Technology

Platforms and Ecosystems

In contrast to traditional businesses, companies with digital platforms no longer simply create value themselves, but provide a means for outside entities to provide additional value, and then share the augmented success. In this new model, the platform is more important than the products sold.

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Cloud Transformation & Technical Debt

A Cloud Transformation programme can reverse years of underinvestment, and turn technical debt into technical wealth. But it's not as simple as asking IT to sort out the technology. This is a whole company transformation that needs to embrace all parts of our message on Digital Transformation.

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Agile must extend beyond IT

When challengers start to deliver value to your clients, IT are often given the digital transformation brief. But while those outside IT may see their role as merely looking on from afar and tolerating the noise, much greater benefit arises when the rest of the value chain works in the same manner.

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The new role of IT Leaders

When the autonomous delivery team work directly for the Product Owner – who is generally drawn from the business – what happens to the IT Director and the ‘Heads of’ the traditional IT functions?

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Agile buildability

The concept of 'buildability' is one where Engineers and Architects work together and pay close attention to the design from the perspective of those who will manufacture parts, install components and carry out construction works. There is much benefit in applying this approach to technology.

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What is DevOps and why should I care?

DevOps is a culture and set of practices applied to technology engineering teams. DevOps can change an organisation into a continuous value-delivery machine, ensuring that your investment in technology makes its way safely into the hands of users and customers, where it starts to generate revenue.

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The Serverless Revolution

Serverless computing is the provision of computing infrastructure on-demand, not to a fixed number of servers or amount of bandwidth. For those who want to build customer-centric services, this approach simplifies the tech and encourages innovation whilst providing cost aligned elastic scale.

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How to build digital capabilities

Digital capability describes the skills and attitudes that individuals and organisations need if they are to thrive in today's world. It is also the capabilities a company requires to transform itself into a sustainable, relevant and successful business by using digital technology as an enabler.

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Payments Architecture

An efficient payment system is indispensable to the interbank, money, and capital markets. Previously Banks built in-house payment processing systems to ensure performance, compliance and security, but challengers are using APIs and Cloud-based Vendor solutions in their Payments Architecture

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Technology transformation for CEOs

The biggest concerns facing CEOs are all to do with the digital transformation of their business. They encompass all strategic and tactical activity that ensures a company can compete and exploit advantages in a technology-enabled marketplace, and require a merging of business and technology.

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Are you Well Architected?

Cloud service providers like AWS offer a bewildering array of options that you can self-serve into any combination you like. The Well Architected Framework helps you evaluate which combination of services meets security, reliability, operational, performance efficiency and cost optimisation needs.

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Business resilience - embedding cyber into digital transformation

Much of business is now a digital economy and it is essential to be ‘always on’. Any inability to offer a continuously available service almost certainly means loss of revenue and loss of reputation. Cyber security must be designed into technology from the start, and embedded in the culture.

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The truth about Agile

Agility is about leadership. Agile practice in the technology world has become purely following the method, rather than acceptance of the spirit, intention and principles, where its true value becomes evident. We discuss a number of success principles, to address the engineering waste we now see.