WealthWorks+ is being launched next month in the Channel Islands. It is described as “a brand new platform for private client professionals, built using the latest in responsive web technology”. Ever since Microgen Financial Systems started to buy up its smaller competitors, I’ve been arguing that there is a gap in the wealth systems market; […]
Technology
Where are you on your Digital Transformation journey?
What is Digital Transformation? The term Digital Transformation is used all over the place these days, with little agreement on what the term actually means. In this post I will describe what I believe the term covers. I will also describe the phases an organisation must go through on their transformation journey. Originally, digital transformation […]
What is a ‘data breach’? And how to prevent them
A data breach doesn’t need to be a big headline grabbing event (think of some of the high profile breaches by the likes of Equifax, TalkTalk or Wonga) to do your organisation serious harm. In this blog I am going to cover what constitutes a data breach and what can you do to avoid them. […]
If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail
Excerpt from the Wikipedia entry for the “Law of the instrument”: “The concept known as the law of the instrument, otherwise known as the law of the hammer, Maslow’s hammer (or gavel), or the golden hammer, is a cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool. As Abraham Maslow said in 1966, “I suppose it […]
The 4th industrial revolution and why the GDPR matters
I make no apologies for another blog on the subject of data, because I believe data is one of the most important subjects in both our personal and working lives at the moment. But first let’s talk about the 4th Industrial Revolution. I was at a conference this week listening to a great keynote presentation […]
New Product: Triyo project collaboration software
According to the Gallup 2017 Digital Workplace Survey, 31% of senior executives state their biggest workplace challenge is the lack of “Cross-Departmental Collaboration”. The same survey reported that 33% of executives stated their biggest digital priority was “Enterprise Social / Real-Time Collaboration”. My experience working with organisations of different sizes is that enterprise wide collaboration […]
