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Understanding Cyber Crime

With so much hype, and shrouded in technical gobbledygook it’s hard to get a real handle on Cyber Crime, and how we can best prevent and / or investigate it.  Based on my recent presentation [1]  to...

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How to kick-start your cognitive journey

          “Where do we start with cognitive?” This is a question many leaders across industries have been trying to answer. Cognitive computing is here – and this innovative capability is...

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Analytics and Watson: Core to Government Transformational Efforts

The challenge is well known:  government budgets continue to be limited, declining revenues are not keeping pace, and the taxpaying population is requiring an increasing amount of services.  Many...

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Six Learning Points from Counter Terror Expo

It was my great pleasure to chair the Cyber Threat Intelligence stream one afternoon last week at the Counter Terror Expo in London.  The presentations from Simon Saunders (Portcullis), John Reid...

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Social Business for Government

Social Business is already making a real difference to commercial organisations.  For example over a half of companies expect to support their Customer Service processes with social capabilities within...

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Data-Driven Sustainability and Resilience

The twin concepts of sustainability and resilience have taken center stage in the international development discourse.  Indeed, the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, will chart the course for...

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“Economic Vitality – Does it just mean the Commercial Economy?”

Economic Vitality is the power that runs the economic strength in every country. In essence it is the sustainment of livable and viable communities. Security, both at a community and national level,...

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“If governments are smarter in leveraging technology and data, will that mean...

This was the first question posed to our closing panel by a participant in our recent Data Driven Government conference in Barcelona, Spain. So much for warming the panel up with an easy or “softball”...

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Economic Vitality in data driven world

Data promises to be for the twenty-first century what steam power was for the eighteenth, electricity for the nineteenth and fossil fuels for twentieth – that is, the creator of enormous wealth and...

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Military “Bring Your Own Device”?

When I ask colleagues in the military about use of their personal smartphones and tablet computers at work, the most common answer is “it’s banned!”  I argue that this is very dangerous, as illustrated...

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Economic Development Powered by Data

Business leaders perform comprehensive analysis that incorporates social and economic vitality criteria to select the optimal locations for investments. Across all industries and business functions...

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Hitting the Cyber Skills Shortage Head On

Availability of specialist skills is one of the biggest issues facing organisations in defending their core business systems against Cyber Attack. A recent report from ISACA estimated that there are...

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Strategic ICT planning must survive and thrive

Is ICT strategy starting to take a back-seat amidst all the turmoil of public sector “digital” adoption? If so, then perhaps it’s understandable.  But it’s also pretty dangerous given some of the...

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Which regions are benefiting from foreign investment? Find the answers here…

The world is neither flat nor round. From an economic perspective, the world is more like a Rubik’s Cube, with varying combinations of interdependent conditions and developments leading to different...

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What’s Data Curation got to do with Defence?

Defence organisations are increasingly challenged by data.  Sensors become more complex and the Internet of Things together with social media brings an ever-increasing volume, variety and veracity of...

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Secure by Design

Not new, not sexy, but never been more important! It’s hard to say when Secure by Design started.  IBM was developing secure interbank transaction processing in our CICS product in the late 1960’s....

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City Leaders Dashboard in the Cognitive Era

‘What’s happening in my city?’, ‘How to make the right choice?’, these are the daily challenges of the mayors and city leaders.  They need to know exactly what’s going on in all city domains: security,...

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Mission: Possible! – New IBV study on the future of cognitive in government

Welcome to the age of cognitive computing, where intelligent machines simulate human brain capabilities to help solve society’s most vexing problems. First movers in government and other industries...

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Military VR – What’s Changed?

Virtual reality (VR) is the use of technology to create the illusion of presence in an environment that isn’t really there.  The use of VR by the military is not new.  The first flight simulator was...

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Realising Cyber Resilience

Resilience Defined Cyber attacks on business and government continue with regularity and increasing sophistication.  Some of these are well publicised (for example, the recent attack on UK Internet...

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