Digital Transformation Efforts Hindered by Lack of Upskilling
There’s no digital transformation without a staff transformation. The people skills that helped bring successful enterprises to where they are today won’t be the skills that will make them successful tomorrow. Fortunately, Leadership Suite readers are well aware at how important it is for the success of their organizations to close the gaps between the […]
Enterprise AI Books to Read This Spring
If you are anything like me, and curious about how new enterprise tools will transform our relationship with work and business-technology, then you are probably reading a lot about artificial intelligence. There’s likely no other topic that’s been written about in more depth in recent years, yet much of it is unrealistic or poorly reasoned […]
Survey Finds IT Modernization Efforts Reap Significant Benefits
When it comes to the state of IT, few questions weigh more substantially on the minds of CIOs and other business-technology leaders than the degree of success they see in their digital transformation efforts, and foundational to that their efforts to modernize their technology stack. In a survey recently released by market research firm IDG, […]
vArmour CEO: Cloud Security Needs Simplicity
Cloud computing promised cost savings and simplified IT management, among other things. In many ways, the cloud has lived up to its ideals, and in other ways, such as API security, shadow IT and the securing of clouds across hybrid environments, the cloud has proven challenging. To get a sense of how enterprises and security […]
What Makes Digital Transformation a Success?
Despite more than $5 trillion having been spent on digital transformation efforts, survey after survey shows that successful digital transformations are far and few in-between. By many estimates, more than 50% of digital transformation efforts failed in recent years. While a recent survey conducted by Hanover Research and commissioned by AHEAD, the State of Enterprise […]
Tight Demand Sets Some Tech Salaries Soaring
Technology industry workers are enjoying historic low unemployment rates, and those workers with the right skills are commanding high salaries. According to the Dice 2020 Tech Salary Report, the annual average pay in the technology industry reached $94,000 in 2019, up 1.3% from 2018. And those workers in the right specialties, and in the right […]
Are US Workers Threatened by Automation?
There’s been plenty of predictions about the impact of automation on the workforce: from enhancing the ability of workers to do their jobs to those who argue intelligent automation will eventually decimate the human workforce. The issue even made it to the Democratic presidential 2020 primary race with candidate Andrew Yang’s “Freedom Dividend.” Still, if […]
The 2020 Digital Leader Priorities
When it comes to digital transformation, 2020 promises to be full steam ahead as many of the trends are already well underway. However, it’ll be those businesses that can execute at the quickening rate of technological change that will set the leaders and laggards apart for the years ahead. A survey conducted earlier last year […]
Chief Digital Officers Driving Digital Transformation
The chief digital officer has always been a position that has struck me as a bit awkward as part chief marketing officer and part chief information officer. Since the CDO position started gaining traction about five years ago, most industry watchers have pegged it as a temporary role that would be displaced after the urgency […]
SMBs Struggle with Digital Transformation
It’s a cliché, but it’s as true now as ever: The only constant in business is change. Digital transformation efforts are as essential for small and mid-sized businesses as they are for large enterprises—and SMBs are engaged in their transformative efforts for largely the same reasons as large enterprises: to engage more effectively with customers, […]
Many CIOs Left Out in the Cold, Survey Finds
While many enterprises realize that the very success of their business depends upon how well they invest and execute in their technology deployments, a full quarter of CIOs don’t have direct access to their company’s board of directors. This was a finding from the recent “ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Survey.” The 2019 survey was conducted August […]
The Accelerating Cloud Wars
Enterprises have embraced cloud computing at a phenomenal clip, according to newly-released report, A for Adoption, from cloud access security broker provider Bitglass. Over the past five years, the report found cloud penetration grew from 24% (in 2014) to 86% of organizations today. Last year, that adoption rate was 81%. Yet, while cloud has helped […]
CIOs See Dramatic Change Ahead
Driven by heightened competition and a rapidly changing business environment, many enterprises now find themselves faced with decisions that could make or break their future. Consider this: Within three years, 44% of respondents to the 2019 Harvey Nash / KPMG CIO Survey expect to fundamentally change their product, service offerings or business model. It’s a […]
Legacy Databases Are Holding Back Enterprise Digital Transformations
As enterprises rush to digitize their business operations and enhance customer engagement, few are seeing the success they hoped. A recent survey points to a couple of culprits, including the difficulty of utilizing data held in legacy databases. The survey, conducted by market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Couchbase, of 450 heads of […]
Automation Anywhere Brings Bot Development to the Cloud
We’re in the midst of a bot uprising. According to a recent survey from Deloitte, 53% of survey respondents have embraced robotic process automation and 72% are expected to do so in the next two years. Whether it will be a successful uprising, one where productivity rises, remains to be seen, as the barriers to […]
Building Effective Digital Transformations
Enterprises have reportedly spent upwards of $5 trillion on their digital transformation efforts, yet they’re also not hitting their objectives. In fact, in many industries, such as banking, health care and utilities, only half of organizations are keeping pace with their digital transformation expectations. According to Joe Garber, global head of strategy and solutions at […]
Upping IT Skills: IT Pros Cite Significant Challenges
Anyone who works within enterprise technology learns very quickly that if they want to stay relevant to the workforce, they’ll need to continuously learn new skills. But it’s certainly hard keeping up with new skill training while also keeping pace with day-to-day work demands. This is probably why a survey earlier this year from IT […]
Legacy Systems Prove to be Digital Transformation Headwind
In a survey of 450 digital transformation leaders, a sizable 73% of respondents said that, through digital innovation, they have made significant or better improvements to the end-user experience. Twenty-two percent report much more significant results than that, they self-reported as having transformed or completely revolutionized end-user experience. That’s considerably higher than the 15% in […]
The Barriers to Robotic Process Automation, Part 2
Enterprises are rushing to embrace robotic process automation (RPA) but, as we covered in The Barriers to Robotic Process Automation, Part 1, they’re also hitting considerable challenges along the way. While we cited prominent barriers to the effective implementation of RPA in part one, here, we will provide practical ways organizations can overcome these barriers. […]
Cloud Complexities Hinder Effective Enterprise Data Management
Enterprises everywhere are rushing to embrace automation and AI to improve existing business processes and innovate. But they’re learning that if APIs are the glue they use to build their systems, data is the fuel that drives these efforts forward. According to data management provider Actian, however, enterprises are experiencing significant challenges when it comes […]
The Barriers to Robotic Process Automation, Part 1
It sounds alluring enough: Intelligent bots step up and do the menial tasks humans would rather (probably) not be doing–or employers would rather they not, in order to slash costs. But streamlining business processes with robotic process automation (RPA) isn’t as easy as setting and forgetting a software bot as if it was an automated […]
Successful Transformation: Challenge the Status Quo
If enterprises are going to succeed in their digital transformations, they need to be able to shake-up and challenge the status quo within their organizations. In fact, not being able to challenge the status quo is one of the biggest barriers to successful digital transformations. Yet, challenging the status quo is always a risky move […]
Leadership Drives Digital Transformation Success
When it comes to near-term survival, organizations know they are fighting for their digital existence. Still, despite 80% of organizations moving forward with their digital transformation efforts, very few have experienced the heights of success they hoped. In Digital Transformation: Coming from Behind, we reported consultancy McKinsey & Company found less than one-third of digital […]