Digital technology has made a profound impact on business: it has disrupted organisational structures, created new revenue streams and fundamentally changed the way businesses engage with their customer base. Advancements in analytics, the increasing capability of mobile and the rise of Cloud have completely disrupted traditional models - but the technology only forms half of the picture - transformation requires a change in mindset accompanied by a genuine cultural shift.
Successful digital transformation has more to do with people than technology. Presented at Scot-Tech / Digit's Digital Future's conference, 23 Feb 2017
Cyber attacks have been hitting the headlines for years; but in spite of the risks, the reputational damage and the rising cost of fines, there is still an endless stream of businesses being exposed for security failings.
The scale of the problem is vast: Accenture’s recent 2016 Global Security Report highlighted “an astounding level of breaches” with the organisations surveyed facing more than 80 targeted attacks every year, of which a third were successful. Much has been made of the evolving threat landscape and increasing sophistication of attacks. But whilst there is evidence to support the growing complexity of the challenge, all too often the analysis of these high-profile attacks determines basic, foundational security principles were ignored.
Some commentators argue that the persistence of failings is a direct reflection of organisational priorities, and that while businesses may talk a good game, security is not yet given the attention that it requires at board level. This leaves CISOs and IT leaders fighting a losing battle to secure adequate attention and investment for an area of the business which does not generate revenue.
This conference will look at raising security standards across the business, exploring some of the most persistent problems from IT infrastructure to staff engagement. Amidst a backdrop of perpetual media hysteria, turbulent markets and looming regulatory change, it can prove difficult to establish a coherent picture of the threat, never mind what action to take. The conference will help contextualise the challenging landscape and discuss how to deliver meaningful improvements and end to end organisational resilience.
Thought Leader Session Epicenter May 3rd 2016Joakim Jansson
Presentation in English held at Epicenter in Stockholm the 3rd of May 2016. How to Lead Digital Transformation in a Large Company. Includes an overview of our methodology for digital transformation. The Digital Maturity Matrix.
On Friday 29th January, Jo gave a presentation on managing your Digital Transformation at Bryo, a network of young entrepreneurs.
Need help with your transformation? Contact us:
http://www.duvalunionconsulting.com/
Rethinking Digital - Successful Enablement for the Digital Transformation - i...David Terrar
My Rethinking Digital 2nd keynote from the i2 Summit 2015 in Zurich. About rethinking digital, providing building blocks and an implementation approach for your transformation, and hopefully inspiring you to do something differently tomorrow in your digital business efforts. Everyone's talking digital and it's dangerous... too dangerous to dilute the term, but crucially important that we understand it properly. Digital is becoming a synonym for technology or new or new technology. You need to understand the digital enterprise wave - the current disruptive landscape. Then here are 8 building blocks for transformation, and then our 7E approach to implementing change. Finally I echo Michael Corleone telling Sonny "it's not personal, it's business" with our version "it's not digital, it's business".
Lean: A strategy for the digital transformation by Régis MedinaInstitut Lean France
What is the digital transformation about? Launching a new app? Being Agile? Using new technologies such as big data? No!
To succeed, a digital transformation requires to turn everyone into a smart creative. Step by step, Régis Medina of Institut Lean France explains the key contribution of Lean management in that journey.
Successful digital transformation has more to do with people than technology. Presented at Scot-Tech / Digit's Digital Future's conference, 23 Feb 2017
Cyber attacks have been hitting the headlines for years; but in spite of the risks, the reputational damage and the rising cost of fines, there is still an endless stream of businesses being exposed for security failings.
The scale of the problem is vast: Accenture’s recent 2016 Global Security Report highlighted “an astounding level of breaches” with the organisations surveyed facing more than 80 targeted attacks every year, of which a third were successful. Much has been made of the evolving threat landscape and increasing sophistication of attacks. But whilst there is evidence to support the growing complexity of the challenge, all too often the analysis of these high-profile attacks determines basic, foundational security principles were ignored.
Some commentators argue that the persistence of failings is a direct reflection of organisational priorities, and that while businesses may talk a good game, security is not yet given the attention that it requires at board level. This leaves CISOs and IT leaders fighting a losing battle to secure adequate attention and investment for an area of the business which does not generate revenue.
This conference will look at raising security standards across the business, exploring some of the most persistent problems from IT infrastructure to staff engagement. Amidst a backdrop of perpetual media hysteria, turbulent markets and looming regulatory change, it can prove difficult to establish a coherent picture of the threat, never mind what action to take. The conference will help contextualise the challenging landscape and discuss how to deliver meaningful improvements and end to end organisational resilience.
Thought Leader Session Epicenter May 3rd 2016Joakim Jansson
Presentation in English held at Epicenter in Stockholm the 3rd of May 2016. How to Lead Digital Transformation in a Large Company. Includes an overview of our methodology for digital transformation. The Digital Maturity Matrix.
On Friday 29th January, Jo gave a presentation on managing your Digital Transformation at Bryo, a network of young entrepreneurs.
Need help with your transformation? Contact us:
http://www.duvalunionconsulting.com/
Rethinking Digital - Successful Enablement for the Digital Transformation - i...David Terrar
My Rethinking Digital 2nd keynote from the i2 Summit 2015 in Zurich. About rethinking digital, providing building blocks and an implementation approach for your transformation, and hopefully inspiring you to do something differently tomorrow in your digital business efforts. Everyone's talking digital and it's dangerous... too dangerous to dilute the term, but crucially important that we understand it properly. Digital is becoming a synonym for technology or new or new technology. You need to understand the digital enterprise wave - the current disruptive landscape. Then here are 8 building blocks for transformation, and then our 7E approach to implementing change. Finally I echo Michael Corleone telling Sonny "it's not personal, it's business" with our version "it's not digital, it's business".
Lean: A strategy for the digital transformation by Régis MedinaInstitut Lean France
What is the digital transformation about? Launching a new app? Being Agile? Using new technologies such as big data? No!
To succeed, a digital transformation requires to turn everyone into a smart creative. Step by step, Régis Medina of Institut Lean France explains the key contribution of Lean management in that journey.
Transformation is not digital, it's constantAyal Levin
Many organizations focus on Digital Transformation as a key to success. There seems to be a belief that “Once we become fully digital, the transformation is complete”. However, the reality of today will not be the leading solution of tomorrow. This talk will focus on the reasons why it’s not about digital transformation, rather, it’s about building organizations that can support constant transformation -in culture, in working models, in strategic thinking, and in mindset.
Understanding digital transformation involves understanding the DNA of your company, your employees, and your customers to identify the best way to deliver value and increase organisations' positive impact on revenue, employee retention, and customer experience.
This requires a change management approach and to look at 5 key pillars:
1. The Business model
2. The Operational model
3. Leadership & Capability
4. Customer Experience
5. Technology
As digital technology grows, it reshapes the way many companies operates. We developed this resource containing insights and all you need to know about preparing your business for digital transformation.
#iCentra #DigitalTransformation #Technology
Leading Digital Transformation, extract from bookJoakim Jansson
Now in English! A #1 bestselling management book in Sweden, a digital epicenter, home of Spotify, Skype and Candy Crush! The book includes:
1. Foreword by Brian Solis and interview with Dr. John Kotter
2. Step-by-step methodology, Digital Maturity Matrix
3. Digital tools and more content at www.digitaltransformation.net
4. Book and methodology in cooperation with researchers and businesses
5. Eight case studies from different industries.
Enabling the digital mind shift in the organisation - Enterprise Digital Summ...David Terrar
3rd of 3 opening keynotes at the 2015 Enterprise Digital Summit London - Stowe Boyd's gave us ideas about the future of the org, Euan Semple made it personal, and I added a bit of practical. Three key words for the presentation - Disruption. Reinvention. Education. Everyone's talking digital and it's dangerous... too dangerous to dilute the term, but crucially important that we understand it properly. Digital is becoming a synonym for technology or new or new technology. You need to understand the digital enterprise wave - the current disruptive landscape. Then here are 8 building blocks for transformation, and then our 7E approach to implementing change. Finally I echo Michael Corleone telling Sonny "it's not personal, it's business" with our version "it's not digital, it's business".
Expert talk strategic building blocks for the digital transformation strategyDavid Terrar
My expert talk from Enterprise 2.0 Summit Paris 2015 covering 3 things - a perspective of the current digital disruption and digital landscape, strategic building blocks for digital transformation, and a core message that is essential for any business if they want to survive (and thrive).
Digital Transformation Strategy & Framework | By ex-McKinseyAurelien Domont, MBA
Go to www.slidebooks.com to Download and Reuse Now a Digital Transformation Strategy & Framework in Powerpoint | Created By ex-McKinsey & Deloitte Strategy Consultants.
The Rise of the Chief Digital Officer in 2015Nick Benson
From CDO to CEO:
What’s Driving the Chief Digital Officer to CEO Carer Path?
