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.
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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.
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.
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.
Knowledge19 - ServiceNow’s Chief Talent Officer talks diversity, inclusion and why making people uncomfortable is a good thing
Diversity and inclusion is an important topic to diginomica, one we like to challenge vendors on. ServiceNow has put leadership in place to move the needle.
Tackling bias in an AI sector that's already too 'pale, male and stale'
AI may still be a relatively young sector of the tech industry, but the same old diversity mistakes are already all too evident.
Building a fair working environment for the gig economy - a UK/South African idea takes shape
In a bid to prevent a race to the bottom for the world’s seven million digital platform-based gig economy workers, the Fairwork Foundation has been set up to rate and score firms with an eye to encouraging fairer working practices. But will it be enough?
Europe's magnificent 7 AI ethics principles - a lot of carrot and no stick
Can Brussels do what Google can't - deliver an ethical framework for AI with which we can all agree?
Tech investors and the 'Weinstein Clause' - avoiding tomorrow's #MeToo moments
Investors are starting to introduce so-called ‘Weinstein clauses’ into deals with tech-start-ups to ensure their investments are not put at risk over sexual misconduct allegations against the management team. But are they likely to make any difference?
Why social inclusion requires a collective approach to spread the benefits of digital transformation
Inclusion and diversity - empowered by technology. Some lessons learned and advice given.
Welcome to Workfront, a pioneer in enterprise work management
Workfront becomes diginomica's first partner in the field of enterprise work management, helping organizations grapple with a proliferation of digital tools
The big question - what if automation kills more jobs than it creates?
Emerging technologies—including AI, machine learning, and advanced robotics—have the potential to automate many tasks currently performed by workers. The time to prepare for these changes is now, says an Aspen Institute report.