News Archive 2015

Amazon Web Services is the clear leader in cloud computing now, but Wall Street thinks it's about to face much stronger competition from Microsoft's own cloud-computing platform, Azure, next year.

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Thinking like a start up, lessons for the big IT department.

A recent Deloitte report highlighted a disturbing trend in the pharmaceutical industry: It appears that investments made in research and development just aren't delivering the way they used to.

No fewer than 14 different tax changes targeted mostly at the buy to let sector will damage the market in 2016 according to leading business consultancy KPMG.

Why the low number of organizations aligning operational risk management (ORM) to strategy?

Hospital and health system CEOs understand that they face unprecedented changes and a dramatically different market in the coming decade.

'Flavor of the Month' programs - are not enough. Only a comprehensive and coordinated strategy will make inclusion part of your company's DNA.

Digitalization and the digital business are catalysts of change that are affecting the human-machine relationship and driving better customer outcomes. IT leaders should use Gartner's predictions as planning assumptions on which to base their strategic plans.

How do you grow a business these days?

The retail industry is in the final days of a year in which the athleisure trend continued to boom, the off-price category got even hotter and an ever-growing list of restaurants catered to our interest on healthy eating by announcing big changes to their food supply chains. So what are likely to be the hot topics in retail in 2016?

Big Four accounting firms are all the same. Or are they? The variations are not always subtle.

In a lot of ways, Apple has already succeeded where Microsoft has failed for decades...

Microsoft had a good year in 2015 and it's preparing for even greater things in the future. CMO Chris Capossela dropped some intriguing hints...

Product marketing manager There are plenty of lists out there for the tech lover, dog lover, fashion lover, coffee loverbut what about that hard-to-shop-for developer?

In 2014, Frost & Sullivan, a leader in business growth consulting and best practices research, surveyed marketers and companies, including the Fortune 1000, to find out the top techniques and technologies they use in getting to know their customers' needs.

When it comes to the development of digital services, banks in Western Europe have neglected the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

KPMG has launched a new ecommerce survey of online spending in China, in partnership with Mei.com (A China-based online flash retailer of luxury brands) and Weibo (An online social media platform in China).

The significant fall in oil prices since mid-2014 should increase overall UK economic activity as the cost of production decreases for businesses, especially for those that are heavily dependent on oil inputs. This will boost both investment and employment.

As new insights into brain science and human behavior are now being made at unprecedented levels by scientists worldwide—and as analytics finally enable organizations to test hypotheses and form conclusions by analyzing a newly available treasure trove of big data—HR will begin to arm itself with the tools and insights of a scientist to drive significantly better performance from their workforces and improved business outcomes.

Over the summer PA's Technology Centre in Melbourn welcomed five work experience students...

Companies with limited access to analytics can still find information to improve their operational efficiency.

Highlights and key messages for business and public policy

A round up of the latest trends

Paul Hammond, VP of Infrastructure Services at Capgemini, talks about the changing role of a CIO

When it comes to the world your children and grandchildren will live in, you are the point of difference in shaping the future you all want...

PA's technology team has developed a way to help healthcare providers offer just this level of service, by building a low-cost, body-worn healthcare sensor that can remotely monitor a patient's critical health indicators as well as check whether they have taken their medication.

"She came up the ranks first as an engineer, then a CTO, and just landed the US CEO role at a highly watched electric vehicle startup NextEV. Smart, articulate, and poised, Warrior rarely says anything that could be considered controversial or offensive. But if you want to see her eyes glow and her tongue get sharp, just ask her about how women engineers are still struggling to find acceptance in the tech industry...

The technology giant's CEO, Tim Cook, addresses issues concerning his company -- including encryption technology, corporate taxes, and manufacturing products in China

This is the Indian IT firm's third takeover since July.

"UK technology companies have been successful and remain optimistic, but growth has softened over the past two years. However, most activity is based around London and the south east, with Reading holding its place as the "top tech cluster".

Keeping ahead of data management needs in the banking sector requires three components. Pcubed's Laura Willson explains.

When asked by Linus Gregoriadis, Global Director of Research & Intelligence at contentive (publishers of ClickZ), to discuss my thoughts on the latest digital marketing trends, I was of course flattered. These are his questions and my answers (ClickZ will publish their full industry report in Jan 2016).

In an industry as competitive as retail, innovation is what distinguishes the leaders from the laggards. Looking back on 2015, here are the top 5 innovative trends I've seen retailers leverage to revitalize customer experiences and drive ROI.

Service Integration has made the transition from novel concept to strategic imperative at most large enterprises. It is now seen as the key to solving all kinds of challenges - from improving the quality and consistency of IT services, to streamlining IT operations, to meeting the challenges of supplier management in an increasingly multi-sourced environment.

Topic. the digital transformation of business and society. a futuristic view of impacts that the shift from labor to automation will have on businesses and society in general.

It measures how much these technology trends are discussed within the sectors and how much the sectors are discussed by the trend suppliers.

Polling of large company CFOs also reveals cautious optimism on company prospects and planning for impacts of generational workforce trends.

Gartner expects 6.4 billion "things" will be connected to the Internet in 2016, up 30% from 2015.

This graphic offers a brief overview of OrgDNA - the combination of formal and informal traits that shape a company's 'personality' as well as the seven organizational profile types, as distilled by PwC's Strategy& over more than a decade of research. What's your company's type? '

Yoyo Wallet is the fastest growing mobile wallet in the UK and is already making its way to the US. In just two years since its inception, Yoyo has created a smart wallet platform that enables retailers to not only accept in-store mobile payments, but also automate loyalty, and instantly deliver rewards to customers based on their purchasing habits.

The Next Wave: How and Why Demography and Robotics are Reshaping Work and Workforces in the 21st Century

The more I talk to our clients, the more evident it is that their customers are expecting them to be always-on and accessible across channels. My response is always the same, You have a choice...

In 2015, we foresee the acceleration of a trend that's been under way since the end of the financial crisis: the increased commoditization of retail banking products.

As the year comes to a close, we take a look back at our most-read blog posts of 2015 including an interview with auto disruptor Carwow, some great examples of data visualisation in action and our own research into the high street of 2025.

CIOs at manufacturing companies have a reputation as no-frills, no-nonsense types with a knee-jerk aversion to technology fads and the The Next Big Thing. That's for the dot com guys, right? Whether this attitude reflects the nature of the industry, an inherent personality type or the fact that IT budgets in the space are notoriously lean is open to debate. Regardless, manufacturing CIOs who dismiss emerging technologies as hype are missing an opportunity to drive significant benefit.

The way companies sell products and create profits has changed dramatically over the past five or six years and this in turn has meant big changes for the way employees get their work done.

Following two years of increased regulation, the 2015 reporting season has been a slightly quieter one. It's a welcome trend after the regulation heavy years that went before and many in the executive reward community agree that for the time being, no news is good news. Of course, there were exceptions to the overall climate of calm

Peter Osborne, Managing Director, LOC Consulting, looking at the 3 ways in which digitisation will affect organisations and consultancies in the coming year.

Business transformation specialists, Oliver Wight, have just published a brand new white paper on ‘Managing the Sales Management Process with Vulnerabilities and Opportunities’.