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• BrandPost: How to Plan for Success when mapping a Multi-Cloud Strategy

  30-08-2018 22:15
  Enterprises are excited about the potential for cloud computing and creating a strategy around its possibilities. Conversations with influencers helped us understand potential challenges and how to maneuver around them for continued success.Eric Roch, (@LinkedIn), Chief Strategist & Enterprise Architect at Perficient, had a list of ways the cloud can be challenging – and how it can be a win:
  “Defining security requirements then implementing and testing cloud security archit
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Beware of forked implementations of open-source software

  30-08-2018 22:02
  CIOs must weigh the issue of technology lock-in whenever they make IT deployment decisions. Historically the issue has centered on companies buying many products from a single provider. That single-sourcing offers convenience and easier integration but also raises concern that the buyer is bartering away negotiating power going forward.The advent of open source software offset many of those concerns. The beauty of open source is that the same software bits are available from several providers s
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why you should care about employee onboarding

  30-08-2018 21:40
  Employee onboarding is a critical component to employee engagement and experience. And while management thought leader Tom Peters suggested during this #CIOChat that “there should be federal legislation outlawing the wretched term onboarding,” onboarding is something that really matters to your overall employee engagement. A 2017 Gallup Research showed that only 12 percent of employees strongly agree their organization does a great job of onboarding new employees.CIOs believe t
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The process-or-outcomes debate returns: 3 things to do today

  30-08-2018 20:00
  Some argued from a process perspective, while others argued from an outcomes perspective. The conclusion, often, was the same: outcomes are about where you want to go and processes are about how to get there. This conclusion has not changed today. However, new opportunities and wider scope means, you need to do three things.1. Let corporate strategy drive
  You just can’t afford to wander in the digital jungle. You need to get your corporate strategies to drive your initiatives.C-suite folk
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Does your startup business really need artificial intelligence?

  30-08-2018 19:17
  The global market for artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to grow from $3.2 billion in 2016 to a whopping $89 billion by 2025. A major chunk of this revenue is expected to come in the enterprise segment which is estimated to reach $31.2 billion by 2025.The explosion of AI has significant implications for businesses across industries. Up until now, one of the key differentiators between enterprises and startups is the agility that small businesses possess. With AI, enterprise organizations
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: System thinking: the clearest path to Data 3.0

  30-08-2018 19:00
  We live in transformational times, and data has evolved to become the trusted currency that is transforming businesses, governments and every one of us across the globe. This evolution of data has taken place in three phases.Data 1.0, between 1960 and 2000, was focused on specific applications such as payroll automation, airline reservations and inventory control. Even operational analytics was siloed using single systems or individual datamarts. Then Data 2.0 evolved, where
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Data sharing: a problematic idea in search of a problem to solve

  30-08-2018 17:57
  The latest data sharing proposal comes from Prof. Myer-Schonberger, whose previous work on big data and the right to delete information won him a wide following in policy circles. The key idea is that companies above a certain size would be required to disgorge subsets of their data to competitors. Amazon, for example, would provide the world with its sales data so that anyone could create an alternative recommendation engine.Voluntary data sharing arrangements among competitors have existed fo
  
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• Wrike review: Project management made simple

  30-08-2018 12:00
  Managing projects successfully comes down to skill, tacit knowledge, and having the right tools to collaborate with stakeholders and share information. Wrike, an online project management and collaboration tool, makes light work of these essential tasks.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• The hidden costs of outsourcing

  30-08-2018 12:00
  One of the biggest mistakes an IT organization can make when outsourcing is failing to consider the total cost of the relationship — including all the hidden costs that are likely to accrue. There has been little incentive to date for service providers to bring these looming financial risks out into the open, so customers much be diligent about identifying these additional expenses in order to manage or eliminate them.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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