Think beyond VUCA to BANI in framing what business needs today
Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity has evolved to a Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, and Incomprehensible business landscape, but how to adapt to survive?
The helpful chatbot - And the ethics of your personal digital assistant
IBM talk about “transforming talent and the IT experience”, with “chatbots” that are becoming AI-enabled and evolving into Intelligent Digital Assistants.
FinOps – Fad, Trend or Essential? - The discipline of FinOps explained
FinOps isn’t a fad, it's an essential approach to manage the cost of cloud services, changing mindset from cloud as a cost centre to business growth and value generator
Evolve Reinvent Prosper - The new Bloor podcast
The second episode of our new podcast - Evolve Reinvent Prosper is now live, focusing on how Winterbotham Darby have evolved and adapted.
Bloor launches innovative new service to ‘navigate’ business to being in a constant state of reinvention
Independent research and analyst house Bloor Research today announce the launch of their new ‘Navigator’ consultancy programme.
IBM spins out services - The next revolution after Gerstner’s?
Revolution in IBM, as it spins out managed infrastructure services into a freestanding company, to concentrate on Hybrid Cloud.
Why you need both Systems Engineering and Agile principles - And an introduction to EPAM and the MACH Alliance
Eliminating barriers between systems engineering and IT; EPAM introduces David Norfolk to the MACH alliance in his latest blog.
Turning your data into value with YourDataConnect
YourDataConnect is doing something nobody else is doing, something which addresses the issue of helping you turn data in to business value.
Joining the dots of the Digital Work Disruption conference
David Terrar had the privilege of co-hosting Kongress Media GmbH's Digital Work Disruption virtual conference with a diverse set of speakers.
The Grocers are coming! - Ocado Smart Platform is a rival for Amazon
AWS is a world-class platform. But it grew out of an online bookshop. Now other eCommerce players like Ocado and Alibaba are attempting something similar.
Changing location and travel patterns for Future of Work
A massive change in location and travel patterns are common threads connecting the big shift that changes the future of work and workplace design.
Outcomes: what’s in Future of Work for stakeholders?
What is the Future of Work for stakeholders? A change in working culture and practice, emphasizing business outcomes in place of hours worked in the office.
Hybrid skills using augmented intelligence
For the foreseeable future AI is “Augmented Intelligence”: human and learning machine working together to deliver a business outcome.
Open Source Software Integrity - Should support from The People’s Republic of China worry us?
Is possible Chinese sponsorship a threat to Open Source Software? Bloor's David Norfolk believes that the OSS model is robust enough to survive.
Digital.ai - A new Value Stream Management (VSM) platform
The Digital.ai Value Stream Management platform integrates existing tools such as Collabnet VersionOne, XebiaLabs and Arxan.
This one’s a Keeper – with KeeperHR, FTEs can have personalities too
KeeperHR aims at elucidating employee personalities and keeping a record of them in a Personality Profile. This one’s a Keeper!
Should Trust be on the Balance Sheet?
Trust is an essential intangible asset for business, its leaders and its workforce. Commerce can’t operate without it. Should it be on the balance sheet?
Mutable Business Continuity
Bloor is exploding the standard business continuity model to create a new, more flexible, more responsive framework, “mutable business continuity.”
Is COVID-19 accelerating a shift from Shareholder to Stakeholder capitalism?
Is COVID-19 accelerating a shift from Shareholder to Stakeholder capitalism? We believe it is, and a different kind of stakeholder engagement is required.
We need to shift from Linear Thinking to Mutable Thinking - Learning to think differently in a time of massive uncertainty
In today’s world we need to learn and think differently to survive uncertainty. We need to shift to thinking exponentially. We call it Mutable Thinking.
A Source of Help
Brian Jones introduces Bloor’s Mutable Business framework, which we believe to be key for successful businesses in the current challenging climate.
Lawyers meet coders to further the business of law at the Global Legal Hackathon
Global Legal Hackathon in London to progress the business of law, or to facilitate access to the law for the public.
Hitachi Vantara introduce automated management for machine learning models once they are in production
Automating the refinement of production machine learning is a significant step in the maturing of this technology.
The Road to insight through AI, a conversation with Jennifer Rouband
Jennifer Roubaud is the VP for UK and Ireland of Dataiku, who market an enterprise analytics platform the Data Science Studio.
A mutable Puppet show - Configuration management is essential for Mutable without tears
Without Agile configuration management (automated with tools such as Puppet), it is hard to be Mutable without breaking things.
CloudStack and OSS generally
Report from a CloudStack collaboration conference
SPARK 2014 lowers the barriers to low-defect programming
SPARK 2014 makes use of formal methods and low-defect programming easier.
The time of the network computer has come again?
The chrome management console makes Chrome a viable end-user environment for the business.
CA Technologies, and the Application Economy
Report from CA World 2014
What you see shouldn’t necessarily be what you get.
What you see of is not necessarily what you need
Sharing information – key to fraud-proofing eCommerce
Organisations need to share information, in order to make life difficult for fraudsters
More opportunities for mobile development fun
The requirements for a mobile development platform - illustrated by OutSystems 9
Development as contract/SLA management
Developing IT services for the business is increasingly a matter of managing contracts and SLAs (Service Level Agreements), rather than managing technology.
Some thoughts on ECM
Jim Maguire, Senior Product Manager at ASG, talks about the evolution of its ECM product some years after the acquisition of Mobius
So, what do I really think of the mainframe today?
Mainframe futures.
Innovate 2014 Blog Fytte 2 – the place of Trust
Actionable insight and trust working together, give organisations the freedom to "innovate@speed".