In a crisis, there are three major tracks businesses progress through, and the CIO plays a central role in each. Once these tracks are understood, and once the organisation recognises which parts of their business is within each track, it becomes significantly easier to identify systems and technologies to help empower recovery plans and accelerate growth.
While the world battles a health crisis, businesses are facing another imminent threat: cyberattacks. The number of security threats has surged as hackers capitalised on the vulnerabilities unveiled by the nearly overnight transition to remote work. McAfee’s VP Global Sales Operations Pilar Schenk shares how she and her team helped reps sell from home at a critical time.
COVID-19 forced most companies into a state of course correction and innovation in order to stay afloat.
Fluctuations in ad spend, working from home and more consumer time spent online – these are a few of the recent shifts having sudden and drastic impacts on visits to your company’s website.
Peter Schwartz, Salesforce Chief Futurist, has been speaking with ANZ business leaders about what we can all expect as we move through and beyond this pandemic, and how they can make the best decisions at each stage. Here, Peter shares with us his three-stage map to ‘the next normal’.
Every fortnight, Salesforce Research surveys the general population to discover how we’re navigating the COVID-19 pandemic – both as consumers and as workers.
Dr David Agus is Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering; Director, Lawrence J Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC; and Director, USC Centre for Applied Molecular Medicine at University of Southern California. Here, he discusses why he thinks the new role of Chief Health Officer will be critical for companies and what that role will entail.
As office workers switch to remote work en masse, CIOs are doing the heavy lifting to improve employee and customer experience. Di Terry, VP Australia Solution Engineering at Salesforce, shares what we can learn from the CIOs who are proving very good at it.
Do companies that do good also do well, even in a pandemic? Just Capital, a nonprofit that assesses and ranks US employers for their business practices, found companies driving positive change on the issues the American public cares about most have continued to outperform the market through the COVID-19 crisis.
On social media, anyone can see what's happening in the world, anytime, and join global conversations on any topic. And in times of crisis, people feel the need to connect more than ever.
