How to Make Data More Manageable—and Trustworthy
“The data is wrong. … We can’t format it with our existing tools. … There’s so much of it—coming from everywhere! We can’t keep up with it all!” Do these complaints sound familiar? If so, you and your organization are in good company. In its recent report, titled “2019 Global Data Management Research,” Experian reveals that virtually all businesses...
Seven of the Coolest–and Best-Paying–Jobs in Emerging Tech
In the Digital Age, we often contemplate which professions today won’t exist five or 10 years from now. But, fortunately, innovation is creating new ones to replace them, with many of these positions commanding salaries well into six-figure territory. Some, in fact, average in excess of $200,000 in annual compensation.Even better, a great deal of jobs in emerging tech...
Organizations Seeing Less Resistance–and Greater Trust–for AI Initiatives
The C-suite is giving less pushback. Customers are more willing to disclose their personal data to improve the customer experience (CX). And modern professionals aren’t quite as jittery these days about artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled machines taking their jobs.At least those are the impressions conveyed in a new report from Genpact, titled “AI 360: Insights from the Next Frontier of...
The Next 7 Steps in Convergence of Technology, Business—and Humanity
Things are looking good for tech workers: The global IT industry will grow in value by at least 4 percent to $5 trillion—with an upside of 6.4 percent—over the next year. Emerging tech alone is expected to more than double over the next several years, accounting for a $1.4 trillion market by 2022. In 2018, there were 250,000 IT...
Six Trends for 2019 That Will Redefine Enterprise Tech
Big data/analytics, the cloud and even the Internet of Things (IoT), virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) have either already emerged as part of the organizational mainstream, or appear to be headed in that direction. Given this, it’s hardly hyperbolic to say that, if companies aren’t at least considering these technologies yet, they risk fading into irrelevance...
Forecast 2019: IT Budgets Will Grow in Support of Enterprise Culture
In the current age of digital transformation, the walls between tech and other departments continue to crumble. Indeed, we may be swiftly heading to an end game in which there is no longer a designated place for “IT” and another for “business.” There will only be the enterprise, and everyone who is a part of it will have a...