DevOps.com Report: More Appreciate the Value of Observability

May 2020
Published by devops.com

A survey of 400 IT decision-makers commissioned by Honeycomb and conducted by ClearPath Strategies found that while nearly half of the respondents are not currently practicing observability, 75% of those who are not yet practicing observability plan to do so within the next two years.

Observability Maturity: Community Research Findings

May 2020
Published by honeycomb.io

Honeycomb’s Observability Maturity Study, conducted by ClearPath Strategies, finds: 1) observability enables production excellence; 2) most teams have yet to begin or are early in their observability journeys; 3) there is momentum behind the shift toward achieving more observable systems; and 4) advanced observability practitioners achieve excellence by focusing on outcomes.

As Container Hype Levels Off, Developers Looking to Reduce Complexity, According to Latest Cloud Foundry Foundation Global Survey

October 2019
Published by cloudfoundary.org

According to the newest Cloud Foundry Foundation Global Perception Study, developers are gaining more control over enterprise development strategies, adding levels of abstraction and decreasing complexity as enterprise IT and cloud environments become more complex.

Climbing Up the Stack: As Cloud Strategies Grow More Complex, Developers Seek the Ease of Abstraction

October 2019
Published by cloudfoundry.org

The latest Cloud Foundry Global Perceptions Study, the tenth wave of research among 500+ IT professionals and execs conducted by ClearPath Strategies, details how developers, faced with an increasingly complex, multi-cloud environment, are turning to technologies—like PaaS and serverless—that abstract away complexity and provide consistency across platforms. The report explores which solutions developers want and need, how teams are leveraging abstraction and looking up the stack, solutions for a productive developer workflow, and developer and business considerations for new technologies.

Living Standard Research Shows Storytelling Advances the Sustainability Conversation

Fall 2019
Published by usgbc.org

USGBC commissioned ClearPath Strategies to conduct in-depth national qualitative and quantitative research on people’s views about the environment. The research uncovered a significant gap between the way that sustainability is discussed and the public’s primary concerns. It also revealed a gap between professed concern for the environment and personal actions pertaining to the environment.

The Standard Issue Volume 2: U.S. Public Research Report

Fall 2019
Published by livingstandard.org

The second issue of The Standard Issue by Living Standard illustrates the way to reach people is through encouragement of small, gradual changes and meeting them where they are, not through drastic calls to action or warnings. In addition to new research, Standard Issue Volume II includes an Action Toolkit that provides new ways to talk about environmental issues.

Forget About Green Building. Let’s Talk about a New Living Standard

July 2019
Published by treehugger.com

The USGBC started a campaign, the Living Standard, to extend the green building community’s efforts beyond construction and efficiency and focus on humans and the way we talk about sustainability. Through a survey conducted by ClearPath Strategies, they found that there are contradictions in the way people talk about and approach environmental issues, such as climate change.

Toolkit for Carrying the Living Standard Message into the Broader Public

July 2019
Published by livingstandard.com

Following the release of the first Standard Issue report, part of the Living Standard campaign, USGBC released the Living Standard Action Toolkit to provide tools for the Living Standard community to carry the message into the broader public. The Action Toolkit presents ways to spread the message that everyone deserves a safe and healthy place to call home, ideas for framing the issue and starting conversations, tangible steps to make a difference, and words and images that resonate with people.

FDI Confidence Index Provides Key Insights Across Supply Chain Sectors

June 2019
Published by sdcexec.com

The FDI Confidence Index is based on an annual survey of 500 global business executives of firms with annual revenues of more than $500 million. Respondents rank markets that will attract the most FDI in the next three years. The 2019 survey revealed three main conclusions: the US continued to represent the most attractive target for FDI flows, European economies captured more than half of the top 25 spots after its share had declined in the previous two years, and ninety percent of business leaders indicated that they were pursuing or considering pursuing localization strategies.

The 2019 Kearney Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index: Facing a Growing Paradox

Published by kearney.com

The 2019 FDI Confidence Index, based on an annual survey of 500 global business executives, revealed that a variety of paradoxes arise for global companies in the “age of multi-localism,” or the growing preference for local communities, industries, products, cultures and customs. One of the key findings of the report is that most investors focus on the regional or city level rather than the country level when deciding where to invest.

Maintaining the Human Connection in an Age of AI: 2019 Views from the C-Suite

Published by kearney.com

The annual Views from the C-Suite report is a survey of global business executives on the opportunities and the challenges they see in the global business operating environment over the course of the next year. The 2019 report found that relationship management is more important than ever given shifting globalization patterns and wider application of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.

USGBC releases the first Living Standard U.S. Public Research report

April 2019
Published by usgbc.org

The first in a series, USGBC’s Living Standard US Public Research report includes some of the Living Standards campaign’s in-depth qualitative and quantitative research on people’s views of the environment. USGBC has worked to prove that buildings can mitigate climate-related risks if created with forethought and compassion. But, the green building community has not reached the broader population effectively enough to change their behavior on the scale necessary to combat climate-related risks. This research questions conventional wisdom and experience related to people’s views of the environment.

Liberal parties to make gains in elections as voters seek alternatives to status quo

April 2019
Published by aldeparty.edu

A survey conducted by ClearPath Strategies, on behalf of the ALDE Party, across the EU27 countries found that while the rise of the right is real and is a direct result of the failure of the mainstream parties, Euroscepticism remains in the minority, migration is not the issue of most importance to citizens, and an overwhelming majority think the EU has been mostly a good thing for their countries.

Adaptation, Not Adoption, is the Key to Digital Transformation

April 2019
Published by cloudfoundry.org

This Cloud Foundry Research Report, based on the findings of a survey of 500+ IT professionals and execs conducted by ClearPath Strategies, concludes that digital transformation is now firmly entrenched in the discourse around modern companies, and as more companies embrace the reality of digital transformation, they are adapting to the perpetual shifts and the constant cycle of adaption of new technologies involved in the process of digital transformation.