Tag: business

December 1, 2021

It seems buyers are optimistic about their tech budgets for 2022. In fact, only 7% of European respondents said they expected a budget decrease from 2021 levels – down from 31% during the pandemic. The pandemic delayed or disrupted many […]

November 22, 2021

Did you know that only one-third of us can confidently understand, analyze, and argue with data? That’s the essential question posited by the Data Literacy Project, an organization that wants to “ignite discussion and develop the tools we need to […]

November 12, 2021

Industries have drawn inspiration from the challenges of the past 18 months, confirms new AVEVA research, revealing that over 850 leaders have strengthened their commitment to driving digital transformation. Quite simply, the industrial sector—along with almost all other business verticals—will […]

November 8, 2021

Growing companies often find themselves floating on an “ocean” of underutilized or misused data – data that doesn’t reach the people who would most benefit from it or reaches them at the wrong time. Preventing these issues is one of […]

November 8, 2021

On the face of it, the concept of businesses bringing structured and unstructured data together through technology to surface new insights about themselves, their products and their customers sounds simple. But this year’s Harvey Nash Group Digital leadership report – […]

October 21, 2021

Distill both business and IT down to their cores and you end up with a common foundation: data. Arguably, the entire digital transformation trend is fundamentally involved with capturing, securing, analyzing, reporting, visualizing, and distributing both structured and unstructured data […]

October 19, 2021

Advances in technology have been keeping organizations on their toes. Even before the pandemic began to make an impact, many companies had already started their digital transformation journeys. But what might have been a five-year transformation horizon suddenly became a […]

September 10, 2021

Over the last decade, organizations went from locked down, process-driven corporate portals that provided a digital version of the collection of binders on the shelves within most cubicles, to an ad hoc collaboration mecca. Employees can now pick their own […]

September 2, 2021

Cohort analysis is a way of evaluating your business that involves grouping customers into “cohorts” and observing how they behave over time. A commonly used approach is monthly cohort analysis, where customers are grouped by the month they signed up, […]

August 20, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic taught every business one key lesson: The nature of work can quickly change, and it has, with no signs of slowing. Scaling rapidly from a single-project approach to broader cross-system initiatives relies on developing a flexible, adaptable […]

August 5, 2021

National and local governments as well as NGOs such as the World Bank, IMF and World Health Organization offer web portals to access their datasets. In the US, the data.gov service offers access to 320,000 datasets, the UK’s data.gov.uk has […]

July 27, 2021

I am sure many of you will have heard the phrase “navigating uncertainty” over the past year. It’s fast becoming a contender for the catchphrase of 2020/21 and is something that has understandably become a focus for many businesses. Data […]

June 30, 2021

As businesses expand and grow their use of enterprise applications, app sprawl can become an unexpected, but serious drain on company resources. App sprawl occurs when the rollout of multiple applications outstrips IT’s ability to keep track of its resources […]

June 25, 2021

The year 2020 will be remembered for many things. It was the COVID year, a year of social change, and a year of significant political shift in the US. In the tech world, 2020 will be looked at as the […]

May 5, 2021

Over the course of the past decade, IT asset management (ITAM) has been slowly increasing its influence. Apart from the people in finance, few senior business executives lose sleep over IT assets, but they are, of course, deeply concerned if […]

April 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted nearly every industry, fundamentally altering the way most organizations conduct daily business — and that includes how they recruit, hire, and retain IT talent. Robert Half Technology surveyed more than 2,800 senior managers in the […]

April 20, 2021

PEST analysis is used to evaluate external and macro environmental factors that impact your organization, specifically political, economic, social, and technological ones. This four-point analysis method gives your business a framework to identify the most influential factors in your industry, […]

February 3, 2021

Knowledge is power. This is especially true after the disruptive events of 2020, which caused a dramatic shift to remote work. Employees need to find information on their own quickly. Organizations have an obligation to ensure that this information is […]

January 27, 2021

As 2021 dawns, most of us are eager for better times. Yet the new year promises its own set of challenges. Here are five questions to answer as you steer your business into the unexplored waters of 2021: Can we […]

January 21, 2021

By Gerri Hinkel, Director of Solutions and Vertical Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company Competitive pressures for retailers to gain and retain shoppers are at an all-time high due to an uncertain economy, demanding customers, and the explosive […]