Christian Annesley
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Rise of the machines: How AI is changing unified communications
Artificial intelligence is now moving into live UC environments at scale. What is the impact, and ask what lies ahead? → Read More
Employers turn to wearable technology to help staff manage work-life balance
Over the past two years employers have started to think about how they can use technology to help their employees stay healthy. More companies are offering staff wearable devices to help them meet personal health goals, including daily step-counts and better sleep habits. → Read More
Insurer Beazley meets global challenge to secure mobile workforce
An insurer has stolen a march on other London-market insurers by implementing in stages a versatile global digital workspace with improved security → Read More
How a digital workplace can drive innovation
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at some of the latest tools for the digital workplace and find out how they can improve collaboration and innovation. We ask what lessons the demise of Carillion has for IT outsourcing. And the CIO of retailer River Island tells us how technology is changing the high street in fashion. → Read More
How a digital workplace can drive innovation
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at some of the latest tools for the digital workplace and find out how they can improve collaboration and innovation. We ask what lessons the demise of Carillion has for IT outsourcing. And the CIO of retailer River Island tells us how technology is changing the high street in fashion. → Read More
TomTom navigates move onto global HR platform
TomTom, the Dutch navigation, mapping and technology business, says its move in March this year onto a single global HR platform has changed the internal relationship between IT and HR and improved the way the company engages with its workers. The business, known for its satellite navigation devices, went live on 2 March 2017 with several elements of Workday’s HR platform in all 37 of its… → Read More
Shell makes $200m saving with virtual learning environment
Royal Dutch Shell, the British–Dutch oil and gas multinational, has cut the cost of some of its most expensive learning programmes by 90 per cent by developing interactive learning platforms for staff. Virtual lessons, which feature interactive videos, and graphics are replacing expensive field trips and geology primers, as well as being used to support leadership and behavioural learning. []… → Read More
Carglass France feels benefit of employee knowledge sharing
Carglass France, part of glass repair business Belron International, which has 27,000 staff worldwide, claims to have improved the speed that employees find information by a fifth, after rolling out knowledge sharing technology. [] [] The company, which is known in the UK for its Autoglass brand, has invested in collaboration tool that allows workers to share knowledge and information in real… → Read More
Airbus saves millions after building a digital learning library
Global aerospace giant Airbus, with operations 35 countries and 134,000 staff, is making multimillion-pound savings from a global digital learning library it has grown in the past two years. The development of the library – which now has more than 6,900 items of usable, sharable learning content – is one of the main benefits to so far to flow from a five-year digital transformation programme… → Read More
Retail is risky for a product business, but the prize is big
Worldpay is supporting BusinessZone's month-long focus on retai → Read More
How ecommerce businesses deal with cart abandonment
Welcome to the world of the virtual shopping trolley where all is not as it appears, but where the need for retailers to interpret customer behaviours an → Read More
International trade – what’s the magic ingredient?
Every business that trades internationally is working to ensure its continued success. Inevitably, some deliver it in spades, while others struggle - wha → Read More
Brexit strategies: Should you set up in Europe?
For UK companies that export, the question of how to navigate the choppy waters of Brexit in the years ahead is crucial. The arguments for creating a Eur → Read More
Foreign exchange risk: how you can hedge your bets
For companies that export or have international supply chains, there is fore → Read More
Customised thinking: retailers need every channel covered
The single customer view. Every retailer wants to know its customers, but in → Read More
The startup bringing online delivery style services to brick-and-mortar shops
The evolving dynamic around ecommerce and high street retail is a big part of multichannel retail’s changing picture today. The ease of experience when → Read More
The startup bringing online-style delivery to bricks-and-mortar shops
The evolving dynamic around ecommerce and high street retail is a big part of multichannel retail’s changing picture today. The ease of experience when → Read More
How a diamond ring retailer is changing the game with tech
Christian Annesley talks to an online retailer that is stealing a march on the competition in a long-established industry by using mobile and a bot – n → Read More