Ask any tech pundit, and you’ll doubtless hear without hesitation that the cloud should be your top IT priority. Wherever you may be with your deployment strategy right now, everyone’s pretty sure that we’ll soon be using the cloud to run all our IT. But where does that leave you and your ERP system today? […]

Technology: First we held it, then we wore it. And now? We don’t even have to touch it. Voice-activated technology is here, and it’s influencing every facet of our lives. Gone are the days of wishing that life came with a virtual assistant. Siri, Google Home, and Cortana are here. And, outshining its voice-activated competitors, […]

What if you had a colleague who would take care of all the dull, routine tasks without complaining? A colleague who lets you do interesting and challenging tasks, helps you solve them, then happily lets you take all the credit. A colleague who stays after office hours doing prep work for you so that you […]

The cartoon of business-to-business (B2B) buyers depicts gray-haired executives and purchasing agents in meetings, on the phone and lunching with their vendors. Conversations focus mainly on negotiating price and payment terms. But along with fax machines and long golf games, these features of B2B life have all but disappeared due to the astonishing change in […]

Digital transformation. At its highest level, it means using digital technologies to create game-changing business innovations that disrupt existing industries or create whole new ones. That’s a pretty simple definition, but it quickly gets very difficult to drive that down to specifics. People point to Spotify or Uber, where technology upended a market. With Spotify […]

With cloud computing now considered mainstream, more and more organizations are embracing cloud ERP (public and private) to drive enterprise-wide innovation to improve customer relationships while delivering operational efficiencies. This trend is set to continue, with analysts predicting that cloud ERP adoption globally will continue to accelerate in all markets for the foreseeable future. Cloud’s ascendancy in […]

During meetings with our partners in Singapore recently, the head of one practice reminded me that the world of agriculture and emerging technologies – such as the Internet of Things, machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, drone imagery, and geo-information systems – are made for each other. He argued that with vast heactares of land, lake, or sea under […]

Depending on who’s listening, the current discussion involving the growing role of Artificial Intelligence in business inspires a range of dramatically divergent emotions. There’s often fear, because of what some believe to be AI’s vaguely sci-fi vibe and dystopian possibilities. Among business people, there is also confusion, on account of the inability of most laypeople […]

This year’s winter Olympics have featured the performance of two female athletes who ended up with two very different outcomes. The British speed skater Elise Christie experienced a bad crash in one of the final races, risking not to be able to compete for the rest of the Games, while the Czech snowboarder Ester Ledecka […]

I finally experienced my first tandem skydive, after overcoming procrastination based on fear of the unknown and of failure. Indeed, the experience was out of this world. What made it life-changing for me was not just the freefall and the flying, but the entire process—from wanting to sky-dive, making up my mind, going through a […]