The worldwide supply chain challenges that plagued companies in multiple industries throughout 2021 are continuing this year. One potentially effective solution for addressing supply and demand issues is to leverage data analytics. Professional services and consulting firm KPMG in a recent report notes that several major disruptions are currently affecting supply chains. These include the…
Despite diversity being a much-discussed topic in the tech industry, representation for Black tech workers is still not where it needs to be, with African Americans holding just 7% of positions in the tech industry, and only 2% of tech executive roles, according to data from the Diversity in High Tech report published by the US Equal…
According to Gartner, operational resilience is defined as “initiatives that expand business continuity management programs to focus on the impacts, connected risk appetite, and tolerance levels for disruption of product or service delivery to internal and external stakeholders.” If the word “disruption” sounds familiar, it’s because we’re living in one of the most volatile times…
By Richard Amos On-demand automated self-service, elasticity, utilization transparency, and resource pooling are all core aspects of workload efficiency. It was the public cloud providers that initially improved upon the. these concepts, propelling a new way of working that enabled organizations to scale. Embed micro-services, containerization, Agile, and DevOps within this transformation and suddenly technology’s…
When Craig McLellan, the CEO of ThinkOn, founded the company in 2013, he had three core principles in mind. First: All of the company’s cloud computing services would be easy to understand and simple to deliver. Second: They would be transparently priced, with no hidden charges. Third: They would be secure and well supported. Today…
Harpreet Gulati, Senior Vice President, Planning, Simulation & Optimization Business at AVEVA Around the world, industrial enterprises of all kinds are racing against the clock to keep planetary warming to 1.5°C, and to support net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Public- and private-sector companies alike have committed to supporting the energy transition – but now comes…
By David Andrzejek, head of financial services, DataStax There’s an important and growing trend occurring in financial services business processes and practices that’s upending how banks build applications and manage data. Bank product leaders are demanding instant, responsive, and personalized services, and bank technology leaders need to quickly execute a “real-time data” strategy. Why? Because…
Organizations have been talking about the pivot to hybrid work for so long now that the successful shift to a work-from-anywhere environment may seem like a foregone conclusion. “From an IT perspective, the pandemic has already provided a trial run for many companies to accommodate hybrid workers,” says Robin Hamerlinck, senior vice president of…
Project managers know that defining a project’s scope and developing a scope statement is just a starting point. The next part, containing the project’s scope, is much more complicated — and no less crucial. It’s estimated that 52% of all projects face scope creep at some point. Such uncontrolled growth can jeopardize your project’s chances…
India’s top IT firms are increasing digital project prices to cover the cost of hiring skilled IT workers in an increasingly competitive market. The competition for digital skills is also resulting in high attrition rates for them — and perhaps also in the enterprise as IT workers are lured elsewhere. Among the largest IT service…