For fast-growing companies, the Chief Digital Oficer is emerging as the new “it” positon. Gartner predicts that 25% of busineses wil have a CDO by 2015.
4As The Chief Digital Officer: Driving Digital Strategy and InnovationDonnovan Andrews
The Chief Digital Officer: Driving Digital Strategy and Innovation
On June 30, join Donnovan Andrews, Chief Advisor of Digital Media and Innovation, 4As, as he explores the multifaceted role of the Chief Digital Officer––and how this expanding role will drive industry innovation and help transform your business.
Developing a Roadmap for Digital TransformationJohn Sinke
Digitally mature companies out-perform their peers in innovation, agility and responsiveness to customers. “Digirati” also enjoy advantages in efficiency and effectiveness in product delivery, marketing, e-commerce, sales and customer service. More importantly, companies that achieve Digital Excellence are 26% more profitable (source: Capgemini Consulting and MIT Centre for Digital Business).
However, building a Roadmap for Digital Transformation requires not only successful collaboration between the CMO and the CIO, it also demands a strong customer-focused orientation and digital culture. During this presentation, John Sinke will share insights from leading marketers and his personal experience of turning Resorts World Sentosa into a “digital business”.
Emerging technology is having a profound impact on the Financial Services sector; from mobile payments, APIs and Open Platforms to Machine Learning, Robo Investment and AI Chatbots.
The Summit will explore technological innovation across the financial services sector, from developments in established institutions to the disruptive innovators within the start-up community that are reshaping the FS market.
Core conference topics:
• Landscape: Trends, Culture, Trust, Transparency, Geo-political Climate
• Regulation: GDPR, MiFID II, PSD2, Open Banking, APIs
• Customer Strategy: Engagement, UX, Data Insight, Marketing & ML
• Emerging Tech: Blockchain, Analytics, AI, Payments, Automation
• National Strategy: Skills, Funding, Collaboration, Cyber Security
• Infrastructure: IT, Digital, Cloud, Mobile, XaaS
Innovation In Professional Services - Sectors Facing Digital DisruptionMatthew Ho
The presentation discusses how professional services is facing digital disruption. Professional services such as accountants, lawyers, and consultants are facing massive change. In accounting, It has been reported that 66% of SME’s would replace services their accountant provides with cloud software. Many of the services they provide are being now being automated and outsourced. In addition, online marketplaces are disrupting the market by connecting buyers and sellers of services. Service providers need to figure out how to provide a higher value add in their offering to survive.
The talk will discuss how to implement innovation in a business. It includes models of corporate innovation and the latest thinking in innovation. There will also be case studies presented of how businesses implemented innovation. The speaker, Matthew Ho will combine his experience in professional services, technology startups and online marketing to provide a unique perspective for this presentation.
This presentation was presented for Online Marketing Sydney meetup on 24 June 2015 at Tyro FinTechHub. For event details go here: http://www.meetup.com/Online-Marketing-Sydney/events/222444980/
Check out my blog for more discussion on digital disruption: http://inspiredworlds.com
Building a Roadmap for Digital TransformationTom Zorde
Executives know their organisations must learn, adapt and evolve to keep up with the accelerating pace of change. As the digital age brings changing consumer behaviours and an explosion of disruptive technologies, the challenge is to continually stay relevant while operating faster, smarter and cheaper.
To help leaders get on the front foot during digital disruption, Tom Zorde, Executive Advisor will take you through some of the avoidable mistakes, and often overlooked measures of a digital transformation roadmap.
The 7 Principles of Digital Business Strategy & TransformationNiall McKeown
There is a method for creating a high performance digital business strategy. It is to use the 7 Principles of Digital Business Strategy framework by www.ionology.com
Digital Business Transformation | Strategy + Executionfeature[23]
Speed of innovation and certainty of your digital technology strategy is your new IP.
Market leading brands know they are competing in the 3rd Industrial Revolution – The Software Economy – and they will live or die by their digital adoption. Companies mature in digital business transformation are outperforming, making more money, and are more profitable than their peers.
These Digital Leaders are proactively transforming their business models and leading their segments through the frenetic pace of social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and the Internet of Everything. Unfortunately, digital is still shrouded in confusion, viewed as a cost center, and punished with inadequate funding.
How do you transform modern businesses at scale by creating technology-based capabilities, products, services, and business outcomes that delivers your authentic brand promise?
Top Digital Transformation Trends and Priorities for 2016Charlene Li
Given the importance of digital transformation and the never ending onslaught of new technologies, how should organization prioritize limited resources, time, and attention? This presentation to the San Francisco American Marketing Association is the 7th year in a row when Charlene has presented her take of top digital trends.
What is Digital Transformation? Find out exactly what it is, how it came about and how it's going to have an impact on your business and everyday life.
Transformation is not digital, it's constantAyal Levin
Many organizations focus on Digital Transformation as a key to success. There seems to be a belief that “Once we become fully digital, the transformation is complete”. However, the reality of today will not be the leading solution of tomorrow. This talk will focus on the reasons why it’s not about digital transformation, rather, it’s about building organizations that can support constant transformation -in culture, in working models, in strategic thinking, and in mindset.
Understanding digital transformation involves understanding the DNA of your company, your employees, and your customers to identify the best way to deliver value and increase organisations' positive impact on revenue, employee retention, and customer experience.
This requires a change management approach and to look at 5 key pillars:
1. The Business model
2. The Operational model
3. Leadership & Capability
4. Customer Experience
5. Technology
As digital technology grows, it reshapes the way many companies operates. We developed this resource containing insights and all you need to know about preparing your business for digital transformation.
#iCentra #DigitalTransformation #Technology
Leading Digital Transformation, extract from bookJoakim Jansson
Now in English! A #1 bestselling management book in Sweden, a digital epicenter, home of Spotify, Skype and Candy Crush! The book includes:
1. Foreword by Brian Solis and interview with Dr. John Kotter
2. Step-by-step methodology, Digital Maturity Matrix
3. Digital tools and more content at www.digitaltransformation.net
4. Book and methodology in cooperation with researchers and businesses
5. Eight case studies from different industries.
Enabling the digital mind shift in the organisation - Enterprise Digital Summ...David Terrar
3rd of 3 opening keynotes at the 2015 Enterprise Digital Summit London - Stowe Boyd's gave us ideas about the future of the org, Euan Semple made it personal, and I added a bit of practical. Three key words for the presentation - Disruption. Reinvention. Education. Everyone's talking digital and it's dangerous... too dangerous to dilute the term, but crucially important that we understand it properly. Digital is becoming a synonym for technology or new or new technology. You need to understand the digital enterprise wave - the current disruptive landscape. Then here are 8 building blocks for transformation, and then our 7E approach to implementing change. Finally I echo Michael Corleone telling Sonny "it's not personal, it's business" with our version "it's not digital, it's business".
Expert talk strategic building blocks for the digital transformation strategyDavid Terrar
My expert talk from Enterprise 2.0 Summit Paris 2015 covering 3 things - a perspective of the current digital disruption and digital landscape, strategic building blocks for digital transformation, and a core message that is essential for any business if they want to survive (and thrive).
Digital Transformation Strategy & Framework | By ex-McKinseyAurelien Domont, MBA
Go to www.slidebooks.com to Download and Reuse Now a Digital Transformation Strategy & Framework in Powerpoint | Created By ex-McKinsey & Deloitte Strategy Consultants.
The Rise of the Chief Digital Officer in 2015Nick Benson
From CDO to CEO:
What’s Driving the Chief Digital Officer to CEO Carer Path?
For fast-growing companies, the Chief Digital Oficer is emerging as the new “it” positon. Gartner predicts that 25% of busineses wil have a CDO by 2015.
4As The Chief Digital Officer: Driving Digital Strategy and InnovationDonnovan Andrews
The Chief Digital Officer: Driving Digital Strategy and Innovation
On June 30, join Donnovan Andrews, Chief Advisor of Digital Media and Innovation, 4As, as he explores the multifaceted role of the Chief Digital Officer––and how this expanding role will drive industry innovation and help transform your business.
Developing a Roadmap for Digital TransformationJohn Sinke
Digitally mature companies out-perform their peers in innovation, agility and responsiveness to customers. “Digirati” also enjoy advantages in efficiency and effectiveness in product delivery, marketing, e-commerce, sales and customer service. More importantly, companies that achieve Digital Excellence are 26% more profitable (source: Capgemini Consulting and MIT Centre for Digital Business).
However, building a Roadmap for Digital Transformation requires not only successful collaboration between the CMO and the CIO, it also demands a strong customer-focused orientation and digital culture. During this presentation, John Sinke will share insights from leading marketers and his personal experience of turning Resorts World Sentosa into a “digital business”.
Emerging technology is having a profound impact on the Financial Services sector; from mobile payments, APIs and Open Platforms to Machine Learning, Robo Investment and AI Chatbots.
