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• IDG Contributor Network: Tech days of reckoning

  02-05-2019 22:05
  Today technology gives us endless opportunities to innovate, but the window to be the first closes quickly. This breakneck speed of change and adoption has businesses on edge and wondering how they can keep up not only with the competition they know but also deal with unexpected disruptors. Is Uber, Amazon, Google or Huawei making a move into my industry? Is today our day of reckoning with technology?Recently, on two different occasions, I met with CIOs whose successful global companies are in
  
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• BrandPost: 3 CIOs on What’s Silently Strangling Innovation

  02-05-2019 17:39
  We’re well past software “eating the world.” Software has become irreversibly intertwined with the world. You can’t find a modern enterprise that doesn’t depend on software, or a business transaction that doesn’t require software at some point in the end-to-end process. In the new world of digital business, companies that deliver differentiating customer/user experiences through software have the clear competitive advantage. Those that cannot are living on bo
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Are your employee engagement efforts doing exactly the opposite?

  02-05-2019 17:08
  Many articles and studies continue to validate that staff engagement has a huge effect on performance, as described in detail in the Harvard Business Review report The Impact of Employee Engagement on Performance. It shows 71% of respondents ranking employee engagement as very important to achieving overall organizational success and 72% ranking recognition for high performers as having a significant impact on employee engagement, yet only 24% say employees in their organization are highly enga
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Lithium-ion a pawn in economic domination

  02-05-2019 14:24
  The demand for cobalt far out paces its production. Lithium cobalt oxide cathodes consist of 60% cobalt and offer unbeatable energy density. For the Dominican Republic of the Congo (DRC), cobalt is a global political pawn. Manufacturers of rechargeable Lithium-ion battery storage or manufacturers requiring these batteries are locking in cobalt delivery now for the long-term to take advantage of the current dip in the cobalt market. Limits of available cobalt may cause hording or price increases
  
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• Scrum master certification: Top 9 certs for agile pros

  02-05-2019 12:00
  Agile has revolutionized software development and project management, and has increased demand for IT pros skilled in the methodology and its many flavors, including Scrum, Lean, Kanban and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). When it comes to benchmarking knowledge and competency, a Scrum master certification is widely valued across all industries, and can prove you have the required training and skills to guide agile teams successfully.While agile certified professionals are in high demand, there a
  
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• 6 tips for working with AI vendors

  02-05-2019 12:00
  Artificial intelligence and related technologies promise to be a game changer for businesses. The central question is whether to build or buy. Some companies will build their own solutions from scratch, but using commercial tools can often be faster, cheaper, and provide better results than what a company can build on its own.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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