Why you need to convert IT consumers into investment partners
Remember the '70s? Way back then, IT was a mainframe that sat in some room somewhere. Only two people had a key to that room, and nobody else really cared. Flash forward about a decade, and IT was a...
View ArticleBrandPost: Overcoming IT Budget Planning Obstacles for Risk-minded CIOs
IT budget planning is quickly flying at IT leaders for next year, but are we ready? How leaders prioritize information security amongst all the other demands of the business is paramount in today’s...
View ArticleBrandPost: Windows 10
Microsoft is including three big, new security features as part of Windows 10, including Device Guard, Microsoft Hello, and Passport. All three of them are geared toward better security—without...
View ArticleBrandPost: Big Data: The Key to Collaboration-Centric Business
Recently I participated in a webinar panel with IT and marketing leaders on building alignment between the CIO and CMO, and surprisingly every speaker agreed: most of us are there or well on our way....
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Traction Watch: Job app Switch grows job applications 220 percent in one month
DEMO Traction will be in Boston on September 16, 2015. For more information and to register click hereGet ready for Switch, a free iOS app from a startup of the same name. Often dubbed the Tinder of...
View ArticleBrandPost: Manufacturers Find Three Unexpected Game-Changers in the Cloud
The cloud is rapidly becoming the new standard for enterprise software. Organizations are moving their most important business processes beyond their own four walls en masse. The simplest way to...
View ArticleSurprise! Best Buy prices often on par with Amazon
(Editor's note: This post has been updated to include additional information on Best Buy's free shipping options. Changes are marked below in bold text.)It's not often that a brick-and-mortar retailer...
View ArticleBrandPost: For Financial Services, the Future Is Now
As the CIO Survey demonstrates, an innovation-based future is upon us. So it’s no surprise that organizations in all industries are paving the way with significant investments in next-generation...
View ArticleOf Black Hat and security awareness
In the past few weeks, I was able to go deep into security issues (this was during my yearly pilgrimage to the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas), and then concentrate on the basics (by...
View ArticleBrandPost: Culture is the Key to Work-Life Balance
Collaboration can be the gateway to work-life balance, true, but it can also lead to an environment where workers are expected to be constantly connected.The fact of the matter is that the technology...
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IDG Contributor Network: How do you celebrate your heroes?
A most intriguing encounter happened to me last week while flying from Austin to DC. I met a man, Luis Gonzalez Jr., a Viet-Nam vet, who was holding what looked like a leather-bound scrapbook. It had...
View ArticleWhy I'm finally ready for an Apple stylus
“Yech.” With a single dismissive utterance, Steve Jobs buried the stylus. During the iPhone’s introductory keynote, he briefly explained why a pen was the absolute wrong input device for the...
View ArticleBlack Hat survey reveals a disconnect between losses and security program focus
I started to review the recently published Black Hat Attendee Survey. This study primarily focused on the concerns of practitioners, including how they actually spent their times and the losses that...
View ArticleThe myth of the cybersecurity skills shortage
Everyone seems to think that there’s a lack of qualified security professionals, and that the reason is that there aren’t enough people entering the field with the required skills. There is a fallacy...
View ArticleLugLoc luggage locator eases bag separation anxiety
Smart luggage is coming — bags equipped with GPS, Bluetooth, and SIM cards for tracking purposes, among other things. I'm particularly interested in Bluesmart's upcoming smart carry-on, due in...
View ArticleMy smartwatch turned me into a rude bastard (don't let it happen to you)
My favorite thing about my smartwatch: I no longer need to take my phone out of my pocket 4,718 times a day to check my notifications — 4,707 of which are completely useless and require no immediate...
View ArticleBrandPost: 9 Essential Tech Tools Every Business Traveler Needs
We’ve all been there. You’re on the road, traveling for business and your smartphone battery dies. Nowhere to plug in, and you’re stuck in a meeting until 5. In addition to the prescribed laptop and...
View ArticleBrandPost: Big Data Is on the Rise
Despite the numerous and well-documented competitive advantages provided by big data and analytics, 39% of respondents to a recent IDG Enterprise survey said that, at least for the next 12 months,...
View ArticleBrandPost: Cloud vs. On-Premises Security Solutions
Moving business applications and processes to the cloud has been an ongoing trend in recent years for a good number of reasons. If they haven’t already, CISOs need to make decisions about whether a...
View ArticleBrandPost: How the IT Skills Gap Hits Your Bottom Line
More than half of all enterprise CIOs expect to struggle with a shortage of IT skills over the next year, according to IDG’s 2015 State of the CIO survey. That percentage rises from 56% to 62% for...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Would you hire Tom Brady as a project manager?
Pardon me if you are a New England Patriots fan. I was once, but I just can’t do it anymore. They are good, but they cheat. And he – and the team – should be justly punished. They were, but a judge...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: It's who you know and who knows you that matters
You may have noticed that your business counterparts talk about the people they know and that you talk about the things you have done. Business people do not do this by accident. They never stop...
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3 must-have news apps for CMOs and digital marketers
CMOs, SEOs, SEMs and other acronymic professionals toiling in the world of digital marketing have a lot to keep up with. Google changes its algorithms constantly, Facebook is always testing new things...
View ArticleRead this! (And learn how to deliver ultimatums better.)
In the course of every project, there comes at least one moment when we have to tell our business partners what we need from them to get the job done. More often than not, they bristle at being told...
View ArticleVideo on demand continues to kill big cable
The television world is changing even faster than many of us think. A survey of more than 20,000 TV viewers around the globe found that consumers spend more time watching video-on-demand and streaming...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Forget the 'elephant in the room'– instead beware...
Recenly I watched "Jurassic World" with my sons. A fun movie with just the right amount of feel-good story line coupled with tension, screaming and, of course, dinosaurs.My sons had chosen to watch...
View ArticleThe sharks of the Internet
My company’s CEO called me in a panic the other day.“I think my iPhone may have been hacked,” he said, as I squinted myopically at the clock trying to see what time it was. 7:15 a.m. — time to get up...
View ArticleHow a ‘Tiger Team’ can make internal audits strategic
I often think the entire U.S. industry is on a death spiral due to stupid decisions. But then I get a call that gives me hope. I’ve been involved in two transformational efforts at ROLM, the Great...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Adapting to the new digital world: Is your data...
By modern standards, the “Dark Ages” would literally have been dark.The price of lighting has become 10,000 times cheaper since the year 1300, according to research by two British economists who...
View ArticleDon't look now, but the future is here!
In the first half of the 20th Century, a wide range of futurists, science fiction writers and others predicted what life would be like in the Year 2000 and beyond. Many of those concepts made such an...
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