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• IDG Contributor Network: Squaring the virtuous circle

  31-08-2018 18:26
  Back in 2017, I took a look at the seven deadly sins against data – from lust to sloth to pride, there was something to repent for most businesses. But the other side of the story is just as enlightening. These five virtues of enterprise data management reveal best practice among retail CIOs who are leading the digital store revolution:Faith
  Belief in your business and its ability to give customers what they want across all channels is central to a successful future. In its Mastering the
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Looking for an AI solution? Start here

  31-08-2018 16:40
  Like every business, we have the need to continually invest in our business processes in order to scale, to grow efficiently, and to allow our people to be as productive as possible, which means enabling them to focus on their highest value work. From processes that are time consuming to mismanagement of resources, breakdowns in the system always arise. How businesses address them is the differentiator. Each time I’m faced with an optimiza
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Let front-line workers champion your process

  31-08-2018 16:15
  My Christmas has come in July for the last three years. That’s when Wrike’s product team holds its annual hackathon, where mixed teams of engineers, UX designers, project managers, and analysts spend 24 hours developing new features and improvements to our platform. They pull out all the stops and test the limits of rapid prototyping to develop concepts, and this year, 20 of the 24 teams were greenlit for production. It’s not necessarily an exercise meant to deploy new feature
  
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• 6 secrets of successful chatbot strategies

  31-08-2018 12:00
  What do NASA, Capital One and Verizon have in common? They’ve all built chatbots. And despite the organizations’ obvious differences, their early chatbot development processes have proved to be relatively similar, providing valuable insight into how organizations should build and onboard bots .To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Can the internet crash? How the unthinkable could happen

  31-08-2018 11:58
  A thought experimentImage by Getty ImagesMaybe your spreadsheet won't load. Or Netflix gets laggy and your Wi-Fi connection stalls out. And the thought occurs, ‘What if the whole internet crashed?’ To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Women still underrepresented in Fortune 500 leadership roles

  31-08-2018 11:30
  Over the last year, there’ve been a lot of firsts in the Fortune 500: the first openly lesbian CEO, the first Latina CEO, and the first Black woman CEO of an NBA franchise. But there have been a lot of good-byes, too, as Indra Nooyi of Pepsi, Denise Morrison of Campbell Soup Company, Margo Georgiadis of Mattel, and Irene Rosenfeld of Mondelez have all left the top spot at their respective companies and have been replaced by men. In fact, according to data compiled by Catalyst, since
  
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