Perspectives
Artificial Intelligence – a team sport
What does it mean to deploy artificial intelligence into your business and what makes an AI project successful? These are some of the many questions we will be tackling in depth at our upcoming event on the 21st May at The Groucho Club, but until then, here are some topics you might wish to consider. […]
From flags to Yam stations to digital! Networks – more important than ever
I have recently finished reading about the life of Genghis Khan, his battles and all conquering armies and his heirs. So how do you get to Genghis Khan and networks in the same sentence whats the link? Ghengis and his predecessors were not only masters at warfighting and land grabbing they were also very clever. […]
Artificial Intelligence – a team sport
What does it mean to deploy artificial intelligence into your business and what makes an AI project successful? These are some of the many questions we will be tackling in depth at our upcoming event on the 21st May at The Groucho Club, but until then, here are some topics you might wish to consider. […]
Cloud Expo Europe 2019: Tips and Tech Talks
Why attend Cloud Expo Europe? According to research from Ovum, while 20 percent of business processes have already moved to the cloud, 80 percent of mission-critical workloads and sensitive data are still running on-premises because of performance and regulatory requirements. As they enter the next phase of their cloud journey, many organizations will be moving […]
A Beginner’s Guide to IT Marketing
“IT marketing” sounds like a very unusual discipline. Historically, the best-equipped CIOs had analytical backgrounds, and many were natural introverts. Self-promotion may not have come naturally, and where it did it may still have been ineffective. But (as I often claim) the IT function is in a slow fight for survival. Winning means adapting to […]
UK’s First P-TECH to Open
P-TECH Combines classroom and career training to address tech skills shortage Today, the UK takes an important step in advancing digital skills in education and workforce development, as IBM announced the launch of Pathways in Technology programme, or P-TECH, initially at two schools and one college. P-TECH is a new, non-selective, approach to secondary school […]
National Apprentice Week 2019 and IBM
Securing the workforce of the future Employers are spending more than £6 billion a year on the skills shortage[1] (Open University Business Barometer 2018), predominantly through recruitment activities, but buying skills and not building them is a short-term approach, which ultimately won’t pay dividends. It is crucial that organisations take a more sustainable approach using […]
IBM – Headline Sponsor at Cloud Expo Europe
It’s that time of year again when the great and the good of the Cloud world converge on London and showcase their wares to an eager delegation of attendees. Yes, Cloud Expo Europe 2019 is almost upon us. IBM will be there as the headline sponsor for the event, there will be numerous opportunities to […]
The golden rule of automation
It’s easy to assume that automation is all about process. But businesses often take a somewhat over-simplified view of how it can bring about improved performance – particularly in the longer term. There are, of course, huge benefits to be gained from holistically addressing organisation-wide processes and identifying repetitive, manual tasks that could be undertaken […]
Productising IT Services
It’s great to see Agile ways of working taking such a firm hold in our collective psyche. I’m a big believer, having recently found a few curious (and curiously effectively) ways to use them. Agile’s principles can be applied more broadly than most people recognise, and compliment the dominant “digital” agenda which implicitly drives much […]
Black Friday and beyond – How omnichannel strategies deliver industry-leading growth rates
For retailers, heads of e-commerce, and any executive focused on transformation in the B2C and B2B worlds, Black Friday delivers illuminating insights. Here’s the stat that caught my eye: seven retailers outperformed Amazon in year-on-year growth during the Black Friday week. Given what we know about Amazon, this seems incredible. In Europe we saw some […]
Business Platforms: Rethinking your Experience
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” (Maya Angelou) A few years ago I was having breakfast on a small island in the Grenadines. One of the staff expressed his concern at the mosquito bites on my […]
The Power Systems plan has three prongs
There is a plan, which is always reassuring to know. Let me tell you about it. I was part of an event in Germany earlier in the year, and the plan was announced there. We have been saying a lot about Linux and AI in recent years, which are areas we are relatively new into […]
Innovation through data – The Right Road Ahead
For the last few years, there has been considerable confusion amongst construction product manufacturers regarding how to make their “BIM” (Building information modelling) information available to the market. With a lack of standards and guidance, manufacturers are struggling to effectively communicate and keep their product information up to date. This represents a risk to the […]