Tag: COVID-19

November 3, 2023

Burnout is quickly becoming a widespread problem for IT organizations. The wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, mass tech industry layoffs, and the demand to keep pace with constantly evolving technology are all prominent factors contributing to a state of exhaustion […]

December 6, 2021

With the COVID-19 pandemic pushing life further online, the way we collaborate and communicate has been altered forever. In addition, the volume and variety of information and content grows exponentially by the day, making effective Data Governance a tough task […]

November 10, 2021

Once upon a time, remote working was fairly uncommon in the corporate world. But when Covid-19 spread across the globe at the start of 2020, most businesses had to send their employees home and ask them to work online instead. […]

March 1, 2021

COVID-19 struck IT like a tsunami in early 2020, sweeping away long-established operations and processes, forcing CIOs to quickly identify and deploy acceptable alternatives. Now, as the virus threat appears to be gradually receding, IT leaders are viewing a radically […]

February 18, 2021

The need for data has never been greater than it is today. Dynamic market economics, shifting consumer patterns, and new-age digital native companies have huge demand for data infrastructure. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need for agile supply chains and […]

January 11, 2021

If you will allow an indulgence of a paraphrase of Mark Twain’s frequently misrepresented quote: “the reports of the death of the office have been greatly exaggerated.” As corporations have now had a deeper opportunity to analyze the impact of […]

December 21, 2020

The application-first economy and future of work that was emerging over the past few years suddenly got a jolt of adrenaline when the pandemic hit. COVID-19 forced everything from digital computing, healthcare, large scale supply chain, the service economy, and […]

November 10, 2020

The massive shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic has companies hiring roles to lead the transition. Facebook, Quora, Twitter, GitLab, GitHub and others are hiring or have hired such leaders, according to Darren Murphy, head of remote at […]

October 22, 2020

Customer experience and digital transformation are two terms we’ve been hearing about for years, but have often remained nebulous in many organizations — something to aspire to perhaps, but not take completely seriously. Yet the pandemic has been a forcing […]

August 27, 2020

There is a gap between business and IT leaders in the financial services sector about the ability of IT infrastructures to respond to the challenges brought by the Covid-19 pandemic. According to Gartner’s 2020 Financial services Covid-19 pulse survey, more […]

August 18, 2020

From enacting business continuity plans to enabling flexible working and onto transforming business models, digital leaders have had to manage the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their organisation, its employees and its customers. This process has been a tougher […]

August 12, 2020

It’s 2020 and the world has changed remarkably, including in how companies screen data science candidates. While many things have changed, there is one change that stands out above the rest. At The Data Incubator, we run a data science […]

July 15, 2020

Working from home and remote working as a concept and a practice has been around for a while in certain industries with several enterprises adopting it in varying degrees. The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled nearly every business to embrace the […]

July 14, 2020

Professional services firm Deloitte has a new report out this morning about A.I. adoption by corporations, and it is worth reading. (You can view the report here.) The main takeaway is that A.I. is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and as it […]

July 14, 2020

Prior to COVID-19, the world was undergoing massive business transformation illustrated by stunning success of mega-scale Internet businesses such as Amazon Prime, Twitter, Uber, Netflix, Xbox and others that are now an integral part of our lives and exemplify the […]

June 23, 2020

Inspiring a sense of mission while reminding people why their work matters is one way some of history’s greatest leaders helped people through challenging times, according to Harvard Business School’s Nancy Koehn. We’re in the worst downturn since the Great […]

June 16, 2020

With cost savings and rapid time to value through efficiency and scale, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and automation as a whole, were on a gradual, but longer-term rise in digital transformation (DX). Then COVID-19 struck and digital transformation itself was […]

June 10, 2020

COVID-19 has disrupted every business around the globe. IT professionals are under immense pressure to continue overseeing infrastructure, applications, and security in this new normal, where most employees are working from home and services are being accessed exclusively online. As […]

May 19, 2020

Recently, companies and schools have been forced to switch to remote workplace and learning environments. This crisis is a reminder that organizations should always be prepared to go remote. We are taking this opportunity to share Logicalis subject matter expert […]

May 14, 2020

Gartner this week said that IT spending across the globe is projected to total $3.4 trillion in 2020, a decline of 8% from 2019 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In January Gartner had forecast Worldwide IT spending […]