The Summit will explore technological innovation across the financial services sector, from developments in established institutions to the disruptive innovators within the start-up community that are reshaping the FS market.
Core conference topics:
• Landscape: Trends, Culture, Trust, Transparency, Geo-political Climate
• Regulation: GDPR, MiFID II, PSD2, Open Banking, APIs
• Customer Strategy: Engagement, UX, Data Insight, Marketing & ML
• Emerging Tech: Blockchain, Analytics, AI, Payments, Automation
• National Strategy: Skills, Funding, Collaboration, Cyber Security
• Infrastructure: IT, Digital, Cloud, Mobile, XaaS
Innovation In Professional Services - Sectors Facing Digital DisruptionMatthew Ho
The presentation discusses how professional services is facing digital disruption. Professional services such as accountants, lawyers, and consultants are facing massive change. In accounting, It has been reported that 66% of SME’s would replace services their accountant provides with cloud software. Many of the services they provide are being now being automated and outsourced. In addition, online marketplaces are disrupting the market by connecting buyers and sellers of services. Service providers need to figure out how to provide a higher value add in their offering to survive.
The talk will discuss how to implement innovation in a business. It includes models of corporate innovation and the latest thinking in innovation. There will also be case studies presented of how businesses implemented innovation. The speaker, Matthew Ho will combine his experience in professional services, technology startups and online marketing to provide a unique perspective for this presentation.
This presentation was presented for Online Marketing Sydney meetup on 24 June 2015 at Tyro FinTechHub. For event details go here: http://www.meetup.com/Online-Marketing-Sydney/events/222444980/
Check out my blog for more discussion on digital disruption: http://inspiredworlds.com
Building a Roadmap for Digital TransformationTom Zorde
Executives know their organisations must learn, adapt and evolve to keep up with the accelerating pace of change. As the digital age brings changing consumer behaviours and an explosion of disruptive technologies, the challenge is to continually stay relevant while operating faster, smarter and cheaper.
To help leaders get on the front foot during digital disruption, Tom Zorde, Executive Advisor will take you through some of the avoidable mistakes, and often overlooked measures of a digital transformation roadmap.
The 7 Principles of Digital Business Strategy & TransformationNiall McKeown
There is a method for creating a high performance digital business strategy. It is to use the 7 Principles of Digital Business Strategy framework by www.ionology.com
Digital Business Transformation | Strategy + Executionfeature[23]
Speed of innovation and certainty of your digital technology strategy is your new IP.
Market leading brands know they are competing in the 3rd Industrial Revolution – The Software Economy – and they will live or die by their digital adoption. Companies mature in digital business transformation are outperforming, making more money, and are more profitable than their peers.
These Digital Leaders are proactively transforming their business models and leading their segments through the frenetic pace of social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and the Internet of Everything. Unfortunately, digital is still shrouded in confusion, viewed as a cost center, and punished with inadequate funding.
How do you transform modern businesses at scale by creating technology-based capabilities, products, services, and business outcomes that delivers your authentic brand promise?
Top Digital Transformation Trends and Priorities for 2016Charlene Li
Given the importance of digital transformation and the never ending onslaught of new technologies, how should organization prioritize limited resources, time, and attention? This presentation to the San Francisco American Marketing Association is the 7th year in a row when Charlene has presented her take of top digital trends.
What is Digital Transformation? Find out exactly what it is, how it came about and how it's going to have an impact on your business and everyday life.
Digital Transformation: What it is and how to get thereEconsultancy
Digital Transformation: What it is and how to get there.
Authored by Econsultancy CEO Ashley Friedlein, this presentation on the topic of 'Digital Transformation', is broken down into six sections covering:
1. Digital Transformation - what it is and recent data and research on the topic
2. Strategy - what a digital strategy should include
3. Technology - the challenges of technology and the skills gap
4. People - looking at organisational structure, culture, roles & responsibilities, environment recquired
5. Process - how to address the speed, innovation and agility required
6. Business Transformation - how digital transformation is actually business transformation
Digital Transformation Review 9: The Digital Strategy Imperative #DTR9Capgemini
In this edition of the Digital Transformation Review, we examine the approaches that organizations can take to crafting a strategy for a digital age, focusing on the following key questions: 1. How do you design a digital strategy in today’s uncertain and volatile world and understand how much reinvention of the organization is required? 2. Should your company become a
platform, or be a part of one? 3. What are the most successful approaches to executing digital strategy – acquisitions, partnerships, Greenfield?
Digital Transformation goes beyond your device and cloud strategy. These are mechanisms with which we deliver our digital assets but do not the actual transformation itself.
This discussion focuses on the essentials to actually transform an enterprise when culture and environments will be barriers to speed of success.
Using learnings from the book, Switch, by Chip & Dan Heath, we see how addressing three separate facets of change are truly necessary for genuine Digital Transformation.
This is a basic discussion for all audiences: business, technical, strategic, and tactical. The slide notes (may need to download to see these) contain details in depth.
Event held 8th Dec 2016, Edinburgh. The evolution of Big Data analytics has been staggering: it has progressed from an underused asset to a vital source of intelligence and insight, driven by improved hardware, cloud technologies and a plethora of specialist software. These technological advances have pushed the boundaries of what is possible, driving new innovation and enabling huge strides forward in fields like AI and Cognitive Computing.
7 Ways to Drive Digital Transformation in your Organization. A presentation I gave at Gartner Symposium in Dubai on the 28th Feb. The topic was where do you start with Digital Transformation. Every organisation has 7 business systems (IT, Finance, Product, Asset, Partners, Workforce and Customers). OpenText have six pillars of solutions (Content, Experience, Analytics, Business Networks, Process, Discovery). This presentation aims to provide at a high level potential starting points for Digital Transformation
14 Shocking Digital Transformation & Digital Economy StatisticsDATUM LLC
Read these 14 statistics to gain insight into what the digital economy is becoming and why digital transformation is so important.
These statistics help demonstrate how complex the digital economy is becoming and why we are passionate about simplifying enterprises’ data challenges. We help enterprises develop a sustainable data governance model through our software solution Information Value Management®.
Digital transformation requires better organisational structuresLee Bryant
For established firms to successfully undertake digital transformation requires action to address the limitations of their internal structures and business culture. This talk outlines why this matters and how they can being to achieve meaningful change towards becoming a more agile, connected company.
Many corporations recognize their future depends on digital transformation. Earley Information Science outlines the 4 step process for building a roadmap to transformation.
Realising Business Outcomes & Digital Transformation with IoT by Jayraj Nair,...Wipro Digital
The changing dynamics of today’s world, is forcing enterprises, irrespective of industries, to re-invent themselves; be it in products, services or business processes. For enterprises to remain relevant and sustainable, Digital Transformation of their business is key and the success of the transformation is a function of outcomes realized. In this session you will hear our point of view on how to realize value, design, build and operate solutions using digital transformation framework for a multitude of use cases and how ecosystem partnerships are a key to delivering robust end-to-end IoT solutions.
This Altimeter Group webinar explores the findings of our latest research report on digital transformation. Attendees will learn what digital transformation is, how companies are embracing change, the challenges and opportunities that emerge throughout the process, and how to refocus and reorganize teams to modernize, optimize, and integrate digital touchpoints.
Watch the webinar: https://www.slideshare.net/Altimeter/webinar-digital-transformation-with-brian-solis
Download the related report: altimetergroup.com/digitaltransformation/
Learn about the challenges our customers are trying to overcome by adopting cloud and what results they are seeing with a pick and mix approach to cloud
How to Make the Right First Step Towards the Cloudbrightsolid
This is a joint brightsold and Improvement Service presentation that offers insight on cloud adoption. Taking insight from what we are seeing in the market, we share what ‘future ready’ computing looks like with focus on a hybrid cloud philosophy, cost saving efficiencies in storage and key security concerns, while the Improvement Service outline the challenges and highlights they encountered after completing their transformative journey to cloud.
Loras College 2014 Business Analytics Symposium | Gebhard Rainer: Building a ...Cartegraph
We are data rich and information poor--many companies have lived through the same challenges. We used to look at data in standard form and try to justify why things did not go the way they were planned and forecasted. We performed "autopsies on dead bodies but never brought them back to life, instead of finding a remedy for cure to deal with the future!"
Now we analyze data from multiple sources, establish patterns and cross references and then work on predictable models to allow Strategic Planning with a high degree of insight and proactive priority setting.
It's a mind shift and mind-set change that has taken a hold of the company and is pervasive down to the lowest level of planning. Constant change is what challenges us to continuously question our own models and improve in order to manage our business successfully.
For more information on the Loras College 2014 Business Analytics Symposium, the Loras College MBA in Business Analytics or the Loras College Business Analytics Certificate visit www.loras.edu/mba or www.loras.edu/bigdata.
