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Part 1: Agile Teams and Waterfall Mindset Management. 

The decisions made for the agile teams are always with the help of a confidence vote. The decision made by managers may not be always gain their confidence, which in turn may prohibit the member's full potential. Addressing customer needs or any potential gaps is required to run the agile train most smoothly. A team must know how their actions affect the company's business. If there are any sets of issues arising, team actions should be revised immediately. Not only people engaging in the systems are part of Agile, but other agents may affect the system directly, like props and processes.

Part 2: 10 principles of workforce transformation

How to raise the skills of your employees to meet your digital challenges. See also “A guide to workforce transformation.”

There is a gap between the digital skills people have and those needed to live, learn, and work in the digital world. The need to upskill — to bridge this gap — is a complex problem that will require government administrators, educators, and business leaders to come together. To learn more about upskilling your own workforce, go to Upskill my workforce for the digital world.

Part 3: To Master, The Shift To Digital Leaders Need To Change Themselves.

It is well known that businesses of all sorts are moving down the road towards becoming digital. It is also well known that the pandemic has speeded up the process. Indeed, enterprises that were already making progress in this direction were able to adapt to the changed circumstances and thrive while the less nimble-footed have struggled and will probably continue to do so unless they change their approach and embrace the future.

Part 1: Toward a Racially Just Workplace  

“Happy elephant success is to be measured  not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which [one] has overcome while trying to succeed.”

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which [one] has overcome while trying to succeed.”

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Thus we turn to the moral case. Many in the U.S. business community have begun to push for more purpose-driven capitalism that focuses not just on shareholder value but also on shared value — benefits that extend to employees, customers, suppliers, and communities. This movement, toward what the University of Toronto’s Sarah Kaplan calls the 360° Corporation, wants corporate leaders to consider both the financial and the ethical implications of all their decisions. We believe that one of its pillars should be proportionate representation and wages for black Americans.

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In sum, DandI needs to be an ethos that permeates the entire organization, championed not just by the HR department but by everyone, and especially managers, so that its importance is clear. The Toigo Foundation’s leaders draw a parallel between this idea and the total quality management movement of the 1980s, which, with top-down support and the establishment of key performance indicators, became a pervasive way of working and thinking that filtered down to every function and level.

Part 1: Best Practices For Working From Home.

Recent economic developments around the world have inspired many businesses to assess or reassess the value of work from home (WFH) employment strategy. Managed well, remote work can bring advantages to team productivity and worker satisfaction.

People who have enjoyed years of remote work opportunities are helping those new to the idea, offering advice based on their own transitions to telecommuting as both employees and managers. There are, of course, challenges associated with working from home. In addition to logistical considerations, there are practical strategies that a person accustomed to office work can learn from telecommuting veterans.

Part 2: Why Pivoting People Is a Strategic Priority

To best prepare their organizations and workforces for post-pandemic changes, leaders should think through a set of critical questions.

Just like post-pandemic physical workspaces will need revising, so too will the skill sets and capabilities of our employees. Yes, leaders absolutely need to reimagine the workplace, but organizations cannot lose sight of the people returning to those spaces. Focusing solely on redesigning the workplace or offering flexible work arrangements (such as remote or hybrid options) without considering employees will hamstring organizations by leaving their people in the lurch. 

Part 3: The Enabling Power of Trust

Future of Leadership in the Digital Economy                    

What will it take to become a great leader in the digital economy? What will be the differentiating skill sets (what individuals will need to do) and mindsets (how they will need to think and behave) that will shed light on what it will take to lead next-generation organizations effectively? We have set out to address these important questions as the foundation for MIT Sloan Management Review’s newest Big Ideas Initiative: The Future of Leadership in the Digital Economy.

Part 1: Leadership Lessons From Your Inner Child

Future of Leadership in the Digital Economy             

When I turned five, I got a new bike. I didn’t know how to ride it, but I took it to a nearby hill anyway, a willing warrior, ready to ride. Was I prepared? Would I be brave enough to overcome the anxiety of facing the unknown? The truth is those questions never occurred to me at the time. Reflecting on this experience decades later, I realized I wasn’t just a willing warrior — I was an ecstatically enthusiastic one. Today, I can’t help but wonder why it seemed so much easier to take on significant new challenges as a five-year-old than it is for me now. As a child, did I have gifts that I somehow lost over the years? Was I foolish then and more responsible now? Upon further reflection, I have come to realize that I’ve been fighting a decades-long battle to not lose many of those gifts that made it relatively easy to learn new things when I was young. 

