Contract Market – Time for growth ?
The last 2 years have brought difficult times for the IT contractors in financial markets. The combination of rate cuts of up to 50% for certain roles and the systematic culling of resource as part of...
View Article“Meetings Meetings Virtual Meetings”– Egos and Airmiles
How many times have we heard the people with the signs in Oxford Street ‘the end of business travel is nigh’? OK not many times but the point is for the last 30 years people have been saying that...
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A Framework for Success
As CIO’s look to balance innovation against a backdrop of cost efficiency, is it time to cherry pick the honours students from the report cards of those governance and control frameworks of recent...
View ArticleThe ultimate way to move beyond trading latency?
A number of power surges and outages have been experienced in the East Grinstead area of the UK in recent months. Utility companies involved have traced the cause to one of three high capacity feeds...
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Clouds, Grids & Meters – The commoditisation of computing. Are there blue...
In the last year or so Cloud technologies seem to be everywhere, every bank’s technology department is desperately building private clouds, and most vendors are re-badging their services as Cloud...
View ArticleFrom CIO to CEO – Can clouds break glass ceilings?
As technology becomes even more entwined in the fabric of organisations, the opportunities for technology executives will increase. Will a CIO’s potential promotion to CEO be as commonplace as the CFO...
View ArticleFrom a single view of a customer to a global view of an individual – bespoke...
Customer interaction with banks can be complex. Historically this has resulted in lost opportunities for both institutions and their clients with neither obtaining full value from the relationship....
View ArticleMore on Bitcoins….
Our article last year on the future of virtual currencies provoked a great deal of interest (“Bitcoins: when will they crash and what is coming next?“). One area we didn’t touch on was the threat to...
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“Scores on the Doors” – The Broadgate Brand Perception Survey Results
Recently Broadgate kicked off an internal initiative to try and gauge the “Broadgate” brand and it’s perception across its stakeholders. In March a survey was distributed and responses flowed thick...
View ArticleIs your small business the next target for hackers?
Cyber attacks make great headlines but behind the headlines are the real stories affecting real business. The fact is that smaller medium sized companies are increasingly more likely to be targeted...
View ArticleThe Blockchain Revolution
We’ve been excited by the potential of blockchain and in particular bitcoin technology and possibilities for a while now (Bitcoins: When will they crash? More on Bitcoins.. Is someone mining on my...
View ArticleData is like Oil….Sort Of
We are completely dependent upon it to go about our daily lives It is difficult and expensive to locate and extract and vast tracts of it are currently inaccessible. As technology improves we are able...
View Article5 Minutes With Mark Prior
Which recent tech innovations are you the most excited about? I get most excited about how my business can benefit from technology (whether it’s new or not). It’s my team’s job to understand our...
View ArticleOK Google, Alexa, Hey Siri – The Rise of Voice Control Technology
OK Google, Alexa, Hey Siri…. All too familiar phrases around the home now, but it was not that long ago that we did not know what a ‘smart phone’ was! Today most people could not live without one....
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