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Digital Business: Is Your Business a Digital Leader, or a Dreamer or a Dabbler?

By Dick Weisinger

IT, business and marketing leaders virtually unanimously say that digital business has great benefits, according to a survey by Gartner.  But taking the leap from a ‘planner’ to a ‘doer’ is hard. Business leaders say that the two biggest challenges…

Businesses and Data: Metric Developed by PwC Ranks Businesses on Using Data for Competitive Advantage

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are increasingly acquiring more data than ever before, but despite intentions to adopt big data and analytics, very few businesses ever get any benefit from the data that they store.  Just 4 percent of businesses are actually successful in…

Robotic Process Automation (RPA): Automation to Take on Knowledge Worker Tasks

By Dick Weisinger

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the elimination of repetitive and menial tasks by software and hardware automation.  The goal is to free up workers from mundane activities to do tasks that require decision making and innovation.  RPA is expected to…

Internet of Things: Software Leading Hardware in IoT Innovation

By Dick Weisinger

Internet of Things (IoT) is predicted to break the $7-trillion mark over next five years.  50 billion new IoT connected devices are expected to go online over the next five years. According to a new IDC survey, three-quarters of business…

Internet of Things Security: Most Early-entry IoT Devices have Weak Security at Best

By Dick Weisinger

The IoT security market is expected to grow from $6.89 billion to $28.90 billion by 2020, according to Markets and Markets.  Gartner, Inc. estimates 4.9 billion “Things” will be used this year and that should reach 25 billion by 2020.…