and opportunity-finding — mindset and methodology with a bias toward action that puts the emphasis on empathizing with the customer, clearly defining the problem, collaboratively ideating solutions, and then prototyping and testing those solutions.”
  Design thinking is an overall approach that puts the focus on the customer and covers a full range of disciplines and process steps across empathy, defi
  
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• BrandPost: HPE and Citrix Deliver the “Workspace of the Future” Today

  27-08-2018 16:47
  Although corporate IT professionals and the users they serve usually share the same core business objectives, each group has its own set of computing priorities.As they pursue digital transformation initiatives, CIOs and their IT departments must deliver (and store) applications and data efficiently, securely, and cost-effectively, all while adopting promising new technologies and computing models.For their part, employees want to work when and where they choose and on a wide variety of devices
  
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• Mobile-first strategy streamlines AZDCS case work

  27-08-2018 12:00
  Like many government agencies, Arizona Department of Child Safety (AZDCS) operated on cumbersome, mainframe-based data infrastructure in need of an overhaul. But in the process of updating the system, CIO Linda Jewell and her team realized that a mobile-first strategy would not only facilitate future digital transformation but also enable caseworkers to better engage with the families they’re serving right now.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• How successful IT leaders take charge from day one

  27-08-2018 12:00
  CIOs starting new gigs have little time to waste in making their mark on the organization. Because they don’t get a second chance to make a first impression, winning over both their IT department and their business peers is of paramount importance.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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