Brazil, Russia, India and China are losing some of their attractiveness, and multinational companies have started to look for the next global growth hot spots, a global Ernst & Young survey suggests. Find out how selecting new markets has changed.
Tech CFOs expect M&A activity to pick up this year, fueled by deals in the cloud-computing sector, a BDO survey says. Deals are expected to be driven in large part by access to technology assets and intellectual property.
Threats that keep top experts and high-level leaders up at night are the risks that are beyond any one company or even one nation to handle. A report from the 2013 World Economic Forum lists the most likely ones with the biggest damage potential.
A majority of US chief information officers say their companies aren’t harvesting information on customers, and even those that are doing so have not necessarily turned big data into business insight. A Robert Half survey of 1,400 CIOs says that talent constraints limited companies’ ability to access and analyse business data.
Emerging, relentless cybersecurity threats pose a significant danger to organizations that are unprepared to detect and deter them, according to a new global survey. Known as advanced persistent threats, these attacks are not easily deterred by traditional controls.
The race to dominate the market for smartphone operating systems became even more of a two-vendor competition in the fourth quarter of 2012, as Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS combined to control more than 90% of the market, leaving Microsoft’s Windows and BlackBerry hoping that their new smartphone releases can get them back on the lead lap.
Higher-than-expected costs and significant challenges in implementation have marked the adoption of cloud technologies in 16 major global markets, according to a survey of more than 650 business and IT leaders from KPMG.
Ernst & Young research identified four areas in which high-performing companies did a better job handling the challenges of the harsh global economic conditions. Find out what lessons can be learned from high performers worldwide.
The global IT governance group ISACA is drawing attention to three trends it says will “pose major challenges to businesses” in 2013. Cybersecurity threats are growing more sophisticated; interest in private or hybrid clouds, rather than public clouds, is expected to increase; and employees and consumers are growing more concerned about data privacy.
Surging sales of smartphones and tablets running on the Android operating system has pushed Google to a majority position among OS providers for smart connected devices—a category that includes PCs as well as smartphones and tablets. Microsoft has lost ground as mobile has gained in importance, while Apple is No. 1 in the dollar value of smart devices shipped.
Technology considerations are significantly expanded in the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission’s updated internal control framework proposal. When issued in the first quarter of 2013, the framework will include significant guidance on how to manage risk while capitalizing on the benefits of technology in the era of big data.
Business productivity may be suffering as employees eager to capitalize on online bargains shop on their office computers. Technology can help battle this productivity loss, but companies may have to be prepared for small losses of efficiency as a result of online holiday shopping.
The “staggering” acceleration of change and complexity in technology and cyberthreats has organizations failing to keep pace in the information security race, Ernst & Young reports in its annual Global Information Security Survey. What can organizations do to bring their information security efforts up to speed? E&Y recommends a four-step approach.
Finding and retaining the right talent hinges on five challenges companies must address, according to a new Ernst & Young report. Find out what high-performing companies are doing right and what they could do better.
Worldwide sales of smartphones and tablets will soar past the 1 billion-unit threshold in 2013, while the Android, Apple iOS, and Windows 8 operating systems will spark a multiyear surge in mobile device purchases by businesses, the information technology research and consulting company Gartner forecast Tuesday.
Emerging markets have great potential for rapid growth, but corruption can run rampant. Existing processes exist to identify and mitigate corruption risks, but fewer than 40% of companies doing business in countries most prone to corruption use them well in mergers and acquisitions, with third-party agents or when establishing new operations, research shows.
With the frequency and costs of cyber-attacks on the rise, organisations need to update and upgrade their IT security infrastructure and policies. What do movies and music have to do with that process? The article explores how costly free downloads can be.
Companies are overhauling their business strategies to adjust to the rise of emerging markets, new research shows. But demographic trends will add new challenges over the next five to ten years, specifically in talent management.
