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As education evolves, so does the way we teach and learn. This report focuses on one of the newest trends, still in its nascent stages—mobile learning. It describes the potential benefits of mobile learning, addresses the challenges and opportunities that introducing mobile learning presents, and provides examples from school districts that have already implemented mobile learning programs so we can learn from their best practices. The report also suggests key points to consider as you develop your plans, align your goals, and make decisions regarding mobile learning in your schools.

Be ready for digital learning today, and tomorrow. Building efficient, impactful, future-ready districts takes planning. Our checklist, Digital District Leadership in Five Steps, helps you get started by asking the questions needed to identify new learning opportunities supported by technology. • How can new content engage students? • How robust is your network? • Do you have the right technology resources across classrooms? Let’s get started now. Download this checklist.

When augmenting the benefits package for your organization, it’s natural to focus on traditional perks that employees have come to expect: PTO, health insurance, and maybe a tuition assistance credit here or there. But if you’re looking for creative and effective ways to stimulate employee engagement while also driving business results, you’ll want to consider the powerful impact of offering language-learning opportunities. Where’s the connection? And how can you reproduce these benefits within your organization? This playbook offers a deeper look at why language learning has such a positive influence on employee engagement and business performance, as well as step-by-step instructions for implementing a language-learning program in your organization.

Effective metrics and measurements are critical to running a high performance business. Properly applied, they lead you to better insights, better decisions and better business outcomes. They provide feedback to spark improvement and create learning opportunities. They help you identify the right outcomes that drive you toward your business goals. Unfortunately, many businesses misuse these powerful tools in ways that actively destroy the agility they seek to create. In this paper, we highlight nine mistakes organizations make involving agile measurement at enterprise scale—and how to do it right.

People with strong learning opportunities and who are engaged in their work, show 16% better performance across all industries, roles and job types.

Analysts and industry experts agree: Digital disruption in manufacturing is on the horizon. Technologies like the Internet of Things, dynamic enterprise management, global supply chain visibility, and machine learning are already changing the way manufacturers produce goods and interact with customers. Further changes will continue to intensify issues and reveal opportunities.

Analysts and industry experts agree: Digital disruption in manufacturing is on the horizon. Technologies like the Internet of Things, dynamic enterprise management, global supply chain visibility, and machine learning are already changing the way manufacturers produce goods and interact with customers. Further changes will continue to intensify issues and reveal opportunities.

In today’s 24/7, always-on world, people expect institutions of higher education to lead with technology. Constant connectivity, mobility, and access to rich media anytime, anywhere not only define the educational experience, but also help to attract and retain the best students, faculty, and staff. Western Oregon University (WOU), relies on NetApp to help support its mission of providing effective, technology-powered learning opportunities.

Remember Y2K – the IT “problem” that should have brought businesses to a screeching half? Despite the hype, the preparation led to widely documented business benefits and uncovered new opportunities that transformed organizations worldwide. Similarly in today’s highly regulated Financial Services industry, enabling GRC by integrating data from silos can be the driver for future business use cases like machine learning and anti-fraud detection services. GRC can be your catalyst for new opportunities. Listen in as our panel of financial services experts discuss the keys to reinventing your data strategy. We’ll cover: How to align your GRC strategy with a business transformation agenda How to ensure your organization’s approach to data management isn’t just a one-off solution, but a comprehensive one adaptable to changing regulations How to navigate the increasing regulatory demands for granular data security How to turn your compliance spend into new opportunities to earn revenue

New research has found that being a Dream Company – one that shows it cares about employees, provides them with learning and growth opportunities, and promotes work/life balance – drives retention, engagement, and talent attraction.

