Digital Change

Over the past four months, organisations across most industries have had to adapt their ways of working, almost overnight. COVID-19 has created new challenges that many were not prepared for, none more so than the travel and transportation (T&T) industry.

COVID-19 is driving significant change across many sectors, none more so than those in the travel sector and the essential transportation of people, goods and infrastructure.

I celebrated two birthdays yesterday, the most important one being that I turned 60, but also that its exactly 30 years since I entered the IT industry. Since I started a lot has fundamentally changed, almost all for the better.

Deciding to start your digital transformation journey is half the battle; the other half is deciding where to start…

Love it or hate it, Christmas shopping is part and parcel of the season but how did UK retailers fare this year? There were clear winners and losers on the high street with Debenhams so far taking the biggest hit with like for like sales 5.7% down in the 18 weeks to 5th Jan.

In case you didn’t know today is Black Friday, the American import that took the UK by storm a few years ago. Does it now have the same momentum as it did when it launched in UK stores in 2013?

The hype around digital transformation is certainly a game changer for businesses, but in today’s blog I want to discuss how it can affect and improve the public sector

As a CFO, you have to be analytical on every project that comes your way for approval. When someone suggests digitally transforming the whole business, you want to know what the benefits are from the project and will this achieve a positive ROI?

Anybody who regularly returns to Dubai cannot fail to be impressed by the sheer scale and automation of Dubai’s main airport. This ranges from being told as you are still on the aircraft that your bag will be “available on carousel 5” to presenting your passport via a digital signature on a credit card.

For the majority of us who are returning to work after the Christmas break, apart from the cold weather, diets and “dry January”, one of the first things that we usually read about is the retail results from the festive period.

Those of you have been following my blog over the last few months will know that I have been going on at length about CIO’s and IT leaders still getting to grips with DevOps and containers and why it is important for digital transformation.

As most of you know, Intergence are specialists in making IT infrastructure work more efficiently. Over the last two years we have become more and more involved in digital transformation initiatives where there is always a big emphasis on moving as much as possible into the cloud.

The recent wet weather has reminded me of the floods which were experienced during the Spring of 2014 and the havoc that it wreaked on local residents and businesses. Subsequent studies called for better dredging by the Environment Agency which inevitably became politically charged.

Just because data is there it doesn’t mean it’s useful, it could also be wrong or even misleading in the wrong context. One current trendy feature I’m encountering almost all the time seems to be the addition of functionality to allow you to talk to your applications

Whilst at a recent technology event in London I had a strange experience. Having been at a large tech event to look at the latest and greatest ideas and solutions I decided on a whim to pop into the industrial cleaning event next door for a change of pace.

Lack of visibility causes major impairments to most projects. In my travels across the UK and also to the Middle East, I regularly meet CIO’s who are in various stages of either thinking about or have embarked upon a digital transformation programme