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The contact tracing debate: Do we need to sacrifice personal data privacy to get back to business?
SARS-CoV-2 is a sneaky little virus. Symptoms can vary widely, and without widespread testing there’s really no way to know if a person has the virus or not. As countries start to reopen, protecting against a new spike in infections is an ongoing concern. Digital contact tracing is being suggested as the solution that will ...
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Empathy becomes an unexpected essential for pandemic business survival
In a gendered world, many traits historically associated with women often have to do with caring for others — nurturing, compassionate, empathic, intuitive. Worthy as these attributes are, traditionally they have not always been considered appropriate in the workplace, where to show emotion is to show weakness. That was, until a pandemic hit the world. “All of ...
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Keep calm and be inclusive: IBM leadership guru gives advice on managing a remote workforce
Remote is the new order of business. Leaders are being forced to create new company cultures on the fly as physical barriers between home and work vanish and previous back-burner issues, such as inclusion, have become critical calls to action. “Inclusion is the most important ingredient to helping people thrive in difficult times,” said Deb ...
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How to go big when everyone’s gone home: a marketing playbook for the pandemic
The slogan “Go big or go home” has been slapped down by COVID-19 restrictions. Risk-taking as a strategy seems ridiculous when so many companies are struggling just to balance the books. But many companies have assets that were overlooked when business as usual drove the economy. Now is the time to capitalize on those, and data ...
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As AWS Summit Online wraps, analysts discuss public-cloud strategies for surviving COVID-19
The ability to scale workloads up and down at will is one of the key attributes of cloud, and one that is critical during a crisis. From the crash of 2008 to the disruptions of COVID-19 in 2020, cloud adoption has been boosted by economic disasters as companies look to flexibility to help them weather ...
Solving the problems of poverty through technology, Propel’s Fresh EBT app simplifies food-stamp finance
Tech companies talk big about doing good, but software developers can have a myopic view of the world. As COVID-19 stay-at-home control measures hit the low-income segment of society hard, those already struggling to make ends meet are turning to government support to help put food on the table. But where are the apps to ...
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AWS Kendra cleans up messy data silos and discovers hidden enterprise information resources
Machine learning is constantly making search engines smarter, and in the consumer world speedy search and accurate results are taken for granted. But it’s a different world at work, where search can seem stuck in the 1990s. Internal data searches are hampered by data silos and legacy applications, with users required to input very specific ...
TC Energy proves switching to a remote workforce can be fast and smooth
The ability to shift to remote operations fast and smoothly is a major test for a company’s digital operations. One company that just underwent the trial by fire is TC Energy Corp., which is responsible for keeping the lights on for more than 6 million homes and businesses across Canada and the U.S. “Literally, we went ...
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Cloud is indispensable in COVID-19 era, as analysts kick off AWS Summit coverage
Amazon Web Services Inc. is no stranger to virtualization. But even the cloud giant admits to “figuring it out” as one of its major events spins out of the physical realm. AWS Summit was originally scheduled to be held in San Francisco in April. Now, the event is retooled as a free online event, open ...
Q&A: IBM exec explains easier multicloud management using Cloud Paks
While the mantras of cloud computing are speed and agility, the process of migrating enterprise applications is anything but. If only there was a way to make managing the menageries of microservices easier. “If I’m an enterprise, my goal is how can I accelerate and how can I automate? Cloud Paks enables that,” said Dinesh ...