Wed.Mar 08, 2023

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Ceiling breakers: Women IT execs shake up the status quo

CIO

Early in her life Ricki J. Koinig saw the immense impact that technology could have on individuals and their ability to move through life. To pay for horseback riding lessons while growing up, Koinig worked in a program for children and young adults with special needs who used assistive technologies. Those early professional experiences in tech ed coupled with an opportunity to move to Europe brought her into the IT realm.

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C-Suite Outlook on the Global Energy Transition

Alpha Sense BI

Over the last three months, C-Suite leaders across industries have prioritized conversations around climate change , the global energy crisis, and the consequences of their corporations not enacting a net-zero future. In the AlphaSense platform, these discussions have taken place throughout a number of earning calls and company conference transcripts—detailing everything from how to decarbonize manufacturing processes to deciphering what solutions will help companies reach their eco-conscious p

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Exploring the digital impact in Northern Ireland’s health and social care system

CIO

The pandemic accelerated the urgency for reform in health and social care around the world, which strained resources to unprecedented levels. The effects are still being felt and in Northern Ireland specifically, ongoing political instability is further complicating approaches to digital transformation. Although progress is being made that should be recognized and celebrated, Dan West, CDIO for Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland’s Department of Health, understands that the pandemic still

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Cloud Architecture Mistakes: Losing Visibility and Control Over Data Processing

Dataversity

This is a five-part series of articles examining five critical mistakes organizations face when building a cloud architecture, and how those mistakes can lead to soaring costs and inefficient – even risky – data management. In making their digital transformations, organizations too often lose visibility and control of their data right from the beginning.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Don’t let NetOps “gotchas” derail your digital transformation

CIO

Over the past few years, technological and business advancements have created increasingly grand expectations. Your customers expect an “always on” experience. (Today, you can also add “always fast,” “always intuitive,” “always successful,” and so on.) Fundamentally, if customers find it too difficult to engage digitally with your business, they’ll engage elsewhere.

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Leaders That Reboot Their Game to Become a Future Enterprise

CIO

If digital transformation was about driving fundamental change within the company, then its next chapter will be far more outward-looking. This is about being digital-first: to build digital businesses that are viable and sustainable in the long term. Rather than just leveraging digital technology to seize new opportunities, such organisations are poised to create operating models for meeting evolving customer needs.

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Squirrel 365 and Archaeological Data

InfoSol

I am a settlement archaeologist who works with pottery from Elephantine Island (project of the German Archaeological Institute), and at Kom el-Hisn, where I direct excavations. Settlement excavations help us understand how the Egyptians lived – in part by enabling us to look at what they threw away. The routine activities of non-royal ancient Egyptians can be identified through their garbage ; their relationships with the state to be identified in manufacture and distribution of goods and the re

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Which workloads are best suited for cloud vs. on-premises or edge?

CIO

Enterprises driving toward data-first modernization need to determine the optimal multicloud strategy, starting with which applications and data are best suited to migrate to cloud and what should remain in the core and at the edge. A hybrid approach is clearly established as the optimal operating model of choice. A Flexera report found the shift to hybrid infrastructure supported by overwhelming numbers of survey respondents, with 89% of them opting for a multicloud strategy and 80% taking a

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FOURTH QUARTER 2022 LIFE INSURANCE SALES

Wink Intel

Non-Variable UL Sales for the fourth quarter of 2022 were $861 million, compared with sales of $857 million for the fourth quarter of 2021. Fourth quarter non-variable life sales were up more than 12% when compared to the previous quarter and up less than 1% as compared to the same period last year. Non-variable universal life (UL) sales include both indexed UL and fixed UL product sales.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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Understanding the security shared responsibility model in an as-a-service world

CIO

As organizations shape the contours of a secure edge-to-cloud strategy, it’s important to align with partners that prioritize both cybersecurity and risk management, with clear boundaries of shared responsibility. The security-shared-responsibility model is essential when choosing as-a-service offerings, which make a third-party partner responsible for some element of the enterprise operational model.

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Creating Robust SSH with HashiCorp Vault Certificates

GoodData

Learn how to enhance your SSH security with HashiCorp Vault certificates. Our guide provides a step-by-step approach for creating a robust solution. Secure your system now!

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Best practices for developing an actionable cyberresilience road map

CIO

Pandemic-era ransomware attacks have highlighted the need for robust cybersecurity safeguards. Now, leading organizations are going further, embracing a cyberresilience paradigm designed to bring agility to incident response while ensuring sustainable business operations, whatever the event or impact. Cyberresilience, as defined by the Ponemon Institute, is an enterprise’s capacity for maintaining its core business in the face of cyberattacks.

