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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What is Structural Equation Modeling?

Kevin Gray·31 January 2017·Data & Analytics

...Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is an extremely broad and flexible framework for data analysis, perhaps better thought of as a family of related methods rather than as a single technique. Its origins can be traced back to Psychologist Charles Spearman at the turn of the 20th century and Geneticist Sewall Wright in the immediate aftermath of WWI. Read More...

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3 Cyber Security Governance Challenges of the CIO

JC GAILLARD·25 January 2017·Cyber Security

...How does information security end up in the portfolio of the CIO?Historically, the CIO has ended up in charge of information security in organisations because many tactical measures required to deal with cyber threats lie in the IT field. For decades, executive management has lived with the perception that information security breaches have a low frequency and a low impact. Read More...

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Digital transformation. Stuck in the slow lane?

Craig Cockburn·24 January 2017·Delivery

...An article about agile and digital transformation, looking at the speed of change in organisations and highlighting the need to change even faster than before. Read More...

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Scaling Up: From Thinking Digital to becoming Digital!

Abhinav Darbari·24 January 2017·The Case For Digital Transformation

...Success today is not long lasting. To create a sustainable successful business, firms need to continuously innovate adopting emerging digital technologies. The confluence of digital technologies can potentially disrupt any industry, including manufacturing, creating new frontiers of competition. It's like a blank canvas; the digital tools are there, and those embracing digital will have a head start. Read More...

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Digital Platforms – The Embodiment of Innovation Management Theory.

Louis Bouwer·23 January 2017·Strategy & Innovation

...The astonishing success of digital platforms is because it's a new business model that is extremely well aligned with fundamental evolution of innovation management theory. In this case, knowledge of innovation management theory is not an option but an absolute requirement to develop and manage this new type of enterprise. Read More...

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The Globality Quotient: Cybersecurity

Ludmila Morozova-Buss·12 January 2017·Cyber Security

...The need for entrepreneurs to think globally has become so necessary that assessing an innovator’s GQ – Globality Quotient – has become a standard market test. In our contemporary world, where in unison, the media contributes to a culture of fear, a mysterious mistress; the cyber security is, in reality, more spoken about than understood. Read More...

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Top 5 Digital Transformation Strategy Myths

Niall McKeown·11 January 2017·Strategy & Innovation

...Myth 1: Implementing technology is a good strategy that leads to Digital Transformation. Myth 2: Creating operational efficiency is a strategy that leads to Digital Transformation. Myth 3: Improving digital marketing creates a Digitally Transformed organisation. Myth 4: All Digital Transformation strategies are good strategies. Myth 5: Agile, Lean, Sprint etc are Digital Transformation strategy planning techniques. Read More...

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The need to empower our collective talent

Sebastian Haire·11 January 2017·People & Change

...The world isn’t working as it should and things need to change. We have seen this in the current political environment, with a new establishment taking power and the repelling of conventional wisdom from the educational elite. People want empowerment, control of their lives and destiny, and to be listened too. This is also true in the world of work; it isn’t working as it should and things need to change. We have seen the evidence directly. Read More...

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A Defining Year for Cyber Risk

Cyber Brokers·10 January 2017·Cyber Security

...Last year was a defining year for cyber risk! There were many events that contributed towards shaping cyber risk however there are a number of stand out “Influencers” that impacted on businesses during the year and will continue to do so in the future. This raised the awareness of cyber risk in the UK and within the business community as a whole. Read More...

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Econometrics

Nigel Tebbutt·14 December 2016·Data & Analytics

...Econometrics is the application of statistical and mathematical methods to competing economic theories. This takes economic models and time-series data sets through statistical trials in order to test, verify and validate hypotheses which contribute towards forecasting future economic trends and predicting economic risk and fiscal shock events. Econometric Data Science methods, widely employed in finance, market risk and fiscal policy analysis, are now being developed based on Bayesian, clustering and wave-form analytics techniques. Read More...

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The Disconnected Organisation — the need to Empower our Collective Talent

Sebastian Haire·12 December 2016·People & Change

...As already featured in Business Matters, Global Banking and Finance Review, Marketing and Communications News, The Marketing Blog and BDaily — The Disconnected Organisation — the need to empower our collective talent looks at the data gathered over 2015–16 from almost 4,000 international knowledge workers revealing employees are wasting valuable work hours looking for support in their roles, as they are unable to identify internal expertise from within their own organisations. Read More...

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