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The Many New Forces Driving Who Becomes Your Next CIO This is a fascinating time to observe the role of CIO due to the many important forces simultaneously driving CIO selection criteria in different directions. The combination of data security and new IT trends may lead to the hiring of CIOs with a tech background first and business knowledge second. |
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How User-Generated Content Is Powering Businesses Businesses powered on user-generated content are able to reach the market faster than most other traditional forms of business. But getting users to generate content is not always an easy task. Read on to learn what practices help generate positive reviews, and how can you use them productively. |
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The Project Manager-Business Analyst Relationship: When Roles Collide In some organizations, the project manager and business analyst roles are played by different people, and in others, one person performs both. The two roles require different skill sets, so it's important for both people to collaborate—or for the one person doing both to compartmentalize actions. |
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The Strategy behind Amazon’s Ups and Downs The last quarter has been busy for Amazon, filled with ups and downs, successes and failures. The interesting takeaway here is that Amazon does not shun failures. In fact, its leaders try to see how to learn from failures and diversify even more. Read on to learn how the e-commerce giant operates. |
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Working with Your IT Talent to Support More Mobile Devices While supporting multiple devices certainly has its business advantages, it also means the need for knowledge of multiple operating systems, device-specific idiosyncrasies, and having to hire or train staff for the skills necessary to perform the required tasks. Eric Bloom addresses these concerns. |
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Why You Should Focus On What Automation Does Not Do Often, what automation “does” directly relates to the bottom line. This has loosely been interpreted as the misconception that the more automation you have, the fewer people you will need on your payroll. Melissa Tondi focuses on what automation does not do to give a more accurate idea. |
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When Big Data Is a Big Waste One of the biggest fallacies surrounding big data is that it will always lead to valuable information. Big data can be not only a big waste of time, but also a big detriment to your organization. Read on to see if you are making these big data mistakes. |
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Building Discoverability into Our Daily Information Consumption If we look at keywords essential to information processing, searchability and discoverability are critical. Any piece of information an organization has access to needs to become searchable and discoverable to the relevant end-users when they need it. This is presenting new business opportunities. |
