In 2022, governments are continuing to accelerate and scale their digital initiatives. However, geopolitical and economic uncertainties as well as continuing public health concerns can potentially derail this progress. Many governments are facing even tougher choices in addition to addressing pandemic recovery and economic growth needs. Amidst these volatile and continuing disruptions, governments require greater agility to anticipate and resp...

Infrastructure and operations (I&O) plays a central role in accelerating digital initiatives and enabling remote work to keep businesses operational. Yet, the rapid change puts a strain on people, process, technology and governance. I&O leaders want to press pause to give themselves time to recover and rebuild the strong foundations that ensure stability of their services. However, business needs are ever-changing, raising new challeng...

CIOs and technology leaders struggle to demonstrate the value of their initiatives to the business, but current ROI models don’t adequately account for outcomes delivered to stakeholders beyond shareholders. Without a clear understanding of the value created and the impact on the organization’s mission-critical priorities, technology investments are often perceived as a cost center rather than strategic to the organization. Investm...

As financial services CIOs adapted digitally over the past few years, an uneven race unfolded between some accelerating positive business outcomes and some who lagged behind. This created a digital capability gap that could widen. Additionally, efforts around environmental, social and governance (ESG) can be oriented to various impacts both internally within banks’ operations and IT spend, investment options, and banks’ own lending...

Economic headwinds and a focus on the ROI of modernization efforts require application technical professionals to apply new architectures, new technologies and more automation. However, the work of application architects is getting harder. They must not only deliver business-driven changes quickly, safely and efficiently, but also cope with increased business enthusiasm about new technologies and opportunities. Join this complimentary webinar...

Organizations today are being pulled apart. Hybrid work means fewer in-person touchpoints, while elevated turnover erodes the depth and length of work relationships. Greater reliance on “always on” digital channels has led to higher rates of fatigue and burn out. Amid all this, we’re also facing a crisis of trust. Only about 2 in 5 employees trust their organization’s leaders to act in employees’ best interests. H...

Chief sales officers (CSOs) face a talent crisis in the recession environment marked by historic inflation and supply chain challenges. According to the 2022 Gartner CSO Priorities Survey, talent is the top external challenge faced by 67% of the CSOs. This chronic shortage in talent is pulling the profession into a wave of change. CSOs must lead their organizations to adopt innovative methods for attracting, hiring and developing sellers. CSOs...

How do you keep pace with the constant change in today’s world, and ensure your technology remains up to the task? Innovation is mandatory today, and IT leaders need to determine which strategic technology trends could both create opportunity and drive significant disruption. Whether your enterprise needs to optimize its operations, scale its growth or pioneer new technology-led business models, you must act now or risk losing competitiv...

The impact of pandemic and the rapid acceleration of digital initiatives in a short time, forced organizations to control and manage disruptions to their business. As security and risk management leaders handle the recovery and renewal phases from the past two years, they must consider forward-looking strategic planning assumptions when allocating resources and selecting products and prioritizing services and initiatives. How do security and r...

Technology product leaders face a heightened challenge to prioritize investments, resources and activities to take advantage of opportunities as they arise. Likewise, organizations can gain significant benefits, such as freeing up time, cash and other resources, via the adoption of new processes or capabilities enabled by emerging technologies and trends (ETTs). The ongoing challenge for product leaders to increase revenue, gain market share a...