Strategy and Transformation

There are over two million blog posts published daily. You read that right – two million. Every. Single. Day. So of course, that makes everyone (us included) ask, “who in the world needs another blog?” What could we possibly have to say that hasn’t already been said? What do we have to add to an already crowded conversation landscape?

In my previous post in this series, we discussed how to qualify cloud vendors. Once that process is complete, the second step to maintaining compliance is to document your specific regulatory requirements in a contract with the cloud vendor, usually in the form of service-level agreements (SLAs). In this blog post, I include a range […]

My colleague Eric Roch recently wrote an article about “5 Steps to Monetize Your API’s.” He goes into some detail which you should read but for brevity’s sake I’ll just highlight his five steps: The five steps to monetize your APIs we will examine include: 1. Establish your business case and roadmap 2. Ensure you […]

To Object or Not Object, That Is The Question We’ve all been there as Salesforce Consultants or Solution Architects; a client is thrilled about the Service Cloud rollout and the amazing adoption rate by jadded SMEs when suddenly someone on the client side blurts out, “Wow, wouldn’t it be nice if we could do X, […]

DevOps is more of a philosophy or way of working than it is a formal framework or standard. Nevertheless, the approach deserves merit, as it goes to the core of tension in most IT organizations—the need to be responsive to business change while maintaining a stable, highly available IT infrastructure, and delivering quality services that […]

While digital transformation started gradually over 25 years ago, this new wave of data driven innovation has steadily gained momentum. Today, digital transformation includes a wide umbrella of technologies – including the cloud, Big Data, analytics, artificial intelligence, mobile/mobility, and IoT. For me, the digital transformation revolution gives us an incredible number of tools to improve how we […]

Digital innovation continues to disrupt industries at lightning speed. Today’s organizations are transforming their entire business – from strategy to operations, technology to culture – to better deliver value to their customers. In 2017, we compiled the top 10 trends leaders needed to know when it came to their digital transformation journey. In this 10-week […]

Welcome to part 4 of our Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams Deep Dive series! If you are just joining us for the first time, I recommend going back to look at the previous blog articles on this topic. In this article we’ll be discussing the SIP syntax, user provisioning, voice routing basics, and lastly some […]

Our Perficient colleagues share how they live and breathe our core values. Here, David Chapman, General Manager and Chief Strategist, Organizational Change Management, writes about being in awe of his colleagues and grateful for the experiences he’s had while working at Perficient.  When I think about why I take a lot of pride in working at Perficient, it’s […]

We recently completed a 21 CFR Part 11 gap analysis engagement for a client that was largely using SaaS applications, but had no cloud vendor qualification process in place. They had just been allowing each business unit to select the applications that met its user requirements, accept whatever validation documentation the cloud vendor supplied (if […]

The key to success is putting people first. When companies apply a people-first approach, it pays — literally. Putting that into action can be another story. With only good intentions and no clear strategy, people interested in evolving their business are faced with a painful and often overwhelming task. By starting with the people closest to your […]

While my earlier blog posts were focused on Agile Risk Management, I am taking some time off from this to familiarize myself with a new subject – Time Management. “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed” – Peter Drucker One fascinating way that I have found to help […]