Part 2: What is the role of leadership in digital transformation?

The recent pandemic has demonstrated that, when used effectively, digital transformation can help businesses succeed in even the most trying circumstances.

Part 3: Leaders for a digital transformation

It can be mission-critical for companies to consider the traits, competencies, and drivers of the talent—in-house and external—that will help create their digital future.

Part 1: SAFe is a marketing framework, not an Agile scaling framework

SAFe sells the illusion you can radically change without leaving your comfort zone

Let’s try to make a list of all the reputable names who support Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Think about it. Does anyone come to mind?

Part 2: Why Good Arguments Make Better Strategy

Strategy is hard — really hard — to do well. Many leaders will admit this privately: In an anonymous 2019 survey conducted by Strategyand, 37% of 6,000 executive respondents said that their company had a well-defined strategy, and 35% believed that their company’s strategy would lead to success.

Part 3: Why Good Arguments Make Better Strategy

Great strategies exhibit logical coherence. They are composed of a set of logically interconnected reasons that necessarily produce the conclusion. With a valid argument, if you accept the premises, you must accept the conclusion. With an invalid argument, you run the risk of overlooking critical assumptions and flaws in your reasoning, which in turn can lead to your company’s downfall. Logical formalization ensures validity.

Part 1: Companies That Obsess Over Velocity Are Clueless About Scrum

Most companies using Scrum spend a lot of time discussing velocity and devising ways to increase it. Velocity becomes a magical, almost mythical number that developers must chase in every Sprint.

Part 2: How to lead a digital transformation — ethically

The fact that COVID-19 accelerated the need for digital transformation across virtually all sectors is old news. What companies are doing to propel success under the circumstances has been under the spotlight. However, how they do it has managed to find a place in the shadows.

Part 3: The 4 Strategies of Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation requires focusing on the aspects that are most crucial to current and anticipated future needs, and clarity to successfully maintain the pace of the transformation as it moves between phases. 

Part 1: 13 Industry Experts Share Reasons Companies Fail At Digital Transformation

While the goal of digital transformation may be to simplify and streamline a company’s workflow, the process itself can be far from easy. A 2020 study by Boston Consulting Group found that a staggering 70% of digital transformation projects fall short of their goals — even when leadership is aligned.

Part 2: Digitizing Isn’t the Same as Digital Transformation 

If your organization is busier than ever “digitizing,” you’re not alone. Digital efforts have been proliferating for years as companies strive to catch up with technological innovation. Covid-19 massively accelerated the pace, as many of our most basic activities, from grocery shopping to “going to work” moved online.

Part 3: 10 Industries Where Artificial Intelligence Has Caused a Disruption

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is redefining industries by offering personalization, automating processes, and disrupting how we work. In modern times, AI is embraced by every industry from healthcare to government. Here are the 10 industries where AI has caused a disruption.

Part 1: Now is the Time to Reassess Digital Transformation Strategy

Around 70% of manufacturing organizations in the U.S. and Europe have adopted a digital transformation (DX) strategy (according to the IDC research). These strategies vary widely in terms of quality and focus. Some companies (but not enough) understand that DX should cover both vertical and horizontal perspectives. Transformation should go beyond factory walls and impact the supply chain, the product and services portfolio, and the revenue side of the business.

Part 2: Digital Disruption will Lead to Growth and Transformation

‘Digital Transformation' is becoming the catchphrase of the technology sphere. Even though it was common among large companies in the past years, the pandemic has now accelerated the digital initiatives across small verticals as well. It is imperative for the business of all sizes starting from small to medium and large size enterprises. 

Part 3: Is Digital Transformation the key to Create a Better Sustainable World?

