Mouthing Off:
MMS' greatest business challenge: "Developing the business case and ROI supporting the conversion from the legacy system."
Toughest moment during development: "Convincing an all-Microsoft shop that we were going to be converting, developing, implementing and maintaining our core system using unfamiliar technologies."
MMS is important to Life Time Fitness because: "The system's flexibility, scalability and ease of use allow us a variety of options when developing new strategies, whereas the old system dictated what we could and couldn't do. MMS also gives us a quicker, much more accurate, real-time look into our business conditions."
If only I had a bigger IT budget, I would: "Invest in R&D, technical and communications training and more time off for the team."
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
