Supply-chain executives believe digitally enabled customers in the future will be willing to pay for value-added services rather than demanding the lowest prices, according to a recent survey. That may force supply chains to become more agile as complexity is pushed upstream.
The reign of Apple’s App Store as the leader in mobile applications offered and downloaded is facing a challenge from Google Play, the official store for Android apps. Google revealed September 26th that it has hit a major milestone for mobile apps downloaded and has moved within striking range of Apple in the number of apps available in their app stores.
The number and complexity of cyber-attacks, especially those targeting mobile devices, grew at an alarming pace in the second quarter, security technology company McAfee Labs said in its latest Threats Report.
Cybercriminals aren’t fooled by your simple passwords. They have found ways to crack the code on company data through public-domain searches, KPMG research shows. One cybersecurity expert offers four tips on keeping up your defences.
While companies are waiting for the global economic climate to stabilise, they have time to look around for rapid-growth markets that might offer similar or better opportunities than China once their appetite for mergers and acquisitions returns. Ernst & Young’s M&A Maturity Index highlights some unexpected candidates.
Companies must do a better job of evaluating and updating their cybersecurity policies as data breaches grow in number and sophistication, PwC says in a new report. To shore up their defences against cybercriminals, companies should institute three lines of defence.
Just a few years ago, social media barely registered among the enterprise risks that concerned executives. But a recent survey shows that social media is emerging as one of the top risks to companies.
More than 60% of US small businesses do not have a formal emergency-response plan and fail to back up their financial data off-site, leaving them vulnerable to catastrophic data loss in the event of a natural disaster.
Management should begin control-related activities before an organisation contracts with a cloud-computing service provider (CSP), according to guidance provided in a recently released thought paper.
A substantial majority of employers are willing to allow workers to show up late at the office because bosses understand that employees are working away from their desks with the help of mobile technology, a recent survey shows.
Business leaders value social media in building workplace culture far more than their employees do, new research shows. Disconnects between executives and workers on the importance of financial performance and compensation—and the communication of core values—also were evident.
Business and IT providers say centralising functions in shared service centres is the most popular outsourcing approach. They also see an increase in the use of cloud computing.
Maximising operational efficiency alone is not enough to keep up with quickly changing global business trends. Successful companies also managed to transform their workforces. Those companies have eight traits in common, PwC and HfS Research found.
Beijing is making every effort to boost the country’s renewable energy production, but by 2020 China is expected to emit 43% more carbon dioxide from burning coal than in 2010, a special report of the Economist Intelligence Unit projects.
AÂ rash of recent hacking incidents at high-profile organizations such as Sony Corp. contributed to a big jump in the percentage of large, publicly traded U.S. technology companies citing potential data breaches as a major risk to their businesses, a new BDO report says.
Most U.S. enterprises with 1,000 or more employees have bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies allowing employees to use their own smartphones and other mobile devices to access corporate computer networks, new research indicates. What should your company be doing to prepare for BYOD?
George Colony sees a technology future in which the web fades in prominence to something akin to AM radio, society maxes out on social media, younger consumers’ habits radically depart from those of even the closest generation, and mobile engagement with customers could mean life or death for business models.
Big-data analytics is the hot topic of 2012, with many predicting that the future success of organisations – big or small, public or private – will depend on their ability to capture, analyse and gain insights from it.
Technology and globalisation have changed the nature of work in advanced economies, and the result is that labour markets there are not likely to return to pre-recession levels of employment in the years to come.
Employers continue to move business services jobs from the US and Europe to low-cost countries, but research suggests that the number of IT, finance, human relations and procurement jobs that can be offshored is dwindling.