Every industry around the world is reshaped by digital transformation. According to IT advisory and research firm IDC, by 2022, over 60% of global GDP will be digitized, with growth in every sector driven by digitally enhanced offerings, operations, and relationships.  At the same time, there are important problems our world is dealing with, such as global warming, natural catastrophes, and other environmental threats. These hazards, along with rising strains on the resources of the planet, are driving mainstream sustainability.

Part 1: Building a Mature Data Infrastructure to Accelerate Data Usability

Modern technologies are being used to power data infrastructure with the perfect tools

Data is the major factor that drives strategic decisions in businesses, economies, and sometimes, even countries. Henceforth, delivering the right data in the right form plays a pivotal role in every sector. This has accelerated the need for data infrastructure that provides valuable information and insightful data for digital transformation. Besides, modern technologies are also used to power data infrastructure with the perfect tools.

Part 2: Moving to Retail-tech- The Digital Culture is now Crucial for the Retailer Community

The digital culture is turning out to be a shelter hub for most business that carried out their operations traditionally or in ways that are physical. Retailers too are resorting to the powers of digitalization to ensure better returns on investment.

Part 3: DevOps Essential for Digital Innovation in Banking and Financial Services

As every company becomes a software company, every financial organization now becomes a FinTech organization. But what does a successful implementation of technology for financial organizations mean? As a Financial Services company, one has complex and rigorous software development processes to meet intense regulatory requirements and is expected to release software faster than ever to meet customer expectations.

Part 1: Digital Transformation: Implementing Big Data Analytics

Big Data Analytics could be a game-changer in your digital transformation journey

Today’s world is driven entirely by data. It has become the most valuable asset and one could not strive to succeed in the modern crowded market without the data. As it can be a differentiating factor for business growth, companies need to utilize their data effectively. This requires the successful implementation of data analytics in business processes. Integrating big data analytics enables faster intelligent decision-making and provides real-time information. It can also be a game-changer in businesses’ digital transformation endeavours.

Part2: The Road to Digital Transformation

The inclination of the world towards digital transformation has changed our lives for the better. The year 2020 saw a lot of aspects of life and businesses slowing down, but that wasn’t the case with digital transformation. On the contrary, it had put forth a different picture altogether. The pandemic threw light on how to better position the business as far as the new normal is concerned. This led to a huge demand for seamless digital services and solutions in possibly every sector across the world. In this modern era, we get to see advancement in technology with every passing day, the need for better connectivity and a shift in the preferences of the users among others. These are just a few of the many reasons why is there a need to transform digitally.

Part 3: Allowing devices, equipment, and businesses to operate more efficiently

It is hard to believe a bullet train is piloted by a human in the cockpit. Would you let this person take over the train at 300 miles/hour? In such a technologically advanced world, critical industrial processes such as inspections are inefficient, costly, and wasteful.

Part 1: Automation is a must to provide effective digital transformation

Imagine a scenario in which you could share enterprise information across departments and guarantee that everybody has timely access to information. Also, consider the possibility that specific occasions in a single department automatically set off work streams in another. Indeed, you can. This should be possible with process automation and digital transformation.

Part 2: We Need Digital Ethics For Responsible Digitalisation, Stat!

Digital transformation is our present and future. Emerging technologies, as you read this, are changing our society as we know it. Artificial intelligence, big data, IoT, process automation, are some of the technologies that give organizations around the world new business solutions. The need to virtualize many areas of work in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is digitally shaping our lives. This is also giving companies a chance to rethink digital business ethics and answer important questions like how to manage data privacy rights while they actively adopt customer analytics for better service.

Part 3: The Healthcare Sector: Through and Ahead of the Pandemic

How easy is it to not go to the hospital and still get diagnosed? The older generation would call it impossible unless the doctors themselves land at your place. But for the current millennial generation, it is just another technological advancement. Bringing digital transformation in the healthcare sector has always been a tedious task and thus a slow process considering its significance in society and resistance towards disruptive technologies like AI. Although, the Covid-19 scenario accelerated the transformation to equip the healthcare sector to fight the pandemic. Developments like ‘Telemedicine’ have enhanced the accessibility of healthcare services among people.

