C orporate real estate strategy has entered a new phase. Expansion decisions are no longer driven by brand prestige or default gateway markets. Today's environment demands cost discipline, workforce stability, operational resilience, and long-term flexibility. For companies considering expansion or relocation, smaller metros - often called secondary cities - are increasingly landing on the shortlist. Not as compromises. As competitive, strategic options.
"The two outages we experienced last year were painful for our guests, employees and financial results," he said. "It's not for a lack of investment. We were investing in IT. I think it was more of a configuration. We had hardware failures. We had backup systems and triple redundancies that didn't kick in."
In 2025, the frequency of healthcare data breaches more than doubled. However, the number of patient records exposed has significantly decreased, indicating a shift in the data breach landscape, according to a new report from Fortified Health Security.
By 2026, SAP migration programs are no longer framed as discrete IT initiatives focused on system compatibility or platform upgrades. Enterprises increasingly approach migration as a strategic intervention tied to financial performance, operational resilience, and long-term scalability. Within this context, a well-defined SAP migration strategy has become central to how organisations translate platform change into measurable business outcomes rather than treating migration as a technical prerequisite for future transformation.
Digital sovereignty has outgrown its niche as an IT concern and is now firmly on the boardroom agenda. This has been fueled in no small part by geopolitical concerns. However, while geopolitics may have pushed it into the spotlight, at its core digital sovereignty is about one thing: keeping the business running no matter what happens. When critical systems fail, there is always a cost.
Neither government shutdown nor IT outage can stop the merger of Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines. "For us, the biggest honor, the biggest compliment we can get is silence," says Rodrigo Ramos, the regional general manager of North America at Sabre. The early-rate deadline for Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards is Friday, November 14, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Apply today.
UK manufacturers are losing up to £736 million every week due to downtime, according to new research, with outages lasting for days on end. Across the UK, US, and Germany, new data from Fluke Corporation shows 46% of manufacturers reported between six and ten downtime incidents weekly, while for 15% the figure is between 11 and 20. Nearly half (45%) said outages last up to 12 hours, with 17% reporting that incidents had stretched to 72 hours.
The truth is, these teams are working on the same event. They're just seeing it from different angles. If they aren't connected, response becomes fragmented and valuable time gets lost. Connecting the Dots in Real Time This is where a unified approach to critical event management makes a real difference. It's not about layering on more tools. It's about connecting the ones already in place and giving people a shared view and a clear process when something goes wrong.