Sustainability Investments to Increase as ESG Reporting Receives Growing Levels of Enterprise Attention. By 2025, the carbon emissions of hyperscale cloud services will be a top three criterion in cloud purchase decisions, according to Gartner, Inc. As environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities and reporting received growing levels of enterprise…
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Three important ways AI can benefit customer service operations
Use AI to offer insights or predictions, improve user experiences, and optimize business process automation. Insights, user experience and process improvement are three ways artificial intelligence (AI) can benefit customer service organizations, according to Gartner, Inc. Service and support leaders should understand these three benefits to thoroughly develop and track the right…
Read MoreGartner forecasts worldwide IT spending to grow 5.1 per cent in 2022
2022 is the year that the future returns for the CIO. Worldwide IT spending is projected to total US$4.5 trillion in 2022, an increase of 5.1 per cent from 2021, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. Despite the potential impacts of the Omicron variant, economic recovery with high…
Read MoreGovernments without a total experience strategy will fail to transform services
Need to focus on scaling digital initiatives through hyperautomation, decision intelligence, etc. By 2023, at least 85% of governments without a total experience (TX) strategy will fail to successfully transform government services, according to Gartner, Inc. Governments that continue to focus on citizen and employee experience initiatives separately will miss…
Read MoreLarge enterprises will use digital currencies by 2024
CFOs must be aware of use cases, risks as digital currencies change every aspect of business. Twenty percent of large organizations will use digital currencies for payments, stored value or collateral by 2024, according to Gartner, Inc. The prediction has important implications for CFOs as they assess use cases and…
Read MoreAustralian employees less willing to go ‘above and beyond’ at work
Only 12% of Australian IT workers showed high intent to stay. The impact of extended COVID-19 lockdowns in major Australian cities took its toll on workers in 3Q21 as discretionary effort levels – or willingness to go above and beyond at work – fell to new lows, according to Gartner,…
Read MoreTop trends impacting infrastructure and operations for 2022
Analysts explore top industry trends. I&O leaders need to drive change, not simply absorb it. They are expected to deliver more adaptable and resilient service from anywhere — and for an increasingly distributed workforce. This is pressuring I&O to take actions that will tie their decisions more closely to business…
Read MoreCritical infrastructure organisations will experience a security breach by 2025
Security breach will result in the halting of an operations. Critical infrastructure security has become a primary concern for governments around the world, with the U.S., U.K. EU, Canada and Australia each identifying sectors deemed ‘critical infrastructure’, for example, communications, transport, energy, water, healthcare and public facilities. In some countries, critical infrastructure is state-owned, while in others, like the…
Read MoreIT spending in India to reach US$100B in 2022
An increase of 7% from 2021. IT spending in India is forecast to total $101.8 billion in 2022, an increase of 7% from 2021, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. “The digital transformation trajectory that began as a pandemic response is here to stay for the next few…
Read MoreIndian hybrid workers consider themselves more productive when working remotely
Digital worker experience in the spotlight. On the 24th of November DBS Singapore suffered an outage, which the bank identified as a problem with our access control servers and this is why many of you have been unable to log in. Tse Koon, DBS Singapore Country Head said that the…
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