For the first time in modern history, workplace demographics now span four generations. Download this white paper for best practices on how to better understand and effectively manage a multi-generational workforce.

"This report discusses NetApp’s AFF and FAS product lines, ONTAP 9 advanced functionality, NetApp SAN history and NetApp AFF A700s SAN IO performance. Our performance review uses recent benchmark results, ranks the A700s against a list of enterprise flash storage systems and shows where the NetApp AFF A700s falls on Silverton Consulting’s All-Flash Storage ChampionsChart™."

HfS published the Top 10 Cognitive Assistant Service Provider report that explores the emerging conversational service provider ecosystem across key areas including execution ability, innovation capability, and the voice of the customer. The conversational services called as Cognitive Assistants, go beyond the traditional chatbots and augment human-customer interaction across both front- and back-office business operations. IBM was recognized for its market leadership in Cognitive Assistant that harness the power of IBM Watson capabilities – including NLP, conversation and analytics. HfS also merits IBM for demonstrating the greatest volume and depth of cognitive assistant use cases across industry verticals and enterprise processes.

You get the importance of resilience, but does your leadership? In this white paper, you’ll learn how to build a business case that addresses five common objections the C-suite will have. To start, it’s critical to understand how resilience positively impacts the four key areas of common concern for leadership today: ? Engagement ? Performance ? Well-being ? The bottom line Get the White Paper

Even among high-income, highly educated people, almost 50 percent lack the skills they need to engage and perform in this era of increasing change and pressure. And only 6 percent of companies believe they are highly agile today. It’s time for a new perspective. In this e-book, discover the four challenges every HR executive faces in building engagement and performance, and how you can overcome them by: ? Equipping people and teams with resilience skills ? Meeting every employee right where they are ? Empowering all employees with leadership skills ? Harnessing cognitive insights that drive real results Get the e-book A New Perspective on Engagement and Performance today!

Colleges and universities are transforming to meet the demands of new students. Technology plays a critical role in making improvements to both physical and process infrastructure. As the world’s leading provider of education technology, Lenovo knows that steady technology leadership is critical to ensuring higher education institutions to stay responsive to these always-evolving, real-world challenges.

Michigan State's online certificate programs provide business professionals and organizations concise, yet powerful professional development series - available wherever, whenever you have access to a computer and Internet connection. The Supply Chain Management or Strategic Leadership and Management programs offer an unparalleled combination of academic excellence, expert knowledge, content quality and advanced technology. Accreditation Michigan State is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The Broad School has been accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) since 1953, representing the highest standard of achievement for business schools worldwide.

Talent management is evolving, and HR professionals must adapt for the future. Competition remains fierce to acquire the best talent from the largest candidate pool in history, while the traditional performance review cycle is no longer sufficient for evaluating the functions and needs of your people. Executives must ensure that managers are not only able to find the right individual for the job, but also retain, engage, and prepare top performers for leadership roles in a proactive way.

How to get C-Suite support for your talent initiatives. Even though improved talent management has repeatedly been shown to drive powerful revenue growth, many C-Suite folks still see HR as an expense. This new eBook, “Making the Business Case for Talent Management”, will equip you with winning strategies to get the leadership buy-in you and to elevate the role of HR in your organization. In this ebook, you’ll learn: • Tips to build a business case for your proposed talent initiatives • How to tailor your pitch with metrics that matter to your executives • 3 steps to becoming a strategic partner to the C-Suite This new ebook has everything you need to get executive buy-in and ongoing support for your proposed talent initiatives!

Culture has become one of the most important business topics of 2016. CEOs and HR leaders now recognize that culture drives people's behavior, innovation, and customer service: 82 percent of survey respondents believe that "culture is a potential competitive advantage." Knowing that leadership behavior and reward systems directly impact organizational performance, customer service, employee engagement, and retention, leading companies are using data and behavioral information to manage and influence their culture.

Building on 25 years of server market leadership, the HPE ProLiant Gen9 portfolio—which includes HPE OneView software for simplified, converged management—offers optimal performance, increased storage, reduced energy consumption, and greater visibility and control across IT environments. Now everyone from enterprises to small and medium businesses (SMBs) can lower the cost of IT services, reduce delivery times, and improve their overall performance to gain a competitive edge. Download this white paper to learn more about the HPE ProLiant Gen9 portfolio.

