Rasika Versleijen-Pradhan – Senior Analyst IT Services IDC
The Collaborative CxO: Today, organisations spend a significant proportion of their IT budgets on storing, governing and securing their corporate data. In all these efforts, it is often forgotten to capture and leverage the business value of their corporate intellectual property. Enhancing the value of information by turning it from just 'noise' into knowledge, however, is the crux for the creation of strategic advantage.
Following the Unsustainable Path
CIO's and Executives alike, agree that today's business operations are heavily dependant on technology. Supposedly "simple" business requests such as up-scaling IT production, changes in business processes to meet customer demands or to achieve productivity gains, and the integration of new/existing services, often reach the boundaries of organisations' IT abilities.
Louise Francis – Senior Market Analyst, Global Retail Insights, IDC
In turbulent economic climate, companies are coming to the realisation that integrated systems are the key to creating competitive advantage through flexibility, agility, adaptability and access to real-time information for effective decision making.
