I’m going to start with a question. What’s your favourite Internet of Things (IoT) device, product or service? A Fitbit, perhaps? An app on your smartphone? My next question: why do you like it? Because it’s exciting, techie and interesting? Because you like to have things before anyone else? Or
Marinette Nyström interviewing Casper Pedersen, Principal Business Solutions Manager The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was approved in May 2016, and companies must be compliant by May 2018. Research shows, however, that fewer than 30% of companies impacted are prepared for it. I had a discussion with Casper Perdersen, who recently
The digital revolution requires an ever-increasing number of repetitive and targeted decisions. The digital revolution is faster and more comprehensive than the Industrial Revolution at the beginning of the last century. It requires less capital, and focuses on intellectual and digital innovation, which is affordable to many. The innovations produced
The fight against fraud has to be at all levels, and use all possible means available to the organization. However, it is important to distinguish between political, organizational and technical means. Persuading states to organize themselves better to facilitate exchange of information between administrations can be decisive, even with the
Using advanced analytics to pinpoint dead stock can reduce your inventory levels dramatically. How big a portion of your stock is dead. Naturally you’re now thinking about the products or (Stock Keeping Units, SKUs, as they are called in the inventories), which for some reason started to move slowly and
SFCR, or the Solvency and Financial Condition Report, is the final part of the Solvency II: the public reporting of information. The publication of these reports, and their accompanying public Quantitative Reporting Templates (QRTs), is a big issue for companies. In particular, companies have to decide what they are going
A self-driving car made headlines last summer when its human ‘driver’ was killed in an accident. Both car and driver had failed to spot a lorry across the road ahead, because the whiteness of the truck was too similar to the sky. A mistake, by both driver and car, but with
January 28th was international Data Protection Day and, it (nearly) seems like the week after that, the tougher EU regulation will go into effect. At least that’s the impression you can get when you talk to data protection experts or catch sight of their efforts to cope with the EU’s
At a recent customer meeting, the top manager predicted that in the coming months, the most important IT projects will be the "small speed boats". He is the CIO of one of the five largest insurers in Germany, and he was talking about agile projects with agile teams. The prerequisite
Marketing is changing. But then, it needed to. Customers are no longer satisfied with bog-standard treatment, and companies are trying, at least to some extent, to react to this. For most of them, however, much more work is needed. Customer-centricity is the stated goal of most marketers, to handle the
