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• IDG Contributor Network: 9 components that should be part of every digital CIO’s innovation agenda

  06-02-2019 20:55
  Digital is the age of innovation. Innovation, in general, is surely a management discipline. To keep relevant, IT has to shift its reputation from a cost center to the innovation engine of the organization. In fact, IT plays a crucial role in expanding the creative side of the business and scale up the innovation effect of the entire organization. The contemporary CIO's responsibilities are to understand the business's collaboration needs and innovation demands today and into the future. From t
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to recover from SaaS stack bloat in the enterprise

  06-02-2019 18:21
  Agility is highly sought-after in today's business environment. As such, enterprises are now aggressively leveraging the efficiencies brought about by technology to drive their processes. And why not? Digital tools empower future-facing companies to perform better than laggards. A Harvard study shows that “digital leader” organizations enjoy a three-year average gross margin of 55 percent, while laggards only post 37 percent.The decision on whether or not to go digital has essential
  
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• BrandPost: With Help from AI, Biopharma is Improving Outcomes and Cutting Costs

  06-02-2019 16:03
  For companies in the biopharmaceutical industry, the stakes are always high, and the odds are always long. That’s particularly the case when it comes to drug discovery. Today, 97 percent of all drug discovery programs fail, and the cost of developing a new therapeutic averages $2.6 billion, according to Frost & Sullivan.1The challenges don’t stop there. Biopharma companies are wrestling with enormous and ever-growing amounts of data stemming from genomics research — data t
  
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• How McGraw-Hill identifies at-risk students

  06-02-2019 14:40
  For the past several years, McGraw-Hill Education's user research department reported an issue with the company's Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS) offering. The web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system was great at assessing students and creating customized learning paths based on their individual needs, but instructors were deluged with data.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: In healthcare IT, what's the minimum position to take in AI investments?

  06-02-2019 14:00
  A PCP once told me, diabetes patients are one of the hardest groups to adhere to their treatment plans because diabetes doesn’t cause immediate or intense pain. On the IT side, the equivalent is the “nice to have” technology. You will need your computers, storage, security, EMR, etc. but what the minimum investment you should make is, if at all, in advanced technology like artificial intelligence (AI) is much harder to answer.In a report published recently by HHS, Artificial I
  
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• The 'Five Ps' of business (and personal) transformation

  06-02-2019 11:30
  When Daphne Jones was growing up, she found that some adults in her life saw secretarial work as the extent of her career potential. Following their advice, she went to secretarial school and got a job. But she soon realized that secretarial work was not for her. So, she left, went to college, got her bachelor’s degree in three years, her MBA in one year, and joined IBM.Having now built a successful career, which includes CIO roles at Johnson & Johnson, Hospira, and GE, Jones has conc
  
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