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istock Public cloud has helped accelerate digital transformation in the last decade. With the events of 2020 finally providing a nudge to many enterprises, more have realized the benefits. At the same time, organizations understand that those gains cannot be realized by all workloads immediately, or, perhaps, ever. While significant cloud services growth is expected in 2021, evidence shows that some mission-critical workloads that moved to public clouds under a “cloud first” mandate are now coming back on premises. Is this the start of a larger wave of repatriations and the...

istock About 500 years ago, the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo Da Vinci famously said “Nothing can be loved or hated if it is not first known” – and now we know! It is commonly accepted that the Covid-19 pandemic and its associated lockdowns have accelerated the pace of digital transformation, by necessity for most enterprises. In the beginning of the first lockdown, “…we’ve seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months,” as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella put it. According to a global survey of executives¹ conducted by McKinsey, companies ac...

DX enriches business processes. Digital optimization creates the foundational capabilities and agility necessary to turn ideas into reality.

istock In my last article I introduced the reader to the importance of a conceptual model to help simplify complexity. In our case the complexity we were modelling was Digital Transformation. A landscape of new technology-driven initiatives that in some cases challenge an organizations business model. As distinct from firms centered on business consultancy, for a technology company like HPE, being able to simplify this landscape for our customers is critical in helping them achieve real business value. Whether that is expressed in terms of costs savings, agility gained, product...

istock Are you creative? If you play an instrument, like to paint, or enjoy inventing new games to entertain your kids – you probably will answer with ‘yes.’ But in business context, who are the colleagues that you perceive as creative, inspiring, envisioning – and what makes them that way? Creativity is performed when something, somehow new, and somehow valuable is formed. That new ‘thing’ can be intangible, such as an idea, a theory, a composition, or a physical object, a product, or a piece of artwork. The emphasis is on new and valuable – but that doesn’t ...