Business insights
Preparing for strategic IT demands from corporate clients
Providing services or product to corporate clients can be a lucrative opportunity. Large, stable clients can be a good market and they can be powerful advocates for your brand and a feather in your cap. But these kinds of clients often come with challenges. Corporate...
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Technology Fire Triangle. Part 2: Data
This is part 2 of our series of 3 briefings about the Technology Fire Triangle. A term we coined to simplify and explain how getting IT right rests on 3 fundamental things: integration, data integrity and security & compliance. In our experience, businesses that...
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Technology Fire Triangle. Part 1: Integration
Our aim is for IT to actively contribute to our clients’ strategic success rather than being a drag and a problem. We coined the phrase the “Technology Fire Triangle” to simplify how to make this happen. Let’s be honest, many suppliers and experts deliberately try to...
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Bitcoin – what is it and what does it mean to businesses?
What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a “crypto currency” that was created in 2009. It has many (or perhaps all) of the characteristics of a currency. The total value of Bitcoins in circulation is now over $70Bn, and it is widely used as a currency around the world, every day!...
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IT Roadmap for growth – A CEO’s briefing
As companies grow, their IT inevitably needs to change and develop. In reality, few companies follow a well-planned path so the result is often a complicated mixture of different “generations” of infrastructure, business systems and digital activities. The situation...
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CEO’s Briefing on IT risks, compliance and security
No doubt you worry about growing your business and being successful, but as the business grows and becomes successful, protecting it against risks becomes a new source of worry! New concerns range from compliance with Data Protection regulations, ensuring the business...
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Cybersecurity – ten simple steps for non-technical directors
Cybersecurity is a hugely complicated area where there is no end of products and salesmen trying to push you to buy products. Where do you start …? Here are 10 key steps: 1. Perimeter security. The perimeters include both physical security of your office and the...
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Managing Partner’s Briefing on IT’s Role in Successful Legal Services
The context for IT in the legal sector is changing but the winners are those with, amongst other essentials, a defined IT strategy where IT spend is targeted at driving their business performance. Many of our IT Directors have wide experience in this sector and they...
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IT’s evolving role in an evolving Legal sector
The context for IT in the legal sector is changing. Legal Aid cuts, new flexible legal service providers, referral fee bans, new ABS and the Big 4 accountancy firms form an increasing threat to the typical traditional mid-sized “partner led” legal firm. A higher level...
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A strategy for solving systems integration problems
For many businesses, systems that don’t work together are the source of major headaches. Systems that don’t talk to each other create layers of manual work, errors and issues, and make reporting difficult or impossible. Over time individuals create workarounds and...
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A CEO’s Briefing: solving systems integration problems
IT and Systems Integration problems can make a simple business feel complicated. Whether its the CRM system, Finance System, a website or sales order processing systems to name a few, these can all be affected. We have created a CEO's Briefing on how to address these...
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A CEO’s Briefing on using IT to succeed in Third Party Logistics (3PL)
Third Party Logistics (3PL) is an increasingly challenging sector. Margins remain tight yet the range of services offered is increasingly broad as customers want ever higher quality and seek specialist support across their entire supply chain needs. Only the most...
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Using IT to succeed in Third Party Logistics (3PL)
In an increasingly competitive market, the best 3rd party logistics (3PL) firms capture the lion’s share of the opportunities. IT is often a key aspect of their competitiveness and profitability. As well as the summary below, we have created a more detailed CEO’s...
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Successful IT in Digital & Creative Agencies
We have a large number of Digital and Creative Agency clients and they have specific IT challenges. For these clients, our IT Directors need to both enhance their work and enable creativity, whilst boosting their profitability and reducing risk. Creative agencies...
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GDPR: Mindset & Culture – A Short Note for the Board
Original article written by Trupti Harding-Shah of My Inhouse Lawyer, www.myinhouselawyer.uk In her video address yesterday, marking the 1 year countdown before GDPR takes effect, the Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham makes data protection a board room issue....
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Even for BA it’s hard to get disaster recovery right, can you?
The recent BA systems outage over the May Bank Holiday brings disaster planning into sharp focus with passenger compensation expected to run to at least £100M. Whilst no-one yet knows the details, this should be a salutary lesson for all businesses: Not having a plan...
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