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By Jeroen Derynch November 2016 Innovation is a dirty word… which is why we started to call it disruption. Today, disruption stands for the new digital adversaries that are aggressively entering your market space at an unparalleled speed. These disrupters are quickly increasing their footprint in a variety of sectors: banking, insurance, manufacturing, mobility, communications, […]

By Barry Devlin October 2016 Data—old and new 2016 marks the thirtieth birthday of the data warehouse. Congratulations! Way back in 1986, I and colleagues in IBM defined the first data warehouse architecture to manage sales and delivery of System/370 mainframes and System/38 minicomputers in Europe. If you recognise those names, you are probably quite

By Mike Ferguson September 2016 From recent research I have conducted across Europe into vertical industry business priorities, three things dominate almost every type of business. They are: The need to become customer centric and improve customer engagement across all channels The need to optimise business operations The need to invest in data privacy and

By James Robertson August 2016 As a Business Analyst I can contribute analytical and systems thinking So that the eventual solution provides business value by exactly matching the real needs of the business.   This Business Analyst’s story raises some interesting questions about value, and why the BA is the person to discover it. Wants

By Suzanne Robertson July 2016 As a Business Analyst I can contribute analytical and systems thinking So that the eventual solution provides business value by exactly matching the real needs of the business.   This Business Analyst’s story raises some interesting questions about value, and why the BA is the person to discover it. Wants

By James Hobart June 2016 Focusing on customer experience allows your company to develop a unique value offering and differentiate yourself in a crowded market. Most companies say they already optimize for customer experience but, for many reasons, few truly deliver on this promise. Common themes I have seen are difficulty translating a new vision

By Mike Ferguson May 2016 In todays world we hear so much about two major business requirements. These are the need to ‘go digital’ and the need to become a data-driven.  In the case of digitalization it is the introduction of digital channels and the internet of things (IoT) that are dominating the agenda. Digital

By Frank Greco April 2016 In the Information Technology (IT) world, the word “enterprise” is mentioned quite often.  If you do some serious digging, you’ll find out an enterprise is a federation, in other words, a collection of related business units with a common goal of profitability. It is an aggregate, dynamic yet unified entity

By Sander Hoogendoorn March 2016 The bad But as always, there’s a downside. When you start going down the microservices road – for whatever you may find it beneficial – you need to realize that this is all brand new. Just think of it: if you’re not working for Netflix or Amazon, who do you

By Sander Hoogendoorn February 2016 Back in 1988, when I was first employed by a company for writing software, the world was fairly simple. The development environment we had was character-based, the database was integrated and traversed with cursors, and we built a whole new administrative system covering everything but the kitchen sink. It took