By Christian Reilly Has digital transformation unleashed a Pandora’s box of data and tools? Anticipating cloud work’s most common side effects, a new executive brief from MIT Technology Review Insights in association with Citrix, says that the proliferation of apps and cloud services at companies today is providing knowledge workers with great new capabilities, but increasing technology complexity. As […]

Start with big data, build an analytics strategy, then produce actionable business intelligence (BI) and insights. Though it may take a team of data analysts and scientists to assemble the pieces, many predict employees will need an understanding of and access to these analytics. What’s more, it will take data-savvy workers to distribute these insights […]

Today’s technology decision makers must take a leadership role in defining the flexible work environment that fits their organization’s goals.  Yes, millennials demand workplace flexibility. And as their numbers grow to 75% of the global workforce by 2025, the need to build more flexible and integrated workspaces increases. But baby boomers and Gen-X workers are […]

The gig economy is alive and well. In fact, 30% of the U.S. workforce is freelance – a figure that’s expected to reach 40% by 2020. For organizations, these temporary workers present a fair share of IT challenges. First, IT teams must get them up to speed without experiencing productivity lapses or business continuity blips. […]

Productivity is waning, which makes it the perfect time for IT leaders to seize the moment and flip the script. A whopping 85% of workers are disengaged, causing approximately $7 trillion in productivity loss, according to Gallup’s most recent “State of the Global Workplace” report. “I think there’s disengagement because deficient technology is getting in […]