Do businesses need a radical change in how they approach access security? Does a shift away from user responsibility – particularly with the generation and security of passwords – offer post-pandemic enterprises stronger digital security?

Is the definition of a ‘connected business’ very different today than it was just two years ago? And how can businesses embrace technology to enable them to connect with their customers and commercial partners? Chris Tucci is a Professor of Digital Strategy and Innovation at Imperial College Business School where he head’s the School’s Centre for Digital Transformation – designed to help businesses understand the far-reaching organisational implications of the digital revolution – something...

How do sustainable businesses use technology to innovate? And as businesses want to connect sustainability to their ESG, can technology help them achieve that goal? Katie Mills, Head of Sustainable Development & Innovation UK & Ireland at Schneider Electric outlines her views on the latest Silicon UK In Focus Podcast.

How has Saas become an essential component of a successful business? The importance of a robust and expansive data lake plays in the SaaS model. Understand what it takes to build and maintain a sufficient data lake – the challenges, the team required, and other business considerations to making it work.

Is SaaS still a foundation onto which businesses continue to build their processes? And why did HP move to a service company? Listen to learn how your business could further embrace SaaS to transform your company’s processes.

Learn how businesses can develop robust security for their remote workforces. Also, businesses are re-drawing their digital transformation roadmaps to include IoT, 5G, and Edge Computing, are burgeoning technologies that will touch every enterprise. Discover how security connects to these development strategies?

What general impact has the pandemic had on workforce management? And how are businesses now using digital tools to manage their dispersed workforces?

As a new form of communication that does not require the internet or cellular data, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) could offer businesses a new channel to evolve how they communicate across their enterprises. In this Silicon UK In Focus Podcasts, Matthew Hodgson, CEO and co-founder of Element, explains how P2P secure enterprise collaboration and messaging.

Mobile devices are so central to our personal and business lives, are the issues around digital identity about to be resolved with new legislation? Businesses are rapidly embracing AI and what this can potentially do for their businesses and customers. What care needs to be taken with using this technology when we consider identity?

What the pandemic showed many businesses was that their networks were lacking in some fundamental areas such as security and the ability to offer efficient connections at scale. How has the pandemic fundamentally changed how enterprises now see the networks they use?

The pandemic catapulted digital transformation up the priority list with 77% of CEOs surveyed by Fortune and Deloitte reporting digital transformation plans accelerated in response to COVID.      Yet, with McKinsey estimating that around 70% of digital transformation projects fail, C-suite leaders need to be cautious as they embark on change initiatives. To increase probability of programme success, leaders need to understand the common pitfalls and challenges initiatives face, from...

With businesses still experiencing the disruption to their operations and supply chains due to the pandemic, research commissioned by leading global business decisioning data and analytics provider Dun & Bradstreet has found that over half (52%) of European businesses surveyed don’t think they will survive without relevant, up-to-date and compliant business data.  Furthermore, with the pandemic continuing to disrupt supply chains globally, six in ten businesses surveyed are using data...

 Silicon DE im Fokus: Security Awareness  Die besten technischen Maßnahmen für die IT-Sicherheit nützen nichts, wenn ahnungslose Angestellte auf jeden Trick der Hacker hereinfallen. Um dies zu vermeiden, ist es dringend erforderlich, das Sicherheitsbewusstsein oder auf Englisch die Security Awareness jedes Einzelnen zu stärken.  Im Podcast mit Carolina Heyder erklärt Anna Collard, Geschäftsführerin von Popcorn Training, einem KnowBe4-Unternehmen, wie wichtig der menschliche Faktor in...

The Global Gender Inclusive Benefit will provide transgender and non-binary employees with the critical financial and emotional support they deserve. These industry-leading benefits were designed in partnership with Outforce, Salesforce’s LGBTQ+ employee resource group.     Salesforce is also redefining how its teams work together with Flex Team Agreements, empowering teams to decide how, when, and where they work including how many days a week they come into the office and what kind of...

Staying one step ahead of cyber attackers takes a special kind of mindset. You need to think like an attacker to anticipate their next move, have razor-sharp analytical skills and thrive on the unpredictability of spotting anything in the customer’s infrastructure that looks unusual.        Threat hunters operate in the eye of the cyber storm and tackle the daily challenge of fighting cybercriminals on the frontlines, by discovering and shutting down potential attack techniques. No two days...

Today’s consumer is more well informed, and demanding than ever before. With unlimited information, exposure to the opinions of a vast network of contacts, and the ability to rapidly place, amend, and cancel orders at the touch of a button, we’re in an unprecedented world of on-demand consumer expectations. Today we are speaking with Cyrus Gilbert-Rolfe, the Chief Revenue Officer for EVRYTHNG who help consumer brands run their business differently for a smarter, more sustainable, and...

Today we are speaking to Joanne Thurlow, Head of IT for Siemens Energy, Industrial Application Solutions. She partners with business providing strategic, innovative, cost sensitive and engineering-centric, global IT environments.      Also, Joanne commits her time to providing leadership, inspiration, motivation, strategic consulting, and market insights through various avenues: As a Digital Isle of Man Executive board member; committee member of LOVE TECH Joanne is committed to promoting...

Learn what have been the major automation trends that have shaped workplace productivity over the past year. How organisations responded to the pandemic by shifting their priorities in automation to boost efficiency, increase sales conversion rates and manage their finances more closely.   

In this week’s podcast, we focus on the recently published report: Digital Economy and Climate Impact from Scheider Electric. We are also considering how Schneider Electric are innovating in the energy space.  

In this week’s podcast we focus on the recently published report from Thomas International: ‘Mind the trust gap’ that reveals 85% of UK businesses need to critically improve recruitment processes, with 77% saying they need to improve the way they assess the value and skills people bring to the business.

 As the Biden administration creates a national AI task force, how will AI develop over the next few years? And how will these developments be managed to ensure safety and ethics are maintained?  

The Open University (OU) has jointly published a report with Be the Business titled Skills for Success: supporting business leaders with digital adoption. The research involved surveying 1,500 business leaders of SMEs from across the UK and listening to the experiences of businesses which have needed to make drastic changes to adapt to the challenges presented by the pandemic.  

As businesses strive to rebuild following the challenges of the past year, technical debt has emerged as a major roadblock to innovation and recovery, especially for enterprises focused on growth. Technical debt is a technical design or development choice made for short-term benefit with long-term consequences. Across industries, this results from the development of solutions implemented quickly to maximise speed, rather than optimising for the future. Based on a global survey of 500 IT...

The UK lags behind in global and European rankings for data and technology skills, according to Coursera’s latest Global Skills Report (GSR). The UK placed 34th globally in data skills and 47th in technology skills, lagging behind much of Western Europe and placing lower overall compared to last year’s report. GSR draws on performance data since the pandemic's onset from more than 77 million learners on the platform to benchmark skills proficiency across businesses, technology, and data...