Technology isn’t merely something that people use within their spare time, for entertainment purposes and to watch the latest movies and television series.

Now more than ever, workplace culture can’t go undervalued. In our 2018 survey of more than 2,000 people in 50 countries, one finding stands out: employees feel less positive about their workplace culture than their employers...

No consulting firm can get everything right all of the time, but keeping these six things front of mind in 2019 will help.

Organisations around the world have faced new challenges in 2018, giving rise to exciting new opportunities. As an innovation and transformation consultancy that believes in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world, we’re at the forefront of seizing those opportunities. And that gives us unique insights into the space where strategy, technology and innovation collide – where opportunity appears.

Nearly 80% of IT pros believe they would bring more value to their business if they didn't spend as much time on routine tasks.

Around this time each year, my inbox begins to fill up with messages from organisations offering up their predictions for the next year. As a futurist, people also often ask me what my own predictions are for 2019. This is a question that provides me with an opportunity to clear up a common misconception – in fact, good futurists rarely make predictions, and certainly not for a time horizon as soon as just a few weeks away.

2019 is only weeks away and consulting specialists are already developing strategies intended to better address their audience in the coming year.

The desire to want to be a freelance consultant is a great goal to have and one worth pursuing.

Adopting proactive risk management allows organizations to identify emerging risks early, determine how to prioritize them, and respond to them quickly and effectively.

It’s a sign that business is going well if you are in the position of needing an extra pair of hands to help your business run smoothly and perform to full capacity.

Is this your first time creating a CV from scratch or are you looking to seek better life elsewhere in terms of employment opportunities? Either situation deserves congratulations, as you are taking the first step into a brave new world.

When you kickstart an agile transformation, energy is high and people are enthusiastic and driven. But agile transformations take time and it becomes hard to maintain that energy level.

5G will bring big benefits in the future, but over-hyping it today won't help anyone. Technology is, unfortunately, a hype-infested industry. Every new device has to be insanely great; every new piece of software has to be the harbinger of a business revolution...

Information Age quotes Elliot Rose, PA Consulting’s head of cyber security, in its article on cloud security and how many organisations have been slow to adopt their technology.

PA's report on the agile organisation, titled 'The evolution of the agile organisation' is featured on Computer Weekly's premium content hub. The article explains PA's research which finds that organisations can improve thier financial performance as a result of adopting agile techniques.

The French have a saying: “il n'y a que les imbéciles qui ne changent pas d'avis”.Translating loosely as “only fools don’t change their mind”, at first glance this might sound like the perfect excuse for those prone to the odd contradiction or ‘U-turn’.But what separates a business from its competitors is an ability to change the plan rapidly to respond to emerging requirements, technologies and customer insight to meet customers’ ever changing needs.

Currently, automation does increase productivity to an extent, but the key to reaching its full potential is by an appropriate upskilling of the workforce. This was the conclusion of Capgemini’s latest report, which also found that in the majority of companies, automation is not yet meeting executives’ desired goals of increased productivity.

Our recent report on how the consulting delivery model could change from being an often uncomfortable and suboptimal mix of advice and implementation to a combination of deep expertise, smart software, and proprietary data (something we’ve reluctantly—in the absence of anything better—termed “managed services”) has triggered more conversations with more firms than anything else we’ve written this year.

The most radical period of change in industrial history is nearly upon us. While technology is evolving faster than humanity and is able to keep up with it, there is a need for rapid, sustained and growing innovation in what the World Economic Forum has dubbed the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

15 years or so ago, AI still largely had a terrible reputation. It had suffered from decades of over-promise and under-delivery, and if you went into a company saying you wanted to do something with AI, you’d be treated with a high degree of skepticism. Now, it’s rare to find any technology-driven venture that doesn’t have AI of some kind in it. It’s akin to the dot-com boom whereby every single business in the world, and indeed most projects within businesses, had to have a web element to it. Now, the same is largely the case with AI.