Best known for his contribution to the science of evolution in the 1800s, Charles Darwin declared: “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” As we get ready to greet 2018, we’re surrounded by a world that is witnessing huge technological and social changes…
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it,” said Ferris Bueller during his famous “Day Off.” The sentiment applies to IT these days. You’re busy day-to-day keeping the lights on, integrating legacy and new technologies, and trying to support your business colleagues as they…
Last year, my predictions for digital transformation were focused on the core DNA that organizations needed to put into place to achieve world-leading performance and results in digital transformation. In addition to perennial themes such as leadership, people and cultural competencies, these new strategic themes for digital transformation included disruptive technologies, platform business models, digital…
Effective data analytics can be a competitive differentiator today, giving companies keen insights into customer preferences, product development and usage trends, and market gyrations that others don’t see. To get the most out of their analytics efforts, businesses need to assemble a highly talented team to make sense of all the data that’s coming in…
What do the zombie apocalypse and many businesses have in common? Answer: dead things that refuse to lie down and be still. The dead, brain-eating things businesses have a hard time killing are shambling, resource-eating projects. You know the ones. They’re projects where the meetings continue, team members still charge their time, but not only…
Many enterprises have embraced cloud computing to fuel digital transformations, launching initiatives that range from new mobile applications to analytics for gleaning insights from customers. Yet due to concerns about security, regulations and data governance, enterprise adoption of public cloud services remains less than 50 percent and won’t cross that mark until 2018, according to…
Managing any project can become a slippery slope when your organization doesn’t have a solid grasp of all the moving pieces. Project management can be a complex discipline to understand and navigate. After all, there are enough key phases, knowledge areas, and project management-specific terms to fill a glossary. To simplify the key components of…
Digital disruption hasn’t reached its zenith, leaving many CEOs still desperate to learn how to get ahead of it. Fear not: PwC principal Tom Puthiyamadam is on a mission to save corporate C-suites from themselves. Some CEOs are embarking on vision quests to help navigate digital disruption, which is marked by a shift in profitability…
You may not realize it but natural language processing (NLP) is more than an emerging technology for business — it’s a popular technology widely used every day. Online search, spell-check — almost any feature that involves language incorporates natural language processing algorithms. NLP algorithms teach computers to use language like people. If you were manually…
One of the biggest topics in IT right now involves blockchain, the distributed ledger tech that underpins Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Here’s a look at what it is, what it does, and how companies are already using it.
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