Posts in category Innovation

“In many cases the nature of jobs will change rather than disappear because of AI.” Euan Cameron is the first UK artificial intelligence leader at PwC. In the newly created role, he is responsible for AI across the UK firm, helping PwC itself and clients identify opportunities to embrace the shift to automation. MARGINALIA spoke with Cameron to explore PwC’s latest research, ‘UK Economic Outlook’, and his views on the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of jobs.

We should not feel intimidated by the rise of the machines, says Ed Brill, Vice President, Offering Management and Design, at IBM Collaboration Solutions. In this interview, he tells MARGINALIA how cognitive computing has already created many advantages inside and outside of IBM. He also shares some recent and upcoming offerings – such as ‘Orient Me’ and ‘Watson Workspace’. IBM is building on the future of work through innovation and machine learning.

Managing Director of Neutronic Technologies, Neil Gallant, tells MARGINALIA about the latest robotic practices and research, and his future of work expectations considering the potential of automation.   

Expert in enterprise technology, Dion Hinchcliffe, industry analyst, thought leader, and ZDNet columnist, tells MARGINALIA about the principles and practices behind successful digital workplace transformations, and what he expects the next developments to be in the future of work.

Gloria Lombardi interviews Jeremiah Owyang, founder of Crowd Companies, to explore their newly-released report ‘The Corporate Innovation Imperative’. Owyang describes some of the most popular innovation practices that established corporations adopt to avoid being disrupted by emerging competition.

Oblong Industries, the creator of an immersive visual collaboration solution called Mezzanine, is convinced that Infopresence – a term that describes the experience of being immersed as a group in your vital content and data in a room or across locations – represents the future of work. MARGINALIA speaks with VP EMEA Mary Ann de Lares Norris to find out more.

In this interview, Richard Milnes, CEO of Zaptic, discusses how to enable digital operational excellence and close the gap between customers and frontline workers. He also encourages leaders and managers to consider the manifold benefits of building their digital work platforms with Business Process Management.

Understanding employee behaviour around their use of content and comms is essential for companies requiring ROI from their internal endeavours. Collecting and analysing the data can be daunting, but decision-making suffers without accurate information. Bethany Garland is building graphical analytics reporting into mHub’s employee engagement app, and explains the impact of meaningful data.

How can organisations adapt to change and help employees to keep learning and developing?  Susanne van der Velden created Team up, a digital workplace tool that combines collaboration and e-learning, and knows a thing or two about innovation after her many years of academic studies.

What’s in store for the future of work in 2017? You are about to find it out from leading experts in the field. See if you agree with what they have to say.

Gloria Lombardi interviews business model innovator, Alexander Osterwalder, to explore how companies can create a thriving culture of innovation.

One Paper Lane, a tech company, has missionary zeal, to treat our addiction for paper by prescribing a heavy dosage of digitisation. Gloria Lombardi speaks with Gaurav Mirchandani, the founder and CEO, about how he wants to “eliminate paperwork with happiness”.

Reliable and high performing technology is the cornerstone of a successful workspace according to Essensys, which has developed a platform for workspace companies that is available on demand, anywhere in the world. Gloria Lombardi interviews Essensys’ Chief Marketing Officer Stephen Eveleigh, to find out more.

Imagine working alongside robots that could roam around offices and factory floors. It’s not the stuff of sci-fi, but a reality. Magazino is a tech company which develops and builds perception-controlled, mobile robots named TORU, which are designed to navigate freely and dynamically amongst a human workforce.

Gloria Lombardi speaks with John Hagel, the Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge Innovation, about the power of scalable learning, passion, and the ability to make connections to increase work performance.

Gloria Lombardi speaks with David Galsworthy and Alex Rabarts, the co-founders of Techspace, to explore how innovative coworking spaces and practices can not only support small tech startups, but also larger, more established companies.

What does it mean to be an organisation in the digital age? Jane McConnell’s annual study, “The Organization in the Digital Age”, seeks to understand how a company, its people and tools are shaping new ways of working.

Employee research is now a relatively mature discipline. But the perennial challenge is how to convert a large swathe of employee feedback data into actionable insights. Enter Workometry, a tool that fuses employee voice with machine learning.

Gloria Lombardi catches up with Piers Harding-Rolls, the Director of Games Research at IHS Technology, to explore the current state of virtual reality at work.

MARGINALIA meets with Oblong Industries, the creator of an immersive visual collaboration solution called Mezzanine, to explore how new technology is disrupting the ways businesses conduct meetings, so that decisions are made faster across time zones.