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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

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Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. And his team can do this more sustainably, another “benefit that’s important to us,” Kirkland says. “If

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How adopting sustainability as a service can drive business success and help the planet

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Sustainability is a major priority in business boardrooms already, and pressures from regulators, shareholders, board members and employees are likely to further drive this trend. Due to the complexity and scale of the challenge, not all businesses have the resources to move toward net-zero at the necessary pace, and many are lagging.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

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SAFe provides larger organizations with a way to leverage the benefits of Scrum and Kanban in a more scalable way. Apply systems thinking into all facets of development. Base milestones on objective estimation and evaluation of working systems to ensure there is an economic benefit.

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Low-code: An Accelerator for Digital Transformation

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Digital transformation is expected to be the top strategic priority for businesses of all sizes and industries, yet organisations find the transformation journey challenging due to digital skill gap, tight budget, or technology resource shortages. Amidst these challenges, organisations turn to low-code to remain competitive and agile.

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The New Way Companies are Harnessing Data at the Edge for Value Added in Real-Time

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1] In each case, the company has volumes of streaming data and needs a way to quickly analyze it for outcomes such as greater asset availability, improved site safety and enhanced sustainability. If immediate remedies are not possible, the system will alert staff then procure and ship a replacement part to arrive on site.

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Generative AI: the Shortcut to Digital Modernisation

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Research from IBM found that 93 percent of companies still use mainframes for financial management, 73 percent for customer transaction systems, and more than 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies run business-critical applications on mainframes.