Businesses are struggling with numerous variables to determine what their stance should be regarding artificial intelligence (AI) applications that deliver new insights using deep learning. The business opportunities are exceptionally promising. Not acting could potentially be a business disaster as competitors gain a wealth of previously unavailable data to grow their customer base. Most organizations are aware of the challenge, and their lines of business (LOBs), IT staff, data scientists, and developers are working to define an AI strategy. IDC believes that this emerging environment is to date still highly undefined, even as businesses must make critical decisions. Should businesses develop in-house or use VARs, systems integrators, or consultants? Should they deploy on-premise, in the cloud, or in some hybrid form? Can they use existing infrastructure, or do AI applications and deep learning require new servers with new capabilities? We believe that many of these questions can be

Data is the lifeblood of business. And in the era of digital business, the organizations that utilize data most effectively are also the most successful. Whether structured, unstructured or semi-structured, rapidly increasing data quantities must be brought into organizations, stored and put to work to enable business strategies. Data integration tools play a critical role in extracting data from a variety of sources and making it available for enterprise applications, business intelligence (BI), machine learning (ML) and other purposes. Many organization seek to enhance the value of data for line-of-business managers by enabling self-service access. This is increasingly important as large volumes of unstructured data from Internet-of-Things (IOT) devices are presenting organizations with opportunities for game-changing insights from big data analytics. A new survey of 369 IT professionals, from managers to directors and VPs of IT, by BizTechInsights on behalf of IBM reveals the challe

Businesses are struggling with numerous variables to determine what their stance should be regarding artificial intelligence (AI) applications that deliver new insights using deep learning. The business opportunities are exceptionally promising. Not acting could potentially be a business disaster as competitors gain a wealth of previously unavailable data to grow their customer base. Most organizations are aware of the challenge, and their lines of business (LOBs), IT staff, data scientists, and developers are working to define an AI strategy.

Businesses are struggling with numerous variables to determine what their stance should be regarding artificial intelligence (AI) applications that deliver new insights using deep learning. The business opportunities are exceptionally promising. Not acting could potentially be a business disaster as competitors gain a wealth of previously unavailable data to grow their customer base. Most organizations are aware of the challenge, and their lines of business (LOBs), IT staff, data scientists, and developers are working to define an AI strategy.

Building efficient, impactful, future-ready districts takes planning. Our checklist, Digital District Leadership in Five Steps, helps you get started by asking the questions needed to identify new learning opportunities supported by technology. ? How can new content engage students? ? How robust is your network? ? Do you have the right technology resources across classrooms?

The insurance industry stands on the precipice of change, with waves of innovation and disruption driving new possibilities across all departments, including pricing, underwriting, claims, and fraud. This webinar recording of a live panel debate is ideal for insurance professionals wanting to understand how best to unlock the possibilities created by advanced analytical techniques such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and others. This TIBCO and Marketforce webinar on “The Fourth Industrial Revolution in Insurance” includes speakers Ian Thompson, chief claims officer at Zurich; David Williams, chief underwriting officer at AXA; and Clare Lunn, GI fraud director at LV=. The panel discusses: Moving towards the algorithmic insurer: the opportunities created by AI and ML How insurers can become more agile in the face of new innovations and disruptive technologies How the industry can turn structured and unstructured data into insights

31 percent of millennials reported that they would leave their current position due to lack of learning opportunities. Younger generations are expecting more out of their work experience, which is making it harder to attract and retain top talent. We’re in the middle of a new era in terms of the way employees work and learn. Bottom line? Learning content is one of the most significant investments when it comes to employee experience and it’s time for your company to step up to the plate. Download our quick-guide on “4 Reasons you should invest in a learning content strategy.” You’ll learn how it can change the way your company: • Attracts top talend • Onboards and attracts top talent • Retain hard-won talent • Achieve your business goals Get your copy today.

As much as we try to avoid it, performance reviews seemingly boil down to last minute gathering of notes and memories, prodded by HR chasing you down to meet deadlines. Sound familiar? The cycle can be broken. In our latest ebook, learn about 5 strategies that help you have a more effective performance review season. Learn how to: • align employee goals to company goals • provide continuous feedback and coaching • tie performance reviews to learning opportunities • use all of the data collected to make informed and actionable decisions Avoid the performance review spiral, download “5 Strategies for More Effective Performance Reviews” today!

