Quote of the Week/Number of the Week
“Blockchain will be transformative but it can’t solve every problem. You also need to focus on what it can’t do.” – Gill Haus, SVP/Retail and CIO, Direct Bank, Capital One
$1 trillion
Worldwide revenues for IT Services and Business Services in 2018, according to IDC.
“Having a ‘leadership mantra’ can help guide you as a leader and reinforce your positive leadership traits.” – Julian Mitchell, VP of Product Development, Allscripts
“To be effective, adoption of disruptive technology must go hand in hand with organizational realignment.” – Sarma Malladi, CIO, SWM International
“The biggest challenge in a digital technology transformation is handling the human change management it entails.” – Christy Barker, VP-CIO, Olin Corporation
“There’s a simple answer to how you increase the number of women in senior leadership roles: hire more women.” – Fiona Bishop, Executive Manager for Change & Innovation, Western Power
$3.79 trillion
Worldwide IT spending expected in 2019, according to Gartner.
“The baseline of technology is devoid of moral judgement.” – Atefeh Riazi, Assistant Secretary-General & CITO, UN
“Shadow #IT is not a bug in the new world of #IT, it’s a feature.” – Esteban Herrera, Partner & Global Leader, ISG Research
$460 billion
Internet of Things service revenues expected by 2026, according to ABI Research.
$80.5 billion
The anticipated size of the Chinese robotics market by 2022, according to IDC.
70 %
The number of organizations that will integrate AI to assist employees’ productivity by 2021, according to Gartner.