emerging leaders

Welcome to IT as a Service For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition. IT as a Service is the emerging technique that gives technology leaders the flexibility of providing the right set of services to the business. The world of IT is changing dramatically. Businesses are increasingly discovering that IT services are becoming the foundation for the customer experience. IT as a Service isn’t simply a new delivery model for applications. Instead, IT as a Service is a new approach to providing an array of modular services that are targeted to solve changing business problems. While services can be as straightforward as compute or storage in the cloud, they can also be used to complex solutions. Other services may include microservices or integration services that enable a business to quickly create new solutions to help service customers in a more creative and efficient manner.

Emerging storage hardware and software enable I&O leaders to lower acquisition costs per terabyte and improve manageability. In additon to focusing on agility, automation and cost reductions, IT leaders should address the cultural changes and skill set shortages caused by digital business projects.

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment model called the IDC MarketScape. It's a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the characteristics that assess vendors' current and future success in the AFA market segment and provide a measure of the vendors' ascendancy to become a Leader or maintain a leadership position. IDC MarketScape assessments are particularly helpful in emerging markets that are often fragmented, have several players, and lack clear leaders.

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment model called the IDC MarketScape. It's a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the characteristics that assess vendors' current and future success in the AFA market segment and provide a measure of the vendors' ascendancy to become a Leader or maintain a leadership position. IDC MarketScape assessments are particularly helpful in emerging markets that are often fragmented, have several players, and lack clear leaders.

The data quality tools market continues to show strong revenue growth, driven by cost, process optimization and digital business initiatives. Applying data quality tools to existing and emerging business scenarios will enable data and analytics leaders to deliver greater business value.

If you want to become a true leader, one that will help your organization succeed, you need to understand that leadership is a decision. So make it! Download this ebook to learn the ins and outs of being a leader.

After featuring the Global Giants in our first edition of Recurring Revenue Innovators, we now turn our attention to the Emerging Leaders—businesses with terrific potential to break out into commercial success with a new revenue model. From subscriptions to usage to tiered and freemium models, these companies are offering products and services on terms that are irresistibleto their customers.

To keep pace with new business demands, rising customer expectations, and emerging technologies, IT leaders are realizing an important opportunity: infrastructure outsourcing. These services, including colocation, hosting, and cloud computing, give IT organizations the flexibility and agility to better serve the needs of the business.

Manufacturing is on the move. Leading companies are relocating near supply and demand, as well as the best talent. They’re digitizing operations to automate critical processes and enable crowdsharing. Manufacturers are building innovation hubs to accelerate R&D. They’re wooing – and retaining – talent with continuous knowledge sharing and professional development opportunities. And they’re using an array of technologies to capture and leverage the insights and skills of their best thinkers: industry visionaries, emerging technology experts, and process reengineers. Manufacturers are doing this quietly and consistently. To take aim at the target of market leadership, it pays to draw closer – and then closer still. Are you ready?

Build or buy? When manufacturers have sought new leaders, they have typically done both: grooming talent in-house and paying market rates for the best thinkers and managers. With the growing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) shortage, companies will be harder-pressed to buy – and keep – top technical talent. Emerging and established leaders will command premium prices and field continual offers, increasing the likelihood they’ll make frequent job changes, taking their industry and institutional knowledge with them. As a consequence, manufacturers will need to build their talent pipeline, empower knowledge workers with the tools and intelligence they need to succeed, and provide professional development opportunities that exceed what competitors offer. This will be a marathon, not a sprint. What’s key to making the race for talent successful: virtual training environments that accelerate learning and innovation.

Read this report to learn how measurement takes a front seat in communicating the importance and pertinence of training to core business objectives.

This paper highlights the practices and process required to develop leaders internally by building their capabilities, as well as the best practices required to acquire leadership talent from external hires.

In today’s highly competitive business environment, many organizations are expanding through mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Unfortunately, success comes at a cost. Growth via M&A activity often involves absorbing disparate ERP applications, which, over time, can create significant inefficiencies — particularly in the accounts payable (AP) department. The good news is, AP automation is emerging as an end-to-end solution that forward-thinking organizations can use to eliminate AP-related silos and maximize their market potential. Businesses with a complex ERP environment have several choices when it comes to AP automation solutions. This white paper is intended to assist AP and finance leaders, along with ERP system administrators, in evaluating their options, simplifying the decision-making process, and getting the absolute most out of their AP automation investment.

Today’s IT organizations face huge challenges such as the ever-increasing number of applications, virtualization, the cloud, and the rising value of information stored in data centers. The combined effect of these factors is placing pressure on IT infrastructures to increase performance and operate more efficiently while reducing costs. An emerging technology, flash storage technology, is helping business and technology leaders address these issues by making their IT infrastructures more operationally efficient. Learn more in this white paper from Logicalis.

This paper highlights the practices and process required to develop leaders internally by building their capabilities, as well as the best practices required to acquire leadership talent from external hires by buying that capacity. This "build versus buy" question challenges organizations to think and act holistically across multiple talent management functions.

Seeking to leverage the power of emerging technologies, finance and IT leaders at LUSH Cosmetics used advanced Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software from Prophix to successfully predict customer purchasing patterns during a recent holiday season.