The struggle continues in the effort to rebuild and repair the damage left in the wake of Storm Desmond that hit the UK at the beginning...

Self-service BI is a must if the full range of users in an organisation are to benefit from analytics and BI to make and execute better...

Not least that IoT is far older than most people think.

The Accenture "Technology Vision 2016" report positions technology platforms as key disruptive technologies so it is good to...

Hotels from small boutique properties to large chains have historic and future bookings data to match to in-hotel spend and customer data.

I've talked a lot about how embedded analytics brings together insight and action into the same context by integrating analytics deeper...

Agriculture can be an innovative sector exploiting IoT. Not just in the The Americas as with this good example but in BRICS and...

As millions of devices in the IoT churn out vast amounts of information, the next question is, what happens to it?Gartner's analysts have...

Lest one forgets- the purpose of BI and analytics is often stated as "to  let people make better decisions based on complete data"....

Organisations often have enough of a challenge just analysing internal data from multiple and disparate data sources. But you all must go...

“When the first mainframes were sold, even IBM did not imagine a global market larger than a few thousand devices. Mainframes were the...

The impact that groundbreaking technological advances like artificial intelligence will have on the functioning of our economies and...

This HBR article got me thinking again about analytics. There are so many analytics technology options out there it must be hard to see...

In the UK local government generally leads central government when it comes to using technology to deliver better services with fewer...

Another reminder that only by analysing internal and external data can an HR organisation truly manage effectively.

How many HR...

The impact of Iot, Wearables, Insurance PaaS, Self-Service Analytics, Big Data & Algorithms and other technologies on insurance...

This article makes the point that there are different levels of data. In the example given sensors within one building  provide a...

Alongside the business process changes impacted by Big Data Analytics do not ignore cultural changes.

 It is proven that

When it comes to the technologies shaping & disrupting economies, labour markets, enterprises and the public sector we think of...

"Uberisation" in its broadest reach will change economies, enterprises, municipal government, labour markets. The hollowing out of the...

Spitalfields has always been associated with textiles from the Huguenots developing a silk industry after fleeing persecution in France....

If the mobility demand of London could be met with 30% of the existing vehicles imaging the benefit. Easier said today for Singapore with...

For the last eight years, Wyscout has become a growing force and transformed the football recruitment and scouting industry. The...

I hate to admit it but my first career as a product manager at Cadbury was in the days of punched cards and data bureaus. Analysis took...

24,000 sensors in each of Air France/KLM's A380s.   I wondered about the value just to Air France/KLM from its fleet and the value...

Useful summary of the companies and innovation that is shaping the future of insurance.

I'll add another one tackling key issues like:-

• 90%...

An interesting insight on the emotional aspect of wearables. When it comes to healthcare, telehealth and wearables some lessons here

Your share portfolios may well have lost value in the last week as markets panicked when China's stock exchange twice shut down...

Having spent many cold and wet winters training I can highly recommend this as the number 1 jacket for the remaining winter months of...

Some important questions and answers raised by Nigel Walsh. Let me add two other thoughts:-

1. The Uber effect in which vehicle ownership...

Finishing my shower I mused that we needed more shampoo and the iPhone propped on the nearby sink went into hyper-ordering mode to get me...

Imagine if you were using a Sat Nav with visualisation and sound 10 minutes behind current location! That's the situation Dr Charles...

Wild, unruly, rowdy, troublesome, riotous, troublesome? What do we really mean by disruptive? Arguably the washing machine was more...

Heading into the final day of the second test between South Africa and England at Newlands, Cape Town, it now looks as though the match...

If you can increase output by 5%, reduce input costs by 5%, reduce wastage by 5% the impact is immense for struggling farmers and hungry...

Analytics is pivotal to HR best practise in 2016. Not just analysing the same old people data but combining workforce and machine data....

Michael Locke of Aberdeen Group summed up the reason savvy ISVs must embed analytics in their products. 

" a well-conceived addition...

With the best will in the world it is a sad fact that many BI projects fail. On the other hand most IT projects disappoint as they fail...

Customer experience will be the primary basis of competition in 2016 which is a salutary thought for BI and Analytics vendors. Looking at...