If not now, then when? Making the business case for sustainable supply chains

Flooding in Germany and Belgium claims at least 70 lives and a ‘heat dome’ sitting over Northwest America proves even deadlier. These may be only some of the most recent headlines, but most would accept that the increased incidence of such extreme weather events reflects the impact of climate change. With an estimated 80 percent of global trade passing through …

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Prevent ransomware by stopping lateral movement: the case for active defense

Cybercrime is often motivated by profit, and threat actors have realized that the most profitable way to conduct their business is to target enterprises with deep wallets, a cyber insurance policy, and/or valuable assets. However, these attacks are not as easy to pull off as it is to send out a generic phishing email and hope for the best – …

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The business case for investing in diverse suppliers

Businesses all over the globe are being held to more than just financial success. Customers, investors, and employees are expecting them to make a more positive impact on the world and businesses have begun to respond by launching specific Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) programs and setting time-based goals. ESG initiatives are so critical that many of the world’s …

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The business case for hyperautomation

Authentic technology revolutions are easy to spot because they are also economic revolutions. Hyperautomation, pairing humans with AI and RPA bots to improve the speed and accuracy of work by a factor of 10 or more, is one such revolution. Done right, it unlocks entirely new business models and will drive economic and social change beyond our current imagining. Hyper-hype …

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Digital transformation has become a primary open source use case

For the majority of IT leaders, digital transformation is an important use case for enterprise open source software, a new report from Red Hat has shown. The company had polled 1,250 IT leaders worldwide in search of trends surrounding enterprise open source, and found digital transformation to be a growing use case (up 11 percent year-on-year). Digital transformation was also …

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The case against making IT the sole owner of your intranet

Before the recent advent of “off the shelf” intranet products, companies built their own systems. They would start with a platform technology (such as SharePoint), and the IT team would spend a year or more building a custom intranet on top of it. Given the undoubtedly technical nature of the work, it only made sense to put the IT department …

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