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Will Robots Be Our Future IT Auditors?

December 2015 - We are confronted with changes in technology every day; some are corollaries of an evolution, but we also are faced...

Who Cares About My Privacy and Who Should?

December 2015 - “Privacy is over” is a familiar statement dating from the first internet wave, but is it still true and applicable...

Forensic Investigations

December 2015 - In the past, forensic investigations involved a paper trail, reviews of hard-copy files, and interviews. Today, they cannot be performed...

Our Client Operations Are Changing: a Challenge or an Opportunity?

December 2015 - Information technology is changing and will continue to change the way businesses are run, and accordingly how their audit and...

For How Long Will IT Auditors Still Audit around Microchips?

December 2015 - Compact (“computer and accountant”) appeared for the first time in 1974. Dries Neisingh was involved right from the very start....

Retail Is Entering a New Era: “The Winner Takes All”

December 2015 - Three major trends can be observed that will transform the consumer market over the coming decades. The gist of it...

Technology for the Public Sector for Now and Beyond

December 2015 - Like all industries the public sector is part of a world that is changing rapidly. Technology is connecting people within...

The Impact of IT Developments in the Financial Services Sector

December 2015 - The financial services industry needs to adapt to changing circumstances on different kind of levels, such as Information Technology, Customer...

Information Technology Disrupted the Utilities Sector – Not Global Warming

December 2015 - November 20, 2045 “Granddad, can you help me out with this paper on fossil fuels for my history class?” “Sure,...

Assurance in the Digital World of the Future

December 2015 - The continuous developments within IT such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things and e-commerce (24/7 services) mean that a...

Data and Analytics

December 2015 - As the case may be, auditors base their work on a relatively small population when compared to the total. They...

Cybergeddon Paves the Way for New Deal on Cybersecurity

December 2015 - It’s very tough to make predictions, especially about the future. Nonetheless, there is hardly any doubt that the very nature...

Super Brain Computing

December 2015 - For centuries, humans have maintained the supremacy on earth by continuously learning and acquiring new skills and capabilities. Our brain...

Impact of Technology Developments for the Profession of Management Consultant

December 2015 - An interesting question that is raised, on the impact of technology for the profession of management consultants, especially when looking...

In a Decade We Will All Be Developing Software

December 2015 - Software engineering is at the very heart of IT. Nevertheless, outside of software development departments this is often misunderstood. This...

Delivering Projects Is Like Building a Lego Castle

December 2015 - Executing transformation programs is like building Lego objects. That is how Joost Groosman sees the future of program delivery in...

Risk Management and Independence in Times of Asset-Based Consulting

December 2015 - The consulting industry is entering times of significant change. Whereas the traditional management consultant may have grown up believing that...

The Development of Shared Services and Business Process Outsourcing in Central and Eastern Europe

December 2015 - Over the past 35 years, we have seen the development of shared services and business process outsourcing. IT has been...

Compact: A Magazine in Transition

December 2015 - In 2016, LINE UP boek en media will be celebrating its thirtieth anniversary, and the associate publishing firm kleine Uil...

The Power Sector May Completely Transform by 2030

December 2015 - The European Union is busy with answering the question of how to make the trilemma work: ensuring the balance between...

The Future of Data Analytics

December 2015 - A global KPMG survey showed that organizations cannot yet reap all the benefits of data analytics due to data quality...

Celebrating Life in the Natural Zone

December 2015 - June 20, 2045. Sander Klous and Nart Wielaard have a meeting in a cafe in one of the Natural Zones...

Welcome to the After-IT World

December 2015 - In the main, we are not very good at imagining future scenarios, being restrained by our lack of imagination and...

Digitalization and Beyond

December 2015 - There are a number of advantages of being the editor-in-chief. An important one is that I have influence on the...

Power of Play

December 2015 - The ability to play games will be a crucial part of the future skillset of C-level. In 2015 a typical...

Project Management Focus Will Shift Dramatically

December 2015 - Project management is a young profession with unanticipated, rapid developments on the one hand and teething troubles on the other....

Welcome to the ERP Utopia of 2045

December 2015 - Cloud computing has led to a radical standardization of data and processes, thereby paving the way for a quantum leap...

Companies Do Not Sufficiently Succeed in Profiting from ERP Innovations

December 2015 - Companies do not maximize the potential profit from the innovations that ERP software can bring. Under pressure to make savings...

Say Goodbye to Intuition

December 2015 - The challenge in a fast changing business landscape is to dynamically manage execution of a strategy, based on relevant and...