I’ve recently participated in a number of conversations with customers around their strategic IT initiatives and am fully aware of the challenges they are facing to react to an increasingly competitive and rapidly evolving technology landscape. The pace of change and the demands being placed upon businesses are requiring IT managers supporting the underlying systems [...]
I’ve been reflecting on the great week at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013 in Barcelona last month. This was a very large and noisy event that brought together over 70,000 attendees and 1,500 vendors, including Avanade, across the mobility space. There were lots of really interesting trends coming out of the event, both [...]
Only 7 years ago, in 2005, I remember two co-workers staring at a computer screen and I wasn’t sure what they were looking at. Turns out they were watching someone dance on a site called YouTube. I had no idea what they were talking about, now everybody on the planet knows YouTube. Facebook crossed the 1 billion [...]
Obviously, this is a big week in mobility with Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona. We’ll likely see a slew of new devices announced, and it’s not a stretch to guess that there will be a lot of focus on smarter devices with “must have” features, more form-factors, nicer screens, better cameras and so forth. [...]
As I reflect on my lengthy career at several cutting-edge, high-technology companies helping to advance business intelligence (BI) within the enterprise, it confirms my belief that BI and advanced analytics will change the world. We are experiencing changes of a magnitude never seen before. These changes will mandate a redesign in the way people work [...]
The change of pace in the way we work is occurring faster now than in any time I can remember during my career in the “tech field.” After graduating college, I excitedly traversed through rush hour traffic and arrived for my first day of work with my new employer. I worked in a controlled IT [...]
Mobile devices, ubiquitous Internet access, consumer behavior, social media and more, are presenting enterprises with an opportunity to redefine and transform how work gets done. Avanade’s vision for what we call Work Redesigned highlights how these consumer technologies in the enterprise are changing the way businesses work. Our latest global research shows that progressive companies [...]
It’s no surprise that smartphones and tablets help people be more successful and productive in their personal lives. But did you know that use of consumer devices in the workplace is helping businesses succeed on a number of levels? Our recent survey shows that as new consumer technologies such as mobile devices gained traction in the enterprise, [...]
There are some very exciting examples of organizations around the world harnessing the power of the four megatrends mentioned in my previous blog that discussed The Amplification Loop. One of my most inspiring projects in 2012 was working together with a very creative and innovative roads construction company in the Nordics to develop an approach [...]
If you’re like me, you probably are doing your job very differently than how you did it even a few years ago. For many companies, the days of dedicated offices and 9-5 schedules (9-5 sounds antiquated, doesn’t it?) are relics of the past. The truth is the nature of work and how business gets done [...]
