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My Research on Cloud Cost Management and Optimization Is Now Available For Free!

by Marco Meinardi  |  August 27, 2020

I am proud to announce that my research on cloud cost management and optimization is now available for free at this link. Gartner made this research public to help organizations...

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Agile Is Buzzy, But "agile" Is Better

by Kristina LaRocca-Cerrone  |  August 26, 2020

In Gartner’s 2020 survey on Marketing Organization and Operations, marketers revealed the essential importance of agile principles. In fact, Marketers believe agile project management approaches are as much as 25%...

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The Cybersecurity Skills Shortage—the Answer Lies with Recruiting More Women and Diverse Candidates

by Barika Pace  |  August 26, 2020

Introduction Women currently represent about 20% of people working in the field of cybersecurity, and the number of women in cybersecurity is growing; organizations must address the diversity debt to...

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Boost the Success of Your Centralized Marketing Service With This Simple Framework

by caguerrer  |  August 26, 2020

Gartner’s 2020 Marketing Organization Survey reveals that marketing teams are using centralized service models at high levels.  Specifically, nearly 50% of marketing organizations use a Shared Service or a Center...

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Umbrella messaging does not make you strategic

by Mark P. McDonald  |  August 26, 2020

Tech companies want to be strategic.  Strategic in the sense of being known to the C-suite, being seen as vital to a customer and, being differentiated from the competition. These...

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Stop your Data Quality Project and Start your Outcome-based Data Governance Program

by Andrew White  |  August 26, 2020

I spoke to a client recently who had this question:   "I need help to develop a survey to ask our employees around the company how they regard the various subjective...

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Are You Really Ready For Software Containers And Kubernetes?

by Jeffrey Hewitt  |  August 25, 2020

There has been explosive growth of software containers and Kubernetes as a means to create, deploy and manage applications. Much of this growth has occurred in the past 3 years....

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Our Top 20 Most-Read Data and Analytics Research Last Week (to Aug 23)

by Andrew White  |  August 24, 2020

Click here for an interactive PDF to connect to the notes directly. Saul Judah knocked chart-topping Rita Sallam off the number one spot last week with his new note, Adopt SMART Principles...

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Create a Culture of IT Smart Spending

by Daniel Sanchez Reina  |  August 24, 2020

Do you cut costs in times of recession? Do you spend generously in times of prosperity? Both are the wrong approach. Adopt a 'Smart Spending' culture.   Smart spending is...

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A revised working definition of Digital Transformation

by Mark P. McDonald  |  August 24, 2020

Digital transformation, everyone talks about it, wants to sell it wants to do it, but what is it really.  The term digital transformation has become a catch call, a term...

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