In the first of a series of blogs on mobility, Nick Filler, Upstart Head of Mobility, shows how the switch to electric vehicles (EVs) is causing rapid, permanent disruption. No going back. Electric vehicles are here to stay Last year Volkswagen stopped producing internal combustion engines (ICEs) at its Zwickau plant in Germany and switched …
Digital twins are here. Discover how they’re being used and explore the decisions you must make to deploy them successfully.
The CogX Festival 2021 was as thought-provoking and dynamic as ever. But with dozens of sessions every day, and hundreds of speakers, how do you stay on top of technology and innovation in sectors as diverse as healthcare, mobility, smart cities, and construction?
Insurance is one industry where digital technology arrived late but is having a significant impact. Away from the “insurtech” boom, it’s creating a cat-and-mouse game between fraudsters and those who want to catch them. Our team’s insurance expert Laurence Smith explores how the industry is embracing digital tools such as voice and emotion recognition to …
In the X-Files, agents Scully and Mulder disagreed over whether “the truth was out there”. In today’s advertising-polluted, clickbait-driven world, the truth may well be out there, but companies need new sets of tools – and new values – to help find it, and to make better decisions. So? Truth matters more than ever. In …
Today’s disrupted data landscape leaves many businesses perplexed about how to respond. On the horizon are a host of threats, yet it’s never clear which ones deserve a response. Horizon scanning and digital trends can help you decide, but only if you are filtering and distilling that information on a regular basis, not once a …
Everyone knows about the benefits of exercise, but health and sports have remained distant sectors. Now active consumers and affordable tech are disrupting the silos in which they have operated. So? The grass always looks greener on the other side. When we speak to health leaders in their regulated business, they’re envious of the sports …
2019 will be remembered as the year that at least one of the big pharma players embraced – and acted on – the inevitable digital disruption taking place in its industry. So? Anglo-Swedish pharma giant AstraZeneca says it will embrace a fully digital model. Its CEO Pascal Soriot recently told the Financial Times (link behind …
Auditing. It’s essential but not that exciting. Until, of course, you find a “black hole” – an unexplained lack of money where there should be some. Then it gets the wrong kind of interesting. There’s no better example of this than UK café chain Patisserie Valerie’s plunge into a £40m black hole in its accounts. …
The four letters GDPR have been terrorising business and consumers alike in recent months. We figured you needed an update about our privacy policy like you need allergic rhinitis right now. Instead we’ll tell you about a revelation and an insight about SaaS business models TL:DR We cut straight to it – speed is essential …
