Entries by Hunter Smith

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Unifying Endpoint Management Toward the Digital Workspace Experience

IDC Automation is emerging as a key component in endpoint management solutions and can help firms shape digital workflows towards the way employees work in today’s hybrid workforce. JULY 12, 2021  5 MINS READ  Share on Twitter LinkedIn SHARE In June, at Apple’s WWDC2021 event,  an executive demo-ed the new Universal Control feature by dragging a file […]

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What Is Your Organization’s Long-Term Remote Work Strategy?

Harvard Business Review by Erin E. Makarius,Barbara Z. Larson,and Susan R. Vroman March 24, 2021 Summary.   Companies shifted quickly and unexpectedly to remote work in early 2020, but leaders planning for a post-pandemic future have an opportunity to take a more intentional, strategic approach to remote work.  Most likely this will involve revisiting a number of […]

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Keep watch, keep calm: The impact of inflation on business

Deloitte 6/17/2022 https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/consulting/articles/impact-of-inflation-on-business.html Perspectives How to prepare for and overcome inflation With prices on the rise, more businesses and consumers are confronting the possibility that record inflation rates will persist well into 2022. Business leaders should consider a range of scenarios to effectively deal with inflation-related challenges. Explore four possible scenarios that can help your […]

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If we’re all so busy, why isn’t anything getting done?

McKinsey January 10, 2022 | Article This article is a collaborative effort by Aaron De Smet, Caitlin Hewes, Mengwei Luo, J.R. Maxwell, and Patrick Simon, representing views from McKinsey’s People & Organizational Performance Practice. With endless meetings, incessant emails, and casts of thousands, companies have mastered the art of unnecessary interactions. Winning in the next normal requires much more […]

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The Essential Components of Digital Transformation

Rubberball/Getty Images Harvard Business Review by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic November 23, 2021 Summary.   It’s problematic when companies decide to embark on a digital transformation agenda without having a clear definition, let alone vision, for what it means. The fundamental meaning of transformation is not about replacing old technologies with new ones, or…more The digital revolution forced every organization to […]

All of Those Quitters? They’re at Work.

The Great Resignation was in fact a moment many people traded up for a better-paying gig. New York Times By Emma Goldberg May 13, 2022 If Applebee’s were the solar system — and for nearly six years, to Nick Haner, it felt that way — the customer would have been the sun. Everything revolved around the […]

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The New Landscape for Content

IDC Connecting Digital Marketing to Virtual Sales MARCH 1, 2022  6 MINS READ B2B marketers have been striving to become “modern marketers” for some time. At it’s core, however, modernization is continuously occurring. It doesn’t have an end. It isn’t a checkbox. Today’s marketing mindset embraces continual change as the new normal. We are at an […]

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Enterprise Digital Infrastructure Buyers: Transforming Strategic Vendor Relationships in 2022

IDC JANUARY 24, 2022  6 MINS READ The changing nature of digital infrastructure is having significant impact on the ways that enterprises evaluate and do business with major infrastructure hardware and software vendors, as well as public cloud service providers and channel partners. Recently published IDC’s global Future of Digital Infrastructure survey research shows that among enterprises […]

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10 Facts About the Benefits of Security Awareness Training

These 10 Facts About the Benefits of Security Awareness Training Are Game-Changers Are you looking for an affordable, effective way to protect your company from cyberattacks and prevent a data breach? In today’s volatile cyberattack landscape, every business in every industry is at risk of a cyberattack. That means that every business needs to make sure that it’s […]

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On Friday, December 10, 2021, news of active exploitation of a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228

Severe vulnerability in Java logging libraries allows unauthenticated remote code execution and access to servers, warn researchers. Written by Danny Palmer, Senior Reporter on December 10, 2021 | Topic: Security A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in the widely used Java logging library Apache Log4j is easy to exploit and enables attackers to gain full control of affected servers. Tracked as CVE-2021-44228, the […]