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clrmoney
clrmoney
8/30/2016 3:12:57 PM
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digital business model confidence
With 65% they should be a little confident than the 15% which is a small number so overall I think they should be excited as time go on it will get better.

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dlr5288
dlr5288
8/30/2016 1:55:49 PM
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Re: Security and UX
I agree! I always think there is room to improve security, especially today. Being confident with security would improve any business greatly.

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ms.akkineni
ms.akkineni
8/30/2016 8:00:20 AM
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Re: Security and UX
@John Barnes:

Well said.

Though there has been attention to security for a while within the enterprise there still seems to be lack and surely lot of room to improve. UX is just starting to grab more attention in recent times and surely it will be the driving factor going forward.

As you said, that is a very good call to the exec community about other areas.

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
8/30/2016 7:36:37 AM
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But slightly seriously folks ...
Yet another problem is that with full digitization will come good sets of big data -- and so far, big data + machine learning has been highly effective at replacing intuition and guesswork, which are among the things you hire an executive to do.  You still have to roll a truck now and then and Larry the Cable Guy has to go out and plug some stuff together, which has to go in and through less attractive places. But we're a decade or more away from anything with mechanical hands being able to do what Larry does, especially considering Larry can do it for the first time in unprecedented conditions without having seen or read about someone doing it.  Benjamin Heir III and Cameron Upp-Hardway in the executive suite, otoh, are getting paid for knowing their way around investor culture and/or having seen all levels of the company and market -- and that's something big data, fast analysis, and machine learning can replace and is moving rapidly to replace.  The handwriting is on the wall for the old style executive, and that makes it very hard -- even if you're at a company whose job is to write on the wall! -- to think clearly about what this implies and where it goes.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -- Upton Sinclair.

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
8/30/2016 7:26:34 AM
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Re: Security and UX
Ms. Akkineni,

Either that, or those are the areas that are getting some attention, and therefore might improve, whereas other areas are being neglected. (Just a thought to frighten more executives).

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
8/30/2016 7:24:54 AM
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And more things that are not surprises ...
The importance/confidence gap is huge. 71% it's important, 15% we're nimble enough implies at least 80% of the execs who think it's important have serious doubts about being able to do it. I would guess it's actually worse than that, because very likely that 15% of "oh sure, we can do it" execs has a significant overlap with the 29% that don't think it's important.  (I hereby dub that overlap, whatever size it may be, the Alfred E. Neuman Faction, since "Oh, it'll be easy and anyway who cares?" is pretty close in position to "What, me worry?"). 

Figuring compound probabilities, when you're talking to an exec, there's between a 1/2 and a 2/3 chance that the poor guy or gal doesn't think his/her company is up to doing something s/he considers vital. No wonder they sometimes seem evasive and almost always seem vague -- they are scared. And the first motto of a scared Organization Person is "When in doubt, mumble."

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ms.akkineni
ms.akkineni
8/30/2016 12:21:51 AM
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Security and UX
....data security (56%), user experience with applications and services (44%), IT efficiency (42%) and infrastructure performance/availability (41%).

These stats are no surprise at all. It is impressive to see data security on top of the list and user experience taking second place. These two appears to be leading areas that need utmost attention.

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