Skills gaps, funding innovation and asking digital transformation questions - Salesforce UK head Paul Smith tours key topics
A chat with Paul Smith, Salesforce UK General Manager, as the firm's World Tour hits London.
Archive: HCM and the digital future of work
Citrix Synergy – Citrix tries to bury its tech beneath what do you want to do and why you want to do it
At face value this is another company offering users a 'platform' option, but Citrix looks closer to appreciating what the really involves than others. But it does have history to make this work.
Don’t like your future? Make up a new one yourself - CIO careers advice from the frontline
At 55, strategy consultant Jukka Virkkunen found himself getting a little too expensive for his clients. His solution? Go back to study - then become a CIO of ambitious Finnish Robotic Process Automation player
Rhonda Vetere, Santander's infrastructure CIO - it's how you tackle challenges that makes the difference
Rhonda Vetere, former CTO of Estee Lauder and now CIO at an international bank, shares her secrets to success in the competitive world of IT management.
Carey Group builds on Applied platform to demolish recruitment bias and build diversity
The family-owned UK construction and engineering company is using a cloud-based recruitment platform based on behavioural science to shortlist job candidates for interview.
Mental Health Awareness Week - the tech industry crisis that organizations need to tackle
Two-thirds of tech workers feel stressed and over half (52%) have suffered either anxiety or depression at some point.
US, UK among countries that need to do better on digital up-skilling, warns OECD
The OECD warns that there's a widespread global crisis when it comes to getting the skills in place to thrive in a digital economy.
Six big observations from FinancialForce Accelerate
No marching bands, no flimflam, no sexy “futures” but lots of real progress that delighted customers. That was the FinancialForce show this week and it was a quietly solid show at that. Here are the six main takeaways to ponder.
Workfront - a growing firm in an important space that could get crowded
Focusing on the problems between functional silos (and across the value chain and its non-employee constituents) is key to delivering new levels of customer satisfaction, productivity, etc. This is the space Workfront is targeting.
Calling for a younger Avon Lady - the people challenge for one retail digital transformation program
Recruiting a younger breed of tech-savvy Avon Lady is a priority for the retail institution's digital transformation makeover.
SAPPHIRENow 2019 - Gender bias debate tackles some of the thornier problems in battle of the sexes
A Day One highlight of SAPPHIRENow was a lively panel on diversity in the workplace. Their focus? how to address gender bias by bringing men and women together.
SAPPHIRENow 2019 - co-founder Plattner's trip Back to the Future
Hasso Plattner, co-founder SAP took the stage to deliver both a technical and inspiring keynote. It was one of his best.
Build 2019 - Nadella pitches a crowd-pleasing 'holy trinity', but stays close to the core engineer audience
Build 2019 kicked off with a CEO keynote that managed to be aspirational and practical at the same time.