Everywhere we look, organisations are touting their ability to innovate, to generate cutting edge ideas, to change the game. They’re doing it to stay ahead of the competition which, thanks to digitisation, has changed beyond all recognition. However, if everyone is innovating, is anyone doing anything new? In other words, in the rush to innovate, […]
Electric drives, the sharing economy, connected cars and autonomous driving: In the face of these trends, the automotive industry has no choice but to change course. Porsche Informatik – the Porsche Holding software control center – is pivotal to these dynamic developments. Ground-breaking solutions for the future of mobility can be built only on the […]
Innovation is the name of the game right now. Organisations that don’t innovate risk becoming obsolete – just look at the household names that have lost their place at the top of the tree (like Nokia), or disappeared from view completely (such as Kodak). What’s interesting is that many of these once market leaders never […]
Being #1 has its own kind of pressure. When you’re #2 in the market you have a clear goal: topple the #1. What’s the mindset of a market leader? Watch your back? Protect what you have? Ignore everything? Harel lnsurance lnvestments & Financial Services is the leader of Israel’s insurance market. It has four big […]
By Louise Fellows, Director, Public Sector VMware UKI In my role as a leader within the public sector, and from my many years of experience in tech, I’m passionate about the role IT can play in creating a healthier, more sustainable and better world for everyone. Building more responsive and intelligent public services is a […]
There appears to be no end to the challenges faced by the high street. According to one report, 16 shops are closing a day in the UK, with Monsoon becoming the latest in a series of big name brands to announce store closures recently. Since the turn of the year to 9th April, 21 retailers […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Digital transformation is an increasingly relevant subject in all industries, and banking is no exception. CaixaBank is the leading retail banking institution in Spain, with more than 16 million customers and considered as one of the most innovative in the world. With a penetration rate of 32%, it has the largest digital customer base in […]
In Russia, Europe’s largest country and largest telco market, it takes a grander mindset to succeed. MTS is the market leader. It has more than 100 million active subscribers across all services, and operates in Ukraine, Armenia, and Belarus. And it is much more than a provider of mobile phone services. MTS has business lines […]