Opinion

The critical role of processes in your disaster recovery strategy

Putting in the advance groundwork during quieter times not only leads to cooler heads during more turbulent times, but will also make a tremendous difference to your customers, employees and future business performance.

Robotic process automation brings a new approach to common M&A challenges

New techniques are being identified to leverage the power of RPA to realize more than a dozen benefits, such as reducing processing errors, freeing up teams to perform more knowledge-based work and accelerating the divestiture and integration life cy

Diverse and inclusive tech conferences to attend in 2018

Looking for a more diverse and inclusive tech conference experience? Here are some great options for 2018.

5 ways you can unlock your enterprise mobility strategy

As the enterprise moves towards strategies that emphasize speed, flexibility and choice, unlocked devices are helping mobile deployments do the same.

Where is your company on the path to optimizing a collaborative digital workplace?

Once you identify where exactly you are, youu2019ll be better able to see your way forward.

Architecting innovation-driven BRM success

Success isnu2019t random u2013 itu2019s architected into the process. Thereu2019s a reason business-capability models resonate with executives. They transform businesses, box-by-box.

Top of the year focus on your digital transformation bottom line

Resetting your digital transformation and business performance objectives for 2018.

What is the ‘Location of Things’ and how is it minimizing risk?

Understanding the relationship between people, places and things is crucial to reducing risk. How are different industries doing this, and what are the benefits?

7 key factors of successful digital transformation

What it takes to make DX initiatives succeed within large, existing organizations…from someone who’s done it firsthand.

3 BRM tools for evolution not revolution

Focusing on strategic initiatives is possible once tactical needs are met. Use these three tools to talk about strategy faster.

Small service providers becoming heavyweights and outcompeting system integrators

Retail banku2019s strategic implementation illustrates new third-party services trend.

Education of the future: everywhere, for everyone, all the time

The role online learning will play in education models of the future has only just begun.

CIOs reveal how they measure vendor success

Global IT leaders unveil the unique criteria that they use to assess whether an existing vendor relationship is worthwhile.

Big picture collaboration – the key to adaptability

In an era of unprecedented change, there is broad agreement that problem-solving, critical thinking and adaptability skills are more important to the IT industry than they have ever been. So why is it, if the great majority of job candidates can demo

No. 1 business priority reported by CIOs for 2018

Growth is a recurring theme that keeps both CEOs and CIOs busy.

Choosing a smarter metaphor for your data governance strategy

3 pillars of devops success for 2018, part 3

The compliance and regulatory needs that software companies must satisfy.

Forcing gatekeepers to become value-adding stakeholders

With blockchain-based platforms, it’s not that gatekeepers will have no role in the future u2013 just more of a limited footprint.

Amazon hasn’t cracked omnichannel retailing (yet)

Amazon is definitely in the race, but isn’t necessarily at the front of the pack u2013 as the current iteration of the Amazon Books experience demonstrates.

Oracle fiscal year-end checklist

Oracle appreciates companies that are well prepared, organized and have a clear vision.

Meeting enterprise objectives with a new “twist” on reality

AR and VR hold great promise beyond the gaming industry. These immersive new technologies can transform the way companies do business.

Economic and political factors affecting global software outsourcing in five supplier countries

5 countries (other than the U.S.) that have notable circumstances that should be examined from an IT outsourcing potential.

No more Post-It’s: The case for software in your digital innovation sessions

Great ideation software should be almost u201cinvisibleu201d when in use so the focus becomes almost exclusively on the ideas and their merits.

The future is now: 2018 market predictions for database and data management

While these types of end-of-the (or beginning-of-the) year lists have become commonplace, itu2019s still important to constantly evaluate the changes we are seeing, and understand where they will take us next.

Value-as-a-Service: the importance of strategic supplier management

Service management professionals are dealing with a great challenge: Coping with a high demand of value delivery while more and more strategic parts of the service delivery are being outsourced. Strategic supplier management plays an important role i

Digital transformation in the public sector

Letu2019s rename it management transformation.

Why project managers are vital to BRM success

There is a hidden solution for shifting business-relationship managers from a tactical to a strategic focus: Embrace the project manager.

If artificial intelligence changes everything at work, then education must change, too

If AI is changing everything about our jobs, what does that say about how we as humans prepare for those jobs? How must education u2013 from preschool through grad school u2013 also change?

What does blockchain mean for business and IoT?

Just what kind of an impact will blockchain have on businesses, and can it also be used as a tool to secure the IoT?

Goals for CIOs in 2018

CIOs share their goals for the coming year.