Technology

Although the future workforce is a much-debated topic, how many businesses can genuinely say they’re prepared to reap the benefits from the rapid changes taking place within it?

Having real-life living and functioning employees has its benefits, but it also comes with a number of setbacks for any business. For example, having to pay a decent wage, dealing with productivity, days off and annual leave, sickness, mental health, regulatory issues, legal employment matters, employers’ insurance and the list goes on. But what if…

Andrzej Kawalec is the Director of Strategy and Technology at Optiv, responsible for security strategy, service and technology architecture. He works with clients and partners to drive digital and cybersecurity transformation throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia (EMEA). Before Optiv, Andrzej was the Chief Technology Officer and Head of…

Making the transition from start-up to scale-up is a significant moment for any business. While this step-change is an exciting time, for many it brings with it new challenges as well as opportunities. To explore this further, research from Barclaycard has shown that over half (57%) of scale-up business leaders have experienced a moment during the…

By Ian Matthews, Data Evangelist at NGDATA In many big businesses, it is still the remit of IT teams to lock down data and make it secure. But more nimble and forward-thinking companies are pivoting to an approach that unlocks the value in data by feeding it to finance, marketing and operations teams. This fundamental shift in…

Panos Pantelireis, SMB Account Manager at Cloud Technology Solutions, discusses how cloud technology is key to helping businesses expand. In a world constantly adapting to the demands and capabilities of modern technology, the two traits an SMB ought to possess in order to maintain growth is agility and flexibility. Often enough, smaller…

Georgina Reid, Commercial Manager at Encore Digital Media, looks into 10 important lessons she has picked up over 10 years of working in the digital industry - and what you could learn as well. Don’t be afraid of the truth  By this I mean both being truthful and consultative and asking for the same in return. In the early days of…

A warm welcome from the modern lobby… “In a world where customers have likely asked digital assistant Siri to divulge a company‘s history before their morning coffee is brewed, organisations must keep pace with the technological age we’re in and deliver the front-of-house experience customers expect,” says Gregory Blondeau, Founder of ‘proptech’…

Scott Walker, Senior Solutions Engineer at BeyondTrust, looks back on the cybersecurity follies we lived through last year, and how this can prepare us in the year ahead. As we continue our way through a new year, it’s a great benefit to reflect on the breaches that shook the cybersecurity world in 2018, and what lessons there are to…