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• IDG Contributor Network: Starting your innovation journey

  03-04-2019 18:22
  Let’s address the elephant in the room: innovation is a journey. The reality is that you will have your share of failures mixed in with some successes.Now, imagine these efforts as a cluster of small experiments, and learning opportunities that build a mindshare of improvement be it incremental or disruptive. These are not enterprise-wide large-scale implementations that pose financial risk due to costly investments.Instead, these are minimally viable concepts that cost pennies on the dol
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Focus on openness and culture when selecting collaboration technology

  03-04-2019 17:16
  Enterprise collaboration strategies have to focus and center on people. This is an organizational culture initiative. Efficient collaboration happens between people who need to interact around critical business workflows and processes. While internal collaboration is a primary focus, many enterprises lack strong support for external collaborative interactions.The issue at hand is that a lot of collaborative interactions happen with external people in a vast and oftentimes complex business ecosy
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The resurgence of the CIO

  03-04-2019 15:05
  There has been a lot of press in recent years about the demise of the CIO, and CIO’s like me didn’t appreciate that for some reason. I experienced this last Fall at an industry conference where even a renowned internet venture capital icon stated that he'd never hire a CIO and would always opt for a CDO. I almost stood up to challenge him, and my better sense kept me seated. But I'm ready to stand up and shout it out now. The rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated.I cons
  
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• BrandPost: Without Good Data, AI Isn’t Very Smart

  03-04-2019 15:00
  One of the oldest maxims of the information processing age – garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) – is staging a splashy comeback. The reason? The often messy intersection of big data and artificial intelligence (AI).As noted in an earlier post, AI solutions typically depend upon massive amounts of data, for both their training stages and once in production. An inability to satiate this data hunger due to bottlenecks in the data infrastructure can severely hamper the functionality of AI t
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: When it comes to careers – or life – the storybook ending is a myth

  03-04-2019 14:35
  I want my storybook ending. I grew up listening to the Disney happily-ever-after fairy tales, where the handsome prince rescues the fair maiden. I knew that good would trump over evil, true love would conquer all, and dreams will come true.I believed there was a master plan for success, and all I needed to do was follow the rules. The path for career success began by working hard in school to get your dream job, where you worked hard and get promoted. I believed fame and fortune were only a ste
  
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• FinOps: Best practices for cloud cost optimization

  03-04-2019 12:00
  Won over by the promise to drive business agility while reducing costs, CIOs are migrating to the cloud en masse. But renting cloud services creates new problems, including managing bills populated with thousands of line items generated by instances running across the globe.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Building a digital learning culture at Avery Dennison

  03-04-2019 11:00
  Your digital strategy is only as strong as your least digital employee. That is why Avery Dennison built “digital literacy” into its multi-pronged digital transformation strategy. Nick Colisto, who joined Avery Dennison as CIO in 2018, describes the operating model changes and strategic programs that are driving digital optimization and transformation at the $7 billion global materials science and manufacturing company.Martha Heller: What does “digital” mean to Avery Den
  
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