Archive for author: G-Forum

Emma Hitzke, Senior Product Marketing Director, Emerging Technology, Oracle.
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Slowdown in IT spending is not on the cards ahead

Some consequences of the pandemic will be around for years, but a slowdown in gutsy business moves is not one of them. In fact, 80% of executives in a new survey said their organisations are planning big moves ...

Michael Forhez, Global Managing Director, Consumer Markets Industry Strategy Group, Oracle
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Five technological forces of retail disruption

This past year presented significant disruptions in the retail industry as the shutdowns from the pandemic officially turn a year old. The retail revolution also continues from before the pandemic as brick-and-...

Michael Ouissi, Chief Customer Officer, IFS.
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Can utilities survive transformation, what’s their future?

Utilities companies should be used to the occasional existential threat. Today, electric utilities are facing an Amazon moment with the arrival of a vast array of digital newcomers and increased complexity, fro...

Mark Ackerman, Area Vice President, Middle East and Africa, ServiceNow.
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Digital transformation is not exclusive domain of IT

There is nothing like a global tragedy to inspire action. The Covid-19 pandemic has been an extraordinary accelerant for digitisation. According to data from AppDynamics’ May 2020 the Agents of Transformation R...

Ektaa Sibal is India's number one Inner-Self Transformation Specialist, International Meditation Expert, Speaker and a Gifted Energy Healer with inborn intuitive abilities.
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Connecting with the inner-self to transform yourself

You are feeling exhausted even if you have rested enough. You are feeling disengaged with your future vision or you are feeling confused with your present state. You are not feeling motivated or excited about w...

Dimple Dinesh, Marketing Science Partner for MENA, Facebook.
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Moving from consumer tracking to aggregated measurement

Being a part of the digital world for the past nine years, I have witnessed the digital ecosystems constantly evolving. At present, data protection laws and anti-tracking policies are the epicenters of the digi...

Vanessa Erickson, Capital Project Portfolio Expert, AVEVA.
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Blending project and asset data into digital twins

Over the past ten years, capital expenditure projects, both brownfield and greenfield, have become more complex and challenging due to many factors, not limited to ever-changing environmental, societal and gove...

Joe Hawayek, Head of vHealth Middle East and Africa, Aetna International.
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Telehealth now a recognised healthcare service

As lockdowns swept the region last year, a host of pressing points emerged. Isolation, interrupted routines, expanded work volumes, job uncertainty and financial concerns, all conspired to bring issues of menta...

Libby Duane Adams, Chief Advocacy Officer and Co-Founder at Alteryx.
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Clear link between diversity and business success

Fostering diversity from the top down and utilising as many diverse viewpoints as possible is the key for these strategies to succeed. From increased performance to a dramatic uptick in innovation, developing d...

Fazeela Gopalani, Head of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Middle East.
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Combination of technology and data are business enablers

While the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation activities, it has also brought to the fore the need to meaningfully push forward on integration of social and environmental risks and opportunities int...