How Think Digital Summit UK & Ireland 2020 can help us all Emerge Smarter
If you’d asked any of us a year ago where we’d be today, would we have even got close? Our current situation is not just changing the way we live and work, it’s also accelerating the pace of transformation – fast. And while it’s important to take these challenges in our stride, what we do […]
IBM Unveils Free Digital Learning Platform SkillsBuild Reignite to Reach More Job Seekers & Provide New Resources to Business Owners in the UK
Reskilling the UK’s workforce for the economy of the future has become even more urgent. The last few months have been a challenging time for people and organisations throughout the UK. Faced with the uncertainty and disruption brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, and with competition increasing in the job market, we have seen many […]
From survive to thrive: digital leadership beyond lockdown
The COVID-19 pandemic delivered an abrupt shock to organisations across the UK both large and small. The experience has dominated our lives and news headlines around the world – disrupted business and triggered economic volatility in global markets. The ever-changing pressures of lockdown have emphasised the criticality of areas including remote working, business agility and […]
IBM Cloud for Financial Services
Balancing innovation, agility and regulatory responsibility Financial Institutions in the United Kingdom have been at the forefront of digitalisation transformation, until now this has been primarily led by financial technology (FinTech) companies due to them being born on the cloud. Unencumbered by legacy systems and complex integrations has allowed them to innovate faster, innovating faster […]
AIOps – reducing the cost of downtime
For too long – data has been held captive within our systems of record. Isolated by the rigidity of platform/application/workload choices, segregated by business line, business function, and data type or initial usage. The result is splintered views of segmented data that’s difficult to access on the whole, and impossible to attempt to gain true […]
IBM Cloud for Public Sector in the UK
UK Government and IBM sign public cloud agreement to accelerate innovation across the public sector If you follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn you may have seen me in a short video sharing excellent news: the UK Government and IBM have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for IBM Cloud. This is a first for […]
Galvanising digital transformation at Ireland’s National Health Library & Knowledge Service
Creating a new virtual assistant named LAMA Supporting the needs of thousands of health service professionals with prompt access to critical medical information during the COVID-19 pandemic was the key driver for us to transform rapidly and implement our virtual assistant LAMA (Library Ask Me Anything) at the National Health Library & Knowledge Service (NHLKS). […]
Transforming Talent to Transform the Enterprise
Disruption is the new normal. Business change is constant. As organisations seek to navigate Business, Technology and now Economic Disruption, re-aligning the skills of your workforce and the ability to transform at speed, will be essential. Key disruptive forces are shaping the next era of business reinvention. Unprecedented convergence of technological, social and now supply […]
NCSC recognises IBM for efforts to address the Cybersecurity skills gap
A second year of success for IBM and the CyberFirst programme In a year in which digital technologies have risen in popularity, we are reminded of the importance of securing these vital systems. Dependable electronic communication and interaction is essential to our society. When cybersecurity skills are in high levels of demand, action to ensure […]
Financial Services Cyber Resilience and the New Normal
IBM Security, as a global leader of security services and software, has seen a unique change in the way organisations are facing the challenge of cyber resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. The societal, technological and employee challenges have come alongside increased pressures from regulatory bodies on firms to maintain “robust market surveillance” whilst unorthodox working […]
Six crucial elements to adopt AI successfully
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is potentially the most powerful technology businesses have ever had access to. AI is not only transforming how businesses operate, but also the services and products they offer to their customers. In our experience, having worked with countless organisations on their AI and digital transformation strategies, there are barriers to successful adoption […]
How Enterprise Application Management can help businesses meet strategic goals.
Having been involved in creating solutions for cloud-based resources for the past 10 years, I’m still surprised to see many companies struggling to use cloud to deliver business results. Now that the low-risk applications have moved and the “born-in-the-cloud” are in their natural home, what about the rest? Where should the harder enterprise applications reside? […]
A sporting chance: digital innovation paves the way for an industry in transition
At the end of 2019, IBM and the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) signed a new multi-year contract, building on a 30-year partnership that has helped keep The Championships, Wimbledon, at the top of its game. This renewed partnership lays new ground for sports technology partnerships as the industry braces itself for a very […]
Unlocked: how the best businesses will emerge from the pandemic smarter and stronger
In this blog series, we’ve explored the challenges organisations have navigated as the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown have unfolded. The future will look wildly different depending on your industry perspective. But many people are now beginning to make sense of the changes and rebuild their businesses to accommodate the different normal. As we move into […]
Closer connections: how to maintain customer loyalty in a pandemic
Emerge smarter As the initial shock of the COVID-19 pandemic gives way to a period of reflection and rebuilding, we have an opportunity to reimagine how business works. To challenge long-held beliefs about what truly matters to the viability, competitiveness and health of our organisations and people. In this blog series, five IBM experts examine […]