So what do end-users—companies in the process of building or upgrading their data centers today—think of the security problems they face? We conducted this survey to answer key questions about buyers’ plans for security in their data centers.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is flooding today’s industrial sector with data. Information is streaming in from many sources — equipment on production lines, sensors at customer facilities, sales data, and much more. Harvesting insights means filtering out the noise to arrive at actionable intelligence. This report shows how to craft a strategy to gain a competitive edge. It explains how to evaluate IIoT solutions, including what to look for in end-to-end analytics solutions. Finally, it shows how SAS has combined its analytics expertise with Intel’s leadership in IIoT information architecture to create solutions that turn raw data into valuable insights.

For organizations to succeed with the onslaught of devices, sensors and tools that innovation garners, data must no longer be treated as a byproduct but instead as an asset. And data-driven innovation must start at the top. That's what Michael Schrage, Fellow at MIT Sloan School's Initiative on the Digital Economy, said during the Harvard Business Review webinar, Leadership and Big Data Innovation. Find out why data experimentation, governance and culture are part of the next leadership challenge for organizations.

Oracle commissioned Forrester to interview 498 marketing decision-makers from across the US and Europe, finding that most companies are in the process of evolving marketing practices, but on average they are only about halfway to the goal of becoming customer obsessed or modern marketers. Read all the results. Get the report.

How can you accelerate SAP HANA with Lenovo? In this article from insiderPROFILES, you’ll learn why major IT companies choose Lenovo’s SAP HANA Appliance to accelerate and scale their SAP HANA® deployments. Natalie Miller interviews the leadership team to understand why they chose Lenovo, and how their X6 server infrastructure provides unique value for their team. Get the article now.

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.

Read the Forrester Wave: Data Management Platforms to see why Adobe Audience Manager is recognized for consistency and category leadership. Forrester states, "Adobe is a smart choice for marketers focused on extending control across channels."

A related recent development in the data center is converged infrastructure (CI). Instead of the traditional silo deployment approach to storage, compute, and network resources, all infrastructure elements are delivered and managed in a single environment, providing virtualized access to business services in an efficient manner. This is particularly suitable for cloud-based delivery models. However, since CI achieves lower costs through optimization of data center resources, it can be effective for all IT organizations, regardless of the way in which the services are managed or presented.

Flatiron wanted to create a structured process to recruit quickly and give all candidates a fair shot at advancing through each stage. Engineering leadership wanted to build a diverse team, and while they’d like to thoroughly vet every candidate for team fit, they’re limited by how much time they can devote to recruiting.

As extraordinary advances in technology start to transform the traditional workforce, business leaders must get ready for a future where skilled employees and smart machines will work together. Read this report to find out: what the emergence of AI means for leadership and workforce management how to define a strategic roadmap to understand how AI will impact your organisation how a new concept – ‘workforce shaping’ – is being used by leading organisations preparing for the future.

If you’re like other HR professionals, you wonder what more you could do to drive business growth. In our latest research, we asked 5,000 decision-makers their views of the role of innovation in driving business growth. You’ll learn: • Why HR feels limited by innovation teams being too separated from their organisation’s core business • The six processes for idea generation and project delivery • Which leadership behaviours HR finds valuable in supporting innovation culture Our research uncovers the key innovation challenges they face, key execution issues, and the barriers to true innovation. See what HR leaders think

3D printing emerged as a prototyping technology in the 1980s, and has been rapidly evolving ever since. The ongoing developments of the last few decades have transformed 3D printing (also called additive manufacturing), into a viable and cost-effective technology throughout the production environment: from prototyping, to production enablement, to direct 3D production. Companies that utilize 3D printing can attain and cement a leadership position in their industry through the time, cost, and capability advancements 3D printing makes possible. This ebook provides an overview of the 3D printing technology and material advancements in 3D Systems’ plastic additive manufacturing that extend the addressable range of production applications.

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Mobile isn’t about devices, it’s about people. Understanding this helps mobile leaders deliver contextual content that creates personalized mobile customer experiences. With a mobile leadership mindset, you can build a platform for increasing engagement and loyalty – and driving better commerce results.