Future of Automation in the Industrial Sector

In the months before the COVID-19 pandemic, a major Oil processing plant in South East Asia was managed by a few thousand personnel on site. After the lock down was announced, the number of personnel on site plunged significantly but the company continues to recover millions of barrels of oil every day with a marginal …

The Time To Prioritize Cybersecurity Is Now

Cybersecurity will be the issue of this decade. As our dependency on technology continues to grow so will the scale and sophistication of cybersecurity threats. For businesses, the intensification of cybercrime can be explained by Sutton’s law: that’s where the money is. The cost of cybercrime – already in the billions of dollars – rises …

The Digital HR Metrics

Define – Measure – Refine – Succeed “Measure your business impact in our disrupted, digital world”   Digitalising HR is a game-changer for businesses, enabling us to deliver efficiencies, excellent employee experiences and better business outcomes, providing a competitive advantage for organisations. Yet this isn’t about technology alone. Digitalising is a mindset, a way of …

Great HR Tech Will Create “Time Travel” For Employees

In the most recent Pivot Podcast with Kara Swisher and Professor Scott Galloway, Scott referenced that the most exciting technologies or innovations in history are often dull. However, his excitement was not for SpaceX but instead Elon Musk’s Boring Company. Prof G was excited about Boring because business folks often changed history by creating “time …

Telehealth : A Temporary Necessity or the New Normal?

More than a year and a half after the first positive COVID-19 case was diagnosed in the United States, industries across the nation are still grappling with operating in a post-pandemic world. Many businesses came up with temporary measures to ensure they could continue operating according to the “new normal”, but few anticipated that social …

LIMS or LMMS – a new approach in lab management

What exactly does LMMS stand for? – Levente Bakos, the managing director of LabShare Ltd. covered this exciting new concept in a presentation he delivered on the future of the testing market. The so-called Laboratory Market Management System has considerable benefits over the LIMS system currently in use in the test industry. This sharing economy-based …

LabTech and Innovations: How Tech Changes Modern Laboratories

Laboratories are the frontline of human progression in many ways, shapes and forms. Within the walls of these facilities are initiatives and determined people working towards achieving humankind’s most brilliant innovations. Unbeknownst to many is that within the confines of labs, humanity develop new ideas and learn to handle the challenges faced by nature. Laboratories …

Why the Internet of Things in healthcare is really about people, not things

Whenever you read about the Internet of Things (IoT), the focus is usually on the ‘things’ that are being connected. A home thermostat that you can control remotely via a smartphone app. Cars that exchange data for real-time traffic regulation. Robots that navigate through fulfillment warehouses to pick up the product you just ordered online. …

Connectivity: The One Word Transforming Healthcare

It’s fair to say that patient care depends on healthcare connectivity. Every person who visits a doctor or picks up a prescription generates data that are assembled to form a complete profile of that person. Any break in the data chain and it’s the patient who suffers. Thankfully, we live in an age of growing …

The Future of Laboratory Information Management Systems Is Low- Code

The need for advancements in healthcare technology is critical. The global Coronavirus pandemic has exposed the need for convenience, connectedness, and secure real-time sharing of healthcare and logistics information The term “Low code” was coined by Forrester in 2014 to classify development platforms that focused on development simplicity and ease of use. However, low-code development …