Month: August 2017

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“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing.” – Thomas Jefferson

I’ve long been a history buff. It all started when I was 4 years old, and my mother spent time explaining the American Revolution and what truly makes America great. Imagine the chagrin of my kindergarten teacher when I recited the preamble of the United States Constitution for our first show-and-tell. I became a disciple of revolution and revolutionary action.

One of the things I love most about history is learning of the trailblazing revolutionists who exhibited such fierce tenacity and grit to move our country forward – the movers and shakers who always believed there was a better way and a new journey on which to embark. Or, as Thomas Jefferson contended, “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

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In response to increased pressure to execute faster, information workers are adopting a range of collaboration and productivity tools to gain the flexibility they need to work with greater agility. But this adoption may actually hinder their ability to efficiency by dispersing work, critical information and conversations across multiple tools.

An enterprise work management platform can help cut down on this multitasking by providing a centralized place to manage and automate all forms of work. However, you need to be careful about choosing the right work management solution for your business needs.

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Are you measuring the value and effectiveness of your cybersecurity efforts? Most companies around the world are failing to do so, according to a recent security measurement index benchmark survey. Without establishing the proper metrics, you’re flying blind.

And even when organizations’ information security function does generate and deliver data about the business’ security, it typically never gets read.

“Many companies, while they’re making some effort in cybersecurity, they’re not looking at the effectiveness in terms of how it helps the business,” says Joseph Carson, chief security scientist at Thycotic, which created its Security Measurement Index (SMI) based on standards for security specified in ISO 27001 and best practices from industry experts and associations. “Many companies are not evaluating their risk versus their impact. They’re not looking at this from a business impact evaluation or perspective. They’re doing it to meet compliance and many of their security metrics were channeled toward that.”

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Every enterprise system has the risk of data quality problems, but customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation systems are incredibly vulnerable to incomplete records, bad data, and duplicate records. Data comes from too many flaky sources, and there aren’t enough incentives for organizations and people to really follow standards. Fortunately, a number of services and tools have arisen to automagically improve data quality (in particular, Salesforce’s Data.com). When it comes to deduping, though, even the best tools out there need to be used with careful attention to detail and the prep work that can take days. We’ll show you how to avoid the main pitfalls here.

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