Navigating Modern Marketing, Digital Transformation and InnovationFred Isbell
The world of marketing is undergoing unprecedented transformation. Trends such as Digital Transformation and Innovations including Cloud, Social Media and Big Data and Analytics have redefined the landscape of marketing technology. The Modern Marketer must combine both art and science to meet the constantly changing needs of stakeholders and the marketplace. In this session, we’ll examine the characteristics of a successful Modern Marketer, look at technology as a key enabler to Transformation and Innovation, address best practices for Thought Leadership and storytelling and examine the required skills for Modern Marketing.
I delivered a guest lecture for the students of the one-year Post Graduate program in Global Supply Chain Management offered by IIM Udaipur. In this talk, I focused on three dimensions of digital journey - technology, process (rather business models) and people.
Using Social Media to Measure Economic Development SuccessAtlas Integrated
Find out how economic development organizations can measure/quantify the value of their promotional activities. Through case studies and illustrations of successful EDOs, find out how top performing communities are competing in today's crowded economic development marketplace and where your community ranks among its peers.
To succeed in the Digital Era, organizations turn to Microsoft Digital Advisory Services. Digital Advisors like myself work with organizations to reimagine and transform customer
engagement, employee experiences, business models and operations, to empower organizations to reach their digital aspirations.
Welcome to learn more about our Advisory Services.
What does a digitally transformed company really look like?Dr. Clemens Eckert
Of course It will make extensive use of digital tools, digital processes and big data. It will be fast, agile and efficient, and it will provide an outstanding, interactive customer experience.
But what lies underneath these things? Will it be the same people? With the same goals and targets? Within the same working environment? Within the same structural setup? - Only doing things DIGITALLY? In this presentation, I try to give an answer.
What's the relationship between digital disruption and digital transformation? How can organisations manage their digital transformations better and achieve their business transformations faster? What role does digital culture play and how do you develop a digital culture?
New Zealand businesses and government agencies are all facing the effects of digital technology and responding to the changing nature of market expectations.
In this presentation, delivered at Solnet's CXO Digital Transformation seminars, Phil Coop, (Digital Transformation Director, Solnet) discusses the roles of focus, innovation, team structure, culture, data, and UX as ingredients to a successful digital transformation.
Blockchain, IoT and AI are foundational to the Fourth Industrial Revolution -...David Terrar
This is my keynote session at Channel Live on 12 September 2019. It covers Blockchain explaining what it is and isn’t. I cover why it is so transformational relevant for any Business Model. I go through real world case studies, not just proof of concepts.
I touch on what implementations and frameworks exist and should be considered? I then talk about what the future look like?
Blockchain is significant and business systems will evolve because of it. I move on to IoT (M2M), Industry 4.0 and why are they important. I explain the underlying factors and what the opportunity is for a reseller. I go on to demystify AI. What is it and why should you be interested now? Lastly I talk through why you should you factor blockchain, IoT and AI into your plans.
Want to use online tools to streamline efficiencies and allow you more time to do the things you love? Come learn about increasing your organization’s digital culture and digital intensity. You can learn how your org can become more digitally integrated with tons of examples of real tools that you can use right-away. Come with questions!
This presentation was developed and delivered as part of the linked digital future initiative. For more information, visit: https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/resources/workshops/
Freedom Communications & Microsoft hosted the Future of Communcations and Collaboration for Businesses at the House of Commons on 28th November 2013. This powerpoint includes slides from all speakers:
Chris Luff, Director, Freedom
Steve Tassell, Enterprise Social Lead, Microsoft
Greig Valentine, Head of Solution Consultancy, Freedom
Andrew McManus, CIO, National Exhibition Centre
Pat Botting, Managing Director, Freedom
Optimize your info-driven business processes. How to move from paper to digitalChristiana Kozakou
Presentation to Cyprus Computer Society Records Management event by Alexis Evangelou, Head of Technology at Fileminders.http://www.fileminders.com.cy/
Agenda:
The hybrid information environment
• How to manage information silos through digital transformation
• The Digital Transformation Challenges
Have a single point of access to business information
• ECM for a holistic organization view
• Turn information chaos to information opportunities
• Optimize your info-driven processes
• Empower Content Analytics
Design your Digital Transformation strategy
• Critical Success Factors
The Summit will consider the role of leadership within the technology domain. Amidst a backdrop of uncertainty and disruption, the conference will discuss how you can help your organisation navigate change, overcome problems and accelerate innovation.
The programme will feature insights from an impressive array of technologists, founders, researchers and transformation specialists; contextualising the biggest challenges facing the industry and sharing practical advice, guidance and best-practice on how you can maximise your impact within your team.
Now in its seventh year, the Summit has established itself as the largest annual leadership event for Scotland’s Technology community, and an invaluable forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking.
Core themes:
Trends: Digitalisation, agility, disruption and hybrid teams
Evolution: The changing nature of technology as a discipline
Leadership: Strategy, empowerment, communication, motivation and empathy
Culture: Creating a culture of inclusion, innovation and exploration
Impact: Technology as a driver of growth, innovation and improvement
The North of Scotland is in the midst of a full-scale transformation. Building on a well-established reputation as a global energy hub, the North is fast becoming a key destination for emerging innovation across an increasing range of sectors.
The DIGIT North Summit is designed to bring IT and Digital leaders together and drive practical innovation through shared learning. The event will facilitate cross pollination between key industries, from traditional sectors like Oil & Gas and Agriculture to high-growth fields like: Life Sciences, Biotech, Gaming, Fintech and Space.
The programme will contextualise the key emerging technologies and industry disruptors, and consider the vital role that IT and Digital leaders will play in ensuring organisations can thrive amid a backdrop of market change and economic volatility.
Organisations are changing, the rapid pace of the digital world has necessitated a fundamental shift in mindset. Digital has disintermediated markets; disrupted organisational structures, created new risks and new revenue streams and fundamentally altered the way businesses engage with their customer.
The most influential companies of our age share a common ability to understand two things effectively: people and technology. In these turbulent times, success is increasingly defined by the ability to respond to the fast-changing landscape, and exceed the expectations of the people we serve.
DT 2021 will contextualise the key technology trends and industry disruption amidst a backdrop of significant socio-economic upheaval. The event will also consider the role of IT and Digital leaders in driving positive transformation, exploring how we can help support operations, drive innovation, overcome challenges, and deliver tangible business benefits.
Core themes:
• Landscape: Uncertainty, Recovery, Sustainability, Remote Teams
• Process: Strategy, Structure, Optimisation, Agile, DevOps
• Design: Customer Centricity, UX, Functionality, Simplification
• Technology: Remote Tools, Data Analytics, AI, ML, RPA, Cloud
• People: Culture, Collaboration, Leadership, Diversity, Empowerment
The national Scot-Secure Summit is the largest annual Cyber Security event in Scotland: the event brings together senior IT leaders and Information Security personnel, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking.
The conference programme is focused on promoting best-practice cyber security; looking at the current trends, the key threats - and offering practical advice on improving resilience and implementing effective security measures.
The conference will contextualise the changing regulatory landscape, considering the business impact of the GDPR and DPA (2018) and how it is changing policy and process in practice.
When GDPR came into force in May 2018 it significantly raised the bar of obligation and accountability, ensuring that all organisations who handle personal data adhere to strict regulations around privacy, security and consent. 18 months on from implementation, the conference will consider how data protection procedure has moved on, with insight from frontline practitioners reflecting on how practices within their organisation have changed.
The event will also provide an update from the regulator; exploring regulatory action policy, decision making for fines and penalties, and clarifying some of the most prominent areas of misconception and non-compliance.
Core conference topics include:
• Key legal issues and obligations
• Data security and encryption
• Privacy Impact Assessments
• Databases, data mapping and classification
• Privacy by design
• Practical strategy implementation
SCOTLAND’S MUST-ATTEND IT & DIGITAL EVENT
The expo is the largest annual enterprise technology event run in Scotland, and a must-attend for senior technologists, digital innovators and IT leaders.
SCOTLAND’S LARGEST VENDOR SHOWCASE
DIGITExpo hosts Scotland’s largest exhibition of technology and solution providers, spanning: Cyber Security, Networking, Infrastructure, Cloud, Data & Analytics, Managed IT Services, Telecoms, Connectivity and much more.
TOP SPEAKERS AND INDUSTRY INSIGHT
Keynote and seminar theatres will host leading thinkers and innovators from some of the best known companies in the world. 2018 speakers include: Google, Twitter, Mclaren, RSB, Hill & Knowlton, CYBG, IBM, EasyJet and AmTrust.
SCOTLAND’S MUST-ATTEND IT & DIGITAL EVENT
The expo is the largest annual enterprise technology event run in Scotland, and a must-attend for senior technologists, digital innovators and IT leaders.
