How to avoid digital downfall: the Toys R Us case, part 1

Philippe Abdoulaye·3 July 2018·The Case For Digital Transformation

...Three months ago, the Wall Street Journal reported how increasingly investors and boards of Fortune 500 companies like Ford Motor were firing superstar CEOs for deficient business transformations. Obviously, this trend continues as the New York Times reported Toys R Us, one of the world’s largest toy store chains, has… Read More...

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How CIOs can reinvent IT with ITaaS

Philippe Abdoulaye·24 June 2018·Enabling Technologies

...Introducing strategies that will help CIOs take advantage of ITaaS to transform their IT organization into the strategic partner business lines need. In recent years business lines have been increasingly going the shadow IT route to achieve their critical objectives, showing there’s a real disconnect with IT as to how to… Read More...

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Leading Digital: The Executive Summary

Neil Rainey·23 May 2018·The Case For Digital Transformation

...Leading Digital: Turning Technology Into Business Transformation is the classic book on digital transformation.  Here is a full and in-depth Executive Summary to get you started with what you need to know for your digital transformation. In Leading Digital, authors George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, and Andrew McAfee highlight how large companies… Read More...

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What the HECK is Digital Transformation? Finally, a definition anyone can understand!

Simon Chan·2 May 2018·The Case For Digital Transformation

...I have been involved in enterprise transformations involving Technology since 1998. I started out with a company called Druid Systems, a management consultancy specialising in Business Transformation and Enterprise Applications. I actually had 3 job offers after I left University – EDS, British Airways and Druid. It was a tough… Read More...

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An IdIOT’s Guide to the Internet of Things

Christopher Hodson·30 April 2018·Enabling Technologies

...I’m struggling to think of another profession where ‘things’ is a suitable description of a product, service or problem. Everything from a light bulb and a fridge to a car or a plane is now a ‘thing’. Because we haven’t been vague enough already, we throw into the Internet of… Read More...

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5 Major Stumbling Blocks for Building a Future Ready Digital Workforce

Deepthi Rajan·9 April 2018·People & Change

...Eighty-eight percent of organisations are undergoing a digital transformation BUT just 25% understand what it really means. Many companies mistake digital transformation as synonymous with AI, IoT, Blockchain, Deep Learning, Virtual Reality or any other new age technology. As predictions abound that machines will run the world in the… Read More...

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Top Ten CISO Challenges: What to Watch in EMEA

Christopher Hodson·22 March 2018·Cyber Security

...It’s that time of year again, we are building up the conference season. A time where we look left-and-right across the security challenges that organisations are facing. Around this time last year, I gave my view of the EMEA CISO Landscape and given all that has happened in… Read More...

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Agility over agile

Lee Bryant·15 February 2018·Delivery

...In software development, over the past decade or more, agile principles have sometimes been overtaken by strict adherence to agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, estimations, standups, etc) at the expense of flexibility and – ironically – agility. Some challenges in IT architecture need a more structured design process and aspects… Read More...

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A How to Guide for Digital Transformation: Four Exceptional Books to Help you Succeed.

The Digital Transformation People·6 February 2018·The Case For Digital Transformation

...If you’re just starting with digital transformation then the purpose of this post is to fast track you to some of the best literature and sources of thought leadership that I have found, since launching The Digital Transformation People back in January 2016. Here are 4 excellent books that will… Read More...

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6 key barriers to execute Corporate Innovation

Kunal Chakraborty·1 February 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...Over the last one year I have been fortunate enough to consult CEOs /CxOs of Fortune Global 1000 companies across different industries. My clients include a F500 retailer, a major transportation company, a retail bank, one of the largest health insurers and a very well-known media company. All of them… Read More...

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Mainframes Can Be Cool!

Simon Ratcliffe·14 August 2017·Enabling Technologies

...Mainframes are those dull and worthy machines that sit in the corner of the Data Centre and just work without anybody really knowing what they are doing.  And therein lies the problem.  Recent research by Forrester shows that mainframe systems are essential to 92 of the top 100 banks globally, all 10 of the top 10 insurers and 23 of the world’s largest airlines.  If mainframes just disappeared there would be chaos across the world. Read More...

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Enterprise Journey to Becoming Digital

Ronald van Loon·29 May 2017·Delivery

...Do you want to be a digital enterprise? Do you want to master the art of transforming yourself and be at the forefront of the digital realm? How can you change your business to achieve this?  Read More...

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