The five biggest misconceptions about B2B pricing optimization
Technological disruptions tend to cause anxiety and elicit misconceptions. Early Americans called trains iron horses and found it dizzying to ride something that went as fast as 30 miles per hour. Telephones were said to deliver electric shocks to anyone who touched them. There are still claims that texting is ruining the English language. It’s no wonder, then, that after …
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What’s next for supply chain processes?
Global supply chains have been under immense pressure over the past year. Unprecedented demand for online goods, critical medical supplies and more, coupled with worldwide stock shortages, has left supply chains struggling to keep up with ever-increasing customer needs and expectations. Indeed, recent research suggests that the pandemic disrupted more than three-quarters (78 percent) of supply chains. The pandemic brought …
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If it quacks like a duck…
Technology is a great enabler. The countless advancements ranging from self-driving cars to virtual reality and a million others are astounding badges of honor to human ingenuity. Ok, that is the positive preamble. Maybe it is just the alarmist in me, but where we seem to be lagging in our meteoric rise as a species is coupling the question …
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Securing business communications in a post-Covid world
The current pandemic has changed our world beyond all recognition, forcing us to urgently adapt ‘old ways’ and prioritize safety above all else. In business terms, this has translated into the acceleration of remote working and digital transformation, prompting a greater reliance on digital communications, governed by the need to avoid physical contact wherever possible. In the Netherlands last spring, …
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Remote working has led to greater commitment to employee wellbeing
Employees were experiencing burnout long before Covid-19, but the switch to remote working has placed wellbeing front and center and a greater number of business owners are now committed to creating a healthier workplace. These are the conclusions of a new report from collaboration platform Slack. The majority of respondents (56 percent) said their employers were already making improvements to …
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Workers increasingly worried automation will make them redundant
Concerns among employees that automation might make their roles redundant have been exacerbated by the pandemic, a new report from TotalJobs and Boston Consulting Group claims. Polling more than 209,000 people in 190 countries, the pair found workers aged 31-40, especially those who were laid off during the pandemic, to be most fearful of AI and automation taking their jobs. …
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Paying for ransomware doesn’t always mean you get your data back
Agreeing to ransom demands does not guarantee the safe return of data following a ransomware attack, a new report from security firm Sophos suggests. Polling 5,400 IT decision-makers from organizations all over the world, Sophos found that just eight percent of ransomware victims managed to get all their data back after paying the ransom. Almost a third (29 percent) got …
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Over 5 billion personal records have already been leaked in 2021
We’re not even halfway through 2021 and more than five billion data records have already been leaked, according to a report from Atlas VPN. The largest proportion (3.27 billion) came from a new compilation of data gathered in previous breaches. Called COMB, or Compilation Of Many Breaches, the database contains email addresses and passwords attached to users of various popular …
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Businesses failing to understand the value of IoT
An increasing number of manufacturers no longer understand the business value that the Internet of Things can bring to the table, a new report by Ubisense argues. The software company polled 300 managers, directors and high-level executives from the industrial manufacturing community in the UK, USA, France and Germany, and published the results in its “A lost year for IoT …
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Many firms expect to migrate to the cloud in full within five years
Today, roughly five percent of organizations have moved their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud. In five years’ time, however, that number is expected to swell to 64 percent. This is according to a new report from cloud management company CloudCheckr. In its annual Cloud Infrastructure Report, the company says the majority (57 percent) of the organizations it surveyed have …
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