·A study by Telefónica Tech reveals that 60% of the IT professionals surveyed recognise that after the pandemic their company is better positioned in terms of ICT strategy, but 28% confess that they are only concerned with immediate needs.
·81% of companies admit that they made expedient ICT purchases to adapt to the pandemic that will not provide strategic value in the long term.
·57% said that aligning people and processes to the technology strategy has led to significant efficiency gains.
·31% recognise that they had left themselves open to potential security vulnerabilities due to poor remote working practices prior to the pandemic, whilst 20% admit that they were not previously using the tools available to them and 15% had made poor ICT decisions before the pandemic.
·The main challenges are: implementing people-based processes, increasing employee training, having time to take stock of the business and making better use of data.