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Original Published Date: 12/3/2020 Since 1892, The Belt Railway Company of Chicago has been an integral part of railroad operations in the Chicagoland area and across the United States. Over t...

In 1970, Alvin Toffler predicted that the pace of change would continue to accelerate so greatly, society would struggle to keep up with new technology advancements.

According to BDO Digital’s  2021 Digital Transformation Survey , cloud use continues to be on the rise for the middle market where organizations are achieving great success with cloud solutions. Bu...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused healthcare organizations to adopt telehealth practically overnight. In January 2020, just  24% of U.S. healthcare organizations  had a virtual care program. That increa...

10-Step Journey to Digital Transformation in the Middle Market

Our recent survey of 500 C-suite executives provides insight into their digital transformation plans, maturity, threats and opportunities.

Executing a digital strategy is more than important not than ever, and it's vital to assess the people, process, technology and change management aspects of each investment.

Optimizing cloud services can be challenging, especially when you don’t know how to measure the quality of a given workload’s deployment. Maybe you’ve deployed workloads to the cloud but you’re sti...

We have long left the era of traditional IT, an era where a small internal IT team was mostly capable of handling a variety of IT challenges. Internal IT alone is challenged to meet the expectatio...

Businesses face disruption on multiple fronts, and they are struggling to get things done.

As CFOs continue to focus on resilience, data-driven decision making and analysis will be critical.

Download PDF Version Digital transformation is heralding the next era in supply chain management, in which suppliers and customers come together in entirely new ways, blurring the lines betwe...

Digital transformation has gone from buzz word to best practice to baseline, especially during these uncertain times. As businesses continue to struggle with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemi...

According to BDO’s latest white paper, Getting from A to AI - The Path to Data Analytics Maturity , organizations need a combination of the right architecture, analytics, and artificial intelligen...

How do you free up working capital in your supply chain? For the first few months of the pandemic, most businesses prioritized de-risking their supply chains—even at the expense of higher cost...

What inefficiencies could you tackle now that you couldn’t at full tilt? Once we see it in hindsight, the “great pause” may be end up being a great business gift—for those who don’t squander t...

A gray day provides the best light - Leonardo Da Vinci We stand at a once-in-a-century moment in time for middle market organizations to topple the biggest behemoths from their thrones and sol...

Introduction In the span of just a few short years, digital transformation has gone from buzzword to best practice to baseline. No longer confined to Silicon Valley or corporate giants with botto...

Innovation remains imperative. While it’s difficult to predict the near-term market and economic landscape, it’s clear that consumers and businesses will need new methods, ideas and approaches. ...

IT organizations recognize that they need to move to the cloud for better scalability, mobility and security. Often, this means partnering with a service provider who has the depth and breadth of e...

The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened the health of our communities, businesses and the global economy. The stakes are too high to allow room for error when decision-making is often a matter of l...

How the Middle Market Is Tackling Disruption Today We surveyed 600 C-suite executives at middle market organizations on their plans for digital transformation. This survey was conducted prior to...

Prior to COVID-19, your organization may have had long-term transformation plans that are likely no longer applicable in the current environment. Rather than pushing through with an irrelevant stra...

A Long History of Partnership  For over a century, PADNOS has been transforming the recycling industry with innovative programs and solutions that deliver a more sustainable future for clients...

In response to COVID-19, organizations across the globe adjusted their operations and core business functions due to mandated remote work policies. To maintain stability, when adapting to rapidly c...

Digital Transformation in the Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Era If there were any lingering doubts about the necessity of digital transformation to business longevity, the coronavirus has silenced t...

COVID-19 has rapidly and irrevocably reshaped the global business climate. Virtually overnight, restaurants and bars have shuttered their doors to customers, transitioning to delivery and take-ou...

Since 1891, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association's mission has been to present classical music aimed at enriching the human spirit. To help accomplish that in present-day, the association ...

The spread of COVID-19 has pushed many organizations to adopt remote work policies. This influx in remote work has created a gap in cybersecurity standards and it’s becoming a growing concern. Cybe...

Cloud computing is by far the most popular infrastructure in all IT sectors. According to Leftronic, 90% of companies use some type of cloud service and 77% of enterprises have at least one applica...

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak spreading around the world, many companies are seeking to understand how they can enable their employees to work from home while weathering the outbreak. Wh...

The COVID-19 outbreak could have a direct and lasting impact on organizations of all sizes. As the number of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases continue to climb both in the U.S. and across the...

Entering the new decade, you may have heard some chatter about digital trends and how the workplace is evolving – especially within the role of the CFO. According to a recent Forbes article,  New ...

CFOs are expecting bold moves for growth in 2020. Research from  BDO’s 2020 CFO Outlook Survey  predicted that digital transformation will grow 54% within the next year.  Increasing automation of ...

As the year comes to an end, most companies are making plans to improve their business in 2020. In the spirit of the New Year, we thought we’d share some exciting technology resolutions you may wa...

Digital transformation can feel like a leap of faith—a bet against the odds that your company’s investment will pay off in full. And yet, the alternative is unpalatable: a slow, painful decline in...

About the BDO Middle Market Digital Transformation Survey The 2019 BDO Middle Market Digital Transformation Survey was conducted by Rabin Research Company, an independent marketing research firm,...

The human spine is a remarkable feat of evolutionary engineering: 33 individual bones cushioned with fibrocartilage discs, bound together by interlocking joints and ligaments and connected to mus...

Innovative Business Models for the Digital Era Looking toward the digital economy of the future—one dominated by services and ideas rather than goods—the greatest opportunity for value creation...

As the saying goes, “if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.” Yet innovation continues, and if you haven’t kept up, you could be left behind. Consider an elite athlete who is at the top of her craft, she...

A Methodical Approach to Building Tomorrow Today Digital transformation goes far beyond more efficient operations. As middle market companies take steps towards automation, they should do so ...

While there’s debate over whether the pace of change is truly accelerating, or if technology is really diversifying vs. accelerating, the timeline for middle market companies to react and respond ...

A picture is worth a thousand words – especially when it comes to your data! A data dashboard is an analytics tool that helps capture, track, and consume data in a way that is meaningful to your b...

Digital transformation is inescapable—in more ways than one. Searches for “digital transformation” on Google have increased by roughly 1,900% in the last five years alone. And according to BDO’s ...

Over the last two years, 75% of all the world’s data was generated. However, the majority of companies are only leveraging about 12% of the data that’s available to them. With an abundance of data...

Embracing Digital Transformation Why Digital Transformation, and Why Now?  Digital transformation: innovation’s holy grail. Today, it’s nearly impossible to walk into a boardroom, client meet...

The buzzword, “digital transformation” is now an actively discussed topic in boardrooms, with businesses of all sizes trying to capitalize on new opportunities while avoiding disruption from newco...

The world has changed. The exponential growth of productivity, information sharing, mobility, and collaboration is reshaping the business world faster and more pervasively than any other time in h...