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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Integration could be the biggest challenge to digital transformation
As businesses continue on their digital transformation journey, they are met with a major roadblock: integration challenges. According to a new report from integration and API platform MuleSoft, IT teams spend more than a third of their time working on integration projects. Based on a poll of 800 CIOs and IT decision-makers, the report states that custom integrations cost large …
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UK workers want to play a key role in digital transformation
Many UK workers want to learn new digital skills, such as coding, and use them to advance their careers and help their organization in its digital transformation efforts. This is according to a report from low-code firm Mendix, based on a poll of 250 full-time workers, which states that almost three-quarters (72 percent) want to learn new digital skills, and …
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New digital shoppers mean ecommerce is everyone’s business
Life before the global pandemic sometimes feels like another era. Retailers who were once focused on how to engage with Gen Z’s and millennials online – the ones at the forefront of the ecommerce experience – are now considering how to cater for every generation. As a result of the pandemic, online adoption has accelerated and even my grandmother now …
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Digital skills ‘disaster’ approaching for the UK
In a time when digital skills are in demand as never before, young people are steering clear of IT subjects on universities, new research has found. These are the conclusions of a new report from the Learning & Work Institute, a think tank that claims, if the trend continues, the UK is heading straight for a “catastrophic digital skills shortage …
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Navigating digital transformation: Beating the odds of failure
In an increasingly tech-centric world, most businesses are beginning to appreciate the importance of being digitally agile, however progress to date has arguably been incredibly slow. Many companies are still unaware exactly how to succeed on a digital transformation journey and underestimate the importance of quality assurance in enabling this change. In fact, only 16 percent of executives say their …
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UK businesses are finally turning to digital payments
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed all the pitfalls of manual accounts receivable (AR) processes, forcing businesses to introduce greater automation and adopt new technologies. This is according to a new report from global payment technology firm BlueSnap, which asserts that legacy AR processes are impacting cash flow, human resources and talent acquisition, as well as wasting the time of senior …
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Why integrating digital into your DNA is a matter of survival for established enterprises
It’s simply no longer enough to rely on the ‘too big to fail’ principle. In 1958, large enterprises could expect to stay in the Standard and Poor (S&P) stock market index for more than half a century with little disruption from smaller companies. Over 60 years later, today, this has been significantly reduced to under eighteen years and unsurprisingly, this …
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App modernization at the heart of digital transformation
Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic forced us all indoors, business interest in cloud, as-a-service solutions, edge computing and application security and delivery has surged. This is according to a new report from security firm F5, based on a poll of 1,500 respondents from a range of industries, which argues that businesses are in need of better connectivity, lower latency, as …
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Companies are failing to meet their digital potential
If businesses are to thrive, they will need to become Autonomous Digital Enterprises (ADEs), a new report from software solutions provider BMC suggests. However, at the moment, most businesses are a long way from fulfilling their digital potential. Polling 1,200 business and IT decision-makers, across more than 20 industries and 11 countries, BMC found that businesses practice about two-fifths of …
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