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In spite of increasing cybersecurity budgets, organizations are dealing with a worsening skills shortage, obstacles to threat hunting, and ongoing cyberattacks. Download the “2019 Cyberthreat Defense Report” now to learn how IT security pros plan to address these challenges. You’ll learn how to deal with inevitable cyberattacks, eliminate network blind spots and increase the signal-to-noise ratio. Learn more about how IT security pros perceive cyberthreats and plan to defend against them. Download now!

Clients can realize the full potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics with IBM’s deep industry expertise, technology solutions and capabilities and start to infuse intelligence into virtually every business decision and process. IBM’s AI & Analytics Services organization is helping enterprises get their data ready for AI and ultimately achieve stronger data-driven decisions; access deeper insights to provide improved customer care; and develop trust and confidence with AI-powered technologies focused on security, risk and compliance. Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving beyond the hype cycle, as more and more organizations seek to adopt AI-related technologies. These organizations are focusing on prioritizing functional areas and use cases, placing a stronger emphasis on topline growth, taking up a renewed interest in their data infrastructure and articulating greater unease about the skills of their knowledge workers. This report explores how they are approaching str

Machine Learning For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, gives you insights into what machine learning is all about and how it can impact the way you can weaponize data to gain unimaginable insights. Your data is only as good as what you do with it and how you manage it. In this book, you discover types of machine learning techniques, models, and algorithms that can help achieve results for your company. This information helps both business and technical leaders learn how to apply machine learning to anticipate and predict the future. You will find topics like: - What is machine learning? - Explaining the business imperative - The key machine learning algorithms - Skills for your data science team - How businesses are using machine learning - The future of machine learning

There's no reason overseeing and managing a million-plus subscriber email database should be a discombobulated and overbearing task. Start being an effective email marketer by creating a plan, brushing up on your skills, and cleaning house. Implementing these six simple tweaks will go a long way towards maximizing the return, response, and revenue from your email program.

Leading companies are making digital transformation a reality put data and intelligence at the center of their future. They are building new capabilities, skills, and technology, and evolving their culture to transform into an ‘Intelligent Enterprise’ and achieve the aforementioned outcomes. These companies are not only delivering short-term value to shareholders, but are also positioned to thrive and transform their industry. Explore how SAP can help you navigate the journey to the Intelligent Enterprise.

IQ Bot is the only cognitive bot with vision skills that adds structure to unstructured content and learns by observing people at work increasing your digital footprint.

Technological advances are disrupting the status quo and bringing huge turmoil in their wake. Industries are converging, and new competitors emerging, as never before. The nature of work is changing and demand for digital expertise is soaring, while other skills are becoming defunct. So how can CHROs chart a path through the turbulence and help their fellow executives understand the impact on the workforce?

Businesses today expect finance to play an extended role across departments, including IT, human resources, compliance, operations, sales, marketing, and most importantly, corporate strategy.To successfully deliver on this role, the finance function needs to play a bigger and visible role in real-time decision making and continuous planning. This report explores how, using cloud and analytics, finance leaders can leapfrog a few generations of technology and offer mature analytical feature/functionality and skills to the entire organization.

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Too remedial. Too retrospective. Too static. Too irrelevant to the team leader. Too time-consuming. Such are the complaints heard repeatedly about Performance Management and Engagement systems. And these don’t even touch on the biggest problem of all: current systems produce a tidal wave of unreliable data. The ratings they yield are based on the notion that, with enough time and training, managers (and peers) can become reliable raters of other people’s skills and competencies. Sadly, that’s not true. A large body of research reveals: 61% of your manager’s rating of you is a reflection of the manager, not of you. Your organization, apparently unaware of this, then persists on paying you, training you, and promoting you—and everyone else in the organization—based on these flawed ratings.

What do these market-defining trends have in common? · Analytics for all · Analytics as competitive differentiator · Internet of Things · Artificial intelligence/Machine learning/Cognitive computing · Real-time analytics/event management They all rely on data – timely, accurate data delivered within an insightful context – to deliver value. The question is: who in the enterprise is most qualified and prepared to help deliver on the vision and values of the data-driven enterprise? It’s going to take a special type of professional to deliver that value to enterprises. Organizations are seeking professionals to step forward and take the lead, provide guidance and lend expertise to move into the brave new world of digital. The move to digital and all that it entails – sophisticated data analytics, online customer engagement and digital process efficiency – requires, above all, the skills and knowledge associated with handling data and turning it into insights. The move to digital i

There’s no doubt in the trends. Focusing on the customer experience is at the top of the priority list for most companies. Personalization plays a key role as top organizations strive to make experiences as compelling as possible with the integration of artificial intelligence and cloud-based technology. To understand and prioritize what your next big moves should be, read The Econsultancy 2018 Digital Trends report. Here’s what’s top of mind for the majority of your peers: • Increasing digital marketing activities and budgets • Investing in well-designed user journeys that facilitate clear communication • Valuing creativity and design to differentiate their brands • Combining digital skills with technology to improve customer experience

