Many enterprises are struggling to deliver for customers because of a disruptive environment, internal silos, mismanaged data, the pandemic, and inefficient collaboration between companies, despite our increasingly digital world. One study conducted by GEP in partnership with the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative at North Carolina State University (NCSU) found that misalignment between procurement and supply…
It would surprise absolutely no one if I were to say a lot’s changed in the past year. Value Stream Management (VSM) is certainly no exception. It’s an area that has seen massive evolution in a relatively short time. A year ago, the emphasis was on education and getting informed about VSM principles and its…
By Srikumar Ramanathan, Chief Solutions Officer at Mphasis Nearly two decades since the term ESG was coined in a groundbreaking report called, Who Cares Wins, mindful and planet-affirmative investing has become both smart and mainstream. Whether it is individuals or businesses, financial institutions or investors, regulators or insurers, everyone in the ‘economic community’ is aware…
By Ravi Vasantraj, Senior Vice President, and Global Head – Business Process Services at Mphasis In 2000, when the Internet was in its infancy, Netflix approached Blockbuster executives for a US$50 million merger, but was not taken seriously. Blockbuster, then valued at US$4.8 billion, could not predict the technological disruption that Netflix would drive. By…
In the same way that marathons require rigorous preparation to reach the finish line, technological transformations will not yield lasting rewards without vision, planning, dedicated resources and unwavering determination. When organizations do not embrace digital transformation, failure ensures — enterprise value suffers, employee fatigue becomes rampant, customer experience is negatively impacted, and time is lost.…
Kordia Group CISO Hilary Walton on the importance of security governance, the benefits of career pivots and why more CIOs should pay attention to NFTs. Watch this episode: #id627911817a20f .jw-wrapper::before { content: “CISO Hilary Walton” !important; } Read More from This Article: CIO Leadership Live with CISO Hilary Walton of Kordia Group Source:…
Getting fired from her CIO job nearly 20 years ago wasn’t just a career turning point for Cathy Hotka. “It was the best thing that ever happened to me,” says the founder of Cathy Hotka & Associates, which today runs an influential networking community of retail industry CIOs and digital leaders across the U.S., Canada,…
There are few CIOs who haven’t been hit by attrition, as streams of highly talented IT professionals head out the door for bigger salaries, better opportunities, or both. The fact that today’s digital powerhouses are now hiring tens of thousands of employees — often without regard to geography — has only exacerbated the talent crunch…
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is set to release two new solutions targeted at the manufacturing sector and aiming to ease data engineering and analytics tasks, unifying data from diverse machine assets to offer business insights to factory managers. GCP’s new offerings come at a time when enterprises in the manufacturing sector are adopting systems to…
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Focus: That will be the new work week for SAP in Germany beginning May 20, 2022. Many companies encourage employees to set aside blocks of time each day for “deep work,” and some even automate that process using tools such as Microsoft Outlook’s focus time feature, part of Viva Insights. SAP,…