Blockchain - From the Mundane to Being a Re-invention Catalyst
To some extent, Blockchain is suffering from what we can call a déja vu cycle of “new technology in search of a market” growth pains.
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When we think about the growing array of automation technologies in the market today, we often think about robotic process automation (RPA) as the low-hanging fruit.
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What Does 2018 Have in Store for the Retail Industry? Ten Predictions for the New Year
Customer expectations are greater than ever, especially in the retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries.
Organizational Readiness: Why Organizations Struggle to Adopt Agile
When The Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published in 2001, it laid out basic principles for improving the cycle time and quality of application development, testing and maintenance activities.
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What’s Next for Telephony and Unified Communications?
As the convergence of multi-channel, text, data, cloud and more recent technology solutions and IT priorities have evolved, telephony has been commoditized, deemphasized and often neglected.
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Digital Transformation: Three Areas of Focus to Enhance Business Value
The word “transformation” may very well be the most common term in business today. But what exactly does it mean?
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Selecting the Right Partner and Setting the Stage for a Better Partnership
The demands placed on enterprises that aspire to define themselves as digital or that need to act with true enterprise agility are not insignificant.
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The New Face of Governance: How to Coactively Manage the New Sourcing Relationship
Coactive Governance: A new way to govern services relationships that shares strategy and responsibility between the client and provider equally and allows an innovation environment to flourish.
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Cost-Out Initiatives: the “Running Game” of Network Transformation
Many successful football teams rely on a combination of a pound-and-ground running game complemented by timely passes. This approach consistently produces wins, but it requires strategic commitment and tactical patience.
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The Why of Agile: Understanding the Top Five Reasons it Works
Agile is a journey of continuous improvement that looks to increase application development efficiency through the acceleration of critical planning, design and build processes while transforming the way work gets done in an organization.
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Collaborate to Innovate: The Future of Sourcing Begins Now
Advances in technology and consumer demand have had a steady, constant impact on the business world, and successful enterprises have figured out how to adapt accordingly.
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In Renegotiating a Sourcing Deal, Preparation is Everything
Enterprise leaders often want to know when is the right time to begin a renegotiation with a service provider.
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Augmented Reality: The Next Digital Utility for Business
With predictions as high as 6.1 billion smartphone users by 2020, it’s easy to imagine almost every person around the globe will soon be impacted by AR.
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Redefining Insourcing for Today’s CIO
The tremors of the digital age are creating deep fissures across the business world. What were once discussions primarily about cost savings have given way to discussions about agility, speed, convenience and security.
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Transition and Transformation
Moving Houses: How to Make the Most of Transitioning to a New Sourcing Provider
As application workloads become more portable and less dependent on a physical location, clients are finding it easier to switch application and infrastructure providers, whether for performance or financial reasons.
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Seismic Shifts in Sourcing
For decades, IT service providers have promised productivity gains by applying specialized tools, processes and people oriented specifically to an industry or service line.
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Putting Agile in your Applications Development Toolbox
The decision about how to develop and maintain your applications is the same whether it is done in-house or with a provider. Begin with the end in mind.
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Easing into Network Virtualization
In a hypercompetitive market, a corporation’s ability to respond to opportunities, market forces and maleficent security intrusions is the defining factor in its success.
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Network Advisory Services
HCM SaaS Implementation: Selecting the Right System Integration Partner
Implementing an HCM SaaS solution can be an exciting and daunting task, but when it is successful it can pave the way for a more efficient, effective and technologically advanced HR organization.
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The Nuances of Doing Business with Microsoft
Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in a worldwide network of large-scale datacenters to shift away from its legacy License and Software Assurance (SA) offerings toward a complex set of end-user and datacenter subscription alternatives.