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Qu’il s’agisse de réserver plus vite votre prochaine voiture de location ou d’aider les scientifiques à recréer le Big Bang, les solutions Autonomes peuvent changer la donne pour toute entreprise ou administration désireuse d’accroître ses capacités d’innovation. Nous avons tous vécu ça : vous prenez l’avion pour les vacances, récupérez vos bagages et rêvez de plonger dans la mer, mais vous vous retrouvez coincés pendant une heure dans la file d’attente des locations de...

The modern cloud is an essential resource for businesses of every size. Virtually limitless processing power and data storage create a platform that can streamline existing business models and create entirely new possibilities for revenue streams. As more data moves to the cloud, however, security is an ever-increasing concern. Keeping data safe is a complex problem that requires sophisticated solutions. It’s about creating layers of security to cover every potential...

Prior planning and preparation prevents poor performance – a phrase that could be soon be out of date. With the advent of new technologies, and in particular Artificial Intelligence, businesses will soon be able to predict the outcome of different scenarios, before they even come to fruition. From an HR standpoint, these technologies could transform how we look after team members, find new ones, and initiate HR measures in time to maximize the retention of your employees. Accord...

Need departments to collaborate with one another? Lack of collaboration can slow everything down, from day-to-day work to major projects. But what if employees were digitally enabled, able to network and collaborate with people outside of their department? Last year’s digital business study from MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte Digital revealed something interesting: the more digitally mature an organization is, the more likely it is to be organized around...

Successful Marketing leaders are using AI to drive better pipelines and finding new opportunities on a regular as we’ve seen in our previous blog. We’ve already looked at AI’s potential and application ─ now it’s time to get down to the business of AI implementation. Barriers and benefits AI’s huge potential and rapidly maturing technologies should make implementation a shoe-in, right? Wrong. 2017 data from IDC suggests that 49% of global organisations see internal buy-in as...

Automation is definitely in fashion. IT leaders are wise to the opportunity to save time and resource, but need to deal with the variety of automation projects, how to showcase their value to the rest of the business but also, fully reap the benefits of this latest technology for their own department. Every automation project is different, varying by person, process, department, and organization – particularly when it comes to the exact mix of automation and human work. Preparin...

 “Bankers’ hours” seems a quaint idea in today’s fast-moving and unpredictable business landscape. Finance is now fast, 24/7 and global – and companies have to keep up. Disruptive technology continues to be both a challenge and opportunity, helping for example established banks meet new realities – and powering new competitors, the fintechs, which are unencumbered by legacy systems and practices.  In fact, technology innovation and customer adoption is increasing faster than...

The finance function is changing shape. Until quite recently, the traditional pyramid structure was entirely appropriate, but the advent of new technologies mean that organisations need to rethink their shape, quite literally. Up to now, most finance functions would look something like this: A CFO at the top supported by functional leads in areas such as treasury, reporting, and financial control and planning – a leadership layer. Senior people in their teams share niche...

Blockchain, the cloud-based distributed ledger, is one of the hottest emerging business technologies and has clearly become one of the latest buzzwords. But how do you know whether you are ready to deploy it for your company? Blockchains provide a shared, immutable, secure record of transactions across a business network, so embarking upon a blockchain project will require commitment to a process that goes beyond one’s own organization or business. It also means joining or...