Part 1: Technological Innovation will Digitally Transform Global Industries

Innovation and transformation are two factors driving change in any industry. They help companies remain competitive in the market. However, often, these two terms are used interchangeably or synonymously. Indeed, both are enablers of digital transformation, but it is also essential to identify when an enterprise needs either of them or both.

Part 2: Digital Transformation: How to build a successful roadmap for a business?

Adopting and adjusting to new technologies today is more than a market reconsideration. It is important for businesses to start and advance their transition to digital transformation in order to remain competitive and successful.

Part 3: Without technology strategy in 2021, your business can undoubtedly fall behind the competition.

Successful companies share the basic quality of depending on planning processes to guarantee growth and operational productivity. Similarly, with other business functions, each company needs to have a thought of a well-developed technology plan. Without technology strategy in 2021, your business can undoubtedly fall behind the competition.

Part 1: Digitizing Isn’t the Same as Digital Transformation 

If your organization is busier than ever “digitizing,” you’re not alone. Digital efforts have been proliferating for years as companies strive to catch up with technological innovation. Covid-19 massively accelerated the pace, as many of our most basic activities, from grocery shopping to “going to work” moved online.

Part 2: Digital Transformation in 2021: Unlearning and Relearning

Businesses should focus on better strategies to implement digital transformation in the coming years and do not hesitate to learn from mistakes

Part 3: Why 2021 is the year of Digital Transformation in eCommerce?

The post-COVID landscape is already putting a lot of pressure on sellers. Those that are working remotely are expected to maintain efficiency, pinpoint risks, and react to opportunities quickly.

Part 1: DevOps: 5 habits of successful leaders

Building and improving a DevOps culture requires a special kind of leader. The most successful DevOps leaders model habits including consensus-building and continuous learning

Part 2: Remote work: 3 ways to improve company culture

As organizations start to look toward a return to the workplace, consider rejuvenating your company culture with these tips

Working remotely comes with benefits: no commute, more flexible schedules, and lower overheads, to name just a few. But as many companies have discovered, remote work can threaten even the strongest corporate culture.

Part 3: Your Secret Weapon for Successful Digital Transformation? Get Employees on Board.

For nearly a decade, companies have been discussing their digital transformation. And in the past year, the pandemic and the rapid shift to remote work dramatically accelerated many companies’ digital transformations. In fact, McKinsey notes that years of digital transformation were consolidated into just a few months. Now, as companies consider the best way forward into the next few years, digital transformation is in the spotlight. One of the most important aspects that make digital transformation successful in employee adoption. Here are some ways to get employees on board and ready for your plans.

Part 1: Emotional intelligence: 8 ways to improve yours in 2021

As pandemic fatigue hits new highs, your emotional intelligence as a leader has never been more important. Which of these tips and strategies could help you strengthen your EQ?

Part 2: IT leadership: 5 ways to energize teams in 2021

Are you worried the momentum you felt at the start of the New Year is waning? Check out some ways to energize yourself and your team for the months ahead

Part 3: IT leadership: What the pandemic taught me about balance, agility, and trust

I saw a chance to give the managers below me more opportunities and responsibilities. And it paid off. Consider these lessons learned

Part 4: Remote work: 4 ways to spot a toxic culture

In a remote work environment, maintaining strong company culture is more challenging – and more important – than ever. How do you spot and fix the trouble? Ask these four questions to do a quick pulse check

Part 1: Is Your C-Suite Equipped to Lead a Digital Transformation?

The Covid-19 pandemic dramatically accelerated technology adoption across all industries. According to one survey, 77% of CEOs reported that the pandemic sped up their companies’ digital transformation plans, and as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella noted in the early days of the crisis, “We’ve seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months.” A study conducted by Twilio found that Covid-19 accelerated companies’ digital communications strategies by an average of six years.

Part 2: Five Ways To Be A Better Digital Transformation Leader

There is no denying that 2020 was a tough year. It, and the global pandemic that came with it, has irrevocably changed how we work in ways few could have predicted. Yet for all of the challenges, the lessons of 2020 bring opportunity. Here’s what I’ve learned about being a better digital transformation leader in 2021 and beyond.

