Artists on Artificial Intelligence
IBM is working with Lumen Art Projects to develop knowledge sharing between artists and technologists. Companies everywhere are collaborating to solidify their competitive advantage. This is something that our report on ‘Becoming a Cognitive Enterprise’ describes, as companies are developing these collaborations as a way of reinventing their businesses, expanding their expertise or competing in […]
Time to THINK again
Modern enterprises continue to reinvent themselves for the digital world. A fundamental requirement is to quickly modernise key applications and run them across any type of IT infrastructure. This could be in the company data centre or private cloud for their most sensitive data and critical workloads; or the public cloud where they get scale […]
THINK – can we use technology to design a better future?
We’re living at a time of unprecedented change – for business, for technology, for the planet. As we face up to an uncertain future, we’re being forced to tackle some of the most important questions humanity has ever had to consider – as innovators, as citizens and as consumers. It all comes down to this. […]
CICS 50th Anniversary
This year is a Golden Jubilee for innovation. These 50-year anniversaries include the first US ATM; the first successful heart transplant; the Moon landing. And perhaps less well-known to most people is that the IBM software product called CICS was born in 1969. It was designed to fill a gap in the Public Utilities market, […]
CFO: the restless reinventor – Chapter 2
The CFO and the path to personalisation In the first chapter of this series we discussed the market forces that are revolutionising global business paradigms, and the pressure those shifts are putting on the CFO role. Here, we will explore the drive towards personalisation, and the responsibility of the CFO to harness the opportunities this […]
The next phase of digital reinvention in energy is on its way. Are you ready?
Energy ecosystems and new business models may feel quite theoretical and distant alongside the pressures for today’s energy businesses. However, we all intuitively know we have to go there and there has to be a whole system collaboration to enable the energy transition and go some way to mitigating the impacts of climate change. The […]
Reinventing clinical trials: delivering on the vision of digital transformation in health
Last year 870,000 patients in the NHS had the opportunity to access cutting-edge treatments early as part of clinical trials. NHS DigiTrial is one of seven new hubs announced by Health Data Research UK. The hubs aim to reinvent the approach to trials, enabling cutting-edge research for health discoveries, to help bring new therapies to […]
3 Ways IBM is Helping UK Universities Beat Disruption
UK Universities are amongst the best in the world, being home to four of the top 10 international universities. They are at the forefront of world-leading research which drives innovation, economic vitality and improves people’s everyday lives in all sorts of ways. However, the competition has never been so tough for the universities and higher […]
CFO: the restless reinventor – Chapter 1: A Brave New World
We stand at the starting-block for the next big shift in business. As radical new technology poses unprecedented possibilities for businesses, the CFO role is expanding in every direction. Five years ago, the CFO’s time was dedicated to reporting, cost reduction and investor management. Today, they must adapt to the challenges and embrace the opportunities posed […]
Why it makes sense to start your AI journey in the IBM Garage.
A surprising statistic from a recent report, picked up by Forbes and others in March, suggested that 40 percent of European firms calling themselves “AI start-ups” are not, in fact, deploying AI technology at all. The implication seems to be that hype around AI is just that: hype. My experience, though, is that established businesses […]
Festival of Innovation
Visit our major UK software lab at this free event Hursley Lab is our biggest UK R&D site. Here’s where we invent and build the new technology that is changing the world. Thousands of people come to Hursley every year for customer briefings, public sector discussions, training, hackathons, design sessions and developer events. Now you […]
Get agile to build delightful customer experiences.
Work fast – with purpose – and break down internal boundaries to become a Cognitive Enterprise Digital disruption today is a given. Technology is fundamentally changing life and business with such breadth, depth and scale – and, importantly, at such an exponential pace – that businesses are forced to rethink the way they organise themselves. […]
Digital transformation: your questions answered by Lindsay Herbert
Lindsay Herbert is Innovation Leader for IBM iX UKI and an IBM Inventor. In addition to advising company leaders worldwide on how to further their innovation agendas, Lindsay also invents breakthrough technologies for IBM itself. Her most recent invention is the IBM Instant Checkout, a revolutionary innovation for retail. This ground-breaking technology has been featured […]
Fail … but not TOO fast.
A critical theme of digital transformation is the drive for innovation, and rightly so. Many years ago this was my “thing”. I led work on creative innovation for a client with a household name … and I loved the work. But like any other fashion, innovation easily falls into disrepute. It’s really easy to […]
How can you drive meaningful change in your organisation?
Recent innovations in Artificial Intelligence (AI), automation and robotics have the potential to revolutionise business as we know it, with each of these cutting-edge technologies promising to deliver greater productivity, increased efficiency and enhanced decision making. While most businesses are keen to harness the power of AI and automation, many organisations struggle to drive real […]