CIOs: The Apple Watch Will Change the Way People Work

With the announcement of Apple Watch on September 9, 2014, Apple formally entered the consumer market known as wearables. As analysts, buyers and consumers ogle the leather and steel, magnetic charger, digital crown and host of other features, they are missing one key point: Apple will yet again, perhaps unintentionally, change the way people work.The post CIOs: The Apple Watch Will Change the Way People Work.

New Ways of Working

Why should businesses adopt new ways of working? How do they benefit everyone involved? From increased productivity to cost efficiency, Kate North, VP of e-work.com and Kate Lister present their business case and suggest ways to prepare organisations for the change.

3 Marketing Technology Mistakes All Small Businesses Should Avoid

  3 Marketing Technology Mistakes Marketing technology mistakes are all too common is small businesses. I just called a landscaping company for a quote. They may be a fine company, I don’t know, but they exhibited all three mistakes that small businesses make when it comes to technology, which makes me worry about their attention to […]
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‘It’s Time for Apple to Redesign Keynote’

Apple software still has an old school feel with its clear connection to object oriented programming with properties for everything and the seeming tension between menus and ribbons on the desktop implementations. But Apple misses some of the most important programming features, particularly with Keynote.

Customer Experience: Short-term fashionista or sustainable growth driver?

Executive Summary Whether intentional or not, every business already has a “customer experience”. The question remains though, are those customer experiences the right ones to maximise the return on investment? This paper concludes that, while short-term profitability can be found at the expense of a good customer experience, there is clear evidence to prove that […]

Designing and Improving the Customer Experience in Financial Service

In this white paper, we report on the results of a two-year research project that investigated how leading financial services (FS) organisations design and improve the customer experience. Our team of academic researchers and consultants set out to uncover the practices of customer experience management used by 23 FS companies across Europe and the USA….

Customer Experience: An Opportunity For Transformational Change?

Executive Summary Let’s start with a statement: “Boards are tasked with delivering shareholder value, by driving the bottom line” In the search for what is going to deliver this benefit, an area that is being looked at with growing interest is Customer Experience. We see Blue Chip companies announcing the creation of specific main board…

IBM Fortifies Security with Lighthouse Security, CrossIdeas Acquisitions

In a move that bolsters its already considerable portfolio of security offerings, IBM announced it acquired the business operations of Lighthouse Security Group, LLC, a Lincoln, Rhode Island-based maker of Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions. IBM’s purchase of Lighthouse, the security division of longtime IBM Business Partner, Lighthouse Computer Services, comes two weeks after […]

The Key to Unlocking Talent and Increasing Productivity

Research shows than 70% of the workforce is not engaged. They’re either wandering around in a fog, or actively undermining their co-workers’ success.They’re burned out, disenfranchised, and over 80% are ready to jump ship. Eyeing the end of the recession, employees are no longer happy just to have a job. Boomers who haven’t already made […]

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