SCOTLAND’S LARGEST VENDOR SHOWCASE
DIGITExpo hosts Scotland’s largest exhibition of technology and solution providers, spanning: Cyber Security, Networking, Infrastructure, Cloud, Data & Analytics, Managed IT Services, Telecoms, Connectivity and much more.
TOP SPEAKERS AND INDUSTRY INSIGHT
Keynote and seminar theatres will host leading thinkers and innovators from some of the best known companies in the world. 2018 speakers included: Google, Twitter, Mclaren, RSB, Hill & Knowlton, CYBG, IBM, EasyJet and AmTrust.
The modern enterprise is becoming an increasingly automated environment: technological advancements in AI, Machine Learning and RPA are allowing organisations to strip out layers of inefficiency, optimise process and enhance productivity. Right across the enterprise, operations are changing in line with new automation tools, from low-level administrative tasks to self-regulating Industrial IoT systems and customer service chatbots.
This conference will contextualise the role of intelligent automation within the enterprise, looking at how the increasing sophistication of AI, RPA and IoT technologies are transforming operations. The conference is geared towards senior IT and digital leaders, providing an insightful peer-led environment and a crucial forum for knowledge exchange, engagement and high-level networking
As technology has evolved IT has transitioned from a background support function to a core driver of value creation and competitive edge. This shift has placed senior technologists at the heart of the organisation where they are increasingly critical to decision making, strategy and leadership.
The DIGIT Leader Summit will explore the evolution of the IT & Digital profession, considering the key technology and business trends and the profound impact they are having on the role. The programme will also examine the crucial components of leadership, looking at culture; team building, upskilling and communication.
The Summit is geared for senior IT & Digital leaders, and designed to provide an opportune forum for practitioners to share their experiences, learn from their peers and discuss best-practice approaches to leadership.
Core topics
Trends: Key technology trends and business trends
IT Evolution: How the IT and Digital role is changing and evolving
Leadership: Empowering, engaging, motivating and inspiring teams
Culture: Creating a culture of inclusion, innovation and exploration
Impact: Technology as a driver of innovation, improvement and problem solving
IT Management: Investment, ITAM, cost control, vendor management
The Conference
The Energy sector is changing: the challenging economic landscape has forced businesses to scrutinise their operations in pursuit of greater productivity and asset efficiency. Meanwhile, the market is growing increasingly diverse as renewables mature and new entrants emerge.
Against this backdrop, digital is becoming increasingly pervasive as companies turn to technology to modernise processes and deliver competitive advantage; from remote monitoring and automation, to data analytics, Machine Learning, asset visualisation and HPC.
Now in its 6th year, the conference has established itself as the largest annual Digital Energy summit in the country: the event brings together senior IT, Digital and business leaders, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking. The programme will explore the use of Information Technology in driving tangible outcomes across the organisation, looking at key trends and providing practical insight from an array of industry leaders.
Core Themes
Landscape: maximising economic recovery and cross industry collaboration
IT & Digital as a driver of efficiency, business improvement and problem solving
Analytics, data-driven decision making and business intelligence
Asset visibility: performance, conditioning, remote monitoring
Digitising processes and innovating on top of legacy systems
Emerging technologies, AI, IoT, Robotics, Drones, Blockchain
Infrastructure: SCADA, Cloud, hybrid architecture, managed services
Cyber Security, information governance, GDPR
The national Scot-Secure Summit is the largest annual Cyber Security Conference in Scotland: the event brings together senior IT leaders and Information Security personnel, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking.
The conference programme is focussed on promoting best-practice cyber security; looking at the current trends, the key threats - and offering practical advice on improving resilience and implementing effective security measures.
The national Scot-Secure Summit is the largest annual Cyber Security Conference in Scotland: the event brings together senior IT leaders and Information Security personnel, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking.
The conference programme is focused on promoting best-practice cyber security; looking at the current trends, the key threats - and offering practical advice on improving resilience and implementing effective security measures.
Business is changing: digital technology has permeated every facet of the enterprise, completely transforming the way we work. Digital has disintermediated markets, disrupted organisational structures, created new risks and new revenue streams, while fundamentally altering the way businesses engage with their customer.
There is no coincidence that the most influential companies of our age share a common ability to harness technology effectively. In these exciting and turbulent times, success is increasingly defined by the ability to respond to the fast changing digital landscape, it has become a key distinguisher between growth and obscurity.
DT 2019 contextualised key digital trends and explored the underlying process of organisational change. The conference was geared towards senior technologists and digital leaders, providing an insightful peer-led environment and a crucial forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking.
This is the largest annual Digital Transformation conference held in Scotland - with over 300 attendees in 2018. The event is supported by ScotlandIS and is free for qualifying delegates to attend.
The conference will contextualise the changing regulatory landscape, considering the business impact of the GDPR and DPA (2018) and how it is changing policy and process in practice.
When GDPR came into force in May it significantly raised the bar of obligation and accountability, ensuring that all organisations who handle personal data adhere to strict regulations around privacy, security and consent. 6 months on from implementation, the conference will consider how data protection procedure has moved on, with insight from frontline practitioners reflecting on how practices within their organisation have changed.
The event will also provide an update from the regulator; exploring regulatory action policy, decision making for fines and penalties, and clarifying some of the most prominent areas of misconception and non-compliance.
Core conference topics include:
• Key legal issues and obligations
• Data security and encryption
• Privacy Impact Assessments
• Databases, data mapping and classification
• Privacy by design
• Practical strategy implementation
Technology is completely changing the face of financial services, driving disruption, displacement and disintermediation within the sector. This has lowered the barriers to entry, opened the door to new market entrants and created fertile ground for innovation and growth.
These market disruptions have also forged new alliances between start-ups and incumbents, blurring the lines of distinction between finance and technology and creating a wave of cross-sector collaboration.
Fintech 2018 will explore technological innovation across the financial services sector, from developments in established tier-1 firms to the disruptive innovators within the start-up community that are reshaping the FS market.
Core conference topics will include:
• Landscape: Trends, Culture, Trust, Transparency, Geo-political Climate
• Regulation: GDPR, MiFID II, PSD2, Open Banking, APIs
• Customer Strategy: Engagement, UX, Data Insight, Marketing & ML
• Emerging Tech: Blockchain, Analytics, AI, Payments, Automation
• National Strategy: Skills, Funding, Collaboration, Cyber Security
• Infrastructure: IT, Digital, Cloud, Mobile, XaaS
This conference will contextualise the evolution of IT, examining the changing role of technology within the business and the inherent implications for IT personnel. The event is geared for senior IT, business and finance leaders, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking.
Core topics
• IT Evolution: the changing role of IT within the business
• Leadership: strategy, culture and collaboration
• XaaS: the shift from asset to service-based consumption
• ITAM: IT Asset Management and procurement
• Managed Services: vendor management and Service Level Agreements
• Governance: information security, GDPR and data protection
• DevOps: Agile process, faster delivery, greater collaboration
Now in its 5th year, the conference has established itself as the largest annual Digital Energy summit in the country: the event brought together senior IT, Digital and business leaders, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking. The programme explored the use of Information Technology in driving tangible outcomes across the organisation, looking at key trends and providing practical insight from an array of industry leaders.
Now in its 5th year, the conference has established itself as the largest annual Digital Energy summit in the country: the event brought together senior IT, Digital and business leaders, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking. The programme explored the use of Information Technology in driving tangible outcomes across the organisation, looking at key trends and providing practical insight from an array of industry leaders.
The national Scot-Secure Summit is the largest annual Cyber Security Conference in Scotland: the event brings together senior IT leaders and Information Security personnel, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking.
The Summit is organised by DIGIT, with support from ScotlandIS, Police Scotland, SBRC, The Cyber Academy and ISACA. The conference programme is focussed on promoting best-practice cyber security; looking at the current trends, the key threats - and offering practical advice on improving resilience and implementing effective security measures.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
16. Failure is common: the estimated cost of global tech failure is $3T USD
“By 2018, 70 percent of silo’ed digital transformation
initiatives will ultimately fail because of insufficient
collaboration, integration, sourcing,
or project management.”
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO
Agenda 2016 Predictions
17. The pecking order is changing - ignore digital disruption at your peril!
18. The number of jobs to be lost to robots by 2021 will be 6%.
We will get it wrong if we ignoreit.
19. The cost of failure: It’s expensive. It’s embarrassing. It’s careerdestroying.
21. What kind of change is your organisationpursuing?
Catching up DisruptingKeeping up
22. How does this change impact onyour people?
New projects
New skills, new
behaviours
New colleagues
23. How does this change impact onyour people?
New projects
New skills, new
behaviours
New colleagues
Is it going to increase or decreaseworkloads?
Is it going to make people redundant?
41. • Introduction
• What we measure
• Metrics that matter
• What should you
do with it?
