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The Inside Startup: Meet Cisco’s Emerging Technologies and Incubation Group

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Startup” means risk. Regardless, new business ventures work under pressure to research, refine, and deliver an idea to the market. Cisco sets aside space for an innovative team operating with a startup mindset. More than an experimental group, they hold themselves accountable the same way any startup should.

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IT Hardware Startups Turn to Data Analytics for Market Research

Smart Data Collective

Data analytics technology has been instrumentally valuable for the marketing profession. One of the biggest ways that data analytics is changing marketing is that it can help with marketing research. However, analytics technology is even more important when it comes to understanding your customers.

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Ford’s high-tech business transformation, fueled by cloud

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s wholesale pivot to technology has transformed not only the automaker’s business operations but its corporate identity. “We Mike Amend, Ford’s chief enterprise technology officer, was once CTO for Dell’s global online business. Ford Motor Co.’s People don’t think of a large, 100-year-old manufacturing company as high tech.”

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Startups And Big Data: Why Leaders Are Not Always Keen

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When described as such, it seems that an average entrepreneur would simply jump at the opportunity to use big data for their startup, yet that is not as common as one may expect. We’re going to offer several possible explanations for why startup owners are not keen on investing in Big Data. Why is it so? Obsolete and Infinite Mindset.

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Mapping the progress of Air New Zealand’s digital rebuild

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Our mission is to build the world’s leading digital airline, and digital in its broadest sense, not just technology, but the experiences we deliver for our customers, the new business models we can put in place, the way we govern the organization, the way we deliver change, and everything in between,” says CDO Nikhil Ravishankar.

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Agritech forces gain ground across Africa

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And when technology is added to the mix, opportunities multiply. Our economy is based on agriculture and I believe it should be further supported by technology to increase agricultural productivity,” he says. The same is true for most African countries that need to be supported by technological solutions.” Plus, about 20.4

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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Plan for cost savings up front Cost optimization starts with defining desired business outcomes and architecting a cost-effective solution right from the start, says Jevin Jensen, research VP, Intelligent CloudOps Market at IDC. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI.