Leverage the Millennial Mentality
Businesses can reshape their future by adapting the workplace to attract and retain workers from the millennial generation.

Six Tech Trends Driving Competitive Advantage
Companies need to create a digital agenda to capitalize on these six technology trends.

Business Transformation for Manufacturers
The time is ripe for manufacturers to launch business transformation initiatives, enabled by enterprise application optimization, in order to optimize their available cash, streamline the IT infrastructure, create operational efficiencies and add new revenue streams.

The Explosive Growth in Digital Coupons
With soaring use of digital coupons, retailers need to adopt an automated coupon redemption capability, with coupon aggregation, validation, redemption and analytics functionalities.

The Next-Generation CIO
CIOs leading their companies toward virtual and collaborative work environments report improved talent retention, productivity and innovation.

A Brave New World of Connected Media
Media and entertainment companies are in for big changes as content consumption merges with social networking, and the creation of content separates from its distribution.

Finance and Accounting as a Service for Manufacturers
Finance and accounting can be attractive areas for manufacturers to begin experiencing the benefits of business process as a service (BPaaS).

The Case for More Functional, Utility-Like Trade Management Systems
To deliver higher returns, lower costs, and greater transparency, market participants are turning to new trade management systems, some of them in the cloud.

Medication Compliance for Patients: A Linchpin to Wellness
As the healthcare system faces a perfect storm of issues, an emphasis on patient medication compliance could greatly improve outcomes and reduce spending

The UK's CRC Energy Efficiency Regulation: Risks and Opportunities
Organisations with systematic plans to lower greenhouse gases can profit from the U.K's CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme.

Agile Scrum Sprint Length: What's Right for You?
Two weeks is the standard, but a different length might be better for your team or project. This set of variables will help you choose.

Borrower Enablement: A Win-Win for Lenders and Borrowers
Empowering mortgage customers with more and better information helps them make better decisions, and saves money for lenders.

Proactive Product Sourcing Strategies for Retailers
Smart retailers use sophisticated IT capabilities to balance selling-season length, fashion orientation, manufacturing flexibility, and onshore/offshore tradeoffs in choosing sourcing techniques.

Competitive Advantage through Advanced Analytics
Increasingly sophisticated techniques have made analytics pivotal to business success in a tight economy, while a shortage of skilled analysts in the U.S. is driving a move towards offshoring this activity.

Stream Computing Redefines Smart Grid Architectural Thinking
As smart meters move to the mainstream for performance measurement across the power utilities industry, the next objective is to create new ways of handling large data sets for processes such as validation estimation and evaluation, demand response and load management.

Using Advanced Analytics to Inform and Transform U.S. Retail
By tapping a flood of new data, U.S. retailers can better target shoppers to increase sales and profitability

Cloud Brokers Help Software Vendors Move to SaaS
Cloud brokers can help traditional ISVs enter the SaaS market with services such as entitlements, analytics and security.

Role-Based Mobile Apps Transform Manufacturing
Role-based mobile applications can help manufacturing companies dramatically boost productivity and growth.

A Winning Strategy for Wealth Management Firms
New customers, technologies and regulations will test U.S. wealth management firms. The industry needs to make some fundamental changes to its business and operating models to achieve long-term competitive advantage.

How CFOs Can Help Align IT to the Business
CFOs are ideally placed to create a tight and lasting connection between business needs and IT efforts.

Dealing with Big Data
Finding business insights in a flood of “big data”requires organizations to change their processes, not just their technology.

The Virtual Clinical Organization
A virtual clinical organization (VCO) links biotech and pharmaceutical sponsors more closely with partners to create breakthrough products quickly and cost effectively.

U.S. Healthcare: Converting Vision to Reality
A combination of technologies and trends such as cloud computing, mobile access, virtualization, globalization, and the rise of millennials is driving a transformation in healthcare IT that promises improvements in access and cost savings.

Benchmarking Data Storage Operations
Learn how to accurately benchmark your data storage operations through a 360-degree review to cut costs while preventing unintended consequences in data loss or security.

Beyond Green: The Triple Play of Sustainability
With sustainability reporting increasingly prevalent, the CIO is in a prime position to help organizations broaden sustainability efforts to cover environmental, economic and social impacts.

Adopt Rolling Forecasts to Replace Annual Budgets
Rolling forecasts can help organizations react more effectively to increasing competition and a changing economic environment.

E-Commerce Trends in Industrial Manufacturing
Best practices from B2C e-commerce sites can help industrial manufacturers reduce costs and increase sales online.

Social Media Insight for Insurers
We identify strategic areas where social media will have maximum impact for the insurance industry.

Insurers Focus on Solvency II Compliance
Insurers should focus on data, documentation and reporting as they move towards compliance with the Solvency II Directive on capital adequacy and risk management.

Performance Management in the Logistics Industry
Improved performance management is critical for transportation and logistics players caught between rising costs and higher expectations from customers.

The Power of Crowd Testing
Cloud-enabled crowd testing fits into the full testing lifecycle when organizations blend traditional and crowd sourcing approaches.

Facilitating Loan Modification Using BPM
Business Process Management (BPM) systems can help loan servicers better manage the process of modifying loans and deal with the deluge of applications under the HAMP program.

Realizing the Future of Work Today
Globalization; virtual business processes; millennials and cloud technologies are reshaping the future of work. Here's a proven framework to help organizations prosper in this new environment.

Custody Business in the New Normal
Asset managers are outsourcing middle and back-office operations to custodian banks. Here's how custodians can make the most of this opportunity to move up the value chain.

Taking Testing to the Cloud
Testing is an especially good use of cloud computing. Here's a look at the benefits you can expect (beyond cost-savings) and the pitfalls you should watch out for.

The Yin & Yang of Smartphones
As the future of work takes hold, knowledge workers will be able to combine their professional and personal phones on one device, and remain fully compliant with corporate guidelines. Here's how.

Cloud Disaster Recovery: How to Plan
Don't assume your infrastructure is automatically disaster proof and redundant because it's in the cloud. Disaster recovery for the cloud requires just as much meticulous planning and testing as your in-house infrastructure.

How IT Can Create a Green Enterprise
Green IT means more than buying energy-efficient blade servers. It means IT-enabled business process improvement, a streamlined supply chain and even telecommuting to make the entire company more environmentally friendly.

M-commerce in Japan: An Interview
The secrets behind Estée Lauder's successful m-commerce launch in Japan.

Ten Megatrends Transforming Retail
Based on a survey of more than 2,000 shoppers, we identified ten megatrends transforming the retail industry and strategies to respond.

Telepresence: Almost As Good as Being There
Telepresence systems reduce carbon emissions, save money and help forge closer ties with customers.

11 Mistakes to Avoid when Upgrading SAP
SAP upgrades can be challenging, especially in a large, global or otherwise complex environment. Avoid these common mistakes in SAP upgrades and get your organization on the quickest path to ROI.

ICD-10: Lessons from Real-World Assessments
Healthcare payers can speed up ICD-10 implementation and move beyond compliance to use ICD-10 as a source of competitive advantage.

Smart Hands, Smart Robots Enable Business
New business process services are emerging that integrate human process work (the smart hands) with collaboration and automation via technology platforms (the smart robots).

Social CRM for Mortgage Bankers
Mortgage bankers can leverage social media to better understand consumer preferences and respond with offers and services that more appropriately serve their needs. Here's how.

Holistic View Drives Greater BPM Benefits
A holistic approach to business process management (BPM) that crosses functional boundaries can provide greater value than traditional BPM that focuses only on automating point processes.