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• IDG Contributor Network: How digital transformation is shaping industries

  14-09-2018 15:05
  In May of this year, The World Economic Forum said in their Digital Transformation report, “to succeed in the digital era, (companies) will need to become digital enterprises, rethinking every aspect of their businesses.”  Many companies have already begun the process of becoming a digital enterprise. They are automating and streamlining business processes. They are investing in Artificial Intelligence and machine learning. They are trying to keep their mission critical informa
  
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• 10 traits of highly effective teams

  14-09-2018 12:18
  The importance of teamsImage by Getty ImagesIf science fiction is to be believed, humans in the future have learned to build highly effective teams. You can’t go into outer space – and survive – if your team is dysfunctional. The crews of the Enterprise(every iteration) on Star Trek, the Rocinante in the The Expanse, and the Serenity in Firefly have one thing in common: Their crews work together so well, they can accomplish anything.To read this article in full,
  
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• Where in the world are the women software developers?

  14-09-2018 11:30
  Back in 2017, I wrote about HackerRank’s research on which countries were home to the most skilled women developers. HackerRank doesn't gather data on their approximately 2 million users' sex or gender, so they had to do some guesswork based on users' first names; they also excluded unisex names like Taylor or Riley, which could skew the data somewhat. Their final data pool encompassed about 80 percent of their total user base.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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