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• IDG Contributor Network: The internal disruption of AI

  12-10-2018 17:55
  Artificial intelligence is de rigueur with executives and boards of directors. Show me an industry and I’ll show you an application for AI that’s captured management’s mindshare, snagging both budget and headcount (often from less-sexy initiatives). Accelerating disease diagnosis in healthcare, flagging risky behaviors in financial services, reducing carbon footprints in energy, or responding to support requests using the customer’s own vernacular—all offer compell
  
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• Optimized for agility: How Mutual of Omaha builds quick-response teams

  12-10-2018 15:00
  Mutual of Omaha is a Fortune 500 organization offering a variety of insurance, banking, and financial products for individuals, businesses, and groups throughout the United States.Recently, the company’s chairman and CEO, James Blackledge, announced an enterprise-wide strategy designed to move the insurance giant closer to its customers’ needs. As part of the strategy, the company began to evolve core business functions, including its payment infrastructure, to meet customers where
  
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• Sysco modernizes IT and ERP for the cloud

  12-10-2018 12:00
  Moving computing infrastructure from a managed data center to the public cloud can be a scary proposition for IT leaders who haven’t traveled that road before. But sometimes extraordinary circumstances call for drastic measures.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 5 CRM trends for 2018

  12-10-2018 12:00
  Top of mind to many IT leaders is business alignment. How does the rest of senior management perceive IT? At worst, IT is viewed as a cost center that keeps the lights on. At best, IT is an engine for helping the company grow.That’s why effectively implementing projects that directly benefit the bottom line like customer relationship management (CRM) is essential. It’s all about using technology to land new deals and to enhance existing customer relationships.
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• Not much has changed since #MeToo

  12-10-2018 11:30
  It’s been a year since #MeToo pulled back the veil on the open secret of workplace sexual harassment. And while the movement, as well as #TimesUp, have definitely increased awareness of the myriad ways women (especially non-white, non-straight, non-cisgender women) are discriminated against and oppressed in every industry, not much concrete progress has been made to rectify the problem.Last year, in 2017, Fairygodboss surveyed 502 women about sexual harassment in the workplace. This year,
  
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