Category Archives: Digital

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 […]

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 […]

In the first of a nine-part series Rodrigo Parreira, CEO at Logicalis LATAM, explains why CIOs need comprehensive digital transformation strategies – drawing upon findings from a revealing study that polled over 700 CIOs from 24 countries. The Fourth Industrial Revolution – characterised by the emergence of innovative business models shaped by digital technologies – is creating […]

As the results of the 2016 Logicalis CIO Survey are published, Joanne Nelson reveals how distributed IT, shadow IT departments and data security risks are the big issues for CIOs as they respond to challenges from digital disrupters. Businesses worldwide are responding to threats posed by digital disrupters like Über and Airbnb. The Logicalis Global CIO […]

Chris Gabriel, Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Logicalis Europe, takes a look at the role of the CDO and why, just possibly, the CDO may outlast the CTO and CIO. According to the CDO Club, CDO hires have been doubling every year. In 2012 Gartner said the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) will be the most exciting […]

Alasdair Ford, Chief Technologist for Collaboration at Logicalis UK, considers the lessons businesses can learn from Pokémon Go. Catch ’em if you can It’s impossible to avoid the worldwide buzz generated by Pokémon Go, although interest has waned a little from 45m active users in the first month down to a mere 30m today.  My recent […]

Mike Johnson, Director of Technical Sales for Logicalis US, looks at how a digitised network can help you transform your business without sacrificing security. The network is, and will always be, the foundation for IT services delivered to end-users and, increasingly, to customers. As technology leaders, therefore, we should be looking at how digitising the network […]

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 writes Chris Gabriel, chief digital officer, Logicalis. The world of business, in particular, is resolving into two camps: Those with digital technology in their DNA and those threatened […]

Richard Alexander, Solutions Director for Logicalis in the UK, introduces an infographic that neatly summarises the expanding security considerations that are part and parcel with the digital transformation of business. There can be no doubt that digital transformation, while driving huge business benefits, is also creating new security imperatives. That is, digital business happens at […]

Chris Gabriel, Chief Digital Officer for Logicalis Europe, examines what is meant by a digital organisation. What are their common features and how does an ‘analogue’ organisation ‘go digital’? Most organisations are undergoing some form of digital transformation. That’s to be expected – 2016 is undoubtedly the dawn of the first ‘digital decade’. Given its incredible […]