Category Archives: Business Strategy

Bob Bailkoski, Logicalis CFO, looks at what CFOs want from CIOs and how they can deliver. Digital technologies, such as big data, analytics, mobile and cloud, are now more closely connected to the financial health of organisations than ever before. It is vital, therefore, that IT and finance leaders get along. However, in many organisations a […]

Eugene Wolf, CEO at Logicalis SMC, explains why there is no end game in IT transformation and how IT Service Management (ITSM) and the ITIL model can help deal with constant change. Constant Change In August 2013, two researchers penned an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) calling for the death of […]

With digital now shorthand for many aspects of what is becoming a mainstream movement across the spectrum of industry and the public sector, business is changing fast. The world of business, in particular, is resolving into two camps: Those with digital technology in their DNA and those threatened by digital competitors. Those with ‘digital DNA’ […]

Mark Rogers, Logicalis Group’s CEO, highlights the skills required for CIOs to move in to the top job in their organisations. Unless you work for a high tech start up, the chances are your CEO rose to power through finance, or sales and marketing. The people doing the deals, whether it’s bringing in sales or […]

The massive increase in the use of cloud-based applications is having a corresponding effect on the number of IT suppliers an organisation has to deal with. And it’s not just IT – line of business is finding solutions from cloud-based vendors too. That of course, is nothing we didn’t already know. But how do we […]

Fanni Vig, Analytics Division Director at Logicalis UK, explains why now is the next best time to invest in business analytics, if organisations can learn from the mistakes of past – to see beyond the misconceptions that have to date destroyed return on around three quarters of analytics investments. Businesses still don’t really understand analytics. That’s the […]

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 […]