Paradigm Blog Posts

By Lauren Green, Workforce Manager These days, employee engagement is one of the hottest topics in the industry. Professional Service Organizations (PSOs) and their clients are obsessed with measuring how employee engagement yields high performance and ultimately improves the bottom-line. Yet despite all the statistical analysis and quantifiable research out there on what it takes to achieve employee engagement, it still appears to be an ongoing battle. But I believe we all have a fighting chance and the solution is simple. Have good leaders that use their intelligence to inspire, motivate, and develop their people.

Data privacy has been the focus of many regulations over the last few years. With data privacy platforms (click here for info) being implemented for businesses who need to re-evaluate what their business is doing. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has consumed much of the conversation and the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) went into effect just last month. Privacy has been around since the advent of civilization: it’s referenced many times in classical Greek law; third, fourth, and fifth amendments to the US Constitution include privacy-related provisions; and in 1948, UN’s Article 8 included the right to respect privacy.

By Sam Engram, Executive Vice President The IT Professional Services Industry is ever evolving. Whether it be in value perception, organizational engagement, differentiation, or competition, by always looking forward (and backward!), here is some insight as to how Professional Services Firms should shift focus and strategy to exceed ever-changing customer demands.

By Cary Moore, Senior Director of Data Science For the last decade (at least), so much of what I’ve seen and read in the marketplace, research, literature, and press is that the data lake and data scientists simplified end-user report environments, and the cloud will inevitably replace all that was wrong with the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW); like it was some evil imperial monolith from the “Dark Side” to be destroyed.