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Data Governance Is Improving, But?
Corporate memories are at risk because the growth in data is outpacing companies’ ability to govern and manage it. Records...
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CIOs: Here?s How to Boost Your Business Model Resilience
This five-phase approach will help chief information officers and IT leaders maintain continuity of operations during the...
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What is AI-defined infrastructure, and does it work?
AI-defined infrastructure’s potential IT teams may have only just begun to tap into AI’s potential for planning,...
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5 Ways to Be More Efficient While Working From Home
A large portion of the United States has suddenly found itself working from home and adapting to a new way of life....
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How Optimists and Pessimists Can Get Along
How often do conflicts occur in your enterprise because someone proposed ill-considered or insufficiently thought-out...
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Does Sheryl Crow Really Use One Square of Toilet Paper at a Time?
Toilet paper is certainly a hot item nowadays. But it doesn’t have to be. In fact, according some people —...
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Want to Learn Business Skills From Howard Schultz or Writing From Malcolm Gladwell? Now You Can.
We often hear how important it is to meet with industry leaders in our fields to gain insight and valuable advice....
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Build Your Cloud Strategy — The Right Way
A rapidly growing cloud presence demands careful thought and planning. Here’s what you need to do to set your organization...
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7 supply chain management best practices in a COVID-19 world
The current COVID-19 crisis brings new meaning to the term disruption. Organizations and their supply chain managers need...
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Contract risk management: Focus on these 6 areas
Negotiating with vendors remains a tough job for CIOs. Many struggle to gauge the value their IT providers deliver to their...
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Successful digital ecosystems depend on cloud services
Addressing cloud security concerns While cloud services offer flexibility and economies of scale that serve ecosystems well,...
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Transformation requires trust
Photograph On December 3, 2019, a remarkable event took place in a hotel ballroom in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Forty top national...
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Makers of Tomorrow: William Wang
Makers of Tomorrow is a new series of Entrepreneur-exclusive interviews that extracts expertise and insights from...
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How to Build an Opt-In Elist of Customers and Prospects
The following excerpt is from Robert W. Bly’s The Content Marketing Handbook. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes...
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Time on Your Hands? Sharpen Your Writing Skills
Stressful external events like the current pandemic can foment exhausting internal dialogue, but times like these...
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CIOs: Here’s How to Boost Your Business Model Resilience
This five-phase approach will help chief information officers and IT leaders maintain continuity of operations during the...
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COVID-19: Using Data to Map Infections, Hospital Beds, and More
The spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, and the resources to fight it, are being tracked and mapped But before we...
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Coronavirus pandemic ups the IT contract negotiation game
The coronavirus pandemic will have short-, medium- and long-term implications for how IT buyers negotiate contracts and...
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How to write an RFP and statement of work for an IT services contract
CIOs spend hundreds of billions of dollars on professional IT services annually, with demand expected to grow sharply over...
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Navigating your COVID-19 response
Photo illustration COVID-19 is presenting major challenges to people and organizations around the world. As governments...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Building a Profitable Ecommerce Business
My number one piece of advice to all beginning ecommerce entrepreneurs is to prioritize profitability first. It’s...
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5 Ways Leaders Can Shift Their Perspective, Grow Their Career and Change Their Life for the Better
Everyone has bad days. Michael O’Brien had his last one in 2001, when he was hit head-on Then a marketing director...
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4 Strategies for Better Email Marketing
While there is no denying that email marketing has incredible potential for ecommerce brands, many struggle to generate...
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4 Business-Boosting Strategies While Stuck in One Place
Yup, things have changed. You don’t have the same resources you had a few weeks ago, and your kids are now your...
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Good Communication Can Save Your Brand During Quarantine
Businesses are being hit hard as the nation attempts to battle against COVID-19. Revenue has halted for non-essential...
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Vendors offer free remote work technology for telecommuting
Cloud applications and services vendors who specialize in remote work technology are fast coming to the realization that...
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Improve your IT contract negotiations by focusing on 5 factors
Pricing and quantity only one aspect of IT contract negotiations The first obstacle CIOs face in IT contract negotiations...
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Upskilling to drive growth in times of uncertainty
Someone asked me recently, how many times I have reinvented myself and my business, throughout my long and stellar career....
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Innovating for Success after COVID19
We will beat the COVID19 virus, and innovation will play a key role in that victory. We will find new treatments, using...
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WHO WILL BE IN ROOM 716?
WHO WILL BE IN ROOM 716? Thursday, March 19th, 2020, will be a day I’ll never forget. My team and I landed in Southern...