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Articles by Michael Haws
On-Demand Technology: Leveling The Competitive Landscape In Retail
PricewaterhouseCoopers recently reported that 75% of retail sales growth since 2000 has been through online channels. That stark number helps to explain why formerly successful brick-and-mortar companies, such as Borders, RadioShack, BeBe Stores, Gymboree, Rue21, and Payless Shoes, have either filed for bankruptcy or closed their doors completely.
Emerging Technology In The Airline Industry
Trends in technology impact all industries, and travel and aviation is no exception. To stay competitive, airlines must use the newest technology to offer customers a better travel experience. Connectivity is a growing trend in airline technology, according to CNN—largely because passengers, employees, business networks, suppliers, and procurement professionals all use digital devices and tools to stay connected.
How Analytics Fits Into Your Next Digital Transformation
We hear a lot about digital transformation these days and the groundbreaking technologies that will lead to these transformations, such as blockchain, IoT (Internet of Things), ML (machine learning), AI (artificial intelligence), the cloud, and analytics, to name just a few. All it takes is a look at advertisements from various tech companies (and these days every company is a tech company) in Harvard Business Review, Wired, or the Wall Street Journal to see the examples in action.
Digital Transformation Is About Ecosystems And Thinking Differently
Digital transformation is in full swing. But decision makers are now being challenged to go further and create digital ecosystems that encompass customers, employees, developers, suppliers, and even extended networks of related businesses. Digital ecosystems are communities that use shared, scalable resources to pursue challenging objectives and common interests.
How Cloud Technology Brings New Opportunities For Businesses
Cloud computing is the business buzzword today, as it leads enterprises toward digitization and brings opportunities that were previously unavailable. Cloud adoption is no longer confined to big enterprises; even small and mid-sized businesses are considering it a worthy investment. The cloud enables businesses to enjoy computing resources over the Internet without actually needing to invest in them.
The Seductive Illusion Of Choice
These famous words by Henry Ford in 1942 exemplified the industrial age, during which innovations in automation drove unprecedented advances in mass production, making it possible to manufacture products that were once too complex and expensive and deliver them to scale for the masses at an affordable price. Henry Ford began with a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace and prosperity.
Top Characteristics Of Modern Cloud Applications
Digital transformation is becoming a business imperative. Almost every industry has seen the emergence of new iconic digital-native companies that have dominated mindshare in their space and turned business models upside down. Non-digital players in every vertical are now seeking re-invention and transformation, in a battle for relevance or even survival. Companies like Amazon began disrupting retail, initially with books, then hardware and electronics.
Blockchain And Cloud: Kissing Cousins
Last year, an article in the Wall Street Journal predicted that 2017 is the year that formerly resistant big banks will adopt the public cloud. Even the regulators have given cloud a green light, so no more excuses. It’s time to get a move on! An unlikely accelerant may come in the form of blockchain. The two technologies have a lot in common, and deploying your blockchain pilot projects in the cloud lets you harness the many benefits of both at once. Let me explain.
How SMBs Will Benefit From Future Technology
For small to medium-sized businesses, investments in technology need to be justified by clearly understanding the expected advantages. However, in an ever-shifting world where technology changes on a daily basis, figuring out which tools will offer the greatest benefits can be a challenge. While predicting the future is notoriously difficult to do, we’ve looked into the crystal ball to identify which business technologies we believe will most benefit SMBs in the near future.
Unleash The Digital Transformation
The world has changed. We’ve seen massive disruption on multiple fronts – business model disruption, cybercrime, new devices, and an app-centric world. Powerful networks are crucial to success in a mobile-first, cloud-first world that’s putting an ever-increasing increasing amount of data at our fingertips. With the Internet of Things (IoT) we can connect instrumented devices worldwide and use new data to transform business models and products. Disruption comes in many forms.
Disrupt Or Be Disrupted: Why Platform, Not Pipeline, Will Save Your Business
Rapidly pacing the front of the room, voice bellowing, arms gesticulating, you’d think Erich Joachimsthaler, founder of Vivaldi Partners, was doing his best drill sergeant impersonation from Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket.
Communicating In A Digitized Workplace
In the new SAP Future Factor series, SAP executives, thought leaders, and academics discuss the impacts of digitization on organizations. It is a forum to exchange views about the opportunities and challenges of a digitized workplace and business culture.
Workforce Agility: Are You Ready Now?
The way we work is changing rapidly in today’s digital economy. Manual tasks are being automated while creative problem-solving roles are exploding. New generations of workers are bringing new expectations and demands to the workplace—for example, working remotely from anywhere in the world. In addition, customers are interacting with businesses in new ways, demanding joint experiences and deeper relationships. It is easy to see why all those dynamic changes can be a challenge for any company.
How To Maintain That Small-Business Touch In Times Of Growth
When it comes to customer experiences, no business has a greater advantage than small and midsize firms. They can change plans and tactics much faster to address customer needs, market dynamics, and opportunities. There’s a distinct energy that empowers employees to work together and deliver on customer expectations despite tight timelines, restricted budgets, and limited resources. And most of all, customer relationships tend to resemble that of personal connections.
Fintech Blows Up Industries, HCM Is Crucial Lever [VIDEO]
The dust is starting to settle on the initial wave of cloud-based HR transformation, and business is gearing up for the next quantum leap combining human capacity management (HCM) and finance, otherwise known as fintech. That’s because in the digitalized business era, data from any team, including and especially the HCM system, radically changes how decisions get made – for the better. Expert opinions and new research show that no department can go it alone.
The Forecast For Business: Cloudy With An Increasing Chance Of Simplicity
If you ask 10 people what the cloud is, you’ll likely get 10 different answers. Some view it as a vehicle for lowering IT costs. Others see it as a way to drive new levels of process efficiency, collaboration, and insight. But the most innovative organizations are embracing it to eliminate complexity from their business to Run Simple.
The SMB Secret To Becoming A Live Business
Throughout this series, we have examined every aspect of running a live business. Whether we’re talking about analyzing data, surpassing larger competitors, or helping firms in low-connectivity countries succeed, the conversation inevitably turns to the cloud. Why does this happen every single time?
How SMBs Close The Digital Gap In Middle And Eastern Europe
When it comes to digital adoption, readiness, and maturity, many regions rise to the top. The United States and Western Europe are considered the center of the world’s digital revolution. The passion and zeal of small and midsize businesses in South Africa, China, India, and Latin America are astounding. However, businesses in Middle and Eastern Europe have long been viewed as trailing in adoption, even though these regions stand to gain the most advantage from transformation into a Live Business.
How HR Teams Can Use Cloud Technology For A Competitive Advantage
Nothing kills a good mood like a pile of administrative paperwork—a mark of many interactions with the human resources department. But it doesn’t need to be that way. Paper-based systems for everything from onboarding to attendance to payroll are moving to the cloud using new systems that can help HR work better. A vast majority of businesses are already using cloud technology in one way or another; in fact, one industry watcher observed that it’s quickly becoming the norm.
Why Companies Must Connect And Share In A Cloud Ecosystem
Optimizing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) isn’t just about connecting machines and collecting data, but sharing it with the right partners to deliver the best value, according to participants in the “Industrial Internet of Things” panel at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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