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CDOs, CIOs and the Shared Goal of Agile Customer Experience
There’s been quite a bit of discussion lately of the rise of the Chief Digital Officer (CDO). In fact, research firm IDC recently made headlines by predicting the CDO would supplant two-thirds of CIOs at global companies by 2020.
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Microsoft Ignites 'One' Enterprise Strategy
It’s still only October, but already some companies are starting to talk about what they plan to do next year. Unfortunately, the word from most tends to be pretty vague this far in advance. Microsoft is no exception.
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Why Agile As We Know It Will Disappear
Agile Is Not a Methodology Agile’s history tells two stories. One is of evolution from eXtreme Programming, driven by hardcore engineers, to a more business-friendly flavor called Scrum. Now, it spreads to other disciplines, like marketing and customer service. The other story is a subtler and more important one,
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Build Tomorrow's Agile Marketing Organization Today
We've explored how to address uncertainty in many areas of business. Agile methodologies have done a great deal to help software development teams adapt to inevitable uncertainty. Lean manufacturing has transformed how we create physical goods.
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Six Sigma Letting You Down? Rediscover Concurrent Engineering
If all (or even most) systems projects went well, we wouldn't need to talk about this subject …. But they don’t, and those failures compromise the progress and integrity of the information world.
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OpenText Unveils New Process Management Suite
Two things really stand out about OpenText’s Process Suite. The first is that it reduces deployment times for business process management (BPM) and case automation technology to as little as three months from 18 months. Secondly, it continues the ongoing roll-out of OpenText’s Project Red Oxygen.
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Agile CXM Won't Be Crafted with a Swiss Army Knife
Did you know that the Swiss Army Knife is over 100 years old? There are more than 100 different models available and more than 34,000 leave the factory every single day.
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Why Agility is the New Marketing Mandate
Marketers today find themselves needing to keep up with an abundance of new opportunities for creating, distributing and accessing content via new technologies, devices and touchpoints.
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2014: The Year Agile Marketing Takes Off
If you had to summarize all the major IT and marketing trends of 2013 into just six words, you could simply say, "There were a lot of changes." And the five-word prediction for 2014? "There will be even more.
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Microsoft Abandons Controversial Employee Review System
Microsoft is abandoning its controversial stack ranking employee review and compensation system, which encourages workers to compete rather than work collaboratively. The move comes just months before Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer plans to retire. If you were cynical, you might think the review system and Ballmer's imminent departure are related.
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Microsoft Shareholders Target Gates, But He's Not The Problem
In July, CEO Steve Ballmer announced a major restructuring plan. In August, Ballmer announced he would be stepping down within a year. And now today there are reports that three of the big shareholders in Microsoft want founder and Chairman, Bill Gates, out. Why Gates? The reports, which emerged this morning on Reuters news wire,
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Make Smarter Decisions, Faster #GD13
Today marks the start of Global Directions, an annual industry technology and educational conference. This year's theme caught our attention. Forget big data or smart data. There's no denying that the fire hose of data is flowing quicker than ever.
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Telerik Updates TeamPulse to Ease Multiple Project Management
To help software development managers concentrate more on the software and less on the logistics, software tool provider Telerik has released an update to its TeamPulse agile project management software, including a new HTML 5 interface intended to enhance efficiency.
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Microsoft Restructured: One CEO To Rule Them All - Windows, Cloud, Mobile, Business
If you’re not a fan of centralized decision making overseen by a single CEO then the restructuring plan that Microsoft announced yesterday probably won’t impress you.
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