Logicalis | 5th March 2020
As we enter the new decade, Chris Gabriel, Director of Technology for Logicalis UK, looks at some of the biggest trends impacting businesses and the technology industry. Chief Information Officers (CIOs) have become a staple and responsible part of modern enterprises’ leadership. This year, as the capabilities of technology improve businesses’ efficiencies, CIOs’ decisions carry […]
Logicalis | 19th February 2020
Our first report from this year’s research, ‘The Changing Role of the CIO’, found that 43% of CIOs are expected to contribute to revenue growth, an increase of 22% on the previous year. As such, the evolving role of the CIO appears to have led to the adoption of new technologies and innovation. The 2019 […]
Logicalis | 19th November 2018
The sixth annual Logicalis Global CIO Survey (2018-2019) has identified long overdue and significant changes in the role of CIOs across Europe, the Americas, the Far East and Australia. Today, 94% of these IT leaders spend between 10% and 50% of their time on innovation and other strategic activities, and 38% spend at least a […]
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: […]
Ruediger Rath | 3rd April 2017
In this latest blog in a series deconstructing the Logicalis Global CIO study, Ruediger Rath, Head of Europe for Logicalis, explores SMACS and its disruptive powers in business. SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) is the idea that four technologies are driving business innovation in our new digitally defined world. However, these game-changing technologies are for […]
Mark Rogers | 6th February 2017
In this sixth blog of our series drawing on the Logicalis Global CIO study, CEO Mark Rogers revisits the thorny issue of Shadow IT – an issue that is both feared for the cracks it creates in an organisation’s IT estate and tolerated for the shortcut it provides to innovation. Is it time to rebrand Shadow IT as […]
Alastair Broom | 30th January 2017
Significant attention is being given in the news across the world to active and emerging cyber attacks. Alastair Broom, takes a look at one of those: Ransomware – to ask what it is and how some organisations are dealing with it. Dip into tech headlines across the world and it is clear that cyber attacks are […]
Mark Rogers | 21st November 2016
In this, the second post in a nine-part series, drawing on the Logicalis Global CIO study, Logicalis CEO Mark Rogers assesses how digital disruption is changing the way businesses procure, manage and consume technology – as well as what that means for CIOs and their teams. He looks in particular at a previous symptom of digital transformation […]
Rodrigo Parreira | 7th November 2016
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 […]