While many organizations have seen a rise in productivity and a reduction in real estate costs because of going remote, there is still much speculation around returning to the office. What our research has shown is that rather than go entirely remote after the pandemic -- or return to in-house talent models -- is that most organizations will be adopting a new hybrid working model. Combine this new hybrid working model with the rise of cloud computing, and one thing is clear: the mobile workforce is about to grow significantly in the coming decade. According to a Statista report, the number of mobile workers in the United States is projected to increase 20% by 2024. This begs the question, do business leaders have the tools and processes in place to accommodate a rapidly growing mobile workforce?

Have you ever considered what real people actually do with the products of all of the innovation flowing from the IT industry? Sometimes, the answers are quite obvious. Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) essentially builds websites for mainly smaller businesses and facilitates credit card transactions. Silver Spring Networks (NYSE:SSNI) uses the technology of the IoT to facilitate the "intelligent city" and the "smart grid." Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) sells solutions that help companies manage both their sales people or agents and manage their customer interactions. Those and other solution sets are sold to rather obvious customers. But who actually buys and uses Big Data Appliances or Artificial Intelligence or advanced analytics. But in recent years, some financial services firms have tried to transform themselves from their roots as the providers of simple financial products used by consumers and business into what is known these days as Fintech. There are more than few such companies and perhaps at this point, there are companies with more aspirations as opposed to significant revenue. Equifax (NYSE:EFX) for many years has been known as one of the 3 major credit reporting agencies, the people who calculated your credit score using some arcane methodology. The business of selling credit scores to both business and consumers is hardly the most exciting in the world and has modest growth organic growth prospects in the US.