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The Business Imperative Of Decluttering Your Office
The new year is the perfect time to get your business in order. Decluttering has become a huge movement of late, led in part to the recent TV show featuring Japanese organising consultant Marie Kondo. Yet decluttering isn’t something that’s reserved solely for the home. Businesses up and down the country would be wise to take on board the principles of decluttering, reviewing processes and introducing best practices to enable a happy, healthy and efficient workforce.
How can retailers leapfrog the competition using low-code?
By Nick Pike, VP UK and Ireland, OutSystems. Every month we hear yet another negative retail story and without a doubt this is an industry going through huge transformation. With changing consumer shopping habits there is enormous pressure on retailers – both online and offline – as they look at shifting their business models and digitising their business.
MarTech Interview with Lewis Gersh, CEO, PebblePost
Tell us about your role and journey into Data-driven Marketing Technology. What inspired you to start at PebblePost? Prior to founding PebblePost, I worked for over 20 years as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and startup executive. My background is in digital and programmatic advertising, and dates back to its earliest days. I was fascinated by how quickly programmatic was evolving, and by 2014, I was spending a lot of time thinking about where programmatic would go next.
The insurance sector is teaming up InsurTechs to innovate
Just 18 months ago, the insurance sector appeared to be in turmoil. Nine out of ten insurers surveyed by PWC feared losing part of their businesses to FinTechs or InsurTechs while there was “little responsiveness to emerging innovation waves” and “few organisations were putting InsurTech at the heart of their strategy.” Fast forward to 2018, and the message has hit home, kickstarting a transformation that is seeing insurers turn risk into opportunity by engaging with InsurTech companies.
Building Your Digital Transformation Dream Team
There’s a sense in enterprises today that digital change is now inevitable. By the end of 2019, spending on digital transformation will reach £1.2 trillion worldwide—up 42% from 2017, according to a report from (IDC) late last year. But for many enterprises, it is not just the usual challenges such as organisational resistance to change and legacy business models that make the digital transformation journey difficult. Securing investment is a major factor.
Building your digital transformation dream team
There’s a sense in enterprises today that digital change is now inevitable. By the end of 2019, spending on digital transformation will reach £1.2 trillion worldwide — up 42% from 2017, according to a report from (IDC) late last year. But for many enterprises, it is not just the usual challenges such as organisational resistance to change and legacy business models that make the digital transformation journey difficult. Securing investment is a major factor.
Nine steps for developing a DevOps mindset
Stories about various industries and companies going digital cram the headlines. For example, airlines are readying for the digital shift to tackle increasing air traffic; meanwhile, Marks & Spencer has hired a principal technology partner to ‘drive digital-first.’ At the centre of all this is the need to boost productivity. Many companies still use inefficient manual processes instead of automation, however.
Nine Steps for Developing a DevOps Mindset
Stories about various industries and companies going digital cram the headlines. For example, airlines are readying for the digital shift to tackle increasing air traffic; meanwhile, Marks & Spencer has hired a principal technology partner to ‘drive digital-first.’ At the centre of all this is the need to boost productivity. Many companies still use inefficient manual processes instead of automation, however.
Building for brilliance -tips for Creating Outstanding Digital Experiences to Win User Hearts and Minds
“We live in a time where mobile apps are not utilities; rather, they are almost part of us.” This was a pearl of wisdom dropped by one of our digital factory teams recently that I think really highlights the challenge that businesses face in developing compelling, competitive apps.
Building for brilliance - tips for creating outstanding digital experiences to win user hearts and minds
“We live in a time where mobile apps are not utilities; rather they are almost part of us.” This was a pearl of wisdom dropped by one of our digital factory teams recently which I think really highlights the challenge that businesses face in developing compelling, competitive apps.
Out of the Shadows: What’s Next for Citizen Developers?
The original definition of a “citizen developer” was someone outside IT who creates new business applications for a department or team using single-user or workgroup solutions built with tools like Microsoft Excel and Access.
3 REASONS WHY BUSINESSES GET STUCK AT THE STARTING GATE OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
If any more evidence were needed that a fire has been lit under digital transformation, then the prediction that the enterprise mobility market will to explode to $500bn by 2020 is it. Fuelling this blaze is customer and employee demand for a seamless mobile digital experience in all aspects of their home and working lives. For businesses, it’s a case of adapt or be left in the dust, as they face challenges from disruptive industry entrants and innovators.
