innovation

CIOs better off bringing innovation capabilities in-house to keep delivery on track

Green Cargo CIO Ingo Paas believes the £360m-revenue eco-friendly Swedish rail logistics company – and other companies traditionally dominated by…

Accelerating investment in HealthTech: How CIOs can make the case for funding digitalisation

Investment into health technologies (HealthTech) is broadly increasing year-on-year, yet funding for internet of things (IoT) appears to be easing.…

How to Tap into Innovative Startups

Innovation. It’s one of the most overused words in the marketeer’s lexicon. For most complex multinationals true, disruptive innovation is…

How Can We Get UK Innovation Back on Track?

Business innovation has been rapidly advancing over the last decade… or so we thought. Reading BEIS’ recent 2019 Innovation Report, we…

“Kill Zombies” and 5 Other Top Tips on Innovation, by 12 Leading CEOs

Over the past six months, Harvard Business Review asked 1,000 executives how their organisations approach innovation across five key areas…

MoD Announces Huge “Autonomous Warrior” Military Robot Exercises

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced what it calls the biggest military robotics exercise in British history. The Autonomous Warrior…

German SaaS Provider Quantilope Raises $8M in Series A Funding

German Software-as-a-Service startup Quantilope has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round led by Dawn Capital, bringing its…

AWS to Open its First African Data Centres in Cape Town by 2020

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that it will open its first data centres in Africa in the first half…

Amazon to Provide 1,000 “Silicon Valley” Job Roles with New Manchester Office, UK R&D Centre Expansions

Amazon will provide an additional 1,000 R&D job roles in the UK with the opening of a new office in…

Cardiff University Launches £15M Supercomputing and Big Data Programme

Cardiff University on  launched a £15 million research programme, called "Supercomputing Wales" that aims to put Wales on the global…