Category Archives: Business Strategy

Joanne Nelson, VP International Marketing at Logicalis, considers how Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg’s vision for the future of the business could affect the wider business community in the years to come. Last week, at the company’s annual F8 developer event in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg shared his vision for the future. If some of his […]

Oliver Descoeudres, Logicalis Australia, looks at the security challenges inherent in delivering the more open environments that are a consequence of IT consumerisation and diverse demand for apps and services – and how CIOs can respond. The consumerisation of technology, the rapid rise of Shadow IT and the emergence of digital means the CIO and CTO […]

In the third in a series of three posts, James Tay, CEO Logicalis Asia, looks at the second transformation that IT departments must undertake if they are to acquire an accelerated capacity to respond to business need – a cultural transformation. In the first post in this series, I explained first how the consumerisation of […]

In the second in a series of three posts, James Tay, CEO Logicalis Asia looks at the first transformation IT departments must undertake if they are to acquire an accelerated capacity to respond to business needs – core technology transformation. In the first post in this series, I explained how the consumerisation of IT is […]

In the first of a series of three posts James Tay, CEO, Logicalis Asia, explains why a growing impatience for transformational IT services in the enterprise is forging a new relationship between IT and business. Until now, enterprise IT services have been delivered at their own speed – specifically, at the rate at which the […]

Richard Alexander explains why the Internet of Things is fuelling a revolution in business, and warns that specialist skills and a new approach will be critical to realising the opportunities it brings. According to a common description, the IoT (Internet of Things) is the network of physical objects or “things” embedded with electronics, software, sensors […]

The acceptance and importance of digital in society, government and business makes digital enablement the number one priority for CEOs for the next 10 years, writes Chris Gabriel, Chief Digital Officer, Logicalis Europe. In a recent survey of over 400 organisations across 24 countries, over 90% of CIOs said they were bypassed by line of […]

Brian Day, Director of Solution Development for Logicalis US, looks at the business benefits of DevOps in the cloud and concludes that CxOs should be making sure their teams are addressing this important area. As IT becomes more responsive to ever-changing business needs, the DevOps (development and operations) philosophy – more of an organisational cultural change than […]

As the Logicalis CIO Survey 2015 tells a story of the continued erosion of CIOs’ traditional powerbase, Joanne Nelson, VP of International Marketing at Logicalis, explains how IT leaders are fighting back through a services-led transformation of IT departments. In a recent post entitled Shadow IT is a reality for 90% of CIOs, I pointed out […]

As line of business executives take ever more power over IT purchasing, leaving CIOs out of the loop. Joanne Nelson, VP of International Marketing at Logicalis, looks at the scale of the challenge facing IT leaders and wonders if IT departments are reaching a tipping point. The results from the latest Logicalis CIO Survey tell a […]