Jerry Smith - May 21, 2019 - 315 views

Organizations typically suffer two common constraints when it comes to growing effectively: a lack of resources and flawed decision-making. But when both are present, it can be a bellwether of an extinction-level event. It’s one thing to lack the resources to adequately lead and deliver tomorrow’s business value today. But when suboptimal decisions are made across […]

James Jeude - May 16, 2019 - 280 views

Remember the old days, when a great way to start an article was to quote a dictionary definition?  “Webster’s defines privacy as ‘freedom from unauthorized intrusion.’” You know, that sort of thing. Sometimes with a pronunciation guide. And we do love the modern touch – like a real-time voiceover or a Google Trends graphic showing […]

Mark Davies - May 15, 2019 - 1323 views

When the first customer calls from California on Jan. 1, 2020, to inquire about personal data, will your bank know what to do? For most, the answer is no. Banks and financial services firms around the world are grappling with compliance challenges as the start date draws closer for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). […]

Andrew Worzella - May 14, 2019 - 245 views

Our personal data has become currency in the ever expanding digital economy. This shift has become most  apparent among tech companies whose business models pivot around the monetization of customer data. The ensuing uproar over the use and abuse of personal data has academics, industry leaders, politicians, the media and policy experts calling for a […]

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), as well as conventional IoT deployments, often remain in “pilot purgatory” because they fail to deliver significant business outcomes. Part 1 of this series revealed that to succeed, manufacturers should utilize IoT to reshape key operating  processes and experiences into end-to-end journeys that unlock trapped business value. As history […]

Piero DePaoli - May 3, 2019 - 242 views

Major data breaches are headline news. When criminals steal corporate data or personally identifiable information (PII), it can create a public relations nightmare with long-lasting business consequences. But well-publicized breaches are only the tip of the iceberg. In “Today’s State of Vulnerability Response: Patch Work Demands Attention,” we explore how and why security breaches happen. […]

Karun Sorout - April 30, 2019 - 235 views

Cloud has endured high and low points in its relatively short lifecycle. Earlier this decade, it faced misgivings if not outright opposition from many major enterprises that refused to believe a cloud platform could ever replace an on-premises infrastructure. This was followed by a period of euphoria, when companies couldn’t wait to move their data […]

Bret Greenstein - April 25, 2019 - 828 views

In the movie Avengers: Infinity War, Dr. Strange uses the Time Stone to explore 14 million possible futures to find the one with the best outcome, the one where the Avengers could defeat the evil Thanos. Dr. Strange has to experience each possible future and consider the decisions that were made to see how each future […]

John Bertrand - April 23, 2019 - 260 views

Looking across the complexity of trade finance, the notion of a problem child comes to mind from another era. Today, however, the industry’s methodologies are starting to become agile.  With the abundance of technology, we can link activities, end to end, across the parties involved in every trade. The arrival of standard application programming interfaces (API), used […]

Mark Miller - April 19, 2019 - 165 views

The healthcare industry has been a champion of whole-person care for decades, yet we seem no closer to a solution for proactive health management than we were in the early days of nurse advice lines and disease management programs. In the past, public and private healthcare organizations looked toward Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to help […]