The future of air pollution monitoring is community-driven
Air pollution is the single most damaging environmental health risk in the world. The WHO estimates that around 4.2 million people die prematurely every year because of ambient exposure to pollutants....
The new ‘Agility’ demands modernised adaptability
Today’s modern enterprises could very reasonably expect to see requests for 1,000 changes to their front-end interfaces per day. It’s unlikely that the seventeen authors of the original Agile Manifesto had...
Doubling down on eCommerce
In the UK, eCommerce sales rose 36% year-on-year in 2020, the fastest growth seen since 2007 (IMRG). The US saw 10 years’ worth of growth in eCommerce penetration in the first...
Environmental and Legal Issues Affecting Businesses in the Wake of COP26
It is hard to ignore the huge push towards saving our environment. As many people have rightly noted, change on an impactful scale will only come from the government in the...
Forward Thinking Companies Put Sustainability Into Contracts
Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our time. Public and private organizations alike are working with an increasing sense of urgency to address this complex, critical issue.
In 2019,...
Signs your business is in distress and how do you turn it around
Being a business owner is, in itself, a risky business. You invest a great deal of your own time, utilise the skills you have gained over the years and inject your...
The future of decision making in the enterprise requires something more than ERP
Talk to a business leader about digital transformation, data, analytics, or systems, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) will inevitably rear its head. Composable ERP has long been the foundation for the...
MWC19 Insights PART II: Tech Review
In Part I of my MWC19 review, I covered the changes to industrial structure, but no review of MWC is complete without one or two tech highlights from the telco side –...
Taylorism 4.0: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Knowledge Work
In 1909, the American mechanical engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor helped to usher in the era of manufacturing automation when he published “The Principles of Scientific Management.”
Also known as Taylorism, scientific management...
The CISO View: Navigating the Promise and Pitfalls of Cybersecurity Automation
New 2023 State of Cybersecurity Automation research reveals that while adoption is rising, lingering hurdles undermine its effectiveness.
Cybersecurity automation has steadily gained traction as organisations seek to improve efficiency, address talent...