Lessons from Microsoft Inspire 2017
This week Microsoft held their annual partner event –Inspire—in Washington D.C. Year in year out, Microsoft uses the partner event to launch new products and services, as well as demonstrate how and why partners can grow their business with Mi...
How Business Capability Modeling Ensures Strategy Execution
Gartner's "Survey Analysis: A Business Transformation Leadership Crisis Jeopardizes Business Outcomes" revealed a number of jaw-dropping stats:
Over 2/3 of business leaders are unclear what the business strategies are and what assumptions they ar...
So you aren't prepared for the GDPR: what to do next
Does your organization:
Process the personal data of EU citizens?
Have a physical presence in Europe?
Have a web presence that provides goods/services to EU citizens?
If you answered yes to any of these, then you need to consider whether the G...
Save the Date: Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2017
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo will be held November 5-9, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. With a robust agenda of the hottest topics in IT and business, industry defining mastermind keynotes, hundreds of solution providers and the opportunity to network with m...
Empowering an efficient, service-oriented government
When it became clear in 2014 that the Dutch Federal Government had no control over its IT projects and was wasting valuable tax money, Mavim created the Application Portfolio Management (APM) solution to give them the necessary insight to regain c...
Microsoft: Making Platform Decisions in a Dynamic World
As a continuation of our thought-leader series, Mavim sat down with the Managing Director of Microsoft Netherlands to discuss the issues facing CIOs and to learn from a CEO what is so difficult about digital transformation.On the challenges of CIO...
Spreading the Innovation Virus
As companies around the world are rethinking what it means to be customer-centric in a rapidly shifting digital landscape, Nancy Rademaker and the thought leaders at Nexxworks are taking the lead in spreading “the innovation virus.” Here at Ma...
The Blockchain Revolution
Interest in blockchain has skyrocketed over the past year, and rightly so. Gartner predicts that by 2022, a blockchain-based business will be worth $10 Billion. McKinsey prognotiscates that blockchain will generate between $80 and $110 billion in...
How a Business Operating System Leads to Digital Transformation Success
For many organizations, digital business holds the key to future growth; however, the challenges associated with the full integration of digital business can be overwhelming and costly. To avoid becoming a digital business in name only, CIOs need ...
Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017
As VP and Gartner Fellow David Cearley reports, the world is becoming an intelligent, digital mesh of things and services. Technology is increasingly embedded in the physical world, which enables us (through the power of digital) to blur the lines...
Three Misconceptions about Organizational Change
ERP implementations are notorious for running over time, budget and scope, and the latest data from Panaroma Consulting Group’s 2016 Report supports that idea. According to Panorama’s data, the causes for project delay are numerous and varied...
Beyond the Buzzword: Digital Transformation and the real impact on your organization
In the growing hype that surrounds all things digital, the idea of a “digital transformation” has taken on a life of its own. What jumps to mind are snapshots of an organization reaching out via new, digital channels to engage customers. In th...
Cybersecurity: When what you don't know can hurt you
For the vast majority of global organizations, experiencing a cybersecurity breach is not a matter of if, but when. You don’t have to look far to find terrifying stats about unpreparedness; but in case you haven’t heard, judge for yourself:
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The Disruption of Kodak and the Paradox of Urgency in Business
To an entire generation, a “Kodak moment” was a chance to savor one’s blessings and preserve those memories for posterity. Today, the name Kodak still gives pause to that same generation, but for a very different reason. The ghost of Eastman...
Gartner Market Research: A Death Knell for Business Consultancy?
The Gartner BTPM Summit 2016 heralded the shift that is taking over the business world: transformation. Countless studies have illustrated the alarmingly high failure rates of major transformation projects (upwards of 70%) and research organizatio...
