Tag: agility

Every organisation and industry is transforming. All are striving to move faster, become smarter with data and innovate more with technology. You’ve heard it everywhere, especially during the last few years: digital transformation is a must-have.

Managing a cloud estate can be a culture shock. The traditional operating mode centred around buying, running and decommissioning physical hardware over multi-year cycles is replaced by a need to continuously manage and optimise capacity, consumption, cost, performance, and business innovation.

Today’s workforce has come to expect streamlined processes, flexibility, and digital connectivity from wherever they may work (whether in the office or remotely) in order to facilitate productivity. Throughout the pandemic, it was this ability to work remotely that broke social distancing boundaries and enabled new levels of productivity to be achieved, despite teams becoming more globally distributed.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have always been compelled to find and leverage every opportunity to remain competitive and stay ahead of the curve. Amidst all of the disruption of the past two years, this need has become a business imperative.

The Upside of Being Myself and Other Leadership Stories is a unique opportunity to catch a breath, step back, and take a long, hard, reflective look at who you are as a leader and where your odyssey will take you. 

Don’t ditch the digital or the innovation, just refine how security fits into the equation. The total number of internet users is expected to reach 5.3 billion by 2023 and the total number of devices and connections per person is anticipated to reach 3.6 globally by the same year, according to Statista.

The saying goes, 'the more advanced technology gets, the quicker it becomes more advanced'. IT infrastructure is changing rapidly. Complexity is on the rise. Digital talent is scarce. Infrastructure is becoming code, and the cloud is evolving into a continuum of technologies.

If you think about it, most large corporations grew their business by adapting to change systematically – tweaking their offering while maintaining their core business – thus optimising what they already had. But now, there is a lot more to consider as companies evolve. They must take on new ways of growing without losing their core focus.

For millions around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused immense workplace disruption and compelled many companies to reassess how they do business. By this time last year, about 50% of the South African workforce was working from home, while globally, this number was up to 76%.

In today’s fast moving, quick changing, increasingly competitive business environment, good enough is no longer good enough. Manufacturers must achieve enterprise-wide visibility, total collaborate, agility and flexibility to respond to a changing market and grow.