TechTalk

Posted on 06.19.2017
Business Challenges of Our Digital Society

Digitization has revolutionized business in everything from how we work, to the way information is stored and transmitted. Telecommuting is a growing trend that would be impossible without digital technology. New ways of gathering information and analyzing that data to increase efficiency and profitability are enabling exciting new business trends like autonomous agents and things. But …
Read more
Posted on 06.13.2017
Thickening the Data to Discover Customer Insights

Thickening the Data: How combining Big Data with Thick Data can lead to more accurate customer insights

For over a decade, there has been great deal of buzz around the term “Big Data.” This term was coined in 2005 by Roger Magoulas from O’Reilly Media to refer to the mass amounts of information that businesses collect on …
Read more
Posted on 05.04.2017
Mobility — The Great Wireless Migration

The business world is becoming more wireless – this phenomenon is often called enterprise mobility, where employees are working out of the office using mobile devices and cloud services. But the great wireless migration also means that businesses must adapt to the fact that their customers are using mobile phones much more than desktops to …
Read more
Posted on 04.03.2017
Emerging Technologies: Autonomous Agents and Things

One of the hottest trends in technology is autonomous agents and things. That nebulous-sounding term is actually quite precise – it’s a technology that takes advanced machine learning a step further, so that it can make complex decisions on its own, or autonomously. This is beyond simple automation, where something happens automatically according to hard-and-fast …
Read more
Posted on 03.06.2017
Technology Alignment and What It Means for Your Business

Do you think of IT as an expense to be managed, or as a way to achieve company goals? If the former, it’s time to adjust your thinking.

You may be familiar with the concept of strategic alignment, which means that all elements of an organization are arranged optimally to achieve company goals. Similarly, technology alignment …
Read more
Posted on 01.23.2017
Trust Your Vendors

It’s important to find vendors you trust and respect, for everything your company needs. That’s because vendors provide not only products and services, but also the experience and knowledge that ensures the products and services are deployed in a way that best serves your business. This applies to everything from office supplies to marketing, but …
Read more