Are digital disruptors Wannabes or Heroes?

Natalie Smithson·23 April 2018·The Case For Digital Transformation

...Disruptive this. Disruptive that. Have we all had our fill of disruption? Edtech, fintech, healthtech, sextech – maybe we’re all a bit teched out. A communal eye-roll heaves across the internet at the mere mention of “disruption”. ‘Here they go again. Making a bold claim.’ And perhaps those fatigued readers… Read More...

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What Generation Z can teach you about Marketing

Natalie Smithson·23 April 2018·Customer Engagement

...Teenagers are complicated. Our next generation of consumers is a hormonal, exam-laden bunch. They’re fearful of being singled out by their peers but every one of them is a digital native. Nobody knows yet how it feels to reach old age having grown up with your baby photos *strewn* across… Read More...

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GDPR and the DPO: Threats or levers for the CISO?

JC GAILLARD·22 April 2018·Cyber Security

...The GDPR is not just about Security, but it has been dominating the life of the CISO and DPO alike, since last year. Notoriously, the regulation contains only a few actual references to data security. Article 32 mentions the need to have “appropriate” technical and organisational measures in place to ensure… Read More...

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Collaboration: Cheating, a Challenge or Champion?

Sam Isaacson·18 April 2018·People & Change

...A favourite word when talking about digital disruption is collaboration. Fewer stories of innovation nowadays come out of one organisation, but there are plenty of examples of collaborative activity, such as: Santander X, an ecosystem for university entrepreneurship being created by Banco Santander and 40 universities… Read More...

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Women in Cybersecurity: Why Closing the Gender Gap is Critical

Ludmila Morozova-Buss·17 April 2018·People & Change

...When discussing the lack of women in technology fields, the conversation generally starts around some basic questions: What is it about tech fields that discourages women from participating, and what can people in the field do to attain a better balance of gender? Recent findings have shown the problem is… Read More...

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Innovative new brand tries to influence affection. Audience switches off.

Natalie Smithson·17 April 2018·Customer Engagement

...Nimble. It’s a perky little word, isn’t it? Often associated with companies who do things differently. The innovators. Disruptors. The ones who want to change the world. Why? Because they’re dodging the indiscriminate belch of the status quo. Innovators must be able to duck the pull of familiarity and leap… Read More...

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How a Product Sprint Took This Sports App from Idea to Build in Just Five Days

Richard Lucas·17 April 2018·Delivery

...This week, Discerning Digital MD Richard Lucas shares some of our most recent client insight into the value of a product sprint. Digital transformation needn’t be slow and difficult to implement; in fact it should be just the opposite. As the pressure to serve customers in the digital… Read More...

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It’s all about STIDs – Skills, Time, Information and (user centred) Design

Sally Philip·12 April 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...With a surge in people setting up their own businesses and apps, and jumping into the entrepreneurial world of Startups and Scale-ups there’s been a lot said about what to watch out for and things to keep in mind when scaling and growing that business. I’m sure nothing I’m saying… Read More...

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Why Healthcare should embrace Outsourcing

Nathan Sykes·12 April 2018·People & Change

...Thanks to modern technologies, lots of incoming and outgoing data, and plenty of newer, optimized management systems the healthcare industry is seeing considerable growth in regards to IT and related services. In fact, many organizations in the industry are considering implementing their own, on-site IT services—if they haven’t already. Read More...

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Save me from gurus, ninjas and visionaries!

Phil Darby·12 April 2018·Customer Engagement

...Thanks to Tim Ellis at TheDigitalTransformationPeople.com for highlighting this post this morning: Mark Ritson: Maybe it’s just me, but shouldn’t an ‘expert’ in marketing be trained in marketing? I’m not sure what Mark Ritson has done to make his observations on marketing authoritative. As one of… Read More...

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Are You a Data Scientist?

Kevin Gray·12 April 2018·Data & Analytics

...I began wondering if I was a data scientist around 2010, when the Big Data boom started to take off. Now almost everyone is a data scientist, it seems. In a blog I once kidded that, according to the latest World Bank figures, there are now 6.9 billion data scientists… Read More...

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Time for the C-suite to act as one

Richard Chiumento·12 April 2018·People & Change

...The drive towards digital transformation, implications of automation, skills shortages and the need for expertise in new areas are among the challenges putting pressure on the C-Suite today. Amid the complex problem-solving, change management programmes and need for agility and adaptability that these challenging times bring, a new… Read More...

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