This is a blog about the space (or the link if you prefer) between information technology and the businesses that use it. It is about combining perspectives from the IT industry with those of organizations in other industries. It is a blog about technology hypes and trends as much as it is about the gap between hype and reality. Or you could say it is just about common sense and a practical view on business IT.
Corporate performance management can help your business deliver its strategy and drive required results. Discover what it is and how it can support business excellence? What is Corporate performance management Corporate performance management has as many different names as definitions, but in short it is the communication hub linking strategy with operations. It is sometimes…
Strategic delivery in modern business requires a balance between control and flexibility, risk and opportunity, and good timing. Don’t go the way of the dinosaur, use the right enterprise solutions to support your agile strategic processes. Warning! Static strategy can lead to extinction With their size, speed, aggression, big teeth and an abundance of food,…
Business excellence is about achieving more with less by doing the right thing, the right way at the right time. This is the first blog in a four-part series which sets out the core platform from which your business excellence journey can accelerate, by using techniques from the worlds of Finance, HCM and Strategy, and…
Artificial intelligence (AI). Internet of Things (IoT). Augmented reality (AR). These are the technologies companies in the industries IFS serves want to implement because they can transform their businesses. These two- and three-letter acronyms (TLAs) are what most of us think about when someone utters the words ‘digital transformation’. While AI, IoT and AR are…
Predictions vary about when emergent technologies will become a reality. Can taking a look at the past provide insight into what’s next? No matter where you look there are predictions on when technologies such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality and driverless cars will become a reality and commonplace in our lives. Many pundits fall back…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is such a big topic, and so many different possibilities exist, that you should focus on those opportunities that make the most sense for your business. You can’t do everything at once and that applies to us, the Research & Development teams of IFS, as well. Which areas make sense? Where can…
Activity in Australia’s mining sector is accelerating, auguring well for exports and the broader economy, according to economic forecaster and industry analyst, BIS Oxford Economics. But with maintenance costs forecast to increase nearly 60 percent over the next five years now is the time to invest in systems to keep expenditure under control. According to…
The servitization megatrend is upon us. Product-driven companies are adding services revenue streams and business models, usually to augment but sometimes to replace product-based business. What is servitization, and why is it happening? When a major change or megatrend happens, there is usually not just a single reason. Multiple forces push a culture, society or…
In this Q&A with industry expert Graham Grose, Vice President and Industry Director at IFS, he answers questions on how commercial aviation companies can overcome today’s maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) challenges. Graham is responsible for supporting all IFS business development within the aviation and defense industry, together with associated industry marketing and overall product…
In this Q&A, I ask our manufacturing industry expert, Antony Bourne, to answer five questions about how manufacturing companies can improve business performance. Meet our manufacturing industry expert As the Vice President of Global Industry Sales at IFS, Antony’s responsibilities include acting as the Global Industry Director for Industrial Manufacturing and High-Tech Manufacturing as well…
