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• Austerity versus the march of technology – an economist’s perspective

  Technology, in the economic sense, is an indicator of growth in a successful developed economy. But is tech efficiency also enabling the negative effects of austerity?  Continue Reading

• The journey to turning your organisation into a platform

  Compete with digital rivals by becoming a platform organisation – how companies can start navigating the transformation journey  Continue Reading

• Introducing ‘focus and leverage’ – the value algorithm of the internet era

  Anyone pitching a business idea or designing a new service needs to understand the economics of mature internet technology  Continue Reading

• Will the EU Copyright Directive ‘break the internet’?

  A new European Union law proposed for copyrighted material has provoked strong reactions from all sides – but what does it mean?  Continue Reading

• Digital transformation is just business change

  Don't always start with the technology if you're driving transformation, but always start with the business  Continue Reading

• Hacking the internet of things just got easier – it’s time to look at your security

  Are you taking security for internet-connected devices seriously enough?  Continue Reading

• Newspaper woes show that when technology changes, everything changes

  Traditionalists bemoan the declining finances of newspapers, but those old sources of revenue aren't coming back – technology has changed everything  Continue Reading

• Digital takes aim at the professions – disrupting doctors, lawyers, academics and accountants

  Traditional professions will be the next to see significant change – and competition – as digital technology introduces new ways of working  Continue Reading

• Scotland, the perfect home for digital nomads?

  Scotland needs public and private sector support for entrepreneurs, and ubiquitous superfast broadband if its digital economy is to thrive, says MSP Jamie Greene  Continue Reading

• Was that it? Business as usual for fintechs after Brexit vote

  Following the Brexit vote, Fintech Times editor Bird Lovegod describes how financial services IT startups are getting on with business as usual  Continue Reading

• Blockchain and the CIO: a new model for IT

  The most important emerging technology for the enterprise – and therefore the CIO – is not big data, the social web, artificial intelligence, robotics or the cloud – it’s blockchain  Continue Reading

• The consumerisation of machine intelligence

  Machine intelligence is improving fast – as demonstrated by Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo success – and IT leaders need to plan for its effect on enterprise IT  Continue Reading

• If government wants city devolution to succeed, cities need to use data

  Developing smart data-driven cities needs to be a priority if the government's devolution policy is to succeed  Continue Reading

• Declining capital investment no problem in a digital economy

  Economists and politicians are fretting about the fall in capital investment – but this is to be expected in a digital economy where startup costs are shrinking  Continue Reading

• Big companies will out-innovate tech startups in coming years

  Innovations by large corporates will grow rapidly as they become the most innovative companies over the next decade  Continue Reading