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A study this September by analytics database firm Exasol explored how energy companies are becoming more data-centric in their decision-making, but it found that surprisingly still only 17 per cent of energy companies are implementing a data-driven strategy.
By: Lape Runsewe
Some energy CEOs will see digital as a risk to their business model, but the more visionary ones in the sector will see digital as a route to not just greater efficiencies but new and greater business opportunities.
By: Lape Runsewe
Digiterre congratulates Debtwire, the leading global publisher of market information and intelligence on the distressed debt and leveraged finance markets, on 15 years of outstanding and pioneering growth. Debtwire is a key company of Acuris, a media organisation specialising in high value content for financial professionals.
By: Lape Runsewe
The public sector should progress citizen engagement and online experiences in a visionary and transformative way, learning from major private sector platforms and pioneering wherever it can and wherever it’s cost-effective to do so. Easier said than done, for sure. However fears over cybersecurity can restrain such large-scale transformation programmes and in turn, limit ...
By: James Fraser
The ‘Agile’ methodology has swept across the landscape of customised software and digital development for huge numbers of organisations around the globe, gathering momentum especially over the last 15 to 20 years. It can best be described as ‘the ability to create and respond to change in order to succeed in an uncertain and turbulent environment’ (Source: ...
By: James Fraser
Digital transformation is one of those phrases that easily slips off the tongues of MDs and CEOs for pretty much any sort of business or public sector organisation. It gives the impression of ambition, achievement, success and change – or at least the ambition for great change. Perhaps it’s straight out of the ‘How To…’ ...
By: James Fraser
How are you coping under the daily deluge of Brexit headlines? ‘Brextra time..!’, ‘ No deal Brexit could lead to £36bn bill’ or ‘Great Britain or Great Betrayal?’.
By: Lape Runsewe
Most of the conflicting arguments concerning Brexit have centred on the possible impact for the bigger corporations and financial institutions. Car manufacturers advising their workers to vote remain; banks and insurance firms setting up offices in Europe and moving staff out of London; such barometers create an impression of big business girding its loins for ...
By: James Fraser
It’s January 2019 – and who’d have thought we’d still know so little about Brexit’s implications for business? For none more so than financial service organisations including the boom sector of ‘fintech’. Valued at approximately £4.5bn, the UK holds about 80% share of fintech, according to The Financier. So will London remain the “fintech ...
By: Lape Runsewe
Amid all the unknowns surrounding Brexit, one thing is certain: whatever happens with regard to the EU trading passport, the Capital Markets Union and the effect on Foreign Direct Investment, it will force a re-examination of your business practices and structure.
By: Lape Runsewe
As the complexity and speed of change in the tech ecosystem for financial services increase, so do the risks involved. Huge investment in digital capabilities and emerging technologies, together with continued customer and market impacting technology failures have driven regulators to enforce much, much tighter rules of engagement. As a result, since the financial crisis, ...
By: Lape Runsewe
If you’re looking for a market that’s being turned on its head by technology, you don’t need to go much further than capital markets. You may say look what Uber has done to ride-hailing, Amazon has done to retail…but just take a look at what robo advisors are doing to investment ...
By: Lape Runsewe