Changing market conditions, the impact of technology, and the differing expectations of five generations in the workplace at once have contributed to a huge change in organisations across the world...

During my time at Capgemini, together with former AT Kearney consultants, we used to make fun of the “Techies” when they qualified decisions to buy computers as “Strategic Decisions”.

Andrew Cooke of Blue Sky GPS (Growth and Profit Solutions) has written an excellent article “Building Your Career” which suggests we can all take useful lessons from politicians. Specifically, he advocates: • setting clear goals • enlisting and influencing supporters • focus on pursuing ambitions. It is challenging to find time in a high-pressure job to devote time and energy to career development.

Explore how disruptive technologies can impact the Sustainable Development Goals.

Every week it seems there is another significant data breach or cyber-attack hitting the headline with the CEO having to explain what went wrong and what their organisation is doing about it.

Customers are increasingly “opting out” of adworld.

Mixed reality, Internet of Things and advanced analytics are shaking up the retail industry.

All businesses look to reduce costs without slaughtering the customer experience, however, balancing the two can be difficult to achieve if you aren’t up to date with the digital technology revolution that is currently in place.

Are you a recent adopter of Agile Methodologies or maybe you’ve been a practitioner for a while and wondering why some of the practices don’t make sense all the time? Maybe you’ve developed fatigue over various ceremonies involved in Agile or Scrum environments or are frustrated by an inability to define what valuable functionality will be delivered within a fixed timescale.

Change is inevitable.

Positive psychology research has discovered and revealed many additional ways to help organizations move from bad to good and from good to great.

After the economic uncertainty of the last 12 months, it’s not all that likely that 2017 will be a time for employers to seriously consider handing out pay rises.

This is a good strategy – but according to Dr Sue Mitchell, author of The Authority Guide to Engaging your People, putting employee engagement at the core of your business can actually attract and retain even more customers, raise customer satisfaction, and deliver even higher company performance.

Just finishing a degree in computer science? Interested in switching jobs? You may want to strongly consider a career in cyber security.

What does innovation mean to you? Is it about improving the customer experience, creating new products or changing how you work with your employees? Anita Chandraker, PA digital expert, discusses how organisations can align innovation to their core purpose to succeed.

Cloud computing is often thought of as one technology, but organizations should consider which type of cloud computing is the most effective.

Technology is leading a new wave of disruption in our society.

How customers experience your business starts with how employees experience it.

Traditional leadership is all about capitalising on certain strengths.

Enterprise organizations are stuck.

And it’s the same in the business world.

We spend so much time protecting our businesses from external threats, we often forget one of our greatest threats – insiders. As the number of internal breaches continues to cause concern across organisations, the importance of managing who has access to what – to balance security with employee access to critical systems - is climbing the agenda.

ThoughtWorks, a global technology company, today issued the latest Technology Radar, a bi-annual assessment of trends and technology significantly impacting software development and shaping the future of tech.

Like many people I’m excited and inspired by the possibilities the enormous amount of data we now have opens up.

Your relationship with your customers will constantly be at stake.

Customer 4.0: we’re now in a world that’s led by customers who are increasingly outcome-driven.

IBM's cloud-connected robot arm shows off the flexibility of the factory robots of tomorrow.

Though it has always been important, innovation is very much en vogue at the moment.

?Important advances in technology rarely come with a full embrace at the start.

So what makes a great story? The typical response is that the content has to be interesting, exciting or amusing.

The trends and innovations that will shape the technology industry over the next several years have come into sharper focus.

Organizations need an API and integration strategy.

IT infrastructure is a core component of success Digital Transformation.

High employee engagement survey scores shouldn’t be the ultimate goal of the survey; better business performance should.

Diversity and inclusion are important attributes for any high-functioning businesses.

At the turn of the century, digital was associated with technology and online.

The chatbot is becoming a disruptive customer engagement tool that companies should consider investing in.

Although the Pokémon Go fad now has predictably faded, it holds important lessons for companies intent on reaching and engaging consumers where they are, especially retailers: The game, the first truly social augmented reality (AR) experience, enthralled the new breed of omniconnected consumers as nothing else had done previously.

Artificial intelligence is seen by the financial world as a key technology which, along with other "fintech" innovations such as blockchain, will change the face of banking in the coming years.

The focus on data has never been more prominent.

Imagine the crowd out there, full of innovative ideas, brilliant opinions, alternative perspectives, and scarce expertise, just waiting to collaborate with you.

So how does comparing your speech to a meal help you become a better speaker? Christine, from Toastmasters International, explains: Just like a good chef has respect for the diners, a good speaker has respect for their audience.

According to the work of demographer Professor James Vaupel and his co-researchers, 50% of babies born in the US in 2007 have a life expectancy of 104 or more.

One of the theoretical advantages of software, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and robots is that they don’t suffer many human foibles.

If the vision of Industry 4.0 is to be realized, most enterprise processes — manufacturing, product development, customer relations, and the workplace itself — must become fully digitized.

Through the centuries, success for cities has meant adapting to evolving economic realities: transforming from farmland to trade outposts to financial hubs.

When you make a bank transaction, you’re unlikely to receive any recommendation or advice, even though the bank may have more relevant data about your money than Amazon does.

The potential consequences of this are, of course, profound.

The world has changed.

Blockchain has the potential to cut through the “hodgepodge” of transacting and interfacing with government services.