Why are we still using email in the age of instant messaging?

Dating back to the 1960s, email is a veteran of the digital age. It’s a wonder that email isn’t already consigned to the ‘not quite dead yet’ wry humor that surrounds faxes, telexes and telegrams. It is slow and frustrating, with delayed and crossed responses,  and woefully insecure.  Yet email remains the principal digital communication in the vast majority of …

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The age of resilience: Designing a robust digital workplace

There is no doubt that the way we all work has been transformed forever. The business status quo has fundamentally changed, and some companies have simply not been able to keep up. While the likes of Debenhams and Topshop have caught the headlines, it has been predicted that unfortunately as many a quarter of a million UK businesses could collapse …

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Why the cloud is a competitive advantage in the age of Covid-19

Before the Covid-19 pandemic arrived, the lower administration costs, flexibility, scalability, and other advantages of the cloud were already leading many organizations to move more of their data and applications to the cloud. For example, in 2018 research firm Gartner predicted that 75 percent of organizations would deploy a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud model by the end of 2020. And …

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Why finance models are outdated in an age of digital transformation

Finance departments like certainty – forecasts, plans, and smooth lines. But in business and software development, it’s impossible, even damaging, to be tied to certainty. This has been evident time and time again in 2020, with the coronavirus pandemic forcing many companies to adapt. Now is the time for finance teams to change their outlook to support broader agility. Software …

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