Tag: Business Agility
If you are a business leader, are you frustrated with an IT organization that gives you all the reasons why your purchase of a software application won’t work versus figuring out how to make it work? If you are an IT leader, do you find your concerns about application security, performance, compliance and a slew…
Read MoreOver the past several years, the tension has grown between corporate IT and the departments it serves throughout the organization. This tension exists for many reasons, but is escalating as departments are increasingly acquiring their own technology to meet their specific business needs. Corporate IT departments often refer to this as “Shadow IT.” While the…
Read MoreWhen you hear the phrase, “shadow IT”, what comes to mind? Visions of ominous, dark, or secretive information technology pockets operating outside of the CIO’s control or visibility? Worries that the software purchased or developed by these rogue IT groups will end up in the CIO’s lap when support becomes a challenge? For many CIO’s,…
Read MoreMany business leaders today face the challenge of transforming their organizations to compete in a world that is defined by increasing levels of uncertainty, chaos and complexity. A global pandemic, social justice concerns, rapidly evolving customer expectations, the changing nature of work – these and other factors are driving the need to create new business…
Read MoreAs if our world wasn’t changing rapidly enough prior to 2020, Covid-19 has now wreaked havoc on economies, workplaces and consumer expectations. Leading into this year, companies were busy trying to leverage innovative technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, IoT, 5G data networks, augmented reality (virtual, extended, mixed) and blockchain, to name…
Read MoreBusinesses and entire industries have been turned upside down seemingly overnight by new market entrants that correctly identified and capitalized on ways to provide better customer experiences. It is not just newcomers who beat the competition and acquired larger market shares through a customer experience (CX) focus: Apple is an example of a pre-existing giant…
Read MoreToday’s blog is for information technology leaders who know they want to explore the Internet of Things (IoT) as a powerful capability and want to learn how they can get started now building a technical foundation for it. You’ve probably heard a lot of discussion about the Internet of Things (IoT) over the past few…
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