Part 3: Digital transformation: 5 new realities for CIOs

After the upheaval of 2020, are you cultivating employee loyalty? Baking security in from the start? CIOs leading digital transformation in 2021  face new risks and opportunities

The massive digitalization we’ve seen over the last year will likely be remembered as one of the most enduring hallmarks of the pandemic’s influence on society. Because of this widespread digital transformation, executives – particularly CIOs – are facing a number of new, completely unexpected realities that present a mix of risk and opportunity. And how we handle them will have a huge impact on business success.

Part 1: 7 Reasons why 2021 will be even bigger and better for remote workers

Most Americans who work remotely today were forced out of their offices and challenged to manage the sudden change, along with the added obstacles brought on by the pandemic. Despite this, however, the majority express an interest in working remotely moving forward, even after the crisis is over.

Part 2: What CEOs Need to Know About the Cloud in 2021 

Medical researchers and innovators may be the heroes who will make our world livable again, but they can’t do it without the power of technology — especially cloud computing. This critical technology has enabled the rapid development of Covid-19 vaccines that, as of this writing, we hope will be as effective as clinical trials have indicated.

Part 3: 3 ways to handle a difficult colleague

We have all worked with at least one person in our career that drove us absolutely insane. You know the type, one email from them can force you to want to pull your hair out or let out a scream of frustration. If they are in a leadership role, they may change their story every other day. Or a colleague who actually does nothing but is great at sucking up to the boss and taking credit for work they never did. Here is the scary part, these people are everywhere. No matter what firm you go to, they are going to be there. You can choose to quit, or you can find a way to work with them.

Part 1: Digital transformation - 7 ways Agile and DevOps can help 

Digital transformation work often requires teams to manage conflicting challenges – a dilemma familiar to software developers. Here's how agile and DevOps can reduce risk and speed up change

Part 2: IT leadership: 5 tips on how to manage conflict

Unresolved conflict on a team can cause everything from reduced execution to retention and morale problems. With so much at stake, here's how leaders can help their teams improve 

Part 3: Remote work: 4 ways to spot a toxic culture

In a remote work environment, maintaining strong company culture is more challenging – and more important – than ever. How do you spot and fix the trouble? Ask these four questions to do a quick pulse check.

Part 1: 5 habits of high-functioning virtual teams

The most high-functioning virtual teams don't rely on the same teamwork strategies used by in-person teams. Consider these remote-first tips to boost your team's productivity  

Part 2: Digital transformation: 5 types of leaders who can get in the way

From the saboteur to the capacity monster, these personalities can hurt grassroots support for your digital transformation. Here's how to deal with the challenges.

Part 3: Digital Transformation Comes Down to Talent in 4 Key Areas 

Over the years we’ve participated in, advised on, or studied hundreds of digital transformations. In doing so, we’ve gained a perspective on just how difficult true digital transformation really is and what it takes to succeed. Digital transformation is not for the faint of heart — the unfortunate reality is that, to date, many such efforts, like transformation programs in general, have failed.

Part 1: 5 Strategies to Help Charities Weather the Pandemic 

Charities serve others, and often at scale. But they do more than just deliver on their noble and needed missions. In the U.S., non-profits represent the third-largest workforce. That’s why it’s crucial for charities to beat the Covid-slump.

Part 2: To Go Digital, Leaders Have to Change Some Core Beliefs 

Despite a great deal of lip service to digital transformation, the effect of all these great words on most companies is this: not much.

Part 3: How Digital Trust Varies Around the World

The pandemic has forced rapid digitalization all around the world: Schools have transformed to support online learning, many jobs have become entirely remote, and automation has accelerated in a wide array of industries. In addition, many countries have established digital systems for contact tracing, Covid-19 testing, government relief distribution, and vaccination rollouts (albeit with mixed results). This digital growth has demonstrated the tremendous capacity for technology to add value to our society, but it has also revealed how fragile these tools — and people’s trust in those tools — can be.

Part 1: Six steps to build a data-driven company, according to experts

Over the past year, businesses have had to quickly adapt and adjust to new and varied patterns of customer behavior as their previous models were thrown off course. 

