He said:“ Our company is speeding up its transformation to be even more customer oriented, agile, efficient, data driven, sustainable and futureproof. This necessitates a comprehensive approach that encompasses all facets of our operations including upscaling our digital capabilities to elevate the overall stakeholder experience.

Dr Chris Royles, EMEA Field CTO at Cloudera; Burley Kawasaki, Global VP of Product Marketing and Strategy at Creatio; and Markus Nispel, CTO of EMEA at Extreme Networks, respond.

This month’ s Get to Know features Toby Parkins, Cofounder and Group CEO, Headforwards. He tells us about the management philosophy he employs in his current position.“ I’ ve always felt that, as a leader, it’ s important to set people up to succeed. When you’ re looking to scale or grow your business, it’ s essential to have access to expertise and experience. I try to empower people, but also ensure that they’ ve got the knowledge and are surrounded by knowledge,” he says.“ It’ s talked about a lot more these days but psychological safety in the workplace environment is extremely important. People should be able to feel like it’ s OK to say they don’ t know how to do something, or to challenge us and take sensible risks.”

“ Syniti was critical in helping us improve our approach to manage the data for our ambitious transformation effort. The Syniti team has proven they can do the hard things; their credibility was already established and we knew we could trust their Data First approach to achieve excellent results.”

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In this month’ s Editor’ s Question on pages 30 – 33, we ask industry experts how businesses can balance scalability and security when managing large volumes of data in an increasingly complex regulatory landscape.

Mark Bowen Editorial Director

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