Navigating Digital Disruption With Futurologist and Professor Stefan Gröner
How does a business go extinct? It’s not for lack of product improvement ideas, says futurologist, professor and business consultant Dr. Stefan Gröner. Typically, it’s for lack of understanding what customers really want. Gröner offers the example of the stagecoach. As a product, it could be endlessly improved by making it bigger or more comfortable. […]
A Hot Jobs Market Requires Organizations to Strengthen Talent Acquisition Strategies
Fierce competition among organizations for too few workers has created a job seeker’s market. Unemployment has remained at a historically low rate of 3.6% since the end of April, and employers were seeking to fill 11.5 million job openings as of the end of April after hiring 6.7 million during the month. But for a […]
New IT Audit Survey From Protiviti and ISACA Ranks Cybersecurity, Privacy, Data and Regulatory Compliance as Top Technology Challenges
Where to even begin? An uncertain global economy, volatile geopolitical developments, a persistent pandemic, a changing regulatory landscape, and an evolving catalog of technology risk concerns have created mounting challenges for IT audit leaders and their functions. It is a real eye opener seeing the results of the latest IT Audit Technology Risks Survey from […]
Evolving No Surprises Act Requirements Continue to Be a Heavy Lift — Here’s How Healthcare Providers and Facilities Can Remain Diligent
The aptly named No Surprises Act (NSA), signed into law in December 2020 with an implementation deadline of January 1, 2022, is meant to help protect patients from financial hardship due to surprise medical bills. Such bills are often the result of patients receiving emergency or nonemergency services from providers that don’t participate in their […]
Labor Shortages Challenge Supply Chains to Automate While Retaining Employees and Their Trust
Among the business topics that have dominated the press over the past two years, supply chain difficulties and labor shortages have certainly been at the top. But the two are not mutually exclusive. Organizations across all industries are having a hard time finding employees to keep their supply chains operating as efficiently and smoothly as […]
Balancing Opportunity and Risk: Security for RPA Platforms
Robotic process automation (RPA) was first used to execute predetermined, rules-based tasks twenty or so years ago. Since then, RPA has functioned as a virtual workforce for businesses, which benefit from its power to collect data, execute processes rapidly and unerringly, and facilitate higher levels of quality — while enhancing customer satisfaction. We’ve previously addressed […]
