Stuart Lauchlan
Stuart Lauchlan has been tracking and commenting on the enterprise IT market for 31 years during which time he's managed to amuse, inform and irritate buy and sell side participants in equal and appropriate measure.
Stuart Lauchlan
'Good citizen' Uber wants a regulatory Better Deal in Europe - but a better deal for who?
We must all work together to build A Better Deal, says Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, but will Europe be as willing to listen as Californian voters were?
How Target's omni-channel leap of faith 5 years ago set it up for retail's COVID crisis and beyond
In 2016, US retailer Target set off on an omni-channel transformation journey that 'loved the store'; in 2020, that foresight paid off during the COVID crisis. Where to now in the Vaccine Economy?
Zoom ends the year of COVID-driven success on a high, but can growth rates hold up in the Vaccine Economy?
The least unexpected set of quarterly success numbers in the current financial reporting period, but can Zoom's growth be sustained as workplaces re-open?
'I need to be more agile, more flexible. I need to get to the cloud’ - Workday co-CEO Aneel Bhusri on the post-pandemic CFO imperative
The need for a modernized finance system at the heart of any organization has never been more obvious, says Bhusri.
Biden removes Trump's MAGA roadblock to a global Digital Services Tax, but we're not there yet...
The prospect of a global Digital Services Tax proposal from the OECD is back on the table - and the US is back sitting at that same table. But we're not over the finishing line yet...
New e-commerce taxes might help refill government coffers, but the knock-on effects are a lot more complicated - and dangerous
The UK Government looks set to impose an online delivery tax on retailers to try to refill its COVID-wracked coffers, but it's a plan that could do more long term harm than good.
Salesforce passes the $20 billion milestone; onwards to $50 billion with a new business operating model in play
Salesforce comfortably crashed through its long-standing revenue target. The next step is faster growth powered by a work from anywhere model, according to CEO Marc Benioff and team.
Re-inventing retail - Walmart’s Global CTO on cloud shifts, augmented reality and turning machine learning to cost-saving good use
Walmart Global CTO Suresh Kumar has a long tech shopping list to get through as the world's largest retailers ups its transformation efforts.
Workday co-CEOs predict ‘re-acceleration’ in moving finance to the cloud and greater C-suite focus on employee engagement in the Vaccine Economy
Workday's co-CEOs Chano Fernandez and Aneel Bhusri look to the future after a solid set of full year numbers.
Digital banking - NatWest and HSBC bank on automation and analytics to capitalise on the customer shift online
NatWest and HSBC are shoring up their digital assets to support growth and changing customer behaviors as well as fending off the threat of new challenger banks.
Digital banking - Lloyds Banking Group saddles up public cloud, machine learning and advanced analytics for its next transformation phase
Lloyds Banking Group put down a £3 billion digital marker in 2018 and it looks to have paid off to date. Where to next as the pace of transformation hots up post-pandemic?
Poor, misunderstood Facebook! Apologist-in-Chief Nick Clegg wants a word about the week's events Down Under
The war with Australia is over, but here's the official version from Facebook on what really happened over the past week. Now, sit up and pay attention - Nick wants a word with you!
How Macy's plans to move on from 'could have been worse' 2020 through accelerated omni-transformation
It wasn't a great year for Macy's, but it could have been worse. The challenge for CEO Jeff Gennette in 2021 is how to build on the pandemic-driven boost to digital retail.
