

Derek du Preez
Bridging the gap between the needs of employees and leaders in the future hybrid workplace
New research out this week suggests that employees and leaders have differing concerns, priorities and fears about what the future workplace might look like as the Vaccine Economy takes hold.
Levi scales omni-channel outside of US and is confident on Vaccine Economy prospects
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t been easy for retailers, including Levi, which has suffered losses. But the denim giant is hopeful about a strong, digital-led recovery.
How Coupa is thinking about the future of work in a COVID-19 world
Ray Martinelli, Chief People Officer at Coupa, argues that whilst things have changed, the strategy stays the same - a strong value system and accountability.
McDermott sees value in Qualtrics once again - partnership announced to bring experience data to ServiceNow workflows
McDermott has history with Qualtrics, as he oversaw the acquisition of the vendor when he was CEO at SAP. Now CEO at ServiceNow, and with Qualtrics partially spun off, he clearly thinks the company has value at his new stomping ground.
New regulator launches in UK to tackle dominance of tech giants
The newly launched Digital Markets Unit will initially look at the relationship between platforms and content providers, but broadly aims to “crack down on unfair practices”
COVID-19 and distributed work - leaders out of touch, workforce exhausted and Gen-Z at risk
The latest Microsoft Work Trend Index highlights that there have been clear positives to distributed work during COVID-19, but the negatives frame a discussion for the future.
How Rolls-Royce is improving engine sustainability with real-time data and digital twins
Rolls-Royce is using cloud-based technologies to help its customers in the aviation industry avoid unplanned grounded planes, with real-time data from hundreds of engine sensors.
AppsFlyer builds a data-drive culture with Looker and Google
AppsFlyer has gone from one general BI dashboard to everyone in the company using multiple dashboards on a daily basis, as it centralised its analytics on Looker.
Companies are overestimating how responsible they’re being with AI
Boston Consulting Group judged organizations’ AI use against a framework to assess how responsible they’re being. Executives are overestimating unsurprisingly overestimating their maturity.
Ivanti - a company on the move aiming to solve the ‘anywhere workplace’ problem
Ivanti CEO Jim Schaper sees an opportunity to capture mid-market buyers that need solutions to solve problems created by our new ‘anywhere work’ reality.
Time to insight over precision - Tableau brings ‘data science’ to business users
We speak to Tableau CTO Andrew Beers about the company’s latest release, which aims to bring Salesforce’s Einstein capabilities to business users.
Loss of access to EU security data post-Brexit is ‘concerning’
Whilst the EU and the UK have struck a Trade and Cooperation Agreement post-Brexit, concerns have been raised about the UK’s access to vital law enforcement data.
Delivery Hero turns to Google Cloud BigQuery to improve data accessibility and sharing
Online food delivery network Delivery Hero wants to improve data access between its different business units, with the aim of advancing its machine learning capabilities.