Not to get all gloomy about it, but the pandemic accelerated the largest declines in college enrollment in more than 50 years and slammed colleges and universities with $24 billion in COVID-related debt. In other words, COVID was a wake up call for higher education.

Last year, my friends at Appian commissioned some research through the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Financiers ridden with technical debt. The results were interesting: Research from The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Appian, finds that just over a third (34%) of IT decision makers believe that the reduction or elimination of legacy IT would do most to help their organisation achieve its automation objectives.

The financial services industry, like so many others, has undergone long-lasting changes in recent years. With the emergence of new technologies, new regulations, and unprecedented market changes, institutions have had to contend with unpredictability and rising consumer expectations. To effectively manage constant change, financial firms have to find a way to balance innovation and efficient process execution with risk.

You can spend hours scrolling down the rabbit hole of government IT horror stories, which makes the recent launch of the federal website for ordering free COVID tests that much more remarkable. The website worked, and it was surprisingly easy to use. But that success belies decades of underinvestment in digital transformation that has stifled public sector innovation and hardened the government's low-tech image. For example.

When COVID-19 hit, college students freaked out, universities went remote, and millions of students struggled with the impersonal functionality of Zoom—even with tropical backgrounds. But more than that, the pandemic exposed the shortcomings of legacy student information systems (SIS) that stymied university efforts to limit virus spread and help anxious students cope with pandemic stress. But sometimes it takes a crisis to start a revolution.

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The way we interact with organizations has changed. Experiences have gone remote, mobile, and virtual over the past few years and there is no going back. According to Gartner, organizations providing a Total Experience in this new era will outperform competitors by 25% across key satisfaction metrics. But what is Total Experience? It is the combination of customer experience (CX), employee experience (EX), user experience (UX), and multi-experience (MX) to transform business outcomes.