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Are You Done With Digital Transformation?

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Digital transformation involves adopting a vision that continues to expand along with business and market possibilities. There was still some skepticism around the urgency to adopt digital business systems. The Gartner Technology Glossary offers these definitions. Those statistics were not surprising in 2017.

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Harnessing generative AI for good

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The unfulfilled promises of blockchain to advance social good, a proliferation of mobile apps in developing countries that failed to garner adoption , and cheap laptops that were going to change the world are just a few examples. 2) Fast follow The Gartner Hype Cycle captures the euphoria new technologies tend to generate in the early days.

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Customer Experience Plays Marketing as a Long Game

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According to Gartner , the technology and research consulting firm, 90 percent of organizations now have a CX officer or an equivalent position. Gartner identifies these qualities as key to delivering value: A customer journey mapping process that extends beyond acquisition and purchase through the life of the relationship.

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From Gartner: Five Laws for Exploring Virtual Worlds

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Hat tip to Jay Moonah for the pointer to this Gartner article about virtual worlds. but not necessarily in Second Life, according to Gartner, Inc. develop appropriate and relevant business models. develop appropriate and relevant business models. Gartner's five laws for exploring virtual worlds at the enterprise level.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

As adoption of mobile devices increases for both work and pleasure, IT will no longer be dominated by PCs. Citrix cites Gartner Device Shipment Forecasts that find that the business PC market will grow at a rate of about 10% per year for the next few years. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining.

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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Organizations can get comfortable with implementing one channel and expand to other channels as part of their maturity of practice model. Capacity building that takes an incremental approach and is a balance of strategy and action leads to capacity building that sticks.

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Crystal Ball: Cloud Computing and SaaS

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Enter Gartner. According to Gartner (and they do consider themselves the authority here), Cloud computing is: A style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided as a service to external customers using Internet technologies. Code is consumed on a one to many model, and it's a pay for use subscription.

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