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By Nick Levy on 1 August, 2024

Safeguarding Your Bank from Technology Supply Chain Risks: Proactive Strategies for Resilience

The New Normal: Building Resilience in a Hyper-Connected World In today’s lightning-fast digital landscape, the unexpected has become the norm. High-velocity disruptions can strike at any moment, threatening the very foundations of our interconnected world. For banks, the stakes are particularly high. The increasing complexity of technology supply chains poses a significant risk to operational […]

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By Nick Levy on 23 July, 2024

Unlocking the Power of ‘Team Human’ in UK Financial Services: 6 Key Technology Trends to Watch

As the world continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, the financial services industry is facing unprecedented challenges. With the rise of new technologies, changing consumer behaviours, and shifting regulatory landscapes, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. But as senior technology leaders in the UK banking and financial services industry, we have a choice: we can […]

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By Michael Conway on 1 August, 2024

Safeguarding Your Bank from Technology Supply Chain Risks: Proactive Strategies for Resilience

The New Normal: Building Resilience in a Hyper-Connected World In today’s lightning-fast digital landscape, the unexpected has become the norm. High-velocity disruptions can strike at any moment, threatening the very foundations of our interconnected world. For banks, the stakes are particularly high. The increasing complexity of technology supply chains poses a significant risk to operational […]

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By Dr. Nicole Mather and Seema Raman on 26 March, 2024

Streamlining Life Sciences Research: Simplifying Data Access with Design Principles

Life Sciences research and development is complicated: complex tasks are carried out in an environment of big data, specialised technology and regulated processes. The challenges of this complexity risks making processes and interactions iterative, slow and expensive. To accelerate innovation in the development of safe and effective treatments, Life Sciences organisations need to cut through these challenges […]

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By Krishnan Padmanabhan and Prashant Jajodia on 26 February, 2024

Hyper-personalisation: The Next Frontier in Digital Transformation

In recent years, the banking industry has witnessed a digital transformation, marked by a proliferation of features within mobile apps. However, the pursuit of adding more capabilities has reached a plateau, leading to a pivotal shift. The era of the feature war is over. This evolution is no longer merely about incorporating additional functionalities; rather, […]

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By Prashant Jajodia on 30 January, 2024

Priorities for Financial Services in 2024

It is the time of the year when we do a bit of crystal ball gazing to predict the key technology trends in financial services in the new year. This is based on IBM research and our conversations with clients and industry analysts. While the economic outlook for 2024 looks better than last year, geopolitical […]

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By Prakash Pattni on 14 December, 2022

Financial Services Panel Discussion Summary

Prakash Pattni, Managing Director, IBM Cloud for Financial Services, EMEA reflects on a vibrant discussion hosted at IBM London which explored the challenges and opportunities facing fintechs and banks as they look towards the new year, with senior leaders from Lloyds Banking Group, Starling Bank, Innovate Finance and Scribe.  As another transformative year in banking […]

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By Chris Nott and James East on 2 December, 2022

Navigating complexity: powering better-informed decision making with Improbable Defence’s Skyral and IBM’s DSaS

Our lives are defined by unprecedented volumes of data. Massive data – what we used to call ‘big data’ – has propelled us into The Information Age and continues to drive unprecedented technological innovation. It’s transforming how we live, connect and operate. Here’s one example. The Information Age has accelerated an unfortunate but perhaps inevitable […]

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By Prashant Jajodia on 24 November, 2022

Digital Transformation in Banking – Chapter Three

I am a bit of a banking nerd. I use several banks and often find myself comparing their digital banking services. They are all very good. You can securely check your balance and make a payment on your mobile app with all of them. You can also do many everyday banking tasks like move money, […]

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By Richard Davies on 17 November, 2022

Defence 4.0 and Enabling Capabilities in an Ecosystem

Previous IBM defence blogs we have talked about the paradigm shift to Defence 4.0 which impacts a range of business and technical dimensions. A particular challenge in this transformation, for both industry and defence, is to clearly articulate and operationalise a ‘digital ecosystem’ which is underpinned by collaboration. The benefit of an ecosystem is that […]

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By Chris Nott and others on 11 November, 2022

Embedding analytics and AI in mission command

Defence chiefs are grappling with how to apply analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) for decision advantage knowing that commercial sectors already benefit.  In particular, responding to activities designed by adversaries to coerce without military conflict and assist in decision making to act on specific operational problems. A study by IBM’s Institute for Business Value last […]

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By Leendert van Bochoven and others on 15 August, 2022

IBM and Improbable in partnership to deliver a new technology edge

“A nation’s ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.” (Frank Whittle, RAF officer and inventor of the Turbojet engine)     The war in Ukraine demonstrates that we need to rethink how we configure ourselves for modern, multi-domain hybrid conflict.  Against an undemocratic adversary with different values, our tactics […]

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By Stephen Harmer and Alina Jingan on 13 July, 2022

A Connected CRM At The Heart Of Your Growth

Times have been testing for companies in almost every industry in recent years. After nearly 24 months where so much has changed in Media and Entertainment, from how we work, to how we consume content, to how we engage with audiences, it has certainly meant that many organisations have been forced to rapidly adapt to […]

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By Dr. Nicole Mather and others on 29 June, 2022

Accelerating Healthcare Transformation through Patient-Centred MedTech Solutions

Connected devices can transform care delivery for patients and improve outcomes. Putting patients at the centre of a care ecosystem which is more participative and personalised will improve patient engagement, health outcomes and the productivity of healthcare delivery: Designing the digital experience with patients and carers will enable a transformation in the way devices are […]

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By Richard Davies on 18 May, 2022

Architecting Digital Transformation Organisations and Technology Leadership

The context of digital transformation in Defence Digital organisations in defence need to embrace the following dimensions of transformation (see IBM Blog). Meeting the evolving digital needs – Industry 4.0 meeting Defence 4.0 Making ecosystems work – collaborative platforms, integrated solutions and associated commercials (IP, Security) Delivering on new agile ways of working – culture, […]

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