Attracting and retaining the right talent while getting a return on technology investment are the top three challenges that stop organizations from being able to successfully digitize their supply chain operations, according to a survey by management consulting firm PwC. In PwC’s Digital Trends in Supply Chain Survey, which polled 244 operations and information technology…
Too many of the participants in the European cloud project Gaia-X are pursuing their own interests and diluting the concept, Volker Pfirsching told CIO.com’s sister publication Computerwoche in a recent interview. Pfirsching is a partner and member of the Central European management board at management consultancy Arthur D. Little, where he also heads the company’s…
Behind every successful IT project, you’ll find a highly skilled project manager. From hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, to application development and the rollout of software itself, project managers keep your teams on task and productive. Almost any IT pro can benefit from adding a project management certification to their list of…
By Arnaud Taddei, Security Transformation Architects Practice Leader – International, Symantec, a division of Broadcom Software At Broadcom Software, we understand that for CISOs looking for global cyber security standards to support them in their work, recent years may have often felt like an uphill struggle. Our industry’s ‘Tower of Babel’ problem of an abundance…
Whether employees or customers, ‘making people happy’ is a now the single most important catalyst for experience platform investments across Europe. Indeed, the two feed into each other – it is impossible to have happy customers without a happy workforce. This was one of the main takeaways from CIO roundtable event hosted by Accenture and…
Data is the building block of business. If a company loses its data or if its data is compromised, it could significantly damage the business in terms of financial performance, brand reputation or loss of customers. Whether an organization leverages data to fundamentally run its business, the data is a byproduct of conducting day-to-day operations,…
Successful companies today are lean, agile organizations with executives who have a vision and a mindset that empowers collaboration so employees can achieve that vision. Rapidly responding to dynamic market demands without compromising quality is required for survival. Achieving business transformation and agility requires commitment from leadership at the very top of an organization, including…
With the victory in the SAP works council elections behind them, the unions are taking a confrontational stance with the software company. The Ver.di works group says it has discovered a data leak in SAP’s internal systems and is now demanding a full explanation. The leak affects the “SAP Interactive Broadcast” online service, which was…
Every successful executive operates from their own leadership playbook: the lessons, philosophies and experiences that have shaped their careers and continue to guide their decisions and actions. These are the elements that remain rock-solid and foundational to their success—even in the face of unanticipated events and massive disruption. But business-driven technology leaders also recognize that what got…
You might have heard that if you can’t measure you can’t manage. You might have believed it, too. And if you think you need metrics to manage you might be feeling guilty about not having enough of them. Guilt no more. Good metrics are hard to craft, harder to manage, expensive to maintain, and perishable…