At the core of any digital business transformation initiative are the developers that build an application and the marketers that drive its adoption. As such, the relationship between these two groups is a critical element of any successful strategy. Fortunately, a survey of 100 application developers and 102 application marketers and product owners conducted by […]
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A survey of 722 business executives finds a full 83% of business executives are focusing their business strategy on growth, despite economic headwinds, with increased investments in digital transformation (53%), IT (52%), cybersecurity/privacy (49%) and customer experience (48%) being planned by roughly half the respondents. Conducted by PwC, the survey also finds more than a […]
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A survey of 157 data management decision-makers in North America conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Capital One suggests that one of the primary reasons so many organizations are finding it challenging to achieve their digital business transformation goals is data management. Nearly 80% of survey respondents identified data cataloging as a major challenge, […]
Providers of backend enterprise applications are almost naturally given to making bellicose statements about how they have automated every conceivable process so there is no need to build any type of customized application. Fortunately, most Digital CxOs know better which is why there are now more custom applications than ever. Most of those applications are […]
One of the biggest challenges with any digital business transformation is resistance to change. Many organizations routinely run afoul of two issues when attempting to institute any type of change. The first is that in many cases the organization is attempting to force a change without thinking through the natural level of resistance there inevitably […]
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It’s too early to say with any certainty if non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are just another passing fad or represent a whole new way to value digital assets. Regardless of how an individual may feel about NFTs, it’s clear there is enough critical mass of enthusiasm to make NFTs part of a digital business strategy. The […]
In the wake of ongoing disruptions to supply chains that show no sign of abating, there is naturally now a lot more focus on procurement processes within organizations. The need to make sure there are second, third and even fourth sources for critical components and ingredients has become critical. The challenge is that many of […]
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There are silos today in most organizations between customer service desks and internal IT operations that conspire to hamper digital business transformation initiatives. ServiceNow, during its Knowledge ‘22 conference, launched a Service Operations Workspace that promises to close that divide. This offering provides service desk personnel with more insight into the IT issues that might […]
Too many organizations are shifting workloads to the cloud without aligning those efforts to strategic business goals, according to David Linthicum, chief cloud strategy officer for Deloitte. Speaking at the InnoTech Dallas 2022 event today, Linthicum says IT innovation for all intents and purposes going forward is going to be delivered by vendors via the […]
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A survey of 125 risk leaders, conducted by AuditBoard, a provider of a cloud-based platform for managing risk, finds less than a third (30%) are actively mitigating digital risks, with well over two-thirds (69%) still in the early stage of defining and assessing those risks. A full 84% of respondents currently do not report measurable […]
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