• Applying Pareto
and Pragmatism
@mcmillanstu #digiscot
Stuart McMillan,
Deputy Head of Ecommerce
Insight & Action
42. Introduction
• Established in 1981
• 128 Stores in 3 countries
• High quality of execution
• Multichannel
• Website launched 1998
• Introduction
• What we measure
• Metrics that matter
• What should you
do with it?
• Applying Pareto
and Pragmatism
@mcmillanstu #digiscot
43. What we measure
• Introduction
• What we measure
• Metrics that matter
• What should you
do with it?
• Applying Pareto
and Pragmatism
@mcmillanstu #digiscot
44. What we measure
• Introduction
• What we measure
• Metrics that matter
• What should you
do with it?
• Applying Pareto
and Pragmatism
@mcmillanstu #digiscot
YOY % DIFF
Clicks Spend Orders Revenue Conversion Rate
PPC 22.30% 0.91% -4.51% 2.31% -21.9%
Email 6.16% 35.65% -25.34% -15.89% -29.67%
Affiliates 3.60% 72.89% 4.18% 13.49% 0.6%
Struq 238.55% 162.70% 232.61% 280.68% -1.76%
Paid 25.47% 2.32% 0.16% 8.30% -20.18%
SEO 9.95% 0.96% 6.89% -8.18%
Schuh
Cycle -7.74% -26.02% -19.93% -19.81%
Direct 7.08% 40.64% 60.06% 31.34%
"Free" 8.86% 10.84% 20.99% 1.82%
Totals 16.63% 4.95% 14.06% -10.02%
45. What we measure
• Introduction
• What we measure
• Metrics that matter
• What should you
do with it?
• Applying Pareto
and Pragmatism
@mcmillanstu #digiscot
• Sale vs. full price
• Sell-through
• Checkout abandonment %
• % of customers entering checkout
• Site speed
• Errors
• Session duration
• NPS
• NES
• User Generated Content
• Competitor activity (inc. traffic)
• Blog views
• Social Media interaction
46. • Introduction
• What we measure
• Metrics that matter
• What should you
do with it?
• Applying Pareto
and Pragmatism
@mcmillanstu #digiscot
48. • Introduction
• What we measure
• Metrics that matter
• What should you
do with it?
• Applying Pareto
and Pragmatism
@mcmillanstu #digiscot
Drowning in a sea
of information
49. • Introduction
• What we measure
• Metrics that matter
• What should you
do with it?
• Applying Pareto
and Pragmatism
@mcmillanstu #digiscot
Case study 1
50. • Introduction
• What we measure
• Metrics that matter
• What should you
do with it?
• Applying Pareto
and Pragmatism
@mcmillanstu #digiscot
Case study 2
51. • Introduction
• What we measure
• Metrics that matter
• What should you
do with it?
• Applying Pareto
and Pragmatism
@mcmillanstu #digiscot
ROI
&
MVI
52. • Introduction
• What we measure
• Metrics that matter
• What should you
do with it?
• Applying Pareto
and Pragmatism
@mcmillanstu #digiscot
Knowledge
is nothing without
Understanding
53. Spend time and money on
people, not tools.• Introduction
• What we measure
• Metrics that matter
• What should you
do with it?
• Applying Pareto
and Pragmatism
@mcmillanstu #digiscot
https://www.kaushik.net/avinash/the-10-90-rule-for-magnificient-web-analytics-success/
54. • Introduction
• What we measure
• Metrics that matter
• What should you
do with it?
• Applying Pareto
and Pragmatism
@mcmillanstu #digiscot
Stuart McMillan,
Deputy Head of Ecommerce
ThankYou
68. “It has afforded me
something that I have
lost. Memory. I can
ask Alexa anything and
I get the answer
instantly. And I can ask
it what day it is twenty
times a day and I will
still get the same
polite answer.”
72. Asset Management
(Tech Forge)
GIS
Management
(Map Info)
Document and Content
Management
(Excel)
Work
Scheduling
(WebAspx)
Case
Management
(Siebel CRM)
Information
Management
(Xpress)
Project and Risk
Management
(Project Vision)
Contact CRM
(Siebel CRM)
Work Order Management
(Civica Flare)
Work Order Management
(Siebel CRM)
Work Order Management
(Symology)
Specialist
Control Systems
(ASLAN)
Case
Management
(Ocella)
Specialist
Control Systems
(Traffic Lights)
GIS
Management
(Cartology)
Work
Scheduling
(Total Mobile)
Contact CRM
(Tunstall)
Project and Risk
Management
(Verto)
Work Order Management
(TechForge)
Work Order Management
(Total Mobile)
Project and Risk
Management
(Covalent)
Work
Scheduling
(EGenda)
Work
Scheduling
(Care Manager)
Contact CRM
(FirmStep)
Contact CRM
(Lotus Notes)
Case
Management
(Axia)
Case
Management
(Foster Care)
Case
Management
(ICS)
Case
Management
(Raise)
Case
Management
(Si-Dem)
Asset Management
(Caspar)
Document and
Content
Management
(Goss ICM)
Document and
Content
Management
(Northgate EDMS)
Document and
Content
Management
(File Shares)
Council Property
Community Safety
& Emergencies
Environmental
Protection
Consumer
Affairs
Transport and
Infrastructure
Planning and
Building Control
Information
Technology
Adult Social Care
HR
Management
(Carval)
Information
Management
(Capita One)
Information
Management
(Capita eStart)
Information
Management
(Core IMS)
Information
Management
(CAF - Excel)
Information
Management
(Homelessness d/b)
Information
Management
(Registrar)
Asset Management
(Axiell)
Asset Management
(Symology)
Asset Management
(Civica APP/Flame)
Asset Management
(Siebel CRM)
Asset Management
(Centenial)
Information
Management
(EDMS)
Information
Management
(Land Terrier)
Information
Management
(Gower)
Information
Management
(Erimus)
HR
Pensions
HR
SAP Payroll
Booking and
Ticketing
(TLMS)
Booking and
Ticketing
(Blackbaud)
Finance and
Procurement
(Caspar)
Finance and
Procurement
(Northgate
iWorld)
Finance and
Procurement
(Northgate
eBenefits)
Finance and
Procurement
(Esker
Deliveryware)
Finance and
Procurement
(Intech - Fraud)
Finance and
Procurement
(Credita)
Finance and
Procurement
(Capita Axis)
Finance and
Procurement
(SAP FI)
Case
Management
(IAS)
Child Social Care
Education
Services
102. How you start will determine how you end
• Understanding the Issue (what is the problem being solved, don’t try and fix symptoms)
• Understanding the Context (how it is used, who uses it, does product or service meet the user requirements)
• Understanding the Market (competitor landscape, market imperatives, business risks and equality rights)
• Defining Knowledge Gap (the gap between what is provable knowledge and what is assumption)
• Define Baseline Metrics (core current metrics of situation)
• Define KPI's (core target metrics of future situation from Baseline Metrics, post deploy)
Only then Define the Methods and Processes
105. Nathan Fulwood
Strategy Director & Founder
Strategic Creative Consultancy
The value of brand
Engagement & experience
How to get it right, quicker
106. Brand is a relationship
WHO YOU ARE WHO THEY ARE
YOUR STORY
D
THEIR STORY
YOUR ARTIFACTS
N
BELIEFS
YOUR INVITATIONS
A
ASPIRATIONS
CULTURE
R
BEHAVIOURS
BELIEFS
B
WANTS & NEEDS
PRODUCTS VALUES
PERSONALITY LOCATION
ORGA NISAT ION AUDIENCE
115. DESIGN S P R I N T S
‘Greatest hits’ - Google Ventures Sprint Process - http://www.gv.com/sprint
You can pack business strategy, innovation,
creativity, behavior science and design thinking into
one week.
116. DAY ONE DAY T W O D AY T H R E E DAY FOUR DAY FIVE
AGREE O N THE M O S T
IMPOR TANT QUESTION
117. DAY ONE DAY T W O D AY T H R E E DAY FOUR DAY FIVE
E X P L O R E
POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS
118. DAY ONE DAY T W O D AY T H R E E DAY FOUR DAY FIVE
DEVELOP A
STOR YBOAR D
119. DAY ONE DAY T W O D AY T H R E E DAY FOUR DAY FIVE
BUILD A
PR OTOTYPE
120. DAY ONE DAY T W O D AY T H R E E DAY FOUR DAY FIVE
T E S T W I T H
FIVE C U S T O M E R S
127. T H E C O S T OF D E L A Y
Prioritise the most important project questions
and gain immediate feedback.
Value stream map - http://blackswanfarming.com/cost-of-delay/
£150,000 per week lost in delay.