THROW CAUTION TO THE WINDS: GO DIGITAL FASTER TO KEEP YOUR FINANCIAL SERVICES BUSINESS AFLOAT
Just like business leaders in almost every industry, if you’re a decision-maker in financial services, it’s likely you’re turning to digitisation to execute on your strategies. Mobilising business processes improves customer satisfaction and response time. Mobility boosts employee productivity. And, mobile apps can increase competitive advantage. With those kinds of benefits, it’s no wonder your financial services organisation is keen to find solutions that enable them to go mobile faster.
PROVING THE MASSIVE SCALABILITY OF RAPID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PLATFORMS
As the enterprise mobility juggernaut gathers inexorable momentum, businesses are encountering the next big challenge in the development lifecycle: mobile enterprise app scalability. In the cauldron of ever-growing customer and employee demand, organisations have increased their investment in app development, but building for quantity can lead to sacrifices in quality and performance.
Digitalisation World
A step towards this goal was announced at January’s World Economic Forum Annual meeting, when the WEF launched a pioneering reskilling initiative with this exact purpose in mind. As technology becomes increasingly ubiquitous throughout society, in how individuals work and live, making technology accessible to as wide a population as conceivable will open opportunities for millions of people.
PUBLIC SECTOR IT INFRASTRUCTURE: LIBERATION FROM LEGACY
In 2010, when Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative party took control of the UK political landscape, one of their key strategies was to transform the public sector. Between 2010 and 2015, the government promoted digital development and the pressing need to make public services digital by default. A digitised service is easier to use and cheaper to run with less paperwork, fewer people being put on hold in a call centre queue, fewer forms filed in error and less risk of fraud.
THE TRUTH ABOUT LOW-CODE PLATFORMS: DEBUNKING THE MYTHS
The term “low-code app development” didn’t exist until a few years ago, but the concept isn’t a new one. In the last decade, the possibility of building a working business application in a few hours has come to fruition and has attracted an enormous amount of interest from enterprise professionals around the world.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION REQUIRES NEW TECHNOLOGY, NEW PROCESSES, A CULTURE CHANGE - AND A LITTLE SPRINKLING OF MAGIC!
Right now, many legacy business models are on the verge of collapse or under severe strain from digital pressures coming from both inside and outside the business. And where many organisations are concerned, if there isn’t a programme in place to replace legacy systems (and processes) with innovative new digital platforms, then you can be sure that there will be soon. The problem is you can’t just switch legacy off.
How low-code platforms are bridging the gap between businesses and their IT departments
Not only that, with resources stretched, many IT departments are left with no choice but to prioritise day-to-day management over business innovation. And yet despite considerable challenges like these, there’s also good news: Low-code platforms are helping to bridge the gap between business needs and IT capabilities. Low-code platforms give businesses the ability to create the apps they need quickly and simply, taking much of the pressure off IT.
Protect your data: Top ten “need to know” tips
With breaches happening on an almost daily basis, it's critical to establish rules and processes to keep your data safe and secure. The following tips, designed to help you build a sustainable path towards data security, were inspired by the FTC. Think before you collect. Is it necessary and does it add value to capture personal, sensitive information from your customers and prospects? Or does it just open up additional risk?
Why Open Source is Driving the Big Data Market - Data Economy
The big data market is moving at lightning speed. But when it comes to solutions, there’s a widening chasm between the legacy approach and next-generation developers and vendors. While the legacy approach has worked well over the years and still has its place in what is becoming a huge market, there are many signs that open source solutions will be better placed to help business optimise the advantages that big data analysis brings. But first who are the legacy vendors?
Healthcare Industry Suffered On Average One Breach A Day In 2016
Following the news that in 2016 the healthcare industry suffered on average one breach a, Jason Allaway, VP of UK and Ireland at RES commented below. Jason Allaway, VP UK & Ireland at RES: “The news that the healthcare industry suffered on average one data breach a day in 2016 should serve as a stark warning to organisations. The industry has been a hot target for cyber criminals and in 2017 this will only escalate.
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