Tech and Innovation

There is much discussion about the role of boards today. What are the makeup and skills required for a relevant and highly effective board? How can boards ensure they engage individuals with diverse, rigorous and curious thinking and voices? As an industry sector, we are focussed on skills, gender and...

As we look ahead to a time when teams can safely return to the office, it’s clear that people will continue working from home at far greater volumes than in the past.  Taking steps to position your team for long-term work from home success is vital, whether your company chooses...

Cyberattacks are on the rise in 2021, and so are private- and public-sector efforts to contain them. Major meat producer JBS USA’s IT systems were hit, a ransomware attack shut down the Colonial Pipeline and stalled about half of the East Coast’s fuel supplies, and President Joe Biden signed an...

Resilience is a key trait within us all. It’s a quality and skill we need to embrace and build upon, especially, in leadership. The last eighteen months, in particular, has provided us with more than its fair share of opportunity for us to grow in the area of resilience both...

Virtusa Corporation, an American IT services firm, has appointed Santosh Thomas as Chief Executive Officer. He takes over from the company's co-founder and CEO Kris Canekeratne, who announced his transition from the business in May 2021. As a business leader and technologist, Santosh Thomas has a proven track record for...

The Marketplace Gold Rush is on! According to Marketplace Pulse, $4 billion has now been raised in private finds to purchase companies that have built successful products on the Amazon Marketplace. That’s a staggering amount for what businesses that could quickly dissolve in the face of new competitors or indeed...

FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss, writes, “Negotiation serves two distinct, vital life functions—information gathering and behavior influencing—and includes almost any interaction where each party wants something from the other side.” He goes on to explain that nearly everything in your life, from career to relationships, depends upon this skill. Negotiation,...

For many, mentioning the word agile conjures up images of software engineers, stickie notes, and bizarre ceremonies. It is easy to dismiss the movement as being applicable to only a small part of the organization, typically IT. Many are surprised to hear that business agility has become a key competitive...

Perseverance is a virtue that comes in handy in a lot of situations in your life. Entrepreneur after entrepreneur has pointed to their grit and determination to succeed as a main reason they made it. From sports stars to business founders we venerate the idea of never giving up —...

As well as costing millions of lives, the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the world’s economy. Although vaccines are now rolling out around the world, even though that’s at a different tempo depending on the country, enterprises are cautiously hoping that they are past the worst, and are looking forward...