As the world becomes more closely connected, workforces have become more diverse and blended. Work is no longer confined to a place, rather it has become about making things happen – wherever you are, and however you work. A new report from IDC ‘Becoming “Future of Work” Ready: Follow the Leaders’, highlights how only agile […]
As people across the world unite to celebrate the planet’s environment and raise public awareness about pollution on Earth Day, now is a good time to reflect on the problems our planet faces and how we can help make it a better place. Technology plays a key role in both the challenges and the solutions. […]
Google Cloud Next 2019 is one of the world’s leading cloud development events. As such, it’s the perfect occasion to announce significant developments in our partnership with Google, spanning end user computing and public cloud. We have a longstanding partnership with Google, that goes back to working together on security and management for Chrome Books […]
This year’s MWC was all about 5G. From 5G enabled devices, to potential early network rollouts to certain US cities in the coming month, it seemed there wasn’t a moment that didn’t have a next generation network angle to it. If last year’s event was about the theory, then this year definitely felt like it […]
Introduction Every cloud has a silver lining. Take the Czech Republic, for example. It is currently in the grip of a significant labour crisis, with not enough workers to fill the jobs its public and private sector needs doing. The silver lining of that is it has the lowest unemployment rate of any EU country. […]
Andy Philp, EMEA Solutions Marketing, VMware As the world becomes more closely connected, workforces have become more diverse and blended. Work is no longer confined to a place, rather it has become about making things happen – wherever you are, and however you work. A new report from IDC ‘Becoming “Future of Work” Ready: Follow […]
Professor Feng Li, PhD, FBAM, Head of Technology and Innovation Management, Cass Business School Many business leaders underestimate the scale and speed of digital disruption that is bearing down on them. Innovation is on every organisation’s agenda, and although most don’t have issues developing strategies or generating new ideas, they often fail in their execution; implementing new business models or turning […]
There is a misconception that the university sector is perhaps more sedate than most: ancient subjects taught in old buildings by middle-aged lecturers – delivered to a young audience locked-in to a three-year course. The reality is wildly different. “We have a far more demanding group of stakeholders than most industries,” says University of Florence […]
Twenty-six different local authorities, each holding the personal details of local citizens, including health and financial data as well as their employers. Each collecting and distributing tens of thousands of pieces of information and payments each week. And each of the 26 has a different set of data management regulations. In information security terms, the […]
When discussing the impact of technology on the organization, we’ve typically done so in terms of platforms and infrastructure: on-premise, off-premise, cloud, data centers, networks, Edge. And you might measure value and effectiveness in terms of the value of cost optimization, agility, speed to market, security, compliance, control and choice. What this focus overlooks is what’s actually driving business decisions today – something that, until a few years ago, most people outside of the […]
Innovation is king. In the face of rising expectations and disruptive digital competitors, enterprises are desperate to innovate to safeguard their businesses and unlock future growth. Yet how often do we see many struggle to be able to execute? Look at Xerox, Kodak, Nokia. All big names that struggled to adapt to the changing demands […]
SIBUR is the largest integrated petrochemical company in Russia, which is engaged in the processing of associated petroleum gas, thus annually preventing the emission of more than 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As part of a large-scale digitalization of the enterprises comprising the holding, in 2017, SIBUR decided to change the […]