IBM has “paused” its decision to offer voluntary redundancies for hundreds of frontline service staff in the UK. A consultation, which began in December, had aimed at easing one in three members of the firm’s IS Delivery team out of the door, alone.
New data to mark International Women’s Day reveals more women than ever before are on boards of the UK’s largest companies.
At the beginning of 2017, a wide range of analysts predicted that telecom operators would begin to engage in some serious merger-and-acquisition activity—and soon.
And here, at the beginning of 2018, they’re still saying the same thing.
GLOBAL management consulting firm Accenture revealed its latest study on industry transformation that involved 931 senior executives across 12 manufacturing and production industries in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, South Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and USA.
Robotics research has been making great strides in recent years, but there are still many hurdles to the machines becoming a ubiquitous presence in our lives. The journal Science Robotics has now identified 10 grand challenges the field will have to grapple with to make that a reality.
Robotization is very spectacular in its physical form, from simple toys for children to robots in factories or hospitals. But the current landscape of artificial intelligence has nothing to do with the Japanese automobile factory robots of the 80s. In reality, its development is already more impacting in its underground version, purely algorithmic and software. We went from manual tasks to intellectual processes.
New analysis has shown that the evolving nature of public healthcare has caused the consulting industry in the UK to adapt its offering to the sector. While tightened regulations have seen the National Health Service reduce its spending on consulting firms in some areas, a number of consultancies continue to gain lucrative business from the NHS via Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships.
Some of the UK’s top female innovators are seeing their ideas and aspirations come to life following their participation in Innovate UK’s women in innovation competition.
This awarded 15 female entrepreneurs £50,000 each and a tailored package of mentoring and business support. It is part of our effort to boost the support available for women in business.
A recovery in China’s increasingly high-tech manufacturing sector has been tipped to bolster economic growth through 2018, after a near seven-year slowdown was halted last year.
Multinational corporations are failing in their attempts to tap into China's remarkable consumer growth, heard delegates at a Davos panel discussion this morning led by WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell.
After 19 years in business, Clearview Capital’s investment strategy has not changed much. Its record has argued for staying the course.
The Stamford-based private equity firm is riding the momentum of two recent deals for companies that each sold for several times the price for which Clearview bought them. Such results are nothing new for the group. Clearview officials credit their series of strong performances on a steady strategy that values the growth of small but promising businesses.
The life sciences industry is waking up to data without borders, or more precisely decision making about patients in which patients themselves are at the center of those decisions. I’m talking, of course, about Real World Evidence.
Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has established a new technology and management consulting hub in the North West.
Operating from the company’s offices in Manchester city centre, the hub represents the latest move in a drive to expand RSM’s core services nationally, particularly in IT and digital strategy, cloud ERP and management consulting services.
China is getting ready for the Lunar New Year holiday – a time of family gatherings, renewal, and considerable household spending.
Dstl is working in partnership with Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the Alan Turing Institute – the national Institute for data science – on a number of defence challenges that exploit the power of data science.
NHS England has awarded £8.7m to 10 companies that are developing new technologies aimed at 'future-proofing' general practice.
Some of the companies are developing technology to support self-care
The funding has been awarded via Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare, an NHS England scheme that works with England’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks to identify new technologies developed by small businesses and start-ups that could help improve patient care and increase efficiency.
Five trends are transforming the automotive industry, according to PWC: electrification, autonomy, sharing, connecting and yearly updating, a combination the consultancy is now labeling “eascy”.
From travel and retail to banking, China’s facial-recognition systems are becoming part of daily life
The growing number of public and commercial applications for facial recognition in China may bolster the nation’s wider push to lead the world in artificial intelligence.
Almost 150,000 patients in England have waited more than 30 minutes before being admitted to A&E this winter, according to NHS figures.
Data from the end of November to 11 February showed the number of people waiting half an hour or longer was 149,214, while a further 35,535 people waited more than an hour
Apple CEO Tim Cook talked up the company's ambitions in the health-care sector on Tuesday, hinting that it will move beyond wellness apps and devices, like its step-tracking Apple Watch.
Cook acknowledged at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino, California, that the health-care sector, which is notoriously complex, doesn't always encourage new players to innovate. But he reassured shareholders that he views Apple as having a "great position," in the sector, by taking a more consumer-friendly approach.