On 11th March over 750 digital leaders came together at a CIONET global event to discuss Agile or Fragile in the context of a post COVID era. The plenary speakers included Pamela Maynard, CEO of Avanade; Sanjay Brahmawar, CEO of Software AG; Professor Peter Weill, Chair of MIT’s CISR; and Tom ...
Introduction from Jamf’s CEO, Dean Hager We were fortunate to have Dean Hager, CEO of Jamf, attend our virtual session in the UK – all the way from Minneapolis. Just one of the benefits of virtual working! He made some important and challenging statements relating to the current crisis including:
When remote working suddenly became a necessity The COVID-19 pandemic caught us all by surprise as we entered 2020. But in many respects CIOs were ahead of the curve with their adoption of modern technology infrastructures and collaborative tools. For many law firms the rapid move to home working ...
Over the next decade the workplace will change out of all recognition. The millennial and associated ‘prosumer’ workforce will expect to use a wide range of devices and applications to conduct their business as well as to run their family and social lives. The era of ‘Bring Your own Everything’ ...
Employee experience does impact business performance With all the attention on the customer experience in recent years it seems that the employee has been short-changed with respect to digital innovations. This could be very short-sighted on the part of commercial organisations. A recent survey of ...
Mounting pressures on the legal sector Since the 2008 global financial crisis, legal practices have been faced with growing pressures to increase efficiency and reduce costs, especially from their Fortune 1000 corporate clients. At the same time, new competitors such as the Big Four accounting ...
This article was written by Roger Camrass, director of CIONET UK and a visiting professor of the University of Surrey. It is based on the speech given during the annual away-day of The Future of Technology consultancy division of Capgemini Invent which gathered over 100 consultants in a funky ...
Cyber adversaries have different motivations Corporations are increasingly aware of two types of actor in the war against cybercrime. The first is the state actor such as China, Iran, North Korea and Russia who have been targeting western governments and private companies. The second is the ...
Speaking to over fifty companies both in Europe and in the USA, the conclusions of our most recent research have made for sobering reading. Over the last decade the large majority of S&P500 and FTSE100 companies have averaged less than 5% annual growth in revenues. Much of the current growth is ...
Why automate? Most financial services companies have evolved over decades through multiple acquisitions and consolidations and often support 10-20 different systems and processes. This leads to a high degree of operational complexity and associated inefficiencies. The era of business reengineering ...
The first part of this article discussed the changes in infrastructure, where it fits in the broader ‘digitisation’ journey, what are the likely future requirements for modern infrastructures and how technologies will offer solutions to such new demands. This second part will focus on the ...
Is this the right time to review your infrastructure? New technologies and applications that affect core infrastructure are developing at an accelerating pace. The combination of software-defined networks (SD-WAN), multi-cloud services, collaborative tools, Internet of Things (IoT) and digital ...
A revolution in mobile communications Just ten years ago we recollect a corporate environment where staff were restricted to just one corporate device – typically a Blackberry or iPhone handset. Such devices were used exclusively for email and telephony, and traffic was directed over secure, ...
According to Lt General Kevin McLaughlin, former Deputy Commander of U.S. Cyber Command who attended this round table, the last decade has seen a rapid increase in hostile attacks from states such as China, Iran, North Korea and Russia. In his own words,
Fifteen digital leaders gathered in Oslo in January to discuss the topic of Intelligent Automation. The focus for the evening’s round table was how to build a practical roadmap to achieve successful business outcomes in this rapidly advancing area of digital transformation. Jan-Olav Styrvold led ...
