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• IDG Contributor Network: Exploring the ‘unknown unknowns’ in IT-enabled digital transformation estimates

  14-12-2018 15:12
  A poor estimate is often cited as the root cause for an IT-enabled digital transformation failure.  The estimate itself is obviously not the cause for failure.  Rather, it is the behaviors and actions that are driven by the poor estimate which ultimately deem the project a failure.  Failure to develop an accurate estimate with the appropriate contingencies can lead to:
  Attempts to lower costs by assigning less capable talent than was assumed by the estimator resulting i
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IT: A service broker future

  14-12-2018 14:36
  Several years ago, Allan Hackney, then CIO for John Hancock, told me that the age of IT producing things was narrowing to services that drive competitive advantage. Everything else would occur as a service broker. So how has this concept matured? How has it changed? I asked the #CIOChat for their thinking.What elements of the ‘supply of IT’ should be owned by IT?
  CIOs are not a fan of a control model. IT, they said, should understand the context of business needs and deliver solutio
  
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• What’s driving IT budgets for 2019

  14-12-2018 12:00
  The majority of IT leaders expect their 2019 IT budgets to increase or remain unchanged, driven largely by the need to upgrade aging infrastructure, accelerate a shift to the cloud or improve the employee experience of what IT offers.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• How to address gender-based training gaps in the workplace

  14-12-2018 11:30
  Just 5 percent of Fortune 500 companies are led by women. While the efforts to improve representation of women in leadership roles begin as early as elementary school and continue at every level of employment, the needle hasn’t moved in any significant way thus far. According to new research from online learning company D2L, that lack of progress could be because of the significant differences in the ways men and women are exposed to training at their companies.After surveying 1,000 corpo
  
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• BrandPost: The Cloud Was Made for Automation

  14-12-2018 01:34
  This post was originally published on LinkedIn by Omri Gazitt, Chief Product Officer at Puppet. It is re-published here with his permission. Without automation, moving to the cloud sacrifices its most important advantage: agilityThe move to the cloud represents the biggest sea change for IT in a generation. In the 2000s, virtualization allowed IT organizations to consolidate many workloads on the same physical hardware, thereby increasing utilization and efficiency. It also provided a crit
  
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• BrandPost: Central Intelligence: The Benefits of a Unified Data Strategy

  14-12-2018 00:15
  It’s clear that CIOs see the potential value of predictive data analytics. According to the CIO Tech Poll: Tech Priorities 2018 study, data analytics is among three technologies that will have the greatest organizational impact over the next 3-5 years. Furthermore, it tops the list for increase in budget allocation among 47% of respondents.But being a data-driven organization is not just about having more data - in fact, having too much of the “wrong” data can have the op
  
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