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	Lesson From Steve Jobs: The Power of Inspiration Art inspires. Humor inspires. Teamwork inspires. A greater purpose inspires. What are you doing to inspire your IT staff? Read More WEBCAST: Akamai Video: Securing the Cloud in a Hyperconnected World This whiteboard presentation covers strategic IT security initiatives within the enterprise and explains how the Akamai Intelligent Platform provides an unmatched level of defense against website, application, and data security attacks. Learn more In this Issue How to Fire People the Right Way Tap the Social Media Stream for Competitors' Secrets How CIOs Can Build a Better Brand The Secret to Forging Valuable Partnerships 8 Ways to Make Peace With Your CMO How to Have Real Risk Management Robots Are Taking Mid-Level Jobs, Changing the Economy Microsoft Video Predicts Dazzling Technology Future First-Gen Design of Top Websites and Gadgets WEBCAST: Interactive Intelligence Contact Center Consolidation and Centralization In this web event, industry experts will share their insight and practical hands-on experience about how to build a successful plan for consolidating and centralizing your contact center and enterprise communications. Learn more How to Fire People the Right Way With the economic recovery in question, companies are starting to cut staff again, and employees are more likely to file wrongful termination charges against their former employers. Human resources and legal experts explain how to avoid legal trouble when firing an employee for performance reasons or laying off an employee for financial reasons. Read More Tap the Social Media Stream for Competitors' Secrets Savvy companies are monitoring Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to pick up valuable competitive intelligence about their rivals' product specs, pricing, finances and dissatisfied customers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Secunia The (In) Security State of SCADA Software Systems In this white paper, we are going to discuss the vulnerable components of SCADA software systems based on analysis performed by Secunia Research while verifying the reported vulnerabilities. Additionally, we will provide some recommendations to mitigate exploitation and reduce the attack surface. Read now How CIOs Can Build a Better Brand Great brands result from robust business models, innovation and IT-enabled competitive advantage. Read More The Secret to Forging Valuable Partnerships The CIOs of Kaiser Permanente and Proctor & Gamble know a thing or two about the value of true strategic partnerships and how to build them. Read More WEBCAST: Zurich Avoiding Reputational and Financial Risk This webinar will review the current climate of privacy and security risks that organizations face today, and offer an overview of key risk management techniques to improve the enterprise risk profile including vendor contract management, employee training, encryption, incident response planning, and others. Learn more 8 Ways to Make Peace With Your CMO CIOs and CMOs may be the enterprise odd couple, but social media, mobile and Web-interaction models mean they really need to learn to get along. Business strategy depends on it. Read More How to Have Real Risk Management Akamai Technologies CSO Andy Ellis talks about some of the things organizations need to consider in order to better manage risk. Read More WHITE PAPER: alfabet Five Rules To Reduce Risk For Application Landscapes This guide is for people responsible for ensuring the security and compliance of enterprises¹ application landscapes, including CIOs, CISOs, Heads of IT Governance as well as Enterprise Architects. It sets out five rules for creating a future IT landscape that infringes neither internal nor external regulations and delivers business value. Read more Robots Are Taking Mid-Level Jobs, Changing the Economy Computers and robots will replace humans in enough jobs that they will dramatically change the economy, said industry watchers and MIT economists at a robotics symposium Monday. What's more, they said, the transition has already started. Read More Microsoft Video Predicts Dazzling Technology Future It's hard to imagine the average person shelling out the kind of cash it would take to buy this technology. Read More First-Gen Design of Top Websites and Gadgets What did YouTube look like in 2005? How ugly was the first BlackBerry pager in 1999? Remember Amazon.com when it just sold books? Even the greatest products have awkward beginnings. Let's take a look at your favorite websites and gadgets when they came into the world. Read More
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