131. A S T R O N G BRAND:
Aligns your organisation with the needs of your
customer and gives focus and consistency
Gives you plenty of hypotheses to test and learn from
Translates your business purpose into something your
audience can engagewith
133. Input
Internal leadership, management and employee insight
External client and stakeholder insight
Communications ecosystem audit
Competitive/comparative set analysis
Purpose
Why you do what you do
Ambition
What you aim to achieve
Proposition, brand story & themes
What you will be known for (clients, stakeholders and talent)
Output
Creative platform/brief
Engagement principles and tactics
Identity and design framework, education and guidance
Content, storytelling andmessaging
Values
What you believe in
Brand character (visual & verbal)
How you express yourself. What if feels like to work with you.
Personal insights provide the substance,
authenticity and inspiration for a compelling and
sustainablebrand.
Informs decision-making throughout process.
Early engagement/consultation helps create
ambassadors for process and outcomes.
Gives your brand energy and drive that all
stakeholders can connect with.
Ensures communications aredriven by
audience benefit.
Structures content generation,storytelling
and messaging.
Defines the human side of your business.
Who you are and what’s important to you.
Differentiates you and helps all audiences
connect rationally and emotionally with
the experience and service you offer. The
brief to influence and inspire all creative
and communicationdecisions.
Motivates employees, builds personal
connection with clients and creates a
platform for profile inyour
marketplace.
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Generative Product Research Generative Market Research
Questions
How can we solve the problem?
What form should this take?
How important is the design?
What’s the quickest solution?
What is the minimum feature set?
How should we prioritise?
Methods
Solution interview
Contextual inquiry/ethnography
Demo pitch
Consulting
Competitor analysis and usability
testing
Questions
Who is our customer?
What are their pains?
What job needs to be done?
Is our customer segment too broad?
How do we find them?
Methods
Customer discovery interviews
Contextual inquiry/ethnography
Data mining
Focus groups*
Surveys* (open ended)
* Not recommended
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2. Phrase your customer problems in their
words
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I need new
functionality
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I worry about
my daughter at
night
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> 95 % of companies Marketing
and Development managers don’t
agree on what a Customer need is
Source: Stratgyn.com
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3. Define your customer needs
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Customer need:
Bill needs to
have peace of
mind that his
daughter is safe
when she
travels alone at
night.
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How might we?
Sharing travel info
from app
GPS tracker in neck
Auto text message
every five minutes
Push notifications
Don’t let girls out after
dark
Long piece of
thread
Follow her
Breadcrumbs
Learn how to relax
and ignore it
Monitor her vital signs
Panic button
162. +44 (0) 131 561 7300 | www.bordercrossingmedia.com | Company No: SC 308 978
Evaluative Product/Market Research
Evaluative Product Research Evaluative Market Research
Questions
Is this solution working?
Are people using it?
Which solution is better?
How should we optimise this?
What do people like / dislike?
Why do they do that?
Methods
Paper/Clickable prototypes
Usability
Hallway
Live
Remote
Functioning products
Analytics
Questions
Are they really willing to pay?
How much will they pay?
How do we convince them to buy?
How much will it cost to sell?
Can we scale marketing?
Methods
5 second tests
Comprehension
Conjoint Analysis
Data mining/market research
Surveys* (closed)
* Not recommended
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?1. Think about problems
not solutions
2. Phrase your customer
problems in their words
3. Define your customer
needs
211. Improve workforce
effectiveness, with
secure digital networks,
devices and tools that
transform ways of
working
Get closer to
customers and
communities through
innovative use of digital
technology
Cut out wasteful
processes, with
technology like
Internet Of Things or
Big Data & Artificial
Intelligence
It's not just about online transactions , we need to look at the steps of every frontline
process and search for unlockable data to drive efficiencies and change
212. 212
The Digital Layer Cake
Transform
DIGITAL
LEADERSHIP
Deliver – DIGITAL
SERVICES
Disrupt – Culture, Business Rules,
Customer Interactions, Data,
Discover – FOUNDATIONS :TheTechnical
Platform
DigitalCouncil Digital Places
214. CONFIDENCE
I understand my
business needs
•Cost Reduction
•Improve service
•Streamline process
I understand Digital
•The terms
•Methods
•The technology
•The impact
•Innovation
I have the necessary
skills
•In house
•Personally
•I can and have authority to
innovate
Technology is easy
to use
•For Citizen
•For staff
•For me
Its Secure
•But not business prohibitive
Digital will Support
& deliver
•Outcomes
•citizen
•staff
•council
215. Ambition
How else can I used
Digital to ..
•Reduce Cost
•Improve service
•Streamline process
Digital underpins
•Redesigning process
•Break Tradition
•Creating new opportunities
•New business models
•New Revenues
How can I hone skills
to create
•New Careers
•New culture
•Authority and environment
to innovate
Technology adapts
& evolves to support
•Citizen
•Staff
•Council Services
•me
Security at the heart
•Understanding
•Mitigated steps to protect
assets
Digital Evolution
Support & deliver
•Outcomes
•citizen
•staff
•council
216. delivering better outcomes
Digital can deliver savings at the same time as improving quality of life
Quality
Of
Life
Public Services Economy
Increased
Economic
Activity
• Increased
Participation
• Community
Empowerment
Inward
Investment
• Reduced Failure Demand
• Proactive rather than
Reactive Services
• Better Partnerships
• Improved Efficiency and
Cost Savings
• Improved Decision-Making
• Improved Market
Insight
• New Markets
• Innovation
Opportunities
• Business Growth
• Improved Achievement and
Lifelong Learning
• Better Health and
Independence
• Reduced risk of crisis
• Reduced inequality
Improved
Resiliency
and
Sustainability
Digital Place
228. ANDREW DOBBIE
FOUNDER/CD/MD
JILL MOFFAT
HEAD OF DIGITALPROJECTS
EMMA STRAIN
ACCOUNT DIRECTOR
JADE MACFARLANE
SENIOR DESIGNER
PETER PELOSI
SENIOR DESIGNER
EMMA FAULKNER
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
ASA RODGER
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
DAN SIMMON
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
JOHN HYLAND
ARTWORKER
HANNAH DAVIDSON
PA / OFFICE MANAGER
STEPHEN WEIR
OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
LORNA BROWN RAYMOND MCSTAY
CREATIVE SERVICES DIRECTOR COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR
STEVEN HADDEN
DESIGN DIRECTOR
STEPHANIE AITKEN
ACCOUNT MANAGER
DEXTER DOG
BARKETING MANAGER
MIKE BROOKE
HEAD OFSTRATEGY
EUAN BROWN
ACCOUNT MANAGER
HIBA OMAR
ACCOUNT MANAGER
JUDE KERRIGAN
ACCOUNT DIRECTOR
MEET THE
MADEBRAVE®
TEAM
NIALL MACFARLANE
DIGITAL DESIGNER
DAISY SWAIN
DIGITAL DESIGNER
FRASER HARKNESS
WEB DEVELOPER
LEWIS DORIGO
WEB DEVELOPER
KEENAN ERWIN
SOCIAL MEDIAMANAGER
STEPHANIE BOYLE
CONTENT STRATEGIST
229.
230.
231.
232.
233. SHORTLISTED
for Scottish SME of the year
SHORTLISTED
Consumer Engagement Award
(SpringbankWhisky)
WINNER
Outstanding Contribution
bya Young Business Leader
The Scottish
Business
Awards
2016
Herald
Digital
Awards
2016
Inspiring
City Awards
2014
WINNER
Entrepreneur of theYear
SHORTLISTED
forEntrepreneur
of TheYear
WeDo
Scotland
2015
Entrepreneurial
Spark’s
Entrepreneuring
Awards
2015
SHORTLISTED
Glasgow’s Favourite
Business
Evening
Times
Awards
2015
WINNER
Corporate /Promotional
Literature (50Years ofVango)
SHORTLISTED
forEntrepreneur
of TheYear
The Scottish
Creative
Awards
2015
The Scottish
Business
Awards
2015
WINNER
Best Use ofTech
for Tech’sSake
SHORTLISTED
Tech Business ofthe Year
The Chip
Shop
Awards
2016
The Scottish
Business
Awards
2015
WINNER
Best PerformingBusiness
1–10Employees
Glasgow
Business
Awards
2013
SHORTLISTED
for Excellencein
Communications
Glasgow
Business
Awards
2014
SHORTLISTED
for Best NewBusiness
of theyear
The Scottish
Business
Awards
2014
SHORTLISTED
for Young Business Person
of theYear
Glasgow
Business
Awards
2014
SHORTLISTED
for Digital: Website
Scottish CanalsWebsite
The Scottish
Creative
Awards
2016
OUR AWARDS
241. A brand is simply an
organisation, or a
product, or service
with a personality
Wally Ollins
242. Your brand is what
other people say
about youwhen you're
not inthe room
Jeff Bezos,Amazon
243. A brand is not...
or
alogo aproduct
orservice
244. A brand is the thing
that humanisesyour
business, so that people
can connect with it the
way they would a friend.
