In the calm after the GDPR storm, what’s next for businesses? For the forward-thinking ones, it’s time to go beyond compliance and embrace digital transformation. In this post, Rick Emmines, our Innovation Consultant, explains why GDPR is doing more for forward-thinking businesses he is working with, rather than just driving them to compliance.

According to the latest Gartner CIO insights Agenda Report, investment priorities for CIOs are changing. Recently, security has been falling in the list of highest priorities in favour of analytics, business intelligence, infrastructure cloud and mobile. At a first glance, this is understandable – it is far more logical for companies to make investments in areas which will give them a high or immediate return. Information security has never been one of these areas.