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Across most enterprises — even the very small — information technology is changing how business is done. Ignoring or rejecting these technologies merely puts your organization behind the competitive eight-ball.

But knowing which technologies to pay attention to — and when — depends on such factors as the economic sector in which your business operates, financial constraints, your appetite for risk, your thirst for opportunity, and a whole lot more. Add up all these factors and the resulting mix is entirely unique. Now you have to figure out the impact those large waves of technological change will have.

More than ever, the key to a company’s success centers on its effective use of information technology, so choosing the right providers is essential for today’s technology decision maker. Yet the complexities of today’s technologies, the unending hype, and the ever-changing mix of vendors make it tough to navigate your way to the right partner. So where to begin? As readers of this blog know, I encourage clients to first examine their needs and goals. This is something you should

There’s no question that information technology is changing the way everybody does business. I see this up-close daily as we help customers streamline IT operations as well as create and deploy innovative new digital capabilities.

What I’ve noticed of late is the buzz about customized development of software and platforms. This is certainly understandable: more than 70% of companies complain they can’t find the perfect system .

In my last post, I noted some recent research about the shortage of skilled IT talent and the challenges this poses to any organization trying to keep its information technology capabilities competitive.

Topping the list of skills companies struggle to acquire these days are those related to ‘big data’ — such as data scientist, data specialist and data architect — as well as information security and Java-related skills.

Is your business one of the 43% with understaffed IT operations?

Recruiting IT talent has become a significant issue for most businesses; in many organizations, more than 33% of HR spending is allocated to IT staffing solutions, i.e., hiring and retaining IT talent.

Keeping IT talent has become a struggle, too; an annual turnover of 25% of a company’s IT staff is common — and surprisingly so, given that, on average, IT staffers report being approached by recruiters six times a month.

If you work in healthcare IT, you’re probably feeling under siege from all sides — because the role of IT in healthcare is changing. Fast.

Given the current cost of healthcare in the US, it’s no surprise that IT would play a key part in what’s become a national priority: Create higher value at lower cost.
But that only intensifies the pressure …
Pressure comes from on high, in the form of new CMS rules (CMS, for the uninitiated, runs Medicare/Medicaid and pays some 40% of the nation’s healthcare bills).