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For many small and growing businesses, technology is no longer just something that sits in the background. It affects how teams work, how customers place orders, how information is shared, and how confident a business feels when it needs to make changes.
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When a system is working, it is very easy to leave it alone. If orders are being processed, reports are being produced, websites are running and teams are getting through the day, reviewing the underlying systems can quickly drop down the list.
AI & Automation
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing what businesses can automate. AI-enabled workflows can interpret information, generate content, recommend actions, classify requests and make routine decisions. Used effectively, they can reduce administrative effort, accelerate processes and allow people to focus on work that requires judgement, creativity and human connection.
Cyber Security
The UK’s decision to ban weak default passwords on connected consumer devices is unquestionably good news for cybersecurity. Since 29 April 2024, manufacturers of products such as smart televisions, phones, cameras, speakers and connected doorbells have been required to meet minimum security standards.
Agile
Agile is often presented as a refreshingly simple way to improve delivery. Define your goals. Prioritise the backlog. Establish a sprint cadence. Build a cross-functional team. Hold regular meetings. Create a release process. Implement the right tools. Continuously improve. Eight straightforward steps. What could possibly go wrong?
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2024 has been our most successful year yet: from onboarding new clients and starting a host of new and bigger projects, to opening a new office in Dubai, to welcoming three new team members, to becoming a B Corp, this year has been one of rapid growth and fantastic success.
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Have you ever wondered why some teams achieve incredible results while others seem to stand still, repeating the same actions?
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Encountering a decline in profits and low conversion rates in the e-commerce sector? Unsure of what steps to take to stay afloat? There's a way to achieve success online – view your e-commerce venture as a startup.
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Top articles for this fortnight include an explanation of post quantum encryption, how Apple’s AI being ‘boring’ makes it more useful, and how new research has used AI to discover that elephants have names for each other.
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Top articles for this fortnight include how to conduct an inclusivity transformation for your business, a comprehensive explanation of central processing units, and how to decide on the correct project management software for your team.
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Top articles for this fortnight include why more websites are experiencing outages, how to ensure your organisation’s people are cybersecurity-focused, and why AI may be experiencing the boom-bust cycle.
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Top articles for this fortnight include issues with the maintenance of open-source systems, how small as well as large businesses can use big data, and a new AI agreement between the US and UK.
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Top articles for this fortnight include how work patterns may develop over the next 50 years, cyber-espionage campaigns conducted by the Chinese government, and how using new tech in old ways may prevent us from accessing its full potential.
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Some of our top articles for this fortnight include the debate around banning ransomware payments, how small businesses can adapt to changing SEO, and how one local brewery has used AI to develop a new beer.
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This fortnight’s top articles include how to successfully conduct a cost transformation, why making sure your team understands their project’s purpose is key for project management, and why AI can struggle with common sense.
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Top articles for this fortnight include why you should include sustainability at the core of your business transformations, an explanation of the hacking network Volt Typhoon which demonstrates how even innocuous cybersecurity weaknesses (such as end-of-life routers) can put major systems at risk, and why you need to focus on both end results and people when managing agile projects.
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Topics covered by some of our top articles for this fortnight include the idea of innovation theatre (which can explain why innovation efforts don’t work at some companies), taking on the otherwise daunting task of introducing automation to a workforce, and an example of how AI can be used to enhance – rather than replace – traditional crafts.
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Top articles for this week include a detailed analysis of an IT spending forecast for 2024, a clear and detailed explanation of chatbot technology, and some fantastic examples of how technological innovation (in this case, AI and automation) can be used to help in various crises.
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Top articles in this year’s first compilation post include an approach to e-commerce operations focused on innovation and agility, a clear and comprehensive introduction to business disaster recovery, and manageable steps for manufacturers to start integrating AI into their operations.
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This week’s articles include why smaller businesses should engage in cloud migrations, using AI to analyse literature, and the best apps to use over Christmas.
