You may be wondering “what is this all about?” Everyone is talking about the Heartbleed bug and we are being told to change all our passwords. There is so much noise about this latest security vulnerability that it is causing some level of panic amongst IT professionals and productivity loss as people divert focus from their primary activities in an effort to understand their vulnerability. Continue reading
Category Archives: Technology
Awards, rewards and actually making things better
I am all for recognising people’s achievements. But it is what they have done not how they are rewarded which really counts
Good luck and best wishes to all the contenders for the IAB Annual Dinner Awards at the ICC in Birmingham tomorrow night.
Although the Institute of Asian Business is firmly grounded in its origins in and around the Pakistani Asian business community in Birmingham it’s achievements and aspirations reflect a countrywide mood of all Asian businesses. Continue reading
How Transputec put itself in the IP EXPO picture and turned selfies into business leads
Sometimes we get mesmerised by the power of the technology at our fingertips… mixing the old ways with the new is often the best way to communicate
In my last blog I made a lot of noise about the importance of feedback. I often do. It is the oxygen every company needs to stay alive and grow.
The closer we are to our customers and their needs the better. That may sound a little like I am stating the obvious but it is so easy for big, busy, bustling companies to lose touch with the nitty gritty of their business…the small details which make up the big picture of what a customer really needs to be happy. That small talk around the meeting table often throws up the snippets of information which can turn a business lead into a customer or a customer into a supporter spreading the word to others… It’s all about understanding what makes them really tick. But, of course, when you filter table talk through the technology of social media you have a very powerful tool for communicating feedback and reacting to it.
Britain’s Cloud Atlas will ignore geography and closes the gap
Building railways and houses is one way to generate wealth across the nation but technology is probably better at refreshing the parts other initiatives cannot reach
As the Labour Party conference puts away it’s bucket and spade and departs Brighton and the south coast it was the ebb and flow of opinions about the perceived North/South divide which struck me most about this year’s seaside gathering.
Ed Balls began the week questioning whether funds for the HS2 rail link could be better spent elsewhere on housing and Harriet Harmon harped on about the need for a cost benefit analysis on the super-fast, super-costly project. Meanwhile, Maria Eagle reinforced Labour’s commitment to the scheme. But they have all got it wrong? Narrowing the wealth gap and closing the North/South divide is not a really a physical or geographical challenge. It is technology which will make the difference and close these so-called economic gaps – not billions of pounds on rolling stock. The way to connect the country rests in the cloud – and I don’t mean more internal flights.