Setting the stage: Why these conversations matter In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, security leaders are being asked to do more with less. Shrinking budgets, hiring freezes, and reduced access to critical tools are the new reality for CISOs and their teams. Yet, the expectations have never been higher: business resilience, regulatory compliance, and innovation
IT professionals are experts at answering the questions what and how. They excel at bringing an engineering approach to evaluating options and executing complex projects. But as technical executives take on more strategic leadership in their organizations, they are increasingly asking and answering the question why.
When it comes to digital transformations, financial institutions are reaching toward the cloud. Part 10 of Celent’s Digital Panel survey reveals that 75 percent of respondents rate a skyward transition as their top technology priority.
The asset and wealth management industry continues to experience a lot of consolidation with deals such as Morgan Stanley/E*Trade/Eaton Vance, Schwab/TD Ameritrade, and Franklin Templeton/Legg Mason. Scale is becoming an important competitive advantage in this winner-takes-all environment.
Customers who are still running on-premises infrastructure don’t always understand how a cloud strategy can make significant contributions to organizational resilience. In fact, they often come with misconceptions about efficiency, security, and cost, and they conclude that the cloud actually undermines resilience.
As 2020 slips into our collective rearview mirror, there is little doubt that the COVID‑19 pandemic had a major impact on virtual healthcare adoption by both consumers and healthcare organizations.
Achieving data liquidity in the healthcare industry has been a goal for more than 50 years, or since the first digitization of health information. This concept means that restricted health data is accessible to any authorized user on demand once it’s been entered into any system of record.
The year 2020 and the global COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated technology solutions that make “virtual” the new reality. Most scenarios include using platforms like Teams or Zoom for: “Virtual work” to connect remote workers and customers in collaborative online sessions for business. “Virtual education” to connect students and teachers for distant learning and study groups.
To some extent, the term resilience has become 2020 shorthand for “surviving a global pandemic.” But as technical professionals know well, the goal of resilience long predates the cataclysms we’ve faced this year.
Register for the Microsoft Resilience at Work US Summit, February 4 If characteristics define a person, then three that are critical to me are resilience, agility, and a passion for leveraging technology to solve human challenges.
Customers are increasingly approaching banking with a digital-first mindset: they expect to be able to perform a range of financial activities from any device. Digital disruptors in the financial services space are offering these services, creating new competition for banks.
More and more, businesses are recognizing that incorporating Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance, or ESG, into their products and services directly correlates to financial results. Doing good is no longer at the expense of doing well. For both stakeholders and customers, ESG represents another point in their decision making.
The Hispanic and Latinx community in the United States has increased its strength over the past few years, both in terms of the market that we represent and the influence we have on business, economics, and politics. Finance is a natural place for that community to gain prominence, where we rely on our abilities to frame issues and move toward solutions.
