From programming and AI to data and analysis, nanodegrees are often the simple solution to short-term development and learning; especially when part time degrees or longer-term learning is not an option. Below Brian Hickey at Udacity offers some insight into this increasingly used educational model. The UK economy is facing significant cross-industry talent shortages, and […]
Nick Lazaridis is the President for EMEA at HP Inc., managing operations, growth, and their financial performance across the region. Before that, he led HP’s Asia-Pacific and Japan region. HP Inc. reinvented its business in November 2015 and, today, it is a Fortune Global 100 company operating in more than 170 countries with about 50,000 […]
Meetings are amongst the most frustrating elements of modern business. They can take too long, are often unfocused, and do not always achieve what they set out to. This is mostly because the entire meeting process has hardly changed in decades and is lacking in the digitisation that has transformed other areas of business. Camilla […]
James Murray is the CEO of Send for Help Group. Send for Help is the largest lone worker protection firm in the world and makes GPS safety devices and smartphone apps protecting more than 150,000 people. The firm—based in Kingston, Surrey—was founded in 2010 by brothers James and Will Murray, a third generation of tech […]
Combining a hectic travel life, always on the go, with health and environment consciousness altogether? It just sounds almost impossible. A busy executive taking time to drive every day across London just to try, taste and choose the right herbs and vegetables, like a Chef would do, at their most reliable stores and suppliers that […]
As consumers, we find ourselves in increasingly asymmetric relationships with the companies that sell goods and services to us. In the most extreme cases, companies discover even more about us than our own families do. But to us, the way companies operate and make decisions feels increasingly like dark arts, despite us living in a so-called […]
Even in the pre-digital age, financial news travelled fast. Humans’ hard-wired love of both gossip and profit have long combined to make stock tips, trading floor rumours and market hunches a potent force. Potent not just because of the speed at which they travel, but because of their ability to not just reflect the market, […]
Terminals worldwide are enhancing the level of service they offer travellers – striving to make the pre-flight experience something to look forward to. These are particularly welcome developments for business travellers, for whom the airport is often an extension of the office. Here, Richard Coleman, European Director at Collinson, operator of Priority Pass, takes a […]
With the end of the support deadline just over a year away, businesses still operating on Windows 7 may be in for a rude awakening. Below Peter Marsden, Principal Consultant, and Matthew Garrett, Programme Manager at business change consultancy Entec Si, explain what you should do. The January 2020 deadline for Windows 7 will mark […]
When building a new product or business, it’s all too easy to feel like it’s your baby. Blinded by the love for their carefully crafted creation, entrepreneurs often become too involved in the creative process and lose sight of the end goal – serving their customers. For your creation to be a success, you need […]
Your favourite film was released when you were 15. The same goes for books. Games. Films. Well, statistically, anyway. It’s been found that, if you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember things like Biff from Back to the Future, but won’t remember last summer’s smash hit. Why? Because change scares us. Intuitively, we know that […]
Slow and steady doesn’t always win the race – in some cases, revolutionary thinking and dramatic change are required. Currently, we are seeing huge upheavals in the digital world, both in industry-wide technology “uprisings” such as edge computing and artificial intelligence and across countless internal digital transformation projects where revolutionary innovation is igniting in a […]
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