News, trends and insights for the region
Recently I had the pleasure of attending the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas. I went there to work with SAP Hybris to conduct research on how public sector organisations can better invest in digital solutions. SXSW is not your ordinary conference. The event, which takes over downtown Austin each year, is a […]
There is an important difference between people who are truly being Agile, and those that are simply practicing Agile techniques. Focusing only on practices or frameworks, without taking the Agile mindset into account, compromises the Agile journey. This is because, without the right mindset, it can be incredibly difficult to deal with complex issues in […]
Artificial intelligence is one of the main topics of focus in the technology sector and in boardrooms at the moment. Its attraction comes in its ability to drive multiple benefits in parallel – whether enhancing customer experience, improving productivity, greater consistency or reducing time to process. Machine learning, deep learning, visual recognition, natural language processing […]
We are so fortunate to be in an age of great change. The digital transformation that is such a significant part of today’s IT conversations has spurred development of, and investments in, new technologies designed to enable rapid adoption of data-intensive applications. In a recent blog titled “Composable – a key enabler of digital transformation” […]
Industry research firm IDC calls the new IT – characterised by use of mobile devices, cloud services, social networks and big data analytics — the third platform. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a DXC Connect partner, says the new platform is driving the “idea economy” because, when done right, IT can facilitate the conversion of ideas into […]
The word “hard” can be the opposite of “soft” or the opposite of “easy.” It makes sense then that in many people’s minds “soft skills” are seen as “easy skills.” However, basic logic and high school math tells us that this assumption is flawed — and Australian companies are about to get a huge reality […]
In many ways it’s counterintuitive to tell retailers they have to spend more time on their physical stores. Aren’t more people shopping online than ever before? But as much as online sales have grown, it still only represents about 15 percent of all retail sales. Today, we’re finding that people don’t always want the quickest, […]
At DXC we continually encourage our people to “innovate,” but how does one define innovation and what does it really mean? Personally, I think it is an overused term and one that often lacks agreement of definition. Is it any different from “research and development,” which has traditionally been the vaguely defined term for innovative […]
Walk into a typical retail store and more than likely you will be bombarded by piles of merchandise. And to make matters worse, there’s often nobody available to help you wade through all those products. How many times have you been in a store only to hear the common refrains: “You have to go the […]
Society has been through several changes from the industrial through to the information revolution. And with each comes the inevitable question, “Are we putting ourselves out of a job?” With artificial intelligence (AI) technologies taking step-change leaps in capabilities and accuracy, there is a lot of talk about whether AI is the next “job killer.” […]
