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A comparative assessment of digital transformation in Italy

CIO Business Intelligence

Digital is a powerful business lever,” says Alessandra Luksch, director of the Digital Transformation Academy Observatory at Politecnico di Milano, which has been mapping trends in ICT spending by Italian organizations since 2016. “In From there, the actual digitization project can be implemented. “We

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Self-Serve Analytics Supports Continuous Improvement!

Smarten

McKinsey recently surveyed 2000 businesses and found that 83% of high-tech/media/telecom, 76% of banking, and more than 50% of consumer companies identified as continuous improvement organizations. There is good reason for these results. Continuous improvement improves results!

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What transformational leaders too often overlook

CIO Business Intelligence

Executive recruiters working in the Global 2000 will tell you that the “hot ask” of organizations seeking high-end IT leaders today is for “transformational leaders.” What the recruiters won’t tell you, on the record, is that transformational leaders dropped into mainstream enterprises have a 90+% failure rate.

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The Role of Mainframe in Modern Business

CIO Business Intelligence

When people hear the term mainframe they typically think of a tall, black computer in a storage closet or some 2000’s pop culture reference (e.g., But with the rise of the cloud, and businesses fixated on digital transformation, many are left wondering where the mainframe fits into modern operations. Digital Transformation

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Your AI journey: Destined for the ditch?

CIO Business Intelligence

That’s the current state of AI at Global 2000 enterprises, whose behavior set thus far in the AI space appears to be designed more to avoid embarrassment than to maximize value creation. Just about every communication with investors — e.g., the annual report, investor days, or earnings reports — now includes information about AI.

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Self-Service BI vs Traditional BI: What’s Next?

Alation

Modern business intelligence starts at the dawn of digital computing. Reports required a formal request of the few who could access that data. The expense and time required to create reports from transactional data sources including mainframes and minicomputers. Days/weeks old, backward-looking reports that no one used?

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How to unlock a scientific approach to change management with powerful data insights

IBM Big Data Hub

A recent Leadership IQ survey in 2021 reported by Forbes states that ‘only 29% of employees say that their leader’s vision for the future always seems to be aligned with the organization’s’. Though advanced analytics, process mining solutions can highlight gaps and opportunities in a digital transformation.