The bad news is that despite the pandemic and recession your organization is probably spending hundreds of dollars per employee per year on printing. The good news is that the same pandemic and recession make it easier than ever to cut your spending by 20% or more.
Carefully cutting technology costs is not how most companies react to a recession. Say “recession” and managers think layoffs, project cancellations, and across-the-board budget cuts. We at the Analyst Syndicate think differently. We share our favorite, proven ways to cut costs without falling behind the competition or being left unprepared when business picks up.
Will sending your workers off to work from home save your organization money and help you recruit top talent? Or will it fail miserably? The answer depends on timely actions actions you take to support your workers this year, and above all, on your decisiveness.
With few exceptions, when it comes to significant, strategic AI investments, enterprises are waiting for the “IT bigs” to do it for them by enhancing their portfolios with new, AI-based capabilities. Job posting data speaks volumes. Listen to the data.
“Trans-Atlantic commercial arrangement is worth 7.17 trillion dollars.”                    —-Wilbur Ross, U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Why did the European Court’s High Court dismantle a trillion-dollar economic arrangement between the European Union and the United States? In response,…
Today, the Analyst Syndicate is thrilled to announce its ranking as the 20th largest analyst firm by ARInsights. The ranking is determined by the number of analysts in each firm of the hundreds in the industry. ARInsights’ market-leading product, ARchitect, provides the platform on which leading technology companies have built their successful Analyst Relations programs, from one-person AR…
The global pandemic and resulting economic contraction are likely to have an impact on your IT budget. As revenue expectations change, budgets are adjusted accordingly. While some businesses have seen increased revenues, most are facing challenges of falling sales and uncertain near-term prospects. In either case, the budget may be scrutinized for a reduction or…
In a far-reaching and candid interview after IBM’s #THINK2020 digital event, Rob and I discussed his insights into what’s happening with AI in the enterprise and where the biggest long-term impacts will be.  My summary of Rob’s insights Learn more from the interview itself, below. Too many companies confuse consumer-grade and business-grade AI. Companies have…
Manufacturing CIO’s have a casual relationship with engineering or product design elements of the business. ERP systems have had some degree of integration with product lifecycle management (PLM) systems but they have mostly thought of these systems merely as a data source. A black box in their enterprise architecture. They have no intrinsic understanding of…
In AI systems training, a report has it that over a seven-year period algorithmic efficiency has increased three times faster than Moore’s Law.
