Burnout and voluntary attrition are outcomes of poor organizational culture By 2025, nearly half of cybersecurity leaders will change jobs, 25 per cent for different roles entirely due to multiple work-related stressors, according to Gartner, Inc. “Cybersecurity professionals are facing unsustainable levels of stress,” said Deepti Gopal, Director Analyst, Gartner. “CISOs are on…
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Cloud will surpass on-premises infrastructure
Organizations need new digital capabilities IDC predicts by 2025, the cloud will surpass on-premises infrastructure as the primary location where operational data is stored, managed, and analysed for 65 per cent of A2000 organizations. IDC’s Future of Operations framework describes how organizations can improve their decision-making processes and efficacy by…
Read More20 million robot installations by 2030
The rapid rise of robot installs is just one of the many changes on the horizon For the past three years, business leaders and organizations have faced an unyielding procession of challenges. As we usher in 2023, many of those challenges persist, and new ones are emerging. Yet, as unwavering…
Read MoreModica breaches SMS scam reduction rules
This is a widely used trick used by scammers to gain consumer trust SMS-focused telco Modica has become the first company breached under new anti-SMS scam rules registered by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) in mid-2022. An ACMA investigation found Modica allowed customers to send SMS using text-based sender IDs…
Read MoreCFO’s role changes due to fintech
Autonomous finance is a target operating model that CFOs are seeking to deliver CFOs have ambitious plans to reach a state of autonomous finance within the next three to six years that will require a significant reshaping of finance team structures to achieve, according to Gartner, Inc. “Most finance leaders, including many…
Read MoreIndia focusing on expanding 5G
The telecom sector has the potential and the ability to revolutionise the Indian economy Following the news that India has allocated $US12 billion for the Department of Telecom in its Union Budget for the Financial Year 2023-24. Pradeepthi Kantipudi, Telecom Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers her view:…
Read MoreConstrained budgets to impact legal departments
Legal departments may not be facing cost cutting at the moment Corporate legal departments will feel the impact of three major trends in 2023, according to Gartner, Inc. The trends range from ongoing disruption to flat budgets, to information-related regulation. “At the broadest level, legal resources will remain flat due…
Read MoreIssues shaping IT decisions
This partly reflects the growing importance of regulation Data sovereignty and compliance are now an important factor in shaping IT selection and design decisions. Almost half the respondents (48 per cent) to IDC’s Cloud Pulse 2Q22 survey (n=1350) say that data sovereignty and industry compliance have factored highly in discussions…
Read MoreWEF establishes a cyber resilience in oil and gas initiative
At Davos 2023, 20 global CEOs committed to working together to improve cyber resilience across the ecosystem. The impact. The oil and gas industry uses a range of complex systems and interconnected technologies to extract, transport and refine oil and gas products. While these technologies are necessary to support the delivery…
Read MoreBudget-conscious IT organizations
Shift from run to change by creating better predictability Are you one of those IT leaders who is facing the challenge of making change happen at their organization with only a limited budget? Here are IDC’s suggestions for considerably improving the software development lifecycle with a small spend. These small investments…
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