Cool vendors are changing business

The converging and mutually reinforcing social, cultural and technological factors in the nexus of forces (cloud, mobility, social and information) are driving a radical power shift away from the culture of the enterprise and toward that of the consumer.  “Cool...

How to achieve supply chain success

Defining the role of supply chain, span of control and metrics maturity are the key enablers to demand-driven retail success, according to a recent survey by Gartner.  The 2012 demand-driven survey was conducted from September through November 2012 across six retail...

Learn to fail for success

Accepting higher project failure rates can help organisations become more efficient more quickly, according to Gartner. Gartner says project and portfolio management (PPM) leaders who take a “fail-forward-fast” approach that accepts project failure rates...

Hybrid apps come to the fore

Gartner says that hybrid apps, which offer a balance between HTML5-based Web apps and native apps, will be used in more than 50% of mobile apps by 2016.  While native application development offers the ultimate user experience and performance for mobile applications,...
IT spending set to pick up

IT spending set to pick up

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3,8-trillion in 2013, a 4,1% increase from 2012 spending of $3,6-trillion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. Currency effects are less pronounced this quarter with growth in constant dollars forecast at 4% for...