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Stop Settling for IT Mediocrity - & Manage Beyond 'Meh'
To keep up with the speed of business, IT departments need to stop thinking about pinching pennies and using automation and outsourcing to make things cheaper and easier. What many don’t realize is that these practices are stressing organizational infrastructure and making operations mediocre at best.
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Moving from Google Search Appliance? The Time is Now
Earlier this year, Google announced it will be winding down sales of its Google Search Appliance (GSA) through 2017 and will ultimately transition from on-premises to a cloud-based solution. But the full details of a cloud-based solution are still in limbo.
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LinkedIn: Naps & Beer Won't Solve Corporate Talent Shortages
What does it take to become an attractive tech company today? Ping-pong tables, beer taps and nap pods, right? Not so much, according to Suzy Welch, business journalist and TV commentator. People give those perks “outsized importance when trying to figure out what makes one company stand apart from another," she
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How to Pull Off a Stress-Free Office 365 Migration
The idea of migrating to Microsoft Office 365 might seem daunting, especially if you don’t have a clear understanding of the platform and its many capabilities. For example, a client recently asked, "When I move to Office 365, I'll get my own server, right?" Well, no.
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Microsoft's Monster Deal & Frankenstein Digital Experiences
Scot Wheeler, vice president of marketing insights for Leapfrog Online, has a warning for anyone orchestrating digital customer experiences: Stop creating Frankenstein experiences built on the business’ terms — and start building experiences on the customers' terms. Read more. Top Stories What else got us talking this week:
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See the World Through Your Customers' Eyes
"Go see, ask why, show respect." The words of Toyota chairman Fujio Cho have become renowned as the basic lean principles on which to build and run a business.
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Dropbox Heats Up - and File Sharing Gets Interesting Again
Dropbox is cash flow positive. Microsoft Offers Free Migration to Box and Google Drive Users
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Do We Really Have to Kidnap the Boss to Build Strong Teams?
Team building is a little like being back on the playground during recess, where you're forced to play with the kid who insulted you 10 minutes earlier. While professional team facilitators swear by what they euphemistically describe as shared experiences that reinforce positive team skills, not everyone is so enthusiastic.
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Don't Force Your Employees to Learn or Share Knowledge
“Don’t force it” is one of the best lessons you can learn — in life, in love and, of course, in knowledge management. Knowledge management, the practice of aggregating and sharing knowledge across an organization, is one of the most beneficial initiatives a company can take to optimize their processes.
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The Doctor Is In: Practicing Enterprise 'Social Radiology'
As we become increasingly consumed in our digital world, a common question we hear is “does our online behavior mimic how we are offline?” Digital natives are now entering their thirties, and the digital divide, as we know it, will be cast aside into the annuls of the history books.
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Do People Have A Place in Digital Workplaces?
Even before the first computer was conceptualized, people dreamed of the day when office work could be done from anywhere, anytime.
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What's Marketo's Next Move?
You may have been scraping for change for coffee, but some major organizations were throwing quite a bit of money around in a week crammed with mergers and acquisitions. San Francisco-based Vista Equity Partners plans to scoop up San Mateo, Calif.-based Marketo for $1.79 billion. But at that low
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Does Microsoft Really Give a Damn About Yammer?
Microsoft has yet to substantially improve the user interface or add significant features and functionalities to the enterprise collaboration platform it bought for $1.2 billion four years ago. Yammer could use some love, members of the CMSWire Reader Advisory Board told us during a recent conference call.
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Understanding How We Work in the Digital Age
With the long Memorial Weekend underway in the US, most of us are enjoying some well-deserved time with family and friends — and honoring those who served in our military forces. But in the work anywhere, anytime age, some people are still working. Paul Miller explains why — but assures
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