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This week’s articles include why companies should (and don’t) minimise the amount of data they keep about customers, the benefits of integrating Microsoft’s Power Platform with generative AI, and how organisations are using technology to protect historical sites.
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This week’s top articles include thinking about digital carbon footprints, how AI can be used to support work-life balance, and an introduction to the idea of quantum advantage.
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This week’s articles include topics such as drawing the right conclusions from business data, advice on cybersecurity compliance programs, and using AI and augmented reality to help industrial workers.
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This week’s articles include enforcing the UK’s new Online Safety Act, an introduction to agile project planning, and the Bletchley Declaration on AI.
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This week’s articles include the benefits conducting business transformations during times of uncertainty, how over automation has damaged the internet, and robots responding to open-ended language requests.
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This week’s top articles include two articles on different economies, an introduction to project planning, and how technology is being used to help farmers in Malawi.
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This week’s articles look at the IMFs prediction for the UK’s economy, new laws in California regarding personal data, and the EU’s space age technology.
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Articles this week include how venture capitalism has changed since the 1980s, the EU’s first exoscale supercomputer, and algorithmic governance in AI.
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This week’s articles include the rapid decline of NFTs, an explanation of APIs, and how to manage people as if they are, well, people.
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This week’s articles look at the UK’s Online Safety Bill, spear phishing attacks, and how AI can help smaller companies keep up with their larger competitors.
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This week’s articles look at interest rates in the Eurozone, ransomware attacks across the UK, and an approach to preventing AI being trained on biased data.
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This week’s articles include topics such as the rise of interest rates in the UK, the different cyberthreats, and how AI can be used to prevent the spread of wildfires.
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This week’s articles include information about the EU’s Digital Services Act, the importance of project plans, how you can start to implement automation in your organisation, and how AI can be used in the early detection of Parkinson’s.
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Just like there are multiple ways of creating an image (such as painting on a canvas or taking a photo) or cooking a meal, there are multiple ways of managing a project.
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Highlights from this week’s articles involve an explanation of green coding, how websites can prevent their text from being used to train ChatGPT, and how AI is being used to monitor British wildlife levels.
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This week’s articles include an analysis of the Electoral Commission’s response to their data leak, how small businesses can start to incorporate digital marketing, and the best alternatives to ChatGPT.
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This week’s articles look at rising interest levels in the US, change management and zero-based budgeting, and how large language models may not be as clueless as we think.
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This week’s blog include articles on everything from rising economic tensions in India and China, cybersecurity advice, a new open source Al from Meta, and a robotic archaeology dog currently in use at Pompeii.
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At {n}.bora, we are committed to helping our community stay up to date with the latest in business and technology. With this in mind, we thought we’d start a regular blog post compiling some of our favourite articles from the previous week.
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With the availability of cheap, easy to use website generators and services, companies can deploy a web presence with just a few clicks. However, what those tools and services may not tell you is how companies must adhere to a range of laws and standards when they publish a website.
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We are seeing an increasing number of clients select Asana as their project management tool of choice to help their teams organise and track their tasks and projects.
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When embarking on a digital transformation, or creating a new IT setup, it can be easy to focus on technology and forget about people – humans are inherently flexible and can adapt to whatever technical setup works best, right?
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When you start thinking about expanding your organisation into a new country, one of the key issues that you will need to consider is knowing how your operations will be affected by the move.
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When you start considering the best ways to save energy, IT systems architecture isn’t likely something that you’d immediately consider: all this talk of distant servers and ‘the cloud’ suggests something ethereal and abstract, rather than something physical with a carbon footprint.
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Anyone whose spent time looking into software development has probably heard of agile. However, being able to pinpoint what it is exactly can be difficult. With this in mind, we thought we’d lay out what this development approach actually is.
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Our founder director Peter Hastings set up {n}.bora with the goal of bringing together select partners with true, meaningful experience of global organisational change management, innovation, operations, delivery, and best practice, and bring all that expertise to market for the benefit of enterprises and organisations in a way that is tailor made and customised to the scale of those organisations.
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