Digital age news stories

Remote Working
Ivanti extends Neurons Platform to optimise digital employee experience
“Organisations and IT teams need to provide an ambient and contextual digital experience for the growing hybrid workforce."

Data analytics
Is the future of education data-driven?
The next generation of student engagement is here. Students now expect consistent, real-time access to information on housing, parking, class schedules, grades, financial aid and more.

Training
AWS reports NZ's urgent need for digital skills training
One million more New Zealand workers will require digital skills training for their jobs in the next year, according to new research.

Cybersecurity
Shouldering the responsibility of payment security
Two years since the surge in digital payments, shoppers have seamlessly transitioned to day-to-day use, with online payments becoming second nature when buying goods and services online.

Government
AI Forum of NZ welcomes govt's new digital council
"The government has to tackle some big topics across the New Zealand tech ecosystem, and I am sure the Digital Council will help enormously."

Digital Transformation
IDC: What CEOs need to know about the digital economy
In just a few short years, IDC predicts that half of all GDP worldwide will come from digitally enhanced products, services, and experiences.

Digital Transformation
CEOs concerned executives aren’t digital savvy enough
A new survey from Gartner has revealed that CEOs priorities are slowly shifting to meet rising growth challenges.

Customer experience
Breaking through ‘digital clutter’ in a modern world
Whereas once people and organisations craved novelty, excitement and instant gratification, we now crave quiet and meaning in a noisy world.

Digital Transformation
How organisations should shape and plan their digital vision
"It’s important to take the entire organisation into consideration to avoid difficulties such as delays and scalability."

Microsoft
Microsoft: Aussie workers not ready for the Digital Age, report says
The study looks at the shift in employee behaviours and gaps in the workplace regarding productivity, collaboration and flexi-work practices.

CIO
The road to digital mastery: it all starts with understanding the now
To survive in the age of the customer, you must become a digital business.

PwC
Kiwi CEOs: Skills shortage, cyber security & the digitised world
“Technology has had a massive impact on the speed at which we operate, especially when it comes to the global market."

Digital Transformation
Goodbye paper: Multiple India government offices go paperless
eMudhra today announced that it has worked with more than 15 State Government offices to help them go completely digital.

Mobility
Global report reveals big benefits for digital workspaces
Organisations that are utilising digital workspaces are gaining business, operational, & financial benefits while those that wait are falling behind.

Digital Transformation
Talking digital business, Industrie 4.0 and world trade
Digital is becoming part of government policy and focus, and thereby trade policy will gradually need to deal with its increasingly complex nature.

Digital Marketing
Why you’re better at digital marketing than you think
As a marketer, if you believe you’re falling behind & others are more adept, you may be giving them credit for your own knowledge.

Agile
YOU’RE INVITED: AgileNZ Conference 2016 – Delivering Digital
Delegates will discover how Agile is developing to deliver innovation and quality digital services at speed to customers.

Gartner
Redefining agility in the digital age
Something changed at the start of 2016. Concepts and trends that Gartner has been discussing for years suddenly became the aspirational norm.

Digital Transformation
Cognizant gears up for digital age with latest strategic partnership
“A richer understanding of human behaviour can unlock new opportunities for our customers."

Digital Transformation
It's often talked about, but what does digital transformation really mean?
Essentially digital transformation describes the opportunity to take advantage of change rather than being the victim of change - don't be the victim!

Google
The secret to digital success? Don't get caught
"If you master that, you are an entrepreneur – in a long line of similar (but not all) entrepreneurs."

SD-WAN
Watch out: Riverbed is back, complete with an updated partner programme
In the hopes of dominating the market and capitalising on the changing world, Riverbed has refined its strategy and is investing more into partners.

Digital Transformation
Opportunities and challenges for the technology sector as the Second Digital Revolution takes hold
Ovum has recently completed a major research program focusing on the future, specifically a 10-year view on road ahead.

Gartner
Are you betting your career against the future?
Digital business is big and it will happen to the careers of CIOs and IT professionals.