Developing the solar community
While some progress has been made on renewables deployment – in the US they now make up around 20% of energy production – there is still a long way to go in achieving net zero carbon in energy production. If you then consider that in order to decarbonise transport, heating, cooling and cooking, even with […]
Building a trusted foundation of data to help grow the game of rugby in England
The RFU and IBM have been on a journey of digital transformation since they extended their partnership in 2018. The public-facing element of this has been a project to consolidate and refresh their digital properties including www.englandrugby.com to improve the experience for rugby fans and community players alike. You can read more about that journey […]
CFO: the restless reinventor – Chapter 5
Tackling the competition through transformation As we have explored in this series, CFOs are entering a brave new, cognitive and digitised world. The way organisations interact with their customer base, absorb and understand the avalanche of data is critical for CFOs and their teams in terms of decision-making agility. IBM’s Institute of Business Value study […]
Command Centre of the Future
In this blog I’m going to write about the Command Centre of the Future. Before I do, I’ll describe a typical contemporary Command Centre’s attributes. Let’s play Command Centre Bingo and see how many of these attributes you may have also observed: 1) The Command Centre is manned by a large team of Operators who […]
Nine Ways to Fail At Cloud Native
Cloud native is the perfect recipe for innovation, adaptability and engineering excellence – when it goes right. When it’s not right, it can be a monster spaghetti, a quality headache, and frustratingly inflexible. Why so negative? The physicist Niels Bohr said “An expert is a person who has found out by their own painful experience […]
Finding the right fit: why AI is the solution to the sustainable fashion crisis
From personal recommendation engines to augmented reality fitting rooms, there is no doubt that emerging technologies are transforming the world of fashion. But there is a sustainability crisis casting a shadow over the industry and at this month’s London Fashion Week sustainability is going to be a hot topic – the British Fashion Council’s theme […]
IBM joins London Tech Show 2020 as a headline sponsor
The countdown is on until one of the UK’s leading and best attended technology events lands at the ExCel on 11th-12th March – London Tech Show 2020. We’re excited to announce that IBM is taking centre stage at the event as headline sponsor, showcasing our leadership in delivering enterprise level hybrid & public cloud and digital […]
Apprenticeships – helping secure the workforce of the future
Employers are spending more than £4.4 billion a year on the skills shortage[1] (Open University Business Barometer 2019), predominantly through recruitment activities, but buying skills and not building them is a short-term approach, which ultimately won’t pay dividends. It is crucial that organisations take a more sustainable approach using training to address their skills gaps. […]
Who Said Stores are Dead, Long Live the Connected Store…
As a repeat attendee at NRF’s Big Show in New York, I have seen a notable shift in theme from “omni-channel retailing” to the “Connected Store”. With retailers putting more and more connected devices and technologies in the store, and industry suppliers embedding AI in evolving solutions, it’s apparent that retailers have a wealth of […]
Degree Apprentices – working for the tech sector
Digital & Technology Solutions degree apprentices are making an important contribution to IBM and the digital economy. At IBM, we have over 50 Digital and Technology Solutions degree apprentices, studying at University of Exeter, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Open University. Our first cohort of degree apprentices graduated from Queen Mary University of London and […]
Building new business models to support the energy transition
Across many sectors of industry, we have seen significant disruption in the past few decades. In the retail space, we have seen around 20% of trade go online since the turn of the millennium and a move to out of town retail parks with the corresponding demise of the high street, while in the leisure […]
Implementing Cloud Service Management Capability
In blog #3 I described the key process, organisation and tool capabilities required for Cloud Service Management. In this blog I’ll focus on how to implement these capabilities. At this stage the Service Management Target Operating Model has been defined and the next step is to implement the enabling capabilities in order to transition to […]
Artificial Intelligence to Create Art
Reflections on the Artists on Artificial Intelligence event, run by Lumen Art Projects at IBM Southbank on how to use artificial intelligence to create art. When technologists and artists challenge each other, we build more innovative experiences. This was the reason that IBM recently hosted a Lumen Art Projects event called ‘Artists on Artificial Intelligence’ […]
Climate Change and Energy Transition
We are getting used to news of failure on hitting climate change targets. The latest WMO provisional statement on the state of the Global Climate highlighted that instead of a carbon reduced, carbon emissions actually increased by 1.5% a year over the past decade, requiring a 7.6% reduction every year to 2030 to stay within […]
Key Capabilities required for Cloud Service Management
My previous blog described the core Service Management functions required to deliver cloud as a service. This blog expands that description by highlighting the key tool, process and organisation capabilities required to enable those functions. Without these capabilities an IT department will not be able to effectively or efficiently operate a cloud service in a […]