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The Digital DivideBy

Innovation reboot: Small, practical digital transformation initiatives preferred

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The Business of DataBy
IDG Contributor Network

Make your company’s data work harder for you

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Research

5 enterprise cloud strategy trends for 2019

Multi-cloud strategies targeted at driving innovation, complemented by containers, Kubernetes and serverless computing, lead the cloud computing trends for 2019.

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Feature

How to establish a thriving IT innovation hub

Innovation and disruption are essential for business success. An in-house tech hub will help your enterprise meet both goals. Here's how to get started.

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The Future of the CIOBy
IDG Contributor Network

11 digital principles for building a creative digital workforce

It’s important to set core principles for building and nurturing an environment in the organization where curiosity is encouraged, and creative thinking is rewarded.

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Building for GrowthBy
IDG Contributor Network

An even bigger innovation cycle is coming our way, are you ready?

CIOs have an opportunity to remake their roles, and in turn their companies, by championing innovation.

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The Business of DataBy
IDG Contributor Network

Building a virtuous circle of data-driven innovation

Embedding data into product and service development cycles can lead to a virtuous circle of innovation and competitive advantage.

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Truth from the TrenchesBy
IDG Contributor Network

Managing your innovation pipeline

Successful innovation in a commercial enterprise is a matchmaking exercise that establishes a long-term marriage between a business opportunity and a new or emerging technology.

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The Business of DataBy
IDG Contributor Network

5 reasons why data-driven innovations fail

Make sure you understand some of the key mistakes that companies make when deploying data-driven products into the market.

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Feature

How CIOs tap startups to drive innovation

CIOs are increasingly cozying up to the cutting edge, using Shark Tank-like competitions, reverse pitches, and speed dating to identify startups that will fuel innovation and transform the business.

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Feature

7 IT projects primed for augmented reality and virtual reality

From training to data visualization, AR and VR are proving to be bona fide business enabling technologies. Here are areas to consider putting augmented reality and virtual reality to work.

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Feature

Augmented reality edges into IT operations

Enterprise augmented reality can offer some benefits to IT operations, but high prices and usability issues are hindering adoption

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Marketing Technology UpdateBy
IDG Contributor Network

Should CIOs be more open to playing in someone else’s digital sandbox?

CIOs are leveraging hybrid teams to develop technology. The tight grip on data is loosening to accommodate innovation-heavy markets.

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Transformation NationBy

Driving digital strategy at Agero

Bernie Gracy, chief digital officer at Agero, reveals his team’s journey from digitization to digital transformation.

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CxO ForwardBy
IDG Contributor Network

Artificial intelligence: clearing hurdles to get to value faster

Artificial intelligence excels at specific tasks, and clearing those can prove value (and investment) quickly.

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Feature

How Monsanto leverages startups to catalyze transformation

Monsanto’s Partnership Platform encourages external and internal collaboration to drive innovation and accelerate digital transformation across the company.

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Tech Policy PerspectivesBy
IDG Contributor Network

A new patent myth in Washington

A flawed study prompts developments in Congress and the Patent and Trademark Office that threaten progress made against trolls.

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Feature

XaaS success: Proving the value of ‘everything as a service’

CIOs are consumerizing IT in new ways, including rolling out self-service analytics and proof-of-concept-as-a-service solutions. Welcome to the age of XaaS.

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The CIO AdvisorBy
IDG Contributor Network

Emerging technology adoption: striking a balance between innovation and risk management

Companies that are transforming themselves and enabling emerging and disruptive technologies can take four initial but concrete steps to strike the right balance between innovation and risk management.

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Product Innovation & Technology StrategyBy
IDG Contributor Network

Doing it digitally—How tech-charged customer collaboration delivers market innovation

The digital business delivers more innovative, connected products to market by leveraging collaboration technology that breaks down silos separating product lines, teams and regions, and connects both internal and external customers. ...

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