There’s no doubt in the trends. Focusing on the customer experience is at the top of the priority list for most companies. Personalization plays a key role as top organizations strive to make experiences as compelling as possible with the integration of artificial intelligence and cloud-based technology. To understand and prioritize what your next big moves should be, read The Econsultancy 2018 Digital Trends report. Here’s what’s top of mind for the majority of your peers: • Increasing digital marketing activities and budgets • Investing in well-designed user journeys that facilitate clear communication • Valuing creativity and design to differentiate their brands • Combining digital skills with technology to improve customer experience

A new industrial revolution is barreling ahead, fueled by the Internet of Everything, social media, and cloud computing - bringing about fundamental changes in the way that we live and act. CIOs today are in a unique position to utilize technology to create business value and opportunity. This requires a careful balance of the traditional skills of the CIO, managing the data center infrastructure while driving business strategy and impacting the customer experience. The Dell EMC PowerEdge server systems are the CIO’s key tools in this transformation. They are the bedrock of the modern data center – providing scalable system architectures that ensures control of the IT lifecycle while delivering a cyber-resilient environment. Intel Inside®. New Possibilities Outside.

The IoT World Forum regularly reviews and updates on IoT markets and solutions every year. In Dubai in 2015 there were 3 clear takeaways: Invest now, gain solution skills, build an ecosystem.

The Industrial IoT market is estimated to reach $123.89 Billion by 2021. Successful IIoT design and build requires tech and installer skills and products from many vendors. It also needs a Vendor / Aggregator marketplace and ecosystem for customer and partner access at scale. Vendors are looking for IoT consultative skills from channel partners today.

No one knows what a future AI-filled society will look like, but we do know the transformations will be mind-blowing. What skills and capabilities must your organisation build to survive and prosper? Read our ‘Learning to Learn’ report, to discover: how AI will change the way economies, societies and businesses operate how AI will change the skills your workforce needs in the 21st century what AI means for the way we learn how AI will change the role of the HR function for ever.

The finance team’s data - analytics skills put CFOs in the driving seat of digital change. Read the Economist Intelligence Unit report now to learn: • How finance helps other business units meet their digital ambitions • Why finance need to make data visible across the business • Why it’s important to develop m etrics f or digital success

After talking to 27 leading CFOs, the Economist Intelligence Unit finds that the finance team’s data analytics skills put the CFO in the driving seat of digital change.The result is that the CFO has a new responsibility to: • Help other business units meet their digital ambitions•Make relevant data visible across the business• Develop goals and metrics for digital success

EIU: CFOs now in the Digital Driving Seat White Paper Published By: Oracle The finance team’s data analytics skills put CFOs in the driving seat of digital change. Read the Economist Intelligence Unit report now to learn: • How finance helps other business units meet their digital ambitions • Why finance needs to make data visible across the business • Why it’s important to develop metrics for digital success Download now

"Successful meetings management requires a wide array of skills and tools to help you meet stakeholder's expectations and reach your goals. From tools to assist with budget creation to meeting approval workflows and cost-effective venue sourcing, a great meetings management program takes a lot of effort. That's why at Aventri, we created an eBook that combines all the essential meeting management strategies into one package. Learn how to: • Efficiently source the right meeting venue • Use the right meeting management technology to increase success • Implement money saving strategies with big budget results • Measure your total meeting spend and return. In the end, you will feel confident in your abilities to implement a successful meeting management strategy at your organization."

Employees, devices, and applications are no longer locked away inside the corporate perimeter. They’re on the web and on the go. Providing security for a new breed of anytime, anywhere workers and cloud-based applications requires a novel approach: a zero trust security model. Assuming that every user, request, and server is untrusted until proven otherwise, a zero trust solution dynamically and continually assesses trust every time a user or device requests access to a resource. But zero trust offers more than a line of defense. The model’s security benefits deliver considerable business value, too. Read this white paper to learn more about: -Protecting your customers’ data -Decreasing the time to breach detection -Gaining visibility into your enterprise traffic -Reducing the complexity of your security stack -Solving the security skills shortage -Optimizing the end-user experience -Facilitating the move to the cloud

Converged solutions are being widely adopted by large enterprises where infrastructure sprawl has chewed up budgets and made scalability a challenge, and as a method to speed delivery of IT services. They are also proving to be beneficial to IT-strapped small and mid-sized organizations, which often lack the skills and resources to keep up with increased business demands for IT services.

Former Intel CEO Andy Grove once coined the phrase, “Technology happens.” As true as Grove’s pat aphorism has become, it’s not always good news. Twenty years ago, no one ever got fired for buying IBM. In the heyday of customer relationship management (CRM), companies bought first and asked questions later. Nowadays, executives are being enlightened by the promise of big data technologies and the role data plays in the fact-based enterprise. Leaders in business and IT alike are waking up to the reality that – despite the hype around platforms and processing speeds – their companies have failed to established sustained processes and skills around data.

In the digital era, data and technology are your ticket to new profit pools and growth opportunities. Read this feature story to explore the skills needed to support the future finance function, and learn how finance leaders can find and develop the talent they need.