8 things women should know about the future of work

The World Economic Forum’s Industry Gender Gap study seeks to understand the current gender gap across industries and the future impact of key disruptions on women’s employment. It does so by asking the talent and strategy executives of today’s largest employers to imagine how jobs in their industry will change up to the year 2020. If you are a woman who is planning to join, stay in or return to the workforce in the next 5 years, here’s what you need to know.

1. Most businesses want to recruit, retain and promote more women than they did before.
2. Industries that are traditionally male-dominated are even more likely than others to do so. 
3. The reasons why range from moral calling to profit motives. 
4. But gender gaps still persist in all industries.
5. The reasons are both cultural and structural. 
6. Women could be in the firing line of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
7. If you are a woman in college today, consider STEM or business courses. J
8. It’s time for companies and governments – not just working women - to lean in.

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Can we really trust scientists?

As science makes giant leaps forward in fields ranging from genomics to renewable energy, it feels as though we may be edging closer to solving some of world’s big and complex challenges.

Yet there is a major obstacle to overcome: trust.

A recent survey by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Pew Research Center suggests a sizeable gap exists between scientists and broader public opinion across a host of issues including climate change, genetic modification, space research and vaccines.

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13 Common ERP Mistakes and How to Avoid Making Them

While a successful ERP implementation can help your organization streamline workflow and cut costs, a poorly planned and implemented ERP rollout can severely cost organizations, in terms of lost productivity and delays. Here are the 13 most commonly cited ERP mistakes and their fixes.

Costing anywhere from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars, and requiring hundreds of man hours to implement, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are huge investments of money, resources and time. And while a successful ERP implementation can help your organization streamline workflow and cut costs, a poorly planned and implemented ERP rollout can severely cost organizations, in terms of lost productivity and delays.

To help ensure your ERP implementation is a success, or at least to minimize potential problems, CIO.com surveyed dozens of ERP experts (IT executives, consultants and ERP vendors), asking them to describe the most common ERP-related mistakes organizations make and how to avoid or solve them. The 13 most commonly cited ERP mistakes and their fixes appear in this post.

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India's Most Valued Principals 2012

The third edition of ChannelWorld ‘Most Valued Principal – 2012’ survey provided a neutral platform to partners to rate the vendors they work with, in India. A total of 437 partner organizations participated in the survey, rating as many as 85 vendors across 14 technology categories. Did the principals get acknowledged for exceptional service or thrashed for dismal performance by the channel partners? What’s the report card of vendor companies in 2012? Read on...

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The DNA of the CIO

For many years, CIOs have been talking about becoming a true partner to the executive management team. But relatively few have broken out of their comfort zones to actually become one. The encouraging news is: many CIOs find the remit and responsibilities of their role hugely rewarding and enjoyable. Nevertheless, many more will need to test the limits of their comfort zones to become a relevant partner to the business in the years ahead – and to receive the recognition they deserve.

A recent Ernst and Young report, The DNA of the CIO, provides fresh insight into what it is to be a chief information officer (CIO) today. It explores the aspirations and expectations of those in the job – and the skills and relationships they need to master to succeed.

The survey is based on our survey of more than 300 senior IT professionals worldwide. A further 40 respondents from across the rest of the C-suite were polled to provide a perspective on how the CIO is perceived by the rest of the executive management team.

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Survey: Trends in Mobile Collaboration Survey 2012: Info-graphics

Copiun Inc announced the results of its survey, conducted with International Marketing and Technology Solutions, Inc. (IMTS), the survey was designed to help IT decision makers determine the security and data risks of mobile collaboration. Key findings indicate more than fifty percent of the companies surveyed are now planning Mobile Productivity projects to allow employees to access, sync and share documents using mobile devices. The survey also reveals that the biggest challenges facing C-level executives and IT decision-makers in mobility are data security and compliance management. See info graphics

Business and Web 2.0: An interactive feature

For the past five years, thousands of executives from around the world—across a range of industries and functional areas—have responded to a McKinsey survey1 on how organizations are using Web 2.0 technologies.

This interactive feature focuses on several of the survey’s core questions—from what technologies and tools companies view as most important to what kind of investments, if any, organizations plan to make in Web 2.0 in the future. Our survey examines the business use of 12 technologies and tools: blogs, mash-ups (a Web application that combines multiple sources of data into a single tool), microblogging, peer to peer, podcasts, prediction markets, rating, RSS (Really Simple Syndication), social networking, tagging, video sharing, and wikis.

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