Return on investment (ROI) in the form of both cost and time savings is expected to boost the RPA (robotic process automation) software and services market from $13.9 billion to $22 billion by 2025, a new report from Forrester shows. “It is the very direct ROI that still attracts enterprises or C-suite executives,” said Leslie…
Supply chain management (SCM) software company Sourcemap is set to expand into Europe and, fueled with a $10 million venture capital infusion, further develop its suite of supplier benchmarking, traceability and transparency applications to meet growing demand from global businesses that increasingly face complex compliance regulations and logistics disruptions. In addition to recent worries that…
Over the past two years, every IT leader has had to up their change game. But a clear distinction remains between the ability to respond to disruption and the skills that enable the kind of proactive reinvention that defines IT-enabled digital transformation. The latter requires not simply a technology-enabled reaction to shifting circumstances, but a…
One of the missions of this year’s International Women’s Day is “to forge inclusive work cultures where women’s careers thrive and their achievements are celebrated.” Accenture research conducted during the pandemic shows just how far we have to go to meet that mission. Our research found that women feel significantly less support from their employers…
UK Parliament CDIO (chief digital and information officer) Tracey Jessup will be taking on the newly created CTO (chief transformation officer) role at DeMontfort University in Leicester. Digital, cybersecurity, HR, marketing and communications directors will report to Jessup, who will in turn report to the university’s vice-chancellor, Katie Normington. “In line with De Montfort University’s…
Balancing impact with agility Most large digital transformation projects don’t succeed as intended. Highly involved, complex, organisation-wide, cross-geographical projects that aim to transform multiple arms of the business simultaneously are more often than not likely to fall over at some point along the way. The project will become consolidated, redefined, or in the most unfortunate…
If you approach the self-evaluation portion of your annual review like many people do, you give it only perfunctory attention — and start thinking about it a half-hour before the review meeting with your boss. That’s exactly the wrong way to go about it, experts say. Self-evaluation, done correctly, can help guide you through the…
Projects fail for many reasons — budget overruns, scheduling delays, supply chain issues, and scope creep, among other things. If you’re not tracking project health in all key areas, your projects are prone to fall prey to these types of issues and fail. Approximately 54% of all organizations working on projects fail to effectively track…
Government agencies in Canada can address digital service delivery objectives while adhering to regulatory requirements with ThinkOn and VMware. In the wake of the pandemic and the broad-based adoption of digital services by businesses and consumers, there is a critical need to provide accessible, nationwide digital delivery of services to every corner of Canada. This…
Digital twins are helping companies reach incredible new levels of innovation and productivity. In fact, BMW Group — one of the largest auto manufacturers with 31 factories around the world — is creating industrial digital twins of several of its automotive factories. But that’s just one example. Digital twin simulations are becoming more common across industries like…