Are some of your business processes inefficient but too complicated to exhaustively reengineer right now? Don’t overlook the ways RPA can automate small and large-scale business processes in most industries and departments. Check out where to start, what actions to take, how to organize your teams, and what to avoid.
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.
“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,…
IBM’s CEO Rometty acquired Red Hat Inc for $34 billion to turn around cloud computing services. This is IBM’s largest acquisition in over 100 years, according to Reuters. IBM big bet is to turn around its higher profit margin in cloud and software services. IBM’s revenue and profits have been declined over the last five…
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 the post “The Missing T: Why OT & IT Are Not Enough in Manufacturing,” I made the argument that CIOs need to better engage with the engineering community. I postulated CIOs need to elevate engineering technology (ET) to the same prominence as operational technology (OT) and traditional business information technology (IT). The rise of…
Paradoxically, one of the areas of IT cost takeout and recovery that we see enterprise clients most interested in pursuing is business process outsourcing (BPO) – which tends to be adopted in order to reduce operational and IT costs. But as businesses rethink how they work, BPO is ripe for rethinking as well. Many opportunities…
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…
