Thought Leadership Archive

Regulatory agencies are driving companies in the US and the EU to make commitments to comply with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria for corporate behavior and financial performance. Focusing on ESG initiatives and investments is growing in importance and starting to significantly influence the marketplace, particularly for services and products. Two trends are

A deep interest in the metaverse is emerging. It comes at a time when companies increasingly want to fund value-creation initiatives that enable competing better and engaging clients and employees in new and better ways. To help your company consider how it could benefit from the metaverse, I’ll discuss in this blog what companies

Attracting and retaining a talented tech team is the most important success factor for the long-term success of CIOs and their agendas. But it is also their most difficult, nettlesome challenge, especially in today’s hot, cutthroat marketplace for IT and engineering skills. Companies have reached out to Everest Group for help understanding the complex

Low-code platforms are software solutions now creating a major shift in how companies can develop their applications and enhancements to functionalities faster. But will they reduce the need for highly skilled engineers that build and evolve digital platforms? Will low-code solutions be transformative and, if so, what are the implications? Read more in my

The war in Ukraine has been ongoing for over 100 days. It’s already impacted the IT sector on both a local and global scale. More than 14 million people have fled their homes since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the IT industry has been hit hard. It was booming as exports rose by 36%

A year ago, I blogged my predictions about the acute IT and engineering talent shortage busting budgets and explained the situation would get worse in 2022. We’re there now, and wages and attrition are spiking at enterprises and at third-party service provider firms. In this current blog, I want to share what executives need to know

In recent blogs about the legacy technical dilemma and strategic decisions in managing legacy IT, I advised that companies need to reconcile themselves to the fact that they will continue to have significant legacy estates that will take a long time to move to the cloud and, therefore, will have legacy technical debt for

Although companies are experiencing growth now, the signs are clear that a US recession is coming and likely will be upon us within a year. The Fed is starting to take measures to reduce liquidity and raise interest rates. Typically, recessions cause companies to pivot from their growth agendas into cost-saving agendas – including

In today’s hot labor market, with a difficult gap between talent demand and available resources, companies must try to widen the area where they can recruit workers, and hunt for labor pools in new, smaller markets. Google and other tech companies are reaching out to labor markets on the West Coast and in small

Most IT technology in organizations focuses on helping to improve the efficiency of the organization. However, as digital transformation takes hold, we can now see that a significant portion of these new IT investments focus on building technology platforms that allow organizations to compete for customers. These new “growth-focused” investments behave differently than their