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9 tips to measure and improve digital transformation ROI

Amid a rapidly changing business landscape and competing priorities, a compelling ROI is all the more critical to justify and secure funding for digital transformation projects.

By Robin Gareiss • Oct. 27, 2023

strategic leadership

Strategic leadership is a practice in which executives, using different styles of management, develop a vision for their organization that enables it to adapt to or remain competitive in a changing economic and technological climate.

By Brian Holak, Francesca Sales • Oct. 25, 2023

11 reasons why digital transformations fail, explained by pros

Digital transformations continue to be challenging and are prone to failure. Learn about 11 fatal mistakes to avoid at all costs.

By George Lawton, Mekhala Roy • Oct. 20, 2023

How digital transformation is changing customer experience

Digital transformation and customer experience go hand in hand as organizations look to provide self-service options, highly personalized experiences and easier ways to query data.

By John Moore • Oct. 20, 2023

Cloud inflation affects IT spending trends, GenAI not yet

Gartner's forecast points to rising cloud and services spend. Generative AI is yet to strongly influence IT budgets, but IBM and other providers gear up for growth.

By John Moore • Oct. 19, 2023

Building a digital transformation team: 9 essential roles

Who needs to be on a digital transformation team? Metrigy's Robin Gareiss lists the key positions of an effective digital transformation team and why they're important.

By Robin Gareiss • Oct. 19, 2023

competitive advantage

Competitive advantage is the favorable position an organization seeks to be more profitable than its rivals.

By Nicole Laskowski, Rachel Lebeaux • Oct. 19, 2023

Israel-Hamas war could affect tech industry in Middle East

U.S. businesses investing in the Middle East should engage in contingency planning if the Israel-Hamas war leads to the involvement of nearby regions.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 18, 2023

7 risk mitigation strategies to protect business operations

Companies facing a multitude of business risks have various options to mitigate them. Here are seven mitigation strategies to minimize the business impact of risks.

By Paul Kirvan • Oct. 18, 2023

chief digital officer

A chief digital officer (CDO) is charged with helping an enterprise use digital information and advanced technologies, such as the cloud, AI, machine learning, automation, IoT, mobile and social media, to create business value.

By Cameron Hashemi-Pour, Ron Karjian, Linda Tucci • Oct. 17, 2023

digital economy

The digital economy refers to the economic activities that emerge from connecting individuals, businesses, devices, data and operations through digital technology.

By Kinza Yasar , Mary Pratt • Oct. 13, 2023

12 digital transformation tips and best practices

Successful digital transformation requires agility, speed, cost optimization, technical innovation and cultural change. C-suite commitment and employee buy-in are also critical.

By John Moore • Oct. 12, 2023

project post-mortem

A project post-mortem is a business process that lets the project team, project management, and other stakeholders review and evaluate the results at the end of a project or after the resolution of an incident.

By Stephen Bigelow • Oct. 12, 2023

Google breakup unlikely in event of guilty verdict

Google is going through an antitrust trial in which a guilty verdict could result in remedies to fix the illegal behavior. But it's unlikely that Google would face a breakup.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 11, 2023

Build a digital transformation roadmap in 6 steps

Digital transformation, done right, is the key to business survival. Build a roadmap to digital business model success by following this in-depth, six-step template.

By Paul Kirvan • Oct. 11, 2023

digital culture

Digital culture refers to the behaviors, practices and values that develop from the use of digital technologies.

By Sean Kerner • Oct. 10, 2023

7 challenges with blockchain adoption and how to avoid them

Organizations tend to face the same hurdles when they try to implement blockchain. Knowing what they are could be the first big step to overcoming them on the road to success.

By Marisa Brown, Mark Melchionna • Oct. 6, 2023

U.S. antitrust law enforcers defend actions, lawsuits

The FTC and DOJ, which enforce U.S. antitrust law, are focused on reining in big tech through antitrust lawsuits and revising merger guidelines for modern businesses.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 5, 2023

Is quantum computing overhyped?

Quantum computing may be coming to the enterprise. Here's what to understand about the benefits it promises, the risks it poses and how to prepare.

By David Weldon • Oct. 5, 2023

Lean startup

Lean startup is an approach to building new businesses based on the belief that entrepreneurs must investigate, experiment, test and iterate as they develop products.

By Mary Pratt , Nicole Laskowski • Oct. 5, 2023

Capital One study: Businesses battle with self-service data

Technical, cultural and financial issues hinder organizations from enacting self-service data strategies that include business users as well as data specialists

By John Moore • Oct. 4, 2023

Whistleblower Protection Act

The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 is a law that protects federal government employees in the United States from retaliatory action for voluntarily disclosing information about dishonest or illegal activities occurring in a government organization.

By Mary Pratt, Ben Cole • Oct. 3, 2023

Generative AI in the enterprise raises questions for CIOs

Technology and business leaders are exploring pivotal issues surrounding adoption strategy, architecture and the IT organization's management responsibilities.

By John Moore • Oct. 2, 2023

skunkworks project (Skunk Works)

A skunkworks project, also known as Skunk Works, is an innovative undertaking, involving a small group of people, that is outside the normal research and development (R&D) channels within an organization.

By Mary Pratt • Oct. 2, 2023

digital innovation

Digital innovation is the adoption of modern digital technologies by a business.

By Alexander Gillis • Sept. 28, 2023