The CIO’s role has always been to monitor technology industry developments and figure out when and how to take new ideas and solutions on board. But more recently it seems as if a whole range of trends have reached inflection points over a very short space of time – not least in areas such as cloud, DevOps and AI/ML.
Views on leadership, communication and engagement IT teams have been under a lot of pressure over the past two years, and not just from the need to implement rapid technology change in response to...
The last two years have seen unprecedented operational changes within organisations. The way we worked and where we worked changed overnight. This forced many organisations to make reactive decisions without the usual amount of...
An emerging strategic imperative for IT leaders Facing up to the risk of runaway cloud complexity The use of public cloud services is now well accepted in the enterprise mainstream, to the point where...
The public cloud is now well-proven for a broad spectrum of business applications. First it was adopted for less critical uses, such as video-conferencing or file-sharing, sales tools or simply hosted email. Then came...
by Freeform Dynamics · Published 14th October 2020 · Last modified 9th February 2021
A changing world demands simplification and an urgent focus on security Why did some organisations respond better than others to the lockdown-driven challenge of getting people working from home? According to findings from our...
by Freeform Dynamics · Published 28th September 2020 · Last modified 16th June 2022
Modern infrastructure options are now integral to service delivery The IT systems landscape is changing. As digital transformation moves onwards, the technology infrastructure needed to provide the necessary applications, along with facilities such as...
by Freeform Dynamics · Published 23rd September 2020 · Last modified 24th November 2020
Addressing immediate pandemic-related needs while laying foundations for the future The current global pandemic has created an imperative to move more employees to a remote working model. Once the crisis is over, however, it’s extremely...