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Why Consumers Resist Annuity Swaps Even as Old Rates Worsen

Wink Intel

The case to turn in their old products seems compelling: Investment yields have jumped a lot over the past year. Also, rates on their existing products have sunk to the near-minimum levels allowed, said Sheryl Moore , CEO of Wink , publisher of Wink’s Sales & Market Report. Click HERE to read the full story via Life Annuity Specialist Wink’s Note: My dear friend Christopher Conroy at Insurance Agency Marketing Services, Inc.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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What it’s going to take for advanced AI to reshape the enterprise landscape

CIO

According to Infosys research, data and artificial intelligence (AI) could generate $467 billion in incremental profits worldwide and become the cornerstone of enterprises gaining a competitive edge. But while opportunities to use AI are very real – and ChatGPT’s democratisation is accelerating generative AI test-and-learn faster than QR code adoption during the Covid pandemic – the utopia of substantial business wins through autonomous AI is a fair way off.

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As Rates Rise, Innovation and Changes Sweep Through Annuities

Wink Intel

Higher rates aren’t the whole picture though, said Sheryl Moore , CEO of Wink, publisher of Wink’s Sales & Market Report. They do generally mean better yields on general accounts from which carriers earn a profit. But she noted that you also have to consider the cost of options, such as on the S&P 500, that are used to hedge against losses and provide upside gains on products.

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Support the development of your IT professionals. Become an ACS partner.

CIO

ACS (Australian Computer Society) is the professional association for Australia’s technology sector. With 35,000+ members, ACS is dedicated to growing the nation’s digital skills and capacity. ACS members benefit from professional training and skills certification, networking and events, liability insurance cover and access to technology and innovation hubs.

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What is a Competitive Analysis? 2023 Guide

Netbasequid

Each year brings changes in the market, offering both opportunities and warning of imminent threats to brands. And each year, brands sink or swim depending on how they leverage their consumer and market knowledge. This means you can’t afford to only mind your business and charge forward with your head down like a bull. Learn how to mind the other’s business like a pro with this detailed guide to competitive analysis.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Secure data-first modernization? Leverage a trusted ecosystem of partners

CIO

As companies lean into data-first modernization to deliver best-in-class experiences and drive innovation, protecting and managing data at scale become core challenges. Given the diversity of data and range of data-inspired use cases, it’s important to align with a robust partner ecosystem. This can help IT teams map the right set of services to unique workflows and to ensure that data is securely managed and accessible regardless of location.

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A Guide to Using XDR Threat Protection to Stop Data Breaches

Smart Data Collective

Data breaches are becoming more common every day. Last year, there were 1,802 data breaches that affected over 420 million Americans. Some of the companies reporting data breaches are among those that you would least expect. The restaurant industry has been surprisingly affected by data breaches in recent years. Earlier this week, Chick-fil-A announced that many customers were affected after hackers gained access to their data.

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Bringing Your Employees Together Under a Shared Customer Experience Ownership Model

CIO

Breaking communication siloes between contact center and non-contact center employees is paramount to improving customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and operating costs. The average contact center agent spends 15% of their working day chasing down information needed to serve customers. These hours can add up to a financial loss of $1.5 million annually for a 200-agent contact center, according to Aberdeen.

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Marketing Manager Leadership Styles

mention

When you think of great marketing leadership, what comes to mind? This question is pivotal to the success of your business, because your answer typically reflects the leadership styles you find most effective. Some may conjure one specific boss who inspired them and knew how to manage a large team without being intrusive and overbearing. Others may think about how they ultimately want to lead their team, even if they’ve never had a boss that treated them the same way.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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SAP rounds out data warehouse cloud functionality, renamed Datasphere

CIO

SAP’s Data Warehouse Cloud is evolving, gaining new features and a new name, Datasphere, as the company addresses continued diversification of the enterprise data. It’s part of SAP’s move to become a more significant player in the business data fabric space, said Irfan Khan, SAP’s chief product officer for its HANA database and analytics. Khan said SAP is going beyond the usual capabilities of a data fabric by preserving the business context of the data it carries.

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Tapping high-performance computing for new business value

CIO

Many people associate high-performance computing (HPC), also known as supercomputing, with far-reaching government-funded research or consortia-led efforts to map the human genome or to pursue the latest cancer cure. But HPC can also be used to advance more traditional business outcomes — from fraud detection and intelligent operations to digital transformation.

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Parlay insights from the edge across your enterprise for real business value

CIO

Companies capture more data and compute capacity at the edge. At the same time, they are laying the groundwork for a distributed enterprise that can capitalize on a multiplier effect to maximize intended business outcomes. The number of edge sites — factory floors, retail shops, hospitals, and countless other locations — is growing. This gives businesses more opportunity to gain insights and make better decisions across the distributed enterprise.

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