Entries by Hunter Smith

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Don’t confuse project outcomes with business outcomes

By David Cotgreave, star Advisor, CIO | DEC 20, 2016 5:00 AM PT As the new year approaches, here’s one resolution that will pay you back big time if you stick with it through 2017. Don’t confuse project outcomes with business outcomes. It’s amazing how many really good CIOs, project managers, sponsors and stakeholders do! In their 2016 Pulse of the Profession […]

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Sensors Are the Heart of the IoT

  Samuel Greengard Added to IoTplaybook or last updated on: 07/03/2018 The opportunities for building IoT applications are limited only by the imagination and engineering prowess of system designers and integrators. Yet virtually all roads lead to sensors. An April 2018 report from Zion Market Research snaps the issue into perspective: The advisory firm predicts that the IoT […]

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The biggest Issues CIO’s face today.

From security management to seeking out innovative technologies, CIOs are straddling operational and transformational roles to deliver new wins while keeping IT humming. By Stacy Collett Contributing Writer, CIO | JUL 11, 2018 3:00 AM PT “I really do try to stay in the strategic,” she says. “I have the direct report staff that really handles most of the […]

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Clients don’t want a solution.

08/28/2017 Are you Selling Solutions or Outcomes? Today’s post is by Sherri Sklar, CEO of GrowthTera, a consulting firm that helps organizations accelerate growth by elevating their performance to WOW. Hear her present “Sales Planning: Strategies that Leave Your Competition in the Dust” live at the Sales 3.0 Conference in Las Vegas on September 18 […]

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How to Adopt Cloud with Conviction

Accenture’s Jordan Griffiths offers some advice Jordan Griffiths (CIO)   09 July, 2018 15:43 The uptake of cloud computing in Australia is on the rise – we have one of highest adoption rates in the world. In fact, 88 per cent of APAC directors identify cloud as a business priority. As organisations move away from traditional data centre […]

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How CIOs transform IT for the digital era

Picture: Pexels CC0/Thinkstock CIOs are disrupting their IT departments, introducing new operating models to stay ahead of digital changes driving their respective industries. By Clint Boulton Senior Writer, CIO | JUN 1, 2018 12:35 PM PT Companies are facing a digital imperative to revamp business operations to better serve customers. To accommodate these shifts, CIOs are making sweeping organizational changes, […]

3 Email security trends MSPs shouldn’t ignore

Posted by Brian Babineau on Jun 19, 2018 9:30:00 AM Email security is a primary threat vector for businesses of all sizes, and that won’t be changing anytime soon. The nature of those email-borne threats is evolving, though, and MSPs need to keep up. You can’t have an email offering that stands still — and neither can […]

What can the print industry learn from Tesla?

Can leading print industry players truly reinvent themselves to drive disruption in their industry and harness the entrepreneurial, start-up spirit and design thinking that Tesla has brought to the auto industry? Quocirca’s Print 2025 Study revealed that 70% of global print industry executives are concerned about market disruption, and just 39% feel they are prepared to […]