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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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How IoT Data Lifecycle Can Work With AI at The Edge

John Ejiofor / March 11, 2020

The era of IoT brought along a big transformation in the enterprise data lifecycle but as if that was not enough, the implementation of  AI on the edge is completely revolutionizing the whole ecosystem in order to make sure it meets real-time analysis needs. It’s very obvious that IT pros will be making grave mistakes if they think they can afford a room for guesswork in IoT infrastructure planning. The fact on the ground these days is that your digital architecture can undergo changes unpredictably within a space of two years because IoT and AI have seriously started playing great roles in the gathering and handling of data. Minimal diversity in the traditional data lifecycle  When we have not started operating in clouds, it was easier for IT pros to execute, understand, and control the data lifecycle, since the enterprise data lifecycle was relatively manageable and essentially static and circular. Then, data was more structured, less diverse, and traversed only a few routes to lesser destinations.  At that point in time, we did not have the need for the mazy steps we have now in the traditional data lifecycle you could easily carry out the following processes on your data…

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5 Ways IoT Has Affected The Business Industry

John Ejiofor / January 24, 2020

Image by Tumisu from Pixabay  The advancement in technology has positively affected the business industry. IoT technology is one of those positive effects of technology on the business industry as with. woocommerce smart coupons.  These days, IoT adds value to a business exponentially, by promptly making decisions as a result of very fast analysis of mammoth amounts of data. IoT which is also known as the internet of things is a number of interconnected devices.  IoT is a network of interconnected devices and appliances such as a tablet, cars, thermostats, refrigerators, etc. These devices are connected by software, sensors, actuators, and connectivity that enable them to connect and exchange data. IoT has made the concept of smart homes possible. With the internet of things, you can use your personal tablet to operate your refrigerator, television, switch your power off or on, close your doors, etc.  All these are possible because these devices and appliances are interconnected by software and the internet. The internet of things has greatly transformed the business industry by making the notion of smart business a huge possibility as it is also used in the business industry.  Its introduction to the business industry is a plus as the IoT has…

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IoT: 2020 is The Year of Radical Change For Workers

John Ejiofor / December 31, 2019

Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay Who would have believed the possibility? Who thought it would come to pass? Who foresaw the impact IoT is having on our day to day activities? Today, the impossible is happening. You can now talk to your phone just the same way you talk to your friends. You can give instructions and have meaningful discussions with your refrigerator.  Your watch was more of an ornamental you used to tell time but not anymore. IoT and advancement in technology have radically changed that fact, you can now use it to track your heart condition, know where to go, send emails and texts, and carry on discussions with your friends.  Our personal devices are playing very effective roles in our daily activities, thanks to the amazing transformation brought about by IoT. Some few years back, this would have sounded unbelievable and pure magic, but it’s the reality today.  So, why won’t you capitalize on this in 2020? IoT is set to bring a massive turn around in how we work and you can’t afford to be left behind.  Here are a few ways IoT will affect your work in the year to come and beyond:  No…

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How AI in The IoT Customer Journey Enhances CX

John Ejiofor / December 25, 2019

Image by John Hain from Pixabay The advancement in automation which saw the birth of AI and machine learning is radically transforming the customer journey. Brands are capitalizing on this advancement to engage customers and prospects, with the ultimate aim of enhancing CX (customer experience).  The Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Trends, 2017–2022 White Paper, estimates that there will be 28.5 billion IoT devices by 2022, up from 18 billion in 2017, and these IoT devices can promptly make decisions as a result of very fast analysis of mammoth amounts of data. With these figures as a yardstick, your brand should be focused on how to ensure that your digital, marketing team, sales, R&D, and customer service are prepped for this unprecedented transformation. IoT Agenda reports that the IBM Institute for Business Value in a study, titled “The AI-Enhanced Customer Experience,” said that 74% of respondents were of the view that AI will drastically impact their initial perspective of CX. To achieve this, however, you require a broad outlook and a cohesive approach in the use of AI in augmenting CX at large.  Your aim will be defeated if you ordinarily focus your attention on one IoT device or…

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As Edge Computing Gains Steam, We Must Balance Benefits With Security Risks

John Ejiofor / November 11, 2019

The overriding premise behind setting up a business is to make handsome ROI and this occasions cutting unnecessary costs. Edge computing comes on this basis to shift focus more to the source of data as a way of improving response times and saving bandwidth. Since you have to move closer to the source of data, there is always a high probability of jettisoning your otherwise well-articulated security measures. What most businesses fail to put into consideration is the absolute need to balance the accruable benefits with the potent security risks. If you are involved in the ongoing back and forth between centralized and decentralized IT, you must have begun to see the limitations of a centralized IT. You probably have also started questioning the rationale behind having hundreds or thousands of industry-standard servers running a host of applications in consolidated data centers.  This is not helped by having new types of workloads and distributed computing. If you sum up all of these with the fast pace of IoT, you definitely have a good cause for the observable rise in edge computing. The new realization now is that processing at the edge brings compute closer to data accumulation and hence the…

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