Part 2: How to Manage a Hybrid Team

Your employees’ needs are always varied. But right now, as many companies navigate returning to an office in some shape or form, your team members are likely contending with vastly different situations. Some have limited or no childcare or are managing their kids’ online school; some have health issues that preclude them from returning to in-person work, and some are eager and excited to get out of the house and head back to their cubicles. As the leader, how do you manage these various circumstances while treating everyone fairly? What protocols can you put in place to ensure that the employees in the office are in sync with those working from home? How do you remain flexible given that plans may change at any moment? And how do you help your employees manage their stress levels through this transition?

Part 3: How to Foster Psychological Safety in Virtual Meetings

Working from home due to the pandemic, tens of thousands of people of the world are now communicating with each other in virtual meetings. But such communication can undermine psychological safety, making people more reluctant to raise questions or concerns or share their ideas. 

Part 1: The Leader as Coach

Once upon a time, most people began successful careers by developing expertise in a technical, functional, or professional domain. Doing your job well meant having the right answers. If you could prove yourself that way, you’d rise up the ladder and eventually move into people management—at which point you had to ensure that your subordinates had those same answers.

Part 2: 7 Strategies for Better Group Decision-Making 

There are upsides and downsides to making decisions in a group. The main risks include falling into groupthink or other biases that will distort the process and the ultimate outcome. But bringing more minds together to solve a problem has its advantages. To make use of those upsides and increase.

Part 1: TOP-30 Interview Questions About Digital Transformation

Facing interviews is an integral part of having a healthy corporate life. So in this episode, we have compiled a list of TOP-20 digital transformation interview questions that you are almost certain to face in any job opening. The information is a good knowledge base that helps you gain a higher level for your future profession.

Part2: Banks waste billions on digital

How much money is wasted by banks on digital?

I wonder whether, one day, anyone will work out how much money has been wasted by banks on digital technologies. Various reports reckon that banks spend anything from half a trillion dollars a year on tech to over a trillion.

Part 3: Four ways digital transformation strategy is playing havoc with crisis readiness

The crisis has accelerated Digital Transformation while fuelling common mistakes.

A lot can happen in a year. If you can remember as far back as 2019, you’ll remember that disruption wasn’t a dirty word. It meant innovation, transformation, dreaming big.

Part 1: Digital transformation: 3 mistakes that hurt agility

Digital transformations don't fail because of technology. They fail when organizations neglect to develop better ways of problem-solving, testing ideas, and managing work - what we call agility

Digital transformation is difficult enough to get right: Making a mistake that inhibits your agility can set you off on the wrong foot and prevent your transformation from succeeding.

Part 2:Five Ways To Be A Better Digital Transformation Leader

There is no denying that 2020 was a tough year. It, and the global pandemic that came with it, has irrevocably changed how we work in ways few could have predicted. Yet for all of the challenges, the lessons of 2020 bring opportunity. Here’s what I’ve learned about being a better digital transformation leader in 2021 and beyond.

Part3:What’s an NFT? 

It’s What Makes "GIFs "Worth Big Bucks?

In February, a 10-second video clip known as “Crossroads” by the digital artist Beeple sold at auction for $6.6 million. An animated image of a flying cat leaving a rainbow trail went for almost $600,000 that same month. 

Leaders, quite rightly, are the heroes of the corporate epic (a few leader-villains notwithstanding). They motivate us to go places that we would never otherwise go. They are needed both to change organizations and to produce results. In any business climate, good leadership is perhaps the most important competitive advantage a company can have. It’s hardly surprising, therefore, that management scholars focus relentlessly on the attributes of successful leadership.

Part 1: 7 Digital Transformation Goals Your Enterprise Needs To Consider

7 Audacious Digital Transformation Goals

Before you embark on any digital transformation activity, you need a clear understanding of your digital transformation goals.

Clearly defined goals accompanied by a strategic roadmap are fundamental to digital transformation success. Let’s get into the top 7 digital transformation goals you need to be considering.

Part 2: My 4 principles of digital leadership 

This week I had the pleasure of participating in both the global Cisco Leadership Series and Harvard Business Review’s online webinar series this week. And this month I was with executives at Verizon in New Jersey in person - as well as appearing on the podcast Digital Outliers. And it seems everywhere one topic resonates: Now is the time for leaders to re-calibrate with new attitudes and actions for a digital world. 

