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Capgemini and Siemens combine to make AI industrial tech

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Siemens and Capgemini have announced they are teaming up to develop technologies for product engineering, manufacturing and operations that are artificial intelligence (AI)-based from the get-go. The goal of the products, said to be AI-infused from inception, is to connect industrial machines with digital technology, for what they jointly call “intelligent manufacturing”. The two firms,…

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Why digital transformation has a physical address

5 minutes of reading / agile, AI, automation, Cisco, digital transformation, Intel, internet of things, project management, Schneider Electric, Tech / By

For the better part of a decade, digital transformation has been discussed in terms of apps, data and cloud platforms. These are worthy topics, but they tend to float above the actual places where work happens. Offices, campuses, shared spaces: the physical backdrop has been an afterthought.  That’s changing. The next phase of digital transformation…

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Former Post Office staff in Horizon replacement bid team

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Two former Post Office executives are part of a team at software firm Escher bidding to win the contract to replace the computer system at the centre of the Post Office scandal. Escher is eyeing up Lot 2 of the government contract, which seeks a supplier to provide a commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) electronic point of…

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Workday UK head Dan Pell: Managing AI agents requires system of record

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Dan Pell is the general manager of Workday in the UK and Ireland, with a background at Salesforce and Microsoft, and a law degree in his hinterland.  At the recent London edition of the HR software-as-a-service supplier’s Elevate customer conference, he gave the interview that follows, and which majors on how digital labour – agentic…

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Kearney, Futurum: Big enterprise CEOs make AI core to future

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Management consultancy Kearney and analyst The Futurum Group have published research showing CEOs at high-revenue companies are putting artificial intelligence (AI) at the heart of their business strategies, and that European and North American respondents claim to have decent building blocks for AI programmes. The report’s authors, three from Futurum and seven from Kearney, assert…

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Microsoft Ignite: AI capabilities double every six months

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During his keynote presentation at the start of Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference in Chicago, CEO Satya Nadella discussed artificial intelligence (AI) scaling, through which the capabilities of the tech is doubling every six months. “Just like Moore’s Law, we saw the doubling in performance every 18 months with AI. We have now started to see…

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Can the Post Office project to replace Horizon be rescued?

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There can be few – if any – initiatives more important to the future of the Post Office than the replacement of the controversial Horizon IT system at the heart of the scandal that led to the UK’s most widespread miscarriage of justice. And yet recent revelations at the public inquiry into the scandal show…

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Q&A: Adalbjorn Thorolfsson on IT project management in Iceland

8 minutes of reading / AI, Computer, internet of things, Kanban, project management, risk management, Scrum, Tech / By

The Icelandic Project Management Association was founded in 1984 by engineers and, as such, was initially focused on engineering projects. As project management evolved and became used in more sectors, such as information technology, healthcare, finance and the public sector, the composition of the members of the association and the board changed accordingly. Adalbjorn Thorolfsson…

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How poor IT project management failed Birmingham Oracle implementation

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While experts have questioned why Birmingham City Council (BCC) chose to modify and adapt a new Oracle system rather than alter its own business processes – a decision that led to a £100m bill for taxpayers – a series of documents seen by Computer Weekly reveal project management failures over a number of years contributed…

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Closing the datacentre skills gap by tapping up career changers

7 minutes of reading / data science, e-commerce, IBM, Intel, project management, Tech / By

The UK datacentre industry is in the midst of a prolonged and well-publicised skills crisis, as there are simply not enough people entering the sector despite more students studying science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects. Might it be time to look again at how best to attract candidates from other walks of life, such…

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