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Smart SMBs Are Taking Advantage of Major Advances in Data Security

Smart Data Collective

A surprisingly large number of SMBs think they’re too small to be targeted by hackers. The truth is, cybercriminals sniff out opportunities regardless of the company size and the complacency of the SMBs is what draws them. 2020 was an especially eventful year for small businesses and it has exposed fundamental flaws in the way they handle data.

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How Business Analysts Boost Productivity Within Operations Teams

BA Times

Here’s an undeniable truth: Highly productive companies generate more revenue. However, establishing optimum productivity isn’t always as easy to pull off. This is where Business Analysts (BAs) come in handy. Business analysts can increase your operations team’s productivity by helping them meet the set goals, boost their performance, and drill down on key areas for […].

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8 Ways Machine Learning Can be Used to Make Cities Smarter

Smart Data Collective

It’s no secret that artificial intelligence and technology has been developing quickly in recent times, with applications such as CAPTCHA that prevent bots from accessing sites, thermostats that adapt to our daily schedules or even algorithms that could choose potential vacation destinations for us. But what if machine learning could be used beyond niche or individual contexts?

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Emerging Cybersecurity Trends to Monitor in 2021

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Gary McCarthy. Cybersecurity has never been as important as it is today. With more people than ever before accessing the internet for work or pleasure, the number of targets for cybercriminals continues to increase daily, as does the number of cyberattacks. In addition, factors such as the ongoing COVID-19 […].

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Business Valuation Software: Free Guide to Valutico Platform

Explore our free guide to Valutico, the platform that revolutionizes automated report generation, offers access to 1 million M&A transactions, enables quick benchmarking, and streamlines the entire valuation process. With Valutico, you gain access to: 30-Minute Valuations: Rapidly producing accurate results. 3TB of Financial Data: The expansive data you need at your fingertips.

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Using Analytics to Successfully Use Instagram Stories for Your Business

Smart Data Collective

Analytics technology is essential to the success of modern marketing. In the past, marketers had to rely heavily on their gut instinct, because the performance of various strategies was harder to measure. In the digital era, however, data analytics has made it much easier to figure out what strategies perform optimally. Instagram marketing is one of the areas that can be highly dependent on analytics technology.

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AI Developments Which Will Shape Our Future

Smart Data Collective

Despite all the unexpected events we’ve witnessed in 2020, artificial intelligence wasn’t much affected by the pandemic and everything that was happening as a consequence of it across the globe. On the contrary, this technology has been included in many discussions as a solution for numerous challenges and issues we are now facing not only as individuals and companies but as a society as a whole.

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How to Avoid Common BYOD Pitfalls at Work | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Many businesses, in an effort to cut costs, allow employees to bring their own devices to work (a policy otherwise known as BYOD) and use them in work-related capacities. Employees working in a BYOD-friendly company use their smartphones, laptops, and tablets to do their jobs, which saves companies from having to provide their people with company-. Read More.

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Case Study – Smarten Augmented Analytics Implementation for India Transformer Manufacturing Co. for IOT Sensor Data Analytics

ElegantJ BI

The Client business focus is in the fastest growing business sector in the India market, with a market value of US$ 3.5 Billion. The group is comprised of fifteen companies managing diverse business interests in Automotive Tires, Infrastructure, IT and Specialty markets including Pharmaceuticals, Power Ancillaries and Plantations. The Smarten solution and the Smarten team helped the Client to support its users with tools to analyze important data and identify overall production performance, and

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Managing the Opportunity Costs - PMP Certification Exam Training | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Opportunity Costs can be great tools for project selection in an organization. We may find a few questions on the PMP®certification exam based on this topic. Like many other decision makers, project managers should thoroughly evaluate the opportunity costs and plan well to manage them. In this article, we will take a detailed look at opportunity. Read More.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Case Study – Smarten Augmented Analytics Implementation for India Transformer Manufacturing Co. for IOT Sensor Data Analytics

ElegantJ BI

The Client business focus is in the fastest growing business sector in the India market, with a market value of US$ 3.5 Billion. The group is comprised of fifteen companies managing diverse business interests in Automotive Tires, Infrastructure, IT and Specialty markets including Pharmaceuticals, Power Ancillaries and Plantations. The Smarten solution and the Smarten team helped the Client to support its users with tools to analyze important data and identify overall production performance, and

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How Digital Bootcamps Promote Diversity in Tech | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Diversity in the workplace is an issue that has gained a ton of attention and support in entertainment, education, IT, and more. People who support diversity want to see more places where people of all backgrounds, genders, socioeconomic situations, and races have equal representation and opportunities. However, the underlying source of the proble. Read More.

