Strategic Direction

This post originally appeared on itproportal.com  … A Gartner survey of financial services CIOs conducted this year found that “becoming a digital business” was the goal most often cited as respondents’ top business priority—even outpacing goals such as improving profit and customer satisfaction. The strength of this desire for digital transformation…

This post originally appeared on paymentweek.com … Digital transformation technology spending continues to grow across all geographies and industries. IDC predicts that digital transformation spending will increase 42 percent between 2017 and 2019, hitting $1.7 trillion by 2019. Much of that spend is likely to come from the rapidly-evolving financial…

This post originally appeared on Dice.com … At every turn, it seems there’s a new technology trend with the potential to revolutionize your organization. Whether it’s artificial intelligence, big data, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, or something else, businesses are evolving and working to implement new technology solutions at breakneck…

It’s no secret that innovation is key to staying successful and competitive no matter what industry you are in.  For every wildly successful business, there’s a company they have disrupted and left in the dust. Look at Blockbuster versus Netflix, taxis versus Ubers and hotels versus Airbnb, just to name…

This post originally appeared on liveworx.com. … As a technology leader, you need a thoughtful technical strategy that will deliver on business objectives. This unification of business and technology depends on processes, people, and enabling technology. Transformational technology projects aren’t just about one system or one business unit’s need. Rather,…

Does this scenario sound familiar? Your company’s legacy systems have been running for a long time. They hold a large amount of data about purchases, services, and customer behavior over the years. The systems used to run just fine and handle everything you needed from them, but lately things are…