5 ways your HR strategy can allow technology deployments (IT projects) to fail

Burke Turner·2 July 2017·People & Change

...It would appear that half of all large IT projects massively blow their budgets. According to a study of more than 5,400 UK and US IT projects, carried out by McKinsey and the University of Oxford, the average budget overrun is 45%, with the total overspend coming in at an eye-watering $66 billion. That’s more than the GDP of Luxembourg. Read More...

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What is the Digital Transformation of Procurement Really About?

Bertrand Maltaverne·14 June 2017·Strategy & Innovation

...Electronic tools have become stalwarts of modern society, to the point where many are even considered ubiquitous. As a result, it may seem as though digital transformation is old news, and that most (if not all) organizations are already fully digital Read More...

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A real-life take on GDPR

JC GAILLARD·12 June 2017·Cyber Security

...Over the past 6 months, social media and the Internet have been inundated with GDPR-related material. Law firms, consultancies – large and small – and even tech firms have all jumped on what they perceive to be a lucrative band wagon. Read More...

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5 tips on turning your business into a skills marketplace

Antony Cousins·29 May 2017·People & Change

...Marketplaces are fundamentally changing the way we buy products and services in our daily lives.   Read More...

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5 tips to create a skills marketplace

Antony Cousins·24 May 2017·People & Change

...Marketplaces continue to fundamentally change the way we buy products and services in our daily lives. From the disruption of the high-street retailers by online giants such as eBay and Amazon to Uber and Airbnb changing the way we book taxis and hotels, the concept of matching consumers directly to… Read More...

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Connecting with the Internet of Things

Kevin Gray·21 May 2017·Enabling Technologies

...If you’re like me, you've heard a lot about the Internet of Things (IoT) but are confused about what it really is. There’s been lots of chatter about IoT…and a ton of confusion about what it is and what it may have in store for us in the future. Read More...

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Data Ownership in a Digital World

JC GAILLARD·15 May 2017·Cyber Security

...Opaque Terms of Use around Data are making things worse. Recent years have been marked by seemingly never ending scandals about surveillance programs aimed at gathering personal data about private citizens unbeknownst to them — the most iconic example of which was the NSA’s Prism program. Read More...

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5 Areas in Marketing where Artificial Intelligence can help

Anupam Bonanthaya·19 April 2017·Enabling Technologies

...There is lot of debate on how robots will replace humans and how some jobs will cease to exist in the immediate future. While Elon Musk is trying to fuse humans with robots, Bill Gates is talking about taxing robots to keep humans competitive. Enough indicators from the technology visionaries on what AI can do! Read More...

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Chatbots transform any function, not just customer-facing ones.

Bertrand Maltaverne·10 April 2017·Enabling Technologies

...  More than a year ago in January 2016, I imagined the future of Procurement technology. The origin of my idea of a Procurement Assistant you could interact with via chat came from growing interest in the development of chatbots. Most mainstream communication platforms are having one or are certainly working on one. Read More...

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How to win at the digital transformation of Procurement?

Bertrand Maltaverne·23 March 2017·The Case For Digital Transformation

...In this article, I use “Procurement-as-a-Platform” (or PaaP) to describe an operating model for Procurement. It is inspired by eBay, Amazon, Apple and the most recent symbols of the sharing economy like AirBnB and Uber. It will have the benefits, I think, to foster a change… Read More...

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Stop chasing FOMO and promote internally, yes?

Ted Bauer·16 March 2017·People & Change

...Internal recruitment -- essentially, promoting, advancing, and hiring from within -- seems like a pretty fraught concept at a lot of companies. I think the big thing here is FOMO, or fear of missing out. It's kind of the same logic behind why companies hire consultants. The idea is that "fresh blood" is good. These people will have new ideas. Read More...

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Bitcoin: The Best Thing Since The Internet?

Dhruv Chopra·1 February 2017·Enabling Technologies

...In his January 2014 NY Times article, Marc Andreessen, co-founder of VC firm Andreessen-Horowitz and widely recognized as a key figure in Silicon Valley, stated that “Bitcoin offers a sweeping vista of opportunity to reimagine how the financial system can and should work in the Internet era, and a… Read More...

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