Did you know that 90% of professional workers with smart phones check email first thing in the morning prior to doing anything else, even before saying hi to their spouses? Gasp. This occurs because many of us receive more emails than we can possibly read (aka email overload). In a typical day, I have 35 [...]
Innovation is at the core of everything we do at Avanade. We aim to be at the forefront of adapting to the latest technologies and trends for both our client’s sake and our own. Megatrends like the consumerization of IT, social networking and big data are revolutionizing how businesses operate and how employees work, and [...]
The following is a guest blog post by Vikki Leach, Director of Diversity & Inclusion at Avanade. I’ve just come back from La Nuvola Rosa (The Pink Cloud), a conference in Italy serving women in technology and female students who are taking Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses. The event was hosted by [...]
We all understand the importance of data to business. Everything in IT exists to create, store, and manipulate data. Knowing this, it’s safe to say that you will work twice as hard to complete Windows deployments if you don’t have the right data. When upgrading from Windows XP (remember only 10 months left until end-of-support) [...]
A few weeks ago, Dan O’Hara, our global Mobility lead and I completed a Work Redesigned roadshow across APAC, meeting with nearly a dozen customers across several cities from a variety of industries to explore the challenges they are facing in order to transform business through technology. It was an exhilarating and exhausting experience as [...]
Ad Age reported that a recent survey by Spencer Stuart shows the average CMO tenure has nearly doubled since 2006. And with good reason. In the face of a global recession, game-changing technologies, and always connected digital consumers, companies are doubling down on their digital future. With increased investments in digital, it’s no wonder digital [...]
For the last few months, I have been travelling around the world meeting with leaders from enterprises in a number of industries. I’ve shared with them Avanade’s vision for how businesses can benefit from consumer and mobile technologies, something we call Work Redesigned, and I occasionally get the question, “Is Work Redesigned really Business Process Reengineering?” [...]
It’s clear from industry news and our own first-hand research that social collaboration is not a fad. It is the future. It’s a way to transform business processes and release the power of data and human capital by bringing consumer-like digital experiences to the enterprise. Avanade recently announced the findings of a global research [...]
Can technology change lives for the better? Or is it “all about the money?” Is IT used to positively influence our society? Or is its role primarily to help businesses increase revenue and lower costs? Or perhaps, on the 10-year anniversary of Nicholas G. Carr’s infamous HBR article, “IT Doesn’t Matter,” is IT just ubiquitous? [...]
It’s April 9, 2014. The “day after.” Is it the end of the world as we know it? Most likely not, but it will be the beginning of a painful stretch for enterprises that still have Windows XP running in their environments since Microsoft will have ended all support for Windows XP on that date. [...]
