TECH TALK: Those firms resisting the work from home trend could be the big losers, says BILL MAGEE “Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower” – Al Ries, marketing guru and author “11 Immutable Laws of Branding on the Net” “Policies that emerge […]
Let’s go digital, but avoid false promises
TECH TALK: A largely unnoticed plan to send Universal Credit claimants on digital training courses has its drawbacks, writes BILL MAGEE News of a UK Government link-up with Google was easy to miss. A low-key announcement made without fanfare, that Universal Credit claimants are to be sent on a digital training course. Attracting hardly any […]
Build your defences to stay cybersafe
TECH TALK: Bill Magee explains why everyone in an organisation needs to know the cyber rules The business world’s apparent inability to be cyber-canny is at the crux of some rather unsettling online security words of warning winging their way to me from across the Pond. They arrive as the global marketplace is put on […]
AI preparing us for a meeting of minds
TECH TALK: Bill Magee assesses the latest moves for a ‘merger’ of the human brain with machines “When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole” – Nikola Tesla, 1926 (quote courtesy of Prof. Bill Buchanan OBE) “It’s science […]
Choose your virtual water cooler chat with care
TECH TALK: Bill Magee says employers may not approve of staff talking politics online Water cooler conversations are traditionally all about passing the time of day, at times letting off steam about a work issue that’s bugging you. But the digital version has got rising numbers of employers hot under the virtual collar. Staff are […]