Cloud
CBM4Cloud Workshops
CBM4Cloud Workshops Since the turn of the year, alongside my usual job responsibilities, I have found myself running Component Business Model for Cloud (CBM4Cloud) workshops with our Public Sector clients. For those who are not aware, a CBM4Cloud workshop is a method that IBM uses (with or without a client) to understand the client landscape […]
Burberry supports IBM interns to develop prototype system for product traceability
Burberry’s technology experts were keen to share their knowledge with a younger generation. With coaching from Burberry, students from IBM’s Extreme Blue internship program developed a prototype system that may help to improve product traceability and provide consumers with deeper insights into a product’s lifecycle. Burberry’s commitment to sustainability is long-standing, grounded in the […]
Code@Think – Build the skills you need to emerge smarter
Build the skills you need to emerge smarter at Code@Think If we’re going to emerge smarter from the challenges 2020 has thrown us, we’re going to need the best technology available – and, more importantly, the skills to manipulate it. We’re living through an era of transformation like no other. We’ve all experienced phenomenal change […]
How Think Digital Summit UK & Ireland 2020 can help us all Emerge Smarter
If you’d asked any of us a year ago where we’d be today, would we have even got close? Our current situation is not just changing the way we live and work, it’s also accelerating the pace of transformation – fast. And while it’s important to take these challenges in our stride, what we do […]
IBM Cloud for Financial Services
Balancing innovation, agility and regulatory responsibility Financial Institutions in the United Kingdom have been at the forefront of digitalisation transformation, until now this has been primarily led by financial technology (FinTech) companies due to them being born on the cloud. Unencumbered by legacy systems and complex integrations has allowed them to innovate faster, innovating faster […]
IBM Cloud for Public Sector in the UK
UK Government and IBM sign public cloud agreement to accelerate innovation across the public sector If you follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn you may have seen me in a short video sharing excellent news: the UK Government and IBM have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for IBM Cloud. This is a first for […]
Automation – the past, present and future
Learning from the past, present and future of automation Is there anything new in the idea that automation, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are a threat to our jobs and livelihoods? The “rise of the machines” has been happening steadily since the first industrial revolution and gaining pace throughout the last two centuries, transforming everything […]
Making smart cloud choices in uncertain times
Cloud is often portrayed as the easy solution to today’s business challenges – the one big shift that saves costs all round. Many believe that, when it comes to cloud, any choice is a smart choice. Here we discuss the realities of choosing the right cloud for your business, and why one cloud does not […]
Implementing Cloud Service Management Capability
In blog #3 I described the key process, organisation and tool capabilities required for Cloud Service Management. In this blog I’ll focus on how to implement these capabilities. At this stage the Service Management Target Operating Model has been defined and the next step is to implement the enabling capabilities in order to transition to […]
Key Capabilities required for Cloud Service Management
My previous blog described the core Service Management functions required to deliver cloud as a service. This blog expands that description by highlighting the key tool, process and organisation capabilities required to enable those functions. Without these capabilities an IT department will not be able to effectively or efficiently operate a cloud service in a […]
Best Practice Cloud Service Management
In my last blog I wrote about the impact of cloud computing on IT Service Management. This blog continues the theme by describing the IT Service Management functions necessary to deliver cloud infrastructure services. Delivering infrastructure as a service requires IT Service Management to move closer to Infrastructure Management (or IT Operations) and combine multiple […]
Impact of Cloud Computing on IT Service Management
You wouldn’t be completely wrong if you made this general comment regarding most organisations’ cloud infrastructure strategy, “use public cloud services for Test and Development environments and develop an on-premise IaaS for Production environments.” This relatively simple approach is borne out of the need for IT Infrastructure Management to be more responsive to Development Projects […]
Breaking Down Silos in your Business
Every organisation in every sector is dealing with digital disruption in today’s volatile, fast changing and uncertain world. Businesses need to transform to stay competitive or be in danger of going the way of once great brands like Nokia, Blockbuster or Kodak who saw the writing on the wall but didn’t act fast enough to […]
Time to THINK again
Modern enterprises continue to reinvent themselves for the digital world. A fundamental requirement is to quickly modernise key applications and run them across any type of IT infrastructure. This could be in the company data centre or private cloud for their most sensitive data and critical workloads; or the public cloud where they get scale […]
Festival of Innovation
Visit our major UK software lab at this free event Hursley Lab is our biggest UK R&D site. Here’s where we invent and build the new technology that is changing the world. Thousands of people come to Hursley every year for customer briefings, public sector discussions, training, hackathons, design sessions and developer events. Now you […]