There may be no better way to capture the state of the technology industry than to borrow Charles Dickens’ famous opening from A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”

It never has been a better time to launch new offerings via the cloud. However, the availability of low-cost computing power combined with open source software development resources has lowered the barriers to entry in every market and created unprecedented competitive challenges as customer expectations continue to rise. All of these trends have impacted the nature of IT and how organizations leverage it.

Click here to read THINKstrategies’ views in E-Commerce Times about the macro-market trends that will reshape further the priorities and responsibilities of IT in 2016. Contact us if you’d like to discuss ways THINKstrategies can help your organization respond to … Read More »

The escalating terror attacks that are gripping the world will dramatically change the technology landscape in the coming year. As the threats of more deadly attacks on innocent people become more pervasive, people’s attitudes and public policies toward technology will fundamentally change.

Whether we like it or not, technology has become a tool of today’s rapidly growing terrorist groups. They recruit new members, showcase their latest atrocities and promote their causes via social media. They use encryption to hide their plans and coordinate their attacks. And they are becoming more adept at not only hacking government and corporate databases for political purposes but also getting closer to gaining access to power plants, manufacturing operations and other key components of the “grid.”

As a consequence of these intensifying threats, there will be a groundswell of demands in 2016 for new technology policies, products … Read More »