245. Purpose
What is the heart & soul of the brand?
What does it bring to someone’s life?
Why does itexist?
Personality
What characteristics or traits
does the brandhave?
Tone of voice
How does the brand talk
& communicate?
Style
How does the brand look?
And what does this say about them?
Vision
What does it want to become in the
future? Where is it going?
Values
What do they believein?
Name /Logo
What’s the brandcalled?
247. “We make great computers.They’re
user friendly, beautifully designed,
and easy to use. Want to buyone?”
“With everything we do, we aim to
challenge the status quo. We aim to
think differently. Our products are
user friendly, beautifully designed, and
easy to use. We just happen to make
great computers. Want to buy one?”
WHY
HOW
WHAT
251. WHY
Weexist to inspire creativity
in everyone.
HOW
We refuse to play it safe and
never accept mediocrity.
WHAT
We design, brand, code and share.
And we just happen to have an
awesome time doing it.
279. George Elliott – Driving
Collaboration & Seizing
Opportunity
Digital Transformation Conference, Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh, 23 February 2017
280. George Elliott - snapshot
▪ Grant Thornton - 15 years (7 as a partner)
▪ Over 25 years working in the tech sector:
▪ Listed companies - Main Market (3) AIM (6)
▪ 3 IPOs – Wolfson, Craneware, Cupid
▪ Latterly focused on early stage and fast growing companies
▪ Board level/executive responsibility for:
▪ Business development
▪ Sales & marketing
▪ Production
▪ Finance
▪ Since 2007 non-executive chairman/director of 18 companies
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281. George Elliott - currently non-executive
chairman/director of
▪ Craneware plc Software Non-executive chairman
▪ Calnex Solutions Ltd Hardware Non-executive chairman
▪ Cooper Software Ltd ERP consultancy Non-executive chairman
▪ Optoscribe Ltd Component manufacturer Non-executive chairman
▪ Visionware Ltd Software Non-executive chairman
▪ Par Equity Holdings Ltd Venture capital Non-executive director
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282. Presentation is based on
▪ My personal observations and experiences over the last 25 years working with
tech companies that transformed themselves
▪ Why tech is important to Scotland
▪ The culture within Scottish tech companies and why it needs to change
▪ What Scottish tech companies can do to compete and win on the global stage
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283. George Elliott - innovative tech companies that I
have worked with
▪ Services “Claim to fame” Current Status
▪ McQueen First multi-lingual, multi-currency call centre in Europe Acquired by Sykes
▪ Hardware
▪ Calluna Invented the 1.8 inch hard disk drive Dissolved
▪ MicroEmissive Displays Invented the world’s smallest OLED micro display Dissolved
▪ Wolfson Audio chip designed into Apple’s iPod and iPhone Acquired by Cirrus
▪ Calnex First 100G tester for Ethernet synchronisation Private company
▪ Optoscribe Manufacture high performance waveguides Private company
▪ Software
▪ Craneware Software and support services for US hospitals Public company
▪ Two Big Ears 3D audio for VR and AR applications Acquired by Facebook
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284. Why tech is important to Scotland
▪ Scotland has the raw materials:
▪ Deep and long history of innovation and invention
▪ 14 campus based universities - 3 ranked in world top 100
▪ Cost structure and flexible working practices
▪ Ecosystem is growing - incubators, angel syndicates, private equity companies, network
organisations, government agencies, etc.
▪ It’s IP based therefore more flexible and less capital intensive than traditional
sectors
▪ One of the fastest growing sectors:
▪ Electronics sector in Scotland’s Top 500 companies grew by 63% to >£2b in 2016 (compared
with 7% decrease overall) (Source: Business Insider Jan/Feb 2017)
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285. Why tech is important to Scotland - but!
▪ <50 public companies in Scotland (excluding financial institutions)
▪ Only 4 listed tech companies in Scotland (150 UK):
▪ Craneware, FreeAgent, Indigovision, Iomart
▪ Fast growing companies in Scotland tend to sell-out rather than reach their
potential
▪ Building global tech companies is not in our DNA – yet!
▪ We should be punching above our weight:
▪ Skyscanner and FanDuel should be the norm
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286. Scotland’s ecosystem is not yet configured to
reach its potential
▪ Universities
▪ Research rather than commercially focussed
▪ Stakes in spin-outs much higher than in the US
▪ Government and other agencies
▪ “There is a dire need for Scotland to draw up a 30-year blueprint to achieve its immense
economic potential.” (Source: Sunday Times 5 February 2017)
▪ Lots of initiatives but not coordinated
▪ Business community
▪ Needs to become more entrepreneurial and commercially focussed
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287. Seizing the opportunity – “The State of European Tech
2016”, report by Atomico, November 2016
▪ The future is being invented in Europe
▪ Europe has acquired real traction in what is termed “deep tech”
▪ Artificial intelligence - machine learning, data mining, big data, speech recognition
▪ Frontier hardware - robotics, drones, radar, 3D printing, nanosatellites
▪ Virtual and augmented reality
▪ The internet of things - wearables, smart home, smart city
▪ Why Europe?
▪ Moving from the consumer internet to the industrial internet
▪ Europe has the technological, financial and human assets to flourish in the digital economy
▪ Cultural change – companies are now determined to shape their own destiny
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288. How do we change our culture?
▪ Concentrate more on building companies rather than products
▪ Think bigger - global rather than local
▪ Focus more on the market than the technology
▪ Get “real” about planning
▪ Recruit experienced people early
▪ Develop your leadership and management skills
▪ Get out and talk to potential customers, influencers, competitors, etc.
▪ Learn from successful companies
▪ “Fail” fast
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289. How to compete and win - simple questions
▪ What problems/issues does your company’s technology solve?
▪ Do you know your addressable market, the key drivers, competitors, trends, etc.?
▪ How should you position yourself?
▪ Is your business scalable?
▪ What are your channels to market?
▪ How do you protect your intellectual property?
▪ How do you recruit, retain and motivate the staff you need?
▪ How do you reverse into the future?
▪ Do you know what you are worth?
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290. Craneware – case study
▪ Keith Neilson and Gordon Craig founded the company in 1999
▪ Identified an opportunity for automating billing requirements in US hospitals
▪ IPO in 2007 on AIM
▪ Software used by >25% of all registered US hospitals
▪ Chargemaster Toolkit® ranked No1 product for revenue cycle by KLAS since
2006
▪ Headquartered in Edinburgh with US offices in Georgia, Tennessee,
Massachusetts and Arizona and employees over 200 staff
▪ Market capitalisation IPO £32m, currently £334m
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291. Two Big Ears – case study
▪ Abesh Thakur and Varun Nair two Indian nationals founded the company in 2013
▪ Company founded to commercialise research work undertaken by the founders on 3D
binaural audio technology and augmented reality systems at the University of Edinburgh
▪ May 2014 Neil Heywood and George Elliott put in seed capital and joined the board as
non-executive directors
▪ Company used social media to bring its technology to games developers who were
developing content for VR and AR applications.
▪ Main competitor Dolby
▪ Founders presented at seminars and trade shows in California to present technology and
meet key players in the industry
▪ Company purchased by Facebook in 2016 for an undisclosed sum. Founders now work for
Facebook
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292. Conclusion
If you have a technology/product that:
▪ provides a solution to a real problem for
▪ a large addressable market which
▪ you have worked out how to access
then you should be able to
▪ build a team that will
▪ build a company
that will potentially become a global player
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295. Hunting for growth – Technology sector’s enduring appeal
The Technology sector has delivered the highest median
earnings growth historically (2003-2012).
The sector is also expected to deliver the highest growth
median earnings growth in the period 2014-18
Structural drivers of growth with Technology pervasive in all
business sectors
Consistent earnings growth, particularly in Software and IT
services sub-sector.
Sector earnings growth, ex Oil & Gas, Mining and Financials Tech Sector earnings growth
Tech Sector earnings growth, ex-hardware
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295
296. Investing in the UK Technology sector
Highly attractive sector for growth
Relatively small investible universe, even
before ARM Plc’s sale to Softbank (de-listed
6/9/2016)
In the UK, the Tech sector (including
payment companies) represents c. 2% of the
market (Main List and AIM).
As a comparison, in the US, the Technology
sector represents c.21% of the S&P 500
UK sector size vs. earnings growth profile
Distribution by market cap
17% of companies (26 companies) represent
83% of market value
Average market cap is £272M but the
median market cap is £41m
Limited investor choice
Gap in the market
No. of companies %Market Cap (£'000) %
Over £1bn mkt cap 7 5% 24,903 61%
£500m-£1bn 9 6% 5,770 14%
£250m- £500m 10 7% 3,192 8%
£100m-£250m 21 14% 3,283 8%
£50m-£100m 31 21% 2,153 5%
Under £50m 72 48% 1,386 3%
Total Tech Sector 150 100% 40,686 100%
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