Effective design key for business success

May 18, 2015

Effective design is not the sole preserve of design agencies or software developers, and organisations willing to place design at the centre of their business can steal the march on their competitors. Rob Enslin, Lead Consultant for Experience Design at ThoughtWorks, argues the case for developing a design culture to help businesses achieve success. User experience is a term that has gained prominence in the age of mobile and enterprise applications, but organisations that restrict their thinking on design to only what their customers see or interact with are missing a real business opportunity.

Long-term planning drives business success

May 8, 2015

Ninety-five percent of organisations that conduct long-range planning (five to 15 years) are more likely to outperform organisations that don’t plan ahead, according to Gartner’s 2015 survey of CEOs and senior business executives. “Long-term strategic planning...

Cyber risk is on the business radar

May 4, 2015

For the first time since 2007, damage to brand and reputation has emerged as the top-ranked risk in Aon’s 2015 Global Risk Management Survey, while cyber risk has entered the top 10 for the first time this year. The connection between these two risks has been felt around the world in 2014, as a rash of data breaches demonstrated the fragile nature of consumer trust in leading corporations.

Mobile apps are the new face of business

Apr 28, 2015

Almost 55% of millennials say a poor mobile app experience would make them less likely to use a company’s products or services.According to a new global Oracle report, Millennials and Mobility: how Businesses can tap into the App Generation, 39% of millennials would...

IT security creates business dilemma

Apr 28, 2015

Kathy Gibson reports from Kaspersky Labs’ conference in Lisbon – Companies can no longer hope to remain free of cyber-security attacks because they have been and will be attacked. The challenge now centres on whether they know about the vulnerabilities, and what...