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The Future of Data Centers Is Greener, More Open Computing

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Alan Chang. As basic IT infrastructure shifts from on-premises private IT data centers to public/hybrid clouds with growing demands for more computing performance, the world is facing a new challenge: Cloud data centers now consume as much power as entire cities, while generating carbon emissions that are destabilizing the […].

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How Lean Six Sigma Is Enabling Process Improvement in Industry 4.0 | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Thanks to the rapid development of smart, internet-enabled devices, such as sensors that detect irregularities on the production line in real time, businesses have become much more efficient over the last few years. In fact, those that fail to keep up will find it increasingly difficult to compete. Referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT), the. Read More.

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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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5 Awesome Study Tips for CPOA

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Case Study – Smarten Augmented Analytics Implementation for India Transformer Manufacturing Co. for IOT Sensor Data Analytics

ElegantJ BI

The Client business focus is in the fastest growing business sector in the India market, with a market value of US$ 3.5 Billion. The group is comprised of fifteen companies managing diverse business interests in Automotive Tires, Infrastructure, IT and Specialty markets including Pharmaceuticals, Power Ancillaries and Plantations. The Smarten solution and the Smarten team helped the Client to support its users with tools to analyze important data and identify overall production performance, and

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Scrum Masters – Maybe You are the Problem

Vitality Chicago

Scrum Masters are the champions of Scrum in the organization and they are accountable for establishing Scrum and helping everyone understand Scrum theory and process. They are also accountable for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness and most Scrum Masters take that role pretty seriously by taking charge of how things work. What happens when that goes wrong?

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Operations management: is it the key to achieving business hyper-efficiency?

Monday

The basic definition of an operation is “transformation.” You take different resources — raw material, time, capital, labor, etc. — and transform them into a final product or service. The sum of all your operations makes up the system that keeps your business running. And the simplest way to improve your business is by working on those operations. But you need a strategic approach.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Rise with SAP – How Fingent Can Help Explore Business Transformation as a Service (BTaaS)

Fingent

In the current circumstances where industries are experiencing periods of intense change, organizations need a new paradigm. They need a product that must be capable of reframing the problems which were addressed by previous solutions or that targets a new set of problems. They also need a partner who can effectively deploy the solution and […].

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How to promote a company culture that relies on data

Phocas

A growing business must focus on critical elements like marketplace demand, customer service, sales margins, the most suitable technology, to name a few. However, leaders also need to foster a strong company culture that supports long-term strategies and is underpinned by timely and reliable data.

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The Future of Process Discovery in 2022 and Beyond | Blueprint

Blueprint

According to a recent research report executed by Blueprint, there’s substantial evidence of the tangible returns organizations see from their process discovery efforts.

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How to manage your project budget: a step-by-step guide

Monday

It’s no secret that a good project budget is key to successful project management. Along with completing projects on time and within scope, staying on budget is one of 3 essentials for a successful project. But just 34% of organizations say they always or mostly complete projects on budget — a drop from last year, where 43% of organizations said they regularly completed projects on budget.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Article: How to Decide in Self-Managed Projects - a Lean Approach to Governance

InfoQ Articles

Whether self-managed or self-governed as a project, the power still needs to be distributed internally. If the project is open to decide how things are done, how do we decide? A solid but flexible set of tools and practices like sociocracy is a great starting point for projects to have clear but lean processes that can grow as we grow. By Ted Rau.

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Want Better Agile? Just Turn Managers Into Coaches!

Vitality Chicago

I was struck recently by an article from Forbes that said in order to create high-performing teams we need to turn managers into coaches. Earlier in my agile learning journey I would have been all over that. “Yeah, that’s right. They are the problem! The managers need to learn to coach.” Maybe I am evolving but I didn’t have that reaction when I saw the article.

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Olympics Data Fun with DDX Bricks

Domo

Back at Domopalooza, we announced a new product feature called DDX Bricks. We here at the Domo on Data blog love playing with new features and technologies, so we decided to give it a test and wanted to share the results with you. We started thinking of what we wanted to showcase, as there is so much that is possible with DDX Bricks, and we came back to our Olympics Tracker.

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Agile Methodology vs Framework vs. Toolkit – Does it Really Matter Eddie?

Vitality Chicago

What is in a name? A lot apparently. If you want to stir people up, just call one of the popular agile approaches by the wrong label. Particularly offensive would be calling an approach a methodology. Let’s take a closer look. We are Not an Agile Methodology! Over the years Scrum proponents have been adamant that Scrum is a framework, not a methodology.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.