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Amazon has opened a new UK headquarters in London to support its growth in the country. The Principal Place building, based on the fringes of Shoreditch and the City of London, boasts 15 storeys and 600,000 sq ft. It’s unclear how many staff the office will be able to accommodate but an Amazon webpage that was amended over… Continue Reading Inside Amazon’s giant new UK HQ in London

Up to £14.5m will be made available to develop the centre Will see established firms working alongside cutting-edge startups Big boost for capital’s booming tech sector which has had £5.6bn investment this year London is also home to newly created National Cyber Security Centre London will cement its place as a world-leader in the fight against… Continue Reading Major new cyber security innovation centre for London

Presentation of research and panel discussion being led by Professor Chris Baker (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Maria Power (University of Liverpool). The event will explore how our beliefs, values and worldviews influence and shape the way that we act at work, and the wider impacts this creates. Thu 14 September 2017 14:00 – 16:00… Continue Reading Beliefs, Values and Worldviews at Work

The science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote about controlling intelligent machines with the three laws of robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first… Continue Reading The one law of robotics: Humans must flourish

Operational excellence, delivering projects on-time and within budget, is no longer the goal of IT, but has become the bedrock on which the CIO must build user trust and confidence. Collaboration with stakeholders to prioritize IT activities according to business needs is the hallmark of modern CIOs. The shift from CIO as a technical caretaker… Continue Reading SAP’s Millennial CIO: Guiding principles for user-centric IT

First, the good news: There’s a spate of new technologies to help companies measure and predict their employees’ talents, and it’s only a matter of time before artificial intelligence becomes a normal part of the hiring process. But now for the bad news: Those innovations have to surmount one pretty big obstacle first—human intuition. The fact is that people just… Continue Reading You Don’t Really Know How (Un-)Talented You Are, According To Science

From talent recruitment, retention, to how to measure ROI and manage your costs, the plenary sessions will give you the opportunity to debate the biggest shifts taking place in global mobility. Hear from successful companies across a wide range of industries and understand how global mobility can become more strategic, increase its value and influence… Continue Reading FEM EMEA Global Mobility Summit LONDON | 9-10 NOVEMBER 2017

Think about the workplace 10 years ago: The first iPhone wouldn’t be released until July 2007. There probably wasn’t “an app for that.” Open floor plans hadn’t yet become a privacy-busting phenomenon. And people weren’t obsessed with “the cloud.” Certainly, smart devices, cloud-based platforms, and the way we work have been transformed over the past decade.… Continue Reading Do These 5 Things Right Now To Still Be Employable In A Decade

Some say technology will replace 80% of doctors in the future. I disagree. Instead, technology will finally allow doctors to focus on what makes them good physicians: treating patients and innovating, while automation does the repetitive part of the work. While every specialty will benefit from digital health, some will especially thrive due to these innovations. Here, I enlisted… Continue Reading The Top Medical Specialties with the Biggest Potential in the Future

Working towards the ‘Taking Wales Forward 2016-2021‘ strategy, the most important day of the year for Wales’ public procurement community is back at the Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff with Procurex Wales 2017. This fantastic day of learning and personal development climaxes at night with the return of the GO Awards Wales 2017/18, to be held at… Continue Reading Wales’ annual Festival of Public Procurement returns on Thursday, 9 November 2017