Outdated Systems Are Harming Your Business More Than You Realize. Here’s How to Modernize Before Disaster Strikes.

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Over the last 30 years, I’ve seen companies make the same mistake — convincing themselves that clinging to familiar outdated systems and tools is the safest choice. Yet, time and again, doing nothing has proven to be the riskiest decision of all.

The sudden shift to remote work during the pandemic laid bare just how unprepared most organizations were for today’s digital-first reality. IT teams scrambled to expand capacity for systems that had barely evolved in decades: laptops running local applications, corporate networks patched together with outdated security protocols and a cloud strategy that often amounted to bolting on fragmented capabilities

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