Artificial intelligence is a smart software tool with seemingly unlimited potential, but many organisations need to devise a holistic AI strategy .

Cloud Computing has gained significant popularity over the last few years as its applications continue to soar in big data and artificial intelligence.

Over the past 17 years, I have encountered countless excuses as to why companies feel that digital marketing won’t work for them.

Microservices play a major role in many organisations today.

This post is on practical tips to being successful as a new consultant.

Familiar territory, but have you ever stopped to ask WHY? The key point is to remember that the executive recruitment agency is only paid when they make a placement and the agent is measured and paid according to his placements and fees.

In short, the Low-code / Citizen Development phenomena means that it is now faster to develop this new breed of application.

Designing HR services for people: The moments that matter Designing great employee experiences starts with transforming from the traditional transaction and function orientation of HR, to orienting around services and treating employees as consumers.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that most people back their first campaign due to friends or family being behind it in some way, so this high adoption is largely thanks to so many individuals and companies turning to crowdfunding to get their cause or idea off the ground. This has led to hundreds of crowdfunding platforms springing up and resulted in thousands of companies campaigning for your money each year.

In product development, there's a pretty important concept lurking around that sometimes gets lost between an abstract vision and its practical implications.

Staying on the cutting edge of innovation will help a business boost productivity, attract new customers, keep existing ones satisfied and fend off any potential security threats.

“Connector” managers are the standout performance coaches.

Perfectionist As a business consultant, it is your job to be a perfectionist and make sure that any projects, reports or work that you are working on is completely perfect and completed to the highest standard possible before you share it with your current client.

Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, believes we’re living through a period of “radical uncertainty”.

Every company has unique technology challenges.

On 23rd June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU.

Because creativity can help companies communicate better, it has been generally seen as something that is the province of the Marketing department.

We’re on the doorstep to important changes in the services market.

As a young, ambitious developer with a strong sense of my own talent, I was eager to become a tech lead, and it took less than four years for me to achieve this goal.

There’s been a certain sense of déjà vu creeping into many of the financial services conference sessions and boardroom conversations I’ve been participating in over recent years.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is rapidly becoming a key market differentiator for businesses as more consumers look to purchase products from companies that act responsibly.

Last month, our Global Corporate Responsibility Board asked what the most significant trends in corporate responsibility are today.

Many Independent Consultants have transitioned into their role following a successful career in business.

There is huge enterprise-level interest in artificial intelligence (AI) projects and their potential to fundamentally change the dynamics of business value.

The issues holding back AI adoption aren’t technical.

You have an idea for a revolutionary or disruptive product or service with the potential to change the industry or marketplace.

We live in a time when malicious cyber attacks happen every minute, every day, all over the world.

There’s a growing buzz of excitement around blockchain and its potential to transform business.

Many think of digital cities as an end goal.

Firms such as Vanquis and Metro Bank in the financial services sector, First Utility in the energy market or Asos in retail could probably all lay claim to the ‘challenger’ label.

Independent Consulting can be an incredibly fulfilling profession both in terms of the satisfaction of really making a difference to clients and the financial rewards it can bring to you.

Each individual applicant will have their own priorities.

This practical guide presents Lean and Agile principles and patterns to help you move fast at scale and demonstrates why and how to apply these methodologies throughout your organization, rather than with just one department or team.

Our research says two out of three businesses realise they won’t survive without innovation.

Start-up company Rainbird, predicts that over a five year period the use of AI automated decisions could bring £7bn worth of savings to UK businesses.

In any manager’s career, the transition to leader can be tricky.

In this article, we draw on key messages from our recent book Beyond Genuine Stupidity – Ensuring AI Serves Humanity to highlight five critical issues and resulting choices facing governments, businesses, society, and individuals as we prepare for the full impacts of AI on the economy. Technological Unemployment and The New Jobs Landscape The AI technology vendors are struggling to hold a consistent line.

Agile project management is increasingly being used in many business environments and outside of traditional software implementation projects, because of the flexibility it allows and the faster realisation of benefits that are better aligned to users’ needs.

This year’s findings reveal that, while the threat of digital disruption is being felt by Senior Executives, many family firms lack robust strategies for the digital age.

Enterprise security culture, in fact, is a prime example where operational excellence struggles to emerge, despite the fact that in today’s business climate, all companies depend and need operationally excellent security.

Women are often faced with a bit of a conundrum in the workplace: failing to show confidence and assertiveness can leave them behind when it comes time for handing out promotions and recognition.

We software developers have historically used the terms “frontend” and “backend” to describe work on client-side and server-side applications, respectively.

Design leaders at Uber, Microsoft, Visa, IBM, Nordstrom, Hopelab, and ReachNow share their priorities for 2018–and how the role of design has shifted at their organisations.

But you try it on and it’s not quite right.

This year’s update of the Women in Work Index shows that the OECD has continued its gradual progress towards greater female economic empowerment.

One would suppose that this would be an amazing time for consultancies, full of promise and opportunities.

In a world of shrinking attention spans, increasing complexity, and myriad possibilities - focus and clarity are imperative to bridge the strategy-execution divide.

Many think of digital cities as an end goal.

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With Gartner predicting that by 2020, 85 percent of customer interactions will be managed without a human, it’s no surprise that chatbots are expected to bring about a customer experience revolution.