Anita Swann, Group Alliance Director, Logicalis offers her advice as to what do we need to grow the tech industry of the past into the tech industry of the future.

It’s been ten years since the Logicalis CIO report was launched. It was designed as a pulse check on the mood in the industry, to identify common CIO challenges and ambitions and to serve as a reminder that we are part of an ever-changing ecosystem that evolves each year.

The next session in our Revive and Thrive series focuses on the damage done by stress and how we can alleviate not just stress, but also build abilities and skills that support our overall wellbeing.

Our responsible business agenda has been shaped by understanding who we are as a business, which social and environmental challenges are important to our customers, partners, people and in the regions that we operate in.

Investigating making the invisible visible, the first session in our Revive and Thrive series provided an understanding of how we can look after each other's mental health by changing behaviours, from unconscious bias to consciously include people.

The enablement of sustainability strategies through technology and IT, in this instance is what can truly enable business growth and ESG performance, and there are several ways that they tie together. 

A sustainable society is one that lives within the carrying capacity of its natural and social systems, but as the impact of businesses on the environment has increased dramatically, that balance for a sustainable society has tipped.

Corporate sustainability has become more than a “nice to have”. We are seeing more and more organisations realise the urgency to act not just because of regulatory pressure, but also because they see sustainability as a way to drive business benefits. Environmental and social governance or ESG which considers sustainability policies and ethical practice, is moving out of the shadows and becoming the next big bet in business transformation providing clear shared value.

Our recent CIO survey shows over half of respondents plan to increase their risk management investment. They also consider malware and ransomware significant risks that their organisations will face in the coming year. But what should an organisation look for in choosing the right MSSP?