31 percent of millennials reported that they would leave their current position due to lack of learning opportunities. Younger generations are expecting more out of their work experience, which is making it harder to attract and retain top talent. We’re in the middle of a new era in terms of the way employees work and learn. Bottom line? Learning content is one of the most significant investments when it comes to employee experience and it’s time for your company to step up to the plate. Download our quick-guide on “4 reasons you should invest in a learning content strategy.” You’ll learn how it can change the way your company: • attracts top talent • onboards and attracts top talent • retain hard-won talent • achieve your business goals Get your copy today.

From the impact of disruptive technologies to the imperative of digital transformation, businesses today must find new ways to innovate or risk being left behind. While data flowing rapidly between the Internet of Things and multi-cloud computing environments brings tremendous opportunity, there’s also a great deal of complexity. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are part of the new wave of solutions capturing the minds of enterprise leaders to respond to these new opportunities and complexities. Digitally literate leaders who are highly cognizant of this wave, are jumping in headfirst and applying AI and ML to solve real business challenges—making enterprise goals of enabling cost savings via smarter operations and decision making come to fruition. BMC Cognitive Service Management (CSM) addresses the complexities of multi-cloud computing by applying intelligence, automation, and predictive capabilities. CSM employs a differentiated approach with a more holistic

The challenge of Big Data is more than a question of size; it’s about time to insight and action. With the exponential growth of unstructured data such as social media, video and the raw data generated by smartphones and other “intelligent” machines, businesses are buried under an avalanche of data that renders even best-effort analytics slow and sometimes unreliable. As many businesses are learning in this age of Big Data, it’s not just what you know, but when you know it and how much you trust it. Download this white paper and learn that with SAP HANA, companies can react intelligently at the speed of thought to capture new opportunities.

When augmenting the benefits package for your organization, it’s natural to focus on traditional perks that employees have come to expect: PTO, health insurance, and maybe a tuition assistance credit here or there. But if you’re looking for creative and effective ways to stimulate employee engagement while also driving business results, you’ll want to consider the powerful impact of offering language-learning opportunities. Why language learning? It offers immediate and long-term benefits to both employees and employers. Research shows that organizations that offer access to language learning see an increase in employee engagement factors like loyalty, morale, and productivity, which in turn boosts business performance factors such as customer satisfaction and internal communications. Where’s the connection? And how can you reproduce these benefits within your organization? This playbook offers a deeper look at why language learning has such a positive influence on employee engagement

Higher education has come under increasing scrutiny as never before due to rising costs, changes in future job requirements, and new forms of learning opportunities offered by non-traditional companies and institutions. Students and parents are rightfully questioning the value of higher education based on perceived outcomes as well as staggering student loans that in some cases could take a lifetime to pay back. While the value equation debate rages on, there is another phenomenon taking place. It is nothing short of a revolution regarding the advances in technology and how institutions of higher learning along with nontraditional organizations are utilizing these powerful new tools. These new tools include new mobile devices, enhanced and feature-rich learning management systems, data-feeding sensors, 3D printers, smart classrooms, smart buildings, and collaboration tools allowing students and faculty to collaborate just about anywhere face-to-face, virtually.

Learn how a comprehensive upgrade of their wireless and telephony systems modernized teaching and learning for a Kansas school district, which allowed for enhanced classroom learning and collaboration opportunities.

Talent development leaders recognize that a key element in keeping learning relevant and engaging involves seizing opportunities to creatively embed social media in their organizations’ talent development portfolios. ATD’s Social Learning: Developing Talent Through Connection, Contribution, and Collaboration whitepaper reports on the use of social media for learning and the approaches that are driving organizational success. Download this whitepaper to better understand the strategies and practices talent development leaders are using to leverage social learning effectively.