Part 3: What do we mean by Digital Leadership? 

Awakening possibility in leaders and teams to deliver extraordinary results.  

And what do we actually mean by the 'digital age’?

A great starting point would be to explore the context in which we are leading today. 

Here’s an interesting question to think about, “Was the environment in which we were educated the same as the environment we work in today?”

Part 1: Digital transformation, innovation, and growth is accelerated by automation

The company of the future will be a new type of symbiotic organization of autonomous technology and autonomous humans, working effectively together, accelerating the flow of value, as and when needed, to our customers and all other stakeholders in the ecosystem.

Part 2: Digital transformation training boosts productivity and efficiency for DevOps and IT infrastructure teams

If a company wants its new digital transformation tools to operate at peak capacity, its employees must be well versed in how those tools work for maximum efficiency. Make budget cuts if you must, but when it comes to training, an increase in budget will bring greater returns on investment, according to IDC's "Cloud-Based Enterprise Application Performance Survey.

Part 3: 4 Tips for Effective Virtual Collaboration 

By being strategic about how your team’s time is spent and how you all communicate, you can collaborate more effectively, even at a distance. First, use regular meetings to set the vision, align roles, agree on goals, or do other creative and strategic discussions. Then, share documents asynchronously...

Part 1: Digital transformation is a buzzword that has become commonplace for everyone in the tech industry. Digital technology has changed the way that we view the world as well as the way that businesses function, so digital transformation has become an essential point for consideration. As times have changed, more and more companies are concluding that their methods and processes are not enough to keep their customers happy, and that’s where digital transformation comes in.

Part 2: Average Cost To Build A House: Post Pandemic a Breakdown Of Expenses

If you want to know the average cost to build a house, you’ve come to the right place. Of course, there is a huge range in house prices, both for buying and building houses, in the United States. But in every range, there is an average. 

Step-by-Step Roadmaps for Effective Transformation

To change successfully, organizations must follow a systematic, step-by-step approach.

There are differing views on how best to execute transformation efforts.

In this episode, Digital Transformation 1-0-1, we’ll explore digital transformation from top to bottom – from the most basic concepts to advanced strategies and tactics.

A few years ago, only 3.6% of employees worked from home half-time or more. Today, the world looks very different, and it’s estimated that 25-30% of the workforce will be working from home multiple days of the week by the end of 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and it has created an enormous shift in the way we use technology in our work. The world will never go back to what it used to be, so how should your business prepare for 2021 and build a future that works? 

IT role is more critical than ever in a world that's increasingly dependent on digital. Organizations are under increasing pressure to stay competitive and create connected experiences. According to MuleSoft's Connectivity Benchmark Report, IT projects are projected to grow by 40%; and 82% of businesses are now holding their IT teams accountable for delivering connected customer experiences. Research from MuleSoft proprietary research and third-party findings highlight some of the top trends facing CIOs, IT leaders, and organizations in their digital transformation journey.        

 Digital Transformation And Why We Need It 

Digital transformation is a leading force in business today. In some cases, this is driven by so-called digital native organizations wreaking havoc on older companies in an industry. In some cases, those older companies are seizing the opportunity before the change is forced upon them. Whether it's based upon employing a shrewd offense or cautious defense, this change will impact all companies. 

Part 1: Digital transformation in the remote work era: 11 do's and don'ts

Leading digital transformation during a pandemic has not been optional. Tap into some upsides, such as receptivity to new ideas, while avoiding traps, such as sticking to old schedules or trying to be a hero

Part 2: CIO role: 3 predictions for 2021

The CIO role changed in response to the pandemic-fueled challenges of 2020. Consider these CIO lessons learned – and areas of focus moving forward

Part 3: When people work from home they are often expected to be virtually present during the regular workday. 

This can pose problems as people juggle the realities of working from home. GitLab, which has long worked all remotely, has shown that working from home can be highly flexible, mixing... 

2020 has been transformative, to say the least, and that cuts much deeper than a new generation of people discovering Fleetwood Mac.

In our daily discourse, we have conveniently coined anything change-related as digital transformation. As we happily turn the page on 2020, companies are thinking about how to leverage digital transformation in 2021 and beyond.