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How to Enhance Successful Digital Transformation in 2021

John Ejiofor / February 7, 2021

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay  The bells are tolling, 2020 with all the good, the bad, and the ugly, is just strokes away. What strategies do you have in place? How have you planned for 2021?  Do you have quality leadership? How are you planning towards updating your employees’ skills? If all these are in place, you have the opportunity of using digital transformation to drive improved revenues and customer satisfaction in 2021 and beyond. Digital transformation has come to stay, and you must adopt it to drive a meaningful economic recovery and improvement in 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic brought into focus the need for brands to accelerate digital initiatives which led to improved efficiencies and ensured that work-from-home was carried on at scale.  Though there are efforts to combat the virus through the provision of vaccines from health organizations, there is still a great need for collaborative technologies. The reason for this is that you still need to use the benefits of digital transformation to achieve expanded efficiencies and gain valuable insights. If you have good strategies and skilled hands, you can use digital transformation to enhance high performance in your brand. You, however, need to ensure that the following are…

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Blockchain Technology: How Tokens Will Change Healthcare

John Ejiofor / February 6, 2021

Image by Tumisu from Pixabay Blockchain technology has finally arrived and cryptocurrencies are becoming widely recognized and appreciated by the larger public. With this success, we’ve seen the price of ethereum and bitcoin reach new historical heights.  Investors are flocking the market to buy bitcoin with a credit card or any other means at their disposal. However, many people are still unfamiliar with the technology that made cryptocurrencies possible. Since the release of bitcoin, blockchain technology has progressed by leaps and bounds.  What was initially just a vessel for transferring digital cash over the internet has evolved into a trillion-dollar industry, with applications in a wide range of niches. In this article, we explore how advancements and applications of blockchain technology can improve healthcare, one of the most essential industries to human survival. First, let’s explore some of the basic properties of the tech, for those unfamiliar with its advantages. What is blockchain? We were first introduced to blockchain technology way back in 2009, with the release of the original cryptocurrency, bitcoin. It was originally intended for the exchange of digital cash in a decentralized manner, directly from one user to another. The distributed ledger of the blockchain records all the transactions on…

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5 Tips for a Cyber Secure Home Experience

John Ejiofor / October 24, 2020

Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay  What Is Cybersecurity? Cybersecurity is referred to as the body of technologies and practices used to protect networks, data, and programs from attacks or unauthorized access. As the world is slowly becoming utterly dependent on technology, cybersecurity is required to safeguard all the information that travels through the internet. For instance, the digital economy accounted for 6.9 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, or $1.35 trillion, in 2017, according to statistics released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.  The government, military, and other organizations collect data from us, which might have sensitive information that can negatively empower unauthorized access. Unauthorized access to any device can use all your company’s sensitive data and business, and can also cause serious devastation.  Cybersecurity is, therefore, essential to protect all the sensitive data of your company or a business. Cybercrime has increased nowadays, as many people do not have a secure network connection, making it easily accessible by cyber attackers. The World Economic Forum reports that in 2019, four new malware samples were created every second.  This lack of a secure network has given cybercriminals the undue advantage to attack a company’s employees and get access to the company’s database. …

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How Covid-19 Brought to Focus Risks to Your Data Privacy And Governance

John Ejiofor / September 21, 2020

Image by Hebi B. from Pixabay  There is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant global lockdown have effectively changed the way businesses operate, which to a large extent, has serious impacts on your data privacy and governance. Out of the blues, organizations and their employees must adapt to a new way of working.  The aftermath of the radical change is that a lot of employees have relocated their offices to the home. While this may be a brand-new innovation to some organizations, a few had before the outbreak, been practicing flexible working for some time.  These organizations were more favorably disposed to adapt to the new world and way of working with relative ease. They were armed with sturdy procedures, practices, and had IT infrastructure in place to cushion the effects of working away from the office.  However, a lot of organizations were left in a sort of quandary, the change was rather impromptu, it was too much, albeit too soon, and they were not prepared for the plunge. As a result, they had to contend with data privacy breaches and the ensuing governance concerns.   Cybersecurity has been a burning issue even before the onset of the pandemic, but the…

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Coronavirus: Where The World Got it All Wrong

John Ejiofor / August 17, 2020

Image by cromaconceptovisual from Pixabay Coronavirus has succeeded in exposing inadequacies and shortcomings in our daily lives. As a result of the inadequacies, billions of people worldwide were under lockdown, thousands have died, and more are still dying.  Governments, businesses, and individuals have been thrown into confusion, facing an uncertain economic future. The world, whether developing or developed, was completely unprepared for COVID-19 despite our technological advancements in the areas of AI and machine learning, hence, we are suffering the consequences direly.  The coronavirus pandemic also exposed our ill-preparedness in how we have been handling our supply chains as well as security and privacy. A rundown of the following three very important sectors will bring to light where we failed and also a pointer as to what needs to be done since this may not be the last time we will be facing viral diseases. Technological advancement BlueDot, an artificial intelligence company, was able to notice that something ominous was in the offing and, therefore, went ahead to alert the world of a cluster of “unusual pneumonia” cases occurring around a market in Wuhan, China, about the midnight of December 30, 2019. The company likened the symptoms to those of the SARS, an…

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Cybersecurity: How the “New Normal” Can Impact Your Business

John Ejiofor / July 1, 2020

Image by Katie White from Pixabay  With attempts at easing lockdowns globally and an envisaged victory over the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s proper to take into cognizance the cybersecurity impact on your business. Expectations are rife that after the victory the world is heading into a “new normal” in the way society will be organized and the way business will be conducted.  While the main preoccupation of individuals as the COVID-19 pandemic raged on has been how to protect themselves and their families from the virus and how to hold on to their jobs, for business owners, it has been a different ball game altogether. You must have focused on how to beat the pandemic without doing irreversible damage to your economy in the process. This could have led you to take all sorts of decisions that included remote working, telemedicine, outsourcing, and online marketing. All these measures taken to sustain the life of your business are in order, but you probably didn’t take the cybersecurity risks involved into consideration. As the world is grappling and fighting to overcome the pandemic, it’s expected that a “new normal” way of conducting businesses and even living, will be the order of the day. Measures such as…

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