Designing the workplace for your future

Burke Turner·28 June 2017·People & Change

...We’ve all seen the photos of beanbags, foosball tables, swings, slides, and snooze pods, set between new-age open plan designs (wooden benches and picnic tables replacing cubicles) but is that the answer to building the workplace of the future? Make sure your interior designer is wearing fashionable jeans and sneakers? Read More...

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Technology and people strategy

Burke Turner·28 June 2017·People & Change

...In today’s knowledge economy, where business relies on enabling talent to thrive, your people strategy must have the agenda of unlocking talent to deliver sustainable corporate growth. Read More...

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How to Effectively Resource your IT programme

Alison Clare·26 June 2017·People & Change

...In our last blog we talked about stakeholder engagement and how important it is to use the right mixture of skills when resourcing your project.  Expanding on that theme, in this blog we will be discussing Programme Resourcing.  Read More...

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Data Asset Management (DAM)

Nigel Tebbutt·26 June 2017·Delivery

...Data Asset Management (DAM) conserves, curates and exploits valuable enterprise Data Assets – Enterprise Data along with their associated Services.  Data Assets are now widely regarded as important in driving business value. Just as other tangible assets are monetised, Enterprise Data and Services have a fiscal value on the balance… Read More...

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Marketing Mix Modeling: What’s It All About? – A Discussion with Professor Mike Hanssens

Kevin Gray·25 June 2017·Data & Analytics

...Marketing Mix Modeling is one of those things many of us talk about but few of us really understand. This is unfortunate since it's relevant to practically every aspect of any business, even operations. Read More...

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Which Comes First, the Data or the Egg?

Kevin Gray·25 June 2017·Data & Analytics

...Is there fool’s gold in them thar hills? Any statistician or data scientist at one point or another will be asked: “I have this data. Can you tell me if there’s anything interesting in it?” I have heard variations of this question more times than I can remember. If you’ve had much training in statistics, questions like this can make you cringe. Read More...

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Millennials Make Their Mark in Health and Safety

Shawna Ryan·25 June 2017·People & Change

...Executives at the GDS HSE Insight Summit say they're hiring more millennials to push the industry forward with their technological knowhow. It's not uncommon when asking executives in almost any industry what they find to be the most exciting changes in their field to hear the answer "Technology" in uniform chorus. Read More...

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An Epic “Chicago Way” Celebration Toast

Tony D'Onofrio·25 June 2017·People & Change

...A few weeks ago had the pleasure of sharing a great evening with 100+ retail attendees at the world famous Walnut Room in Chicago. Opening in 1907 and currently located in a Macy's, the Walnut Room was the first ever restaurant in a department store. The elegant interior is surrounded with Circassian wood paneling imported from Russia and features Austrian chandeliers. Read More...

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Being transparent about your Vision and Strategy has more benefits than you may realise…

Peter Abraham·25 June 2017·Strategy & Innovation

...Now more than ever it’s important to be transparent about vision and strategy. Elon Musk famously posted Tesla’s long term strategy in 2006. Its last line said “don’t tell anyone.” and it led other start-ups and entrepreneurs to follow suit and be transparent about why they exist and how they’ll go about becoming a ‘stay-up’ not just a start-up. Read More...

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The Automotive Tortoise versus the Hare

Lee Bryant·25 June 2017·Strategy & Innovation

...The automotive sector is a fascinating place to work right now thanks to the rapid acceleration towards electric vehicles and autonomous driving. The changes we are seeing will not just transform a major product category and an industry, but also, just as the combustion engine once did, this shift could fundamentally change the way we live in towns and cities Read More...

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The great GDPR hoax

Jane Frankland·25 June 2017·Cyber Security

...One of my favourite stories as a child was Chicken Licken. I'm sure you'll know it, but in case you don't, it's a macabre folk tale about a chicken who believes the "sky is falling down" after an acorn lands on his head. Hysterical about the impending disaster, he rushes off to tell the king, amassing followers in the process, and leading them to their untimely death. Whilst the story teaches children about courage, the main lesson they learn is not to follow blindly and believe everything they're told. Read More...

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Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC): The “Three Lines of Defence” model only works on Trust

JC GAILLARD·25 June 2017·Cyber Security

...It is no big secret that the “Three Lines of Defence” model underpinning many GRC practices in large firms is poorly understood and poorly applied at grass-root levels. Read More...

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