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• Prepping for Dreamforce 2018: What to do now

  04-09-2018 23:07
  UPDATE: Agenda Builder is now online. Put your pre-work to work! You're investing 5 days plus expenses. The Dreamforce payoff is all about time management.4 weeks out: Focus on what you need to know
  It's almost time for the session scheduler ("Agenda Builder") to come online for Dreamforce, but it ain't there yet...so all you can do now is look for sessions to bookmark.  As there are so many sessions, you'll definitely want to pick the 15-20 that are the most important for you, and th
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Employer’s Blues: the flip side of today’s job portability paradise

  04-09-2018 20:34
  How stressful is getting a new job? Popular wisdom says that it’s one of the most stressful events of a person’s life, right up there alongside divorce, relocation and a medical event. That may be true, but many who revel in the luxury of today’s technology industry regularly volunteer for it. In many red-hot technology fields like data science, Agile/Scrum and program management, the demand for talent so dwarfs the supply that employers are elbowing each other out of the way
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How AI is reshaping marketing

  04-09-2018 20:09
  Artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way since its inception. The rise in AI-powered marketing is taking the load off many marketers, and delegating to machines, allowing marketers to refocus their efforts onto marketing that matters and giving marketers more time to address any challenges that come their way.As we have begun teaching machines how to understand humans, AI is learning and evolving, and with that, so are marketers’ abilities to develop highly insightful campaigns.Cu
  
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• What is OKR? A goal-setting framework for thinking big

  04-09-2018 12:00
  What is OKR?
  Objectives and key results (OKR) is a goal-setting framework that helps organizations define goals — or objectives — and then track the outcome. The framework is designed to help organizations establish far-reaching goals in days instead of months.OKR has been around since the 1970s. The concept was created by Andy Grove, but popularized by John Doerr, who was one of the earliest investors in Google. OKR quickly became an important focus for Google, and companies such a
  
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• 16 time-saving tips for IT leaders

  04-09-2018 12:00
  Whether you’re transforming an organization or just want to improve collaboration, eliminating time-wasting legacy practices and streamlining how you manage projects are usually top of mind. So, what practices should you incorporate to save time? And what are some old ways of doing things that need to be sent packing?To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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