Asset Tracking in Healthcare Environments – Real Time Location System – RTLS

Asset tracking in Healthcare is an important process because hospitals are large facilities and very complex organizations. Every hospital provides patient care by using a sizeable and diverse workforce, and that workforce uses a lot of equipment; most of it mobile. One of the most frustrating, …Read More

The explosion of smart devices, analytics engines, big data, and internet connectivity have thrown open the doors to an incredible set of business opportunities in Healthcare.  Companies and institutions are recognizing that the Internet of Everything ( IoE ) has to be …Read More

The Internet of Everything: 8.4 billion and $2 trillion!  Those are the estimated number of connected ‘things’ on the internet and the amount spent on these devices and services by the end of 2017, according to a Gartner study.  The number of connected things is expected to …Read More

Middle market companies are challenged with leveraging their investments in Digital technology and IT infrastructure.  Their systems are typically a patchwork quilt of software and hardware products that have been bolted together.  They need systems that are scalable, sustainable, cost effective, available 24×7, …Read More

There are multiple business and workforce trends occurring that are affecting every business, large and small, in every industry that will require senior leaders to rethink how they acquire, utilize and manage a workforce that consists of employees, temps and contractors.  The following trends have a greater impact on middle market companies. …Read More

We consistently hear from middle market CIO’s that the three items at the top of their strategic charter are:

1. Taking cost out the business,
2. Greater agility to meet changing market conditions
3. Improving and sustaining a close Business-IT alignment. 

Where and how your IT infrastructure is housed significantly impacts …Read More

In an earlier blog we saw that a well-crafted IT transformation strategy (a.k.a. cost takeout strategy) is so much more than a once and done cost reduction exercise.  A cost takeout strategy orchestrates …Read More

As cloud services have proliferated in the last decade, companies are increasingly asking themselves if they really need to have their own in-house datacenter. The digital footprint and budget for small companies often does not warrant the cost …Read More

The first blog in this series identified the phenomenon of Anti-Strategy as well-intentioned decisions made by senior leaders that are functionally focused because of a lack of a clear business strategy. With digital and information technology (IT) getting firmly established as a strategic corporate asset for middle market companies, we turn our attention to …Read More