The IoT is changing today’s organizations into digital businesses. It’s also creating innovative business models, boosting efficiency, and fostering engagement in both employees and customers. Change is not always smooth, however. Sometimes the only way to adapt and stay relevant is by radically reinventing the way things have been done in the past, which can be a painful process for some companies.

There are other barriers to entry for IoT as well: most enterprises don’t know where to start implementing the technology; moreover, if strategies do exist, there’s almost always a conflict regarding who owns them. During these discussions, it’s the job of the CIO to fill the resulting IoT leadership void.

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What do you hope a modern estate will bring you? When Microsoft began their own transformation, they realized that they wanted a system that would allow them to empower employees, deeply engage with customers, develop new and better products, and increase agility and efficiency in operations. They also realized that at the center of making all this possible was data and AI capabilities. How could their learning experience help your business? Check out this video to find out.

Access to interactive learning tools provides students the unique opportunity to take ownership of their own education. This study examined the positive impact of the Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI) on the Fresno Unified School District. The PLI incorporates Microsoft Education technology to engage students in the material and to foster a culture of collaboration in the classroom.

View: Enabling Analytics for Improvement: Lessons from year 2 of Fresno’s Personalized Learning Initiative

Businesses are amassing enormous amounts of data, more than they know what to do with. Most are just using it to put together dense periodic reports explaining “what” happened too long after the fact to be of much use. Modernizing your digital workplace by moving to Azure and utilizing its AI technology can help you get a handle on your data and graduate from “what” happened to “how” it happened and, finally, to what “will” happen to inform what you should do all within a relevant period of time.

Managing 40,000 students can be challenging, especially when students come from diverse socio-economic backgrounds and have varying access to support outside of school. St. Lucie Public Schools, in Port Saint Lucie, Florida, is changing the narrative for their students by closely monitoring every student’s progress to ensure that adequate support and educational opportunities are available to everyone. Check out this video to learn how one school district is empowering its students to succeed in school and the world beyond.