Telecom Implementations Are Messy – How Can The Suppliers Clean It Up?

If you google the question “How many technology projects fail?” you will find many sources that give some approximation of the following data taken from the article “Are These The 7 Real Reasons Why Tech Projects Fail”, by Bernard Marr: 25% of technology projects fail outright 20-25% of technology projects never show any return on …

Travel and Hospitality: Adapting to the “Next Normal” with Blockchain Technology

In May 2020, Deloitte mapped out 4 potential scenarios for the global travel and hospitality industry to get to the “next normal.” Each scenario evaluated known unknowns such as disease severity, government collaboration, healthcare response, economic consequences, and social cohesion. Its conclusion arrived at several overarching themes, which would need to be addressed in order …

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 …

The Future of Insurance

We profit from it, we fear it, and we find it impossibly hard to quantify… risk. While not the sexiest of industries, insurance can be a life-saving protector, pooling everyone’s premiums to safeguard against some of our greatest, most unexpected losses. One of the most profitable in the world, the insurance industry exceeded $1.2 trillion …

Insurance Products are Dead. Long live Insurtech Platforms

During the last 4 years I’ve been talking about Insurtech, and I have always done so from the context of collaboration with and transformation of the insurance industry. That’s why to talk about Insurtech is to talk about the next stage for insurance. Since 2016 we have witnessed the changes and opportunities Insurtech brings to …

Blockchain for Business Series: Understanding Business and Technological Design Imperatives of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

Introduction: What is Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and Why Is It Important? In this post we plan to expend some time and energy in understanding Central Bank Digital Currency or CBDC. While the notion of “Central Banks” implies centralized control and governance structure the term itself may be against the doctrine of decentralization which lays …

How Your Admin Could Be Costing You More Than You Think

For companies looking to grow and expand their staff and resources, you’ll be looking at a higher expenditure overall. Another concern? The more you grow, the more HR you have to deal with. When you’re in that rocky limbo of not being able to hire a full-time HR person, this can complicate matters and inadvertently …

Understanding Cyber Risk- Cyber Security

All modern organizations face some degree of cyber risk. Cyber attacks over the last several years have been steadily increasing, and have increased in both count and severity very recently. New technology and its implementation has become a common task for business small and large. Only recently have small and mid-size businesses realized the importance of securing …

Cloud Computing Security

Cloud computing has quickly become a relevant technology within the information technology field over the past few years. This technology is powerful and useful but is a dual edge sword as security can become an issue quickly when placing data on web based storage servers. Information security is open broken up into C.I.A. (confidentiality, integrity, …