Mike Alley | 26th March 2018
Mike Alley, Service Management Principal, Logicalis US, looks at the burning need for a configuration management framework in the face of 21 billion IoT “things’. From weighing scales and robotics in manufacturing plants to smart security, smart buildings and smart transportation initiatives, IT leaders in nearly every industrial vertical market will soon be inundated with the […]
Bob Bailkoski | 9th January 2018
With just 5% of CIOs stating that they have achieved full digital transformation, Bob Bailkoski, CFO Logicalis Group, looks at five barriers to digital transformation in 2018 – and five ways CIOs plan to overcome them. Six months ago a Harvard Business Review (HBR) report – High-Performance Sourcing and Procurement, June 23 2017 – highlighted a […]
Mark Rogers | 14th November 2017
Mark Rogers, CEO at Logicalis Group, digs into the Logicalis Global CIO Survey 2017-2018 to pick out some of the major topics arising from the survey of 890 CIOs in 23 countries. The big themes emerging from this years survey break CIO priorities down across three areas that could be mistaken for business as usual: […]
CXO Unplugged | 16th October 2017
As we crunch the final numbers for the 2017-18 Logicalis CIO Survey, we thought it would be interesting to look back at the Digital Transformation (DX) trends and stories we have been posting over the past 24 months. The beginning of the first digital decade Here we herald the beginning of the Digital Decade stating that the acceptance and importance […]
Oliver Descoeudres | 18th September 2017
Oliver Descoeudres, from Logicalis Australia, describes the eight technologies that are enabling the modern workspace. Over the last decade, new ways of working have evolved as the consumerisation of technology has driven new expectations around flexible working and ‘everywhere access’ to data. The volume of work being done on digital platforms and mobile devices is growing […]
Adam Petrovsky | 28th June 2017
Adam Petrovsky, GovEd Practice Leader Logicalis US, looks at three key planks that you need to know about in the emerging world of Smart Cities and IoT. Emerging technologies aimed at connecting citizens to each other, to government agencies and the infrastructure of the places they live and work are driving a move towards the […]
Oliver Descoeudres | 18th April 2017
Oliver Descoeudres from Logicalis Australia looks at the steps that any organisation setting out on a digital transformation journey must take and outlines 3 keys to a digital transformation roadmap. Digital technologies have been thrust on organisations from all angles: Marketing introduced social; finance, marketing and operations all championed their own versions of analytics; employees turned up […]
Ricky Magalhaes | 14th March 2017
In continuation of our series on the Logicalis Global CIO study, Ricky Magalhaes, Head of Offshore Security at Logicalis Jersey, explains why security concerns are top of mind for over six in 10 CIOs worldwide. Towards the end of 2016, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, announced that the government would invest £1.9bn […]
Richard Alexander | 23rd January 2017
According to PwC’s annual Global State of Information Security Survey, UK businesses are spending an average £6.2m every year on IT security (up from £3m in 2015). Richard Alexander, CTO for Logicalis UK, digs deeper. In many cases IT security spend is burning a cavernous hole in company balance sheets – without necessarily giving businesses much […]
CXO Unplugged | 5th December 2016
In the third of a nine-part series drawing on the Logicalis Global CIO study, Chris Gabriel explains why apps are central to digital transformation. The statement ‘Every company is a software company’ has been on repeat over the last few years. When it was first uttered it was more of a future-gazing, stake-in-the-ground pronouncement – and […]