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By Holly Cummins and James Wootton on 16 December, 2021
What How Why – quantum explained
What How Why – quantum explained Today as many industries look to reinvent, IBM is working with businesses embracing new challenges and accelerating their digital transformation plans. All whilst the world continues to face the full impact of COVID-19. This period has certainly highlighted the need to be prepared for the future. In fact, according […]
By Holly Cummins on 26 February, 2020
Nine Ways to Fail At Cloud Native
Cloud native is the perfect recipe for innovation, adaptability and engineering excellence – when it goes right. When it’s not right, it can be a monster spaghetti, a quality headache, and frustratingly inflexible. Why so negative? The physicist Niels Bohr said “An expert is a person who has found out by their own painful experience […]
By Holly Cummins on 20 June, 2019
The Future of Work is (More) Fun – Part 2
Automation eliminates toil When the printing press was invented, it almost immediately eliminated the arduous practice of copying books by hand. (Before the printing press, writing out the pages for a single bible would take around three months.) This life-changing mechanization accelerated with the industrial revolution, and many labour-intensive tasks were automated. This included factory […]
By Holly Cummins on 20 June, 2019
The Future of Work is (More) Fun – Part 1
The Future of Work is (More) Fun With traditional industries and roles being disrupted by technology, it’s tempting to feel uneasy. But with it has come the rise of new collar employment, the reduction of toil with automation, the replacement of bureaucracy with collaboration and creativity. These changes are part of a general trend of […]
By Holly Cummins on 23 April, 2019
Redefine the rules. Realise transformation.
What’s the point of architecture that can go faster, if you don’t go faster? As the Worldwide Development Discipline Leader for the IBM Cloud Garage, I work with clients who are trying to shift their businesses to the cloud as a way to beat their competitors to market, now and in the future. Companies feel […]