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Data Resilience: Why CEOs and CFOs Need to Understand the CIO Agenda

The CIO agenda changes each year, albeit not drastically. In 2015 part of their focus was on hybrid cloud spending, but this year in 2016 research and analyst firm Gartner says that it’s now about how they enhance the power of digital platforms. Graham Jarvis finds out more here. 

Publication: Storage Network Solutions. Clients: Luminous P.R and Bridgeworks. Published in May/June 2016. 

Networks and the Cloud: How to Address the Problems Businesses Face

Every so often in technology, there is a development that creates a chain reaction that starts slowly and then gains unbelievable traction, and it changes everything we touch – for example the semiconductor transistor. From its humble beginning as a single transistor on a chip of germanium 69 years ago, to what we consider normal with gazillions of transistors in the average microprocessor. Then again, every so often there is a perfect storm in the computing world that predicates a quantum shift in the way everyone approaches things. Change is indeed a constant process, which can be hard to keep up with – and it’s not easy to realise how it will impact customers, markets and businesses. Read more... 

Publication: IT Pro Portal, written by David Trossell and edited by Graham Jarvis. Published on 10th June 2016. Clients: Luminous P.R and Bridgeworks.

Service in the Energy Sector: Why Is It So Bad and What Can Be Done?

 

...Customers are missing out on potential savings. Citing the Competition and Market Authority’s recent energy market report, personal energy shopping start-up, Flipper Community, claims that most energy consumers aren’t switching. The hassle of switching is one reason why many aren’t bothering. Traditionally, there were four tariffs per provider and with 43 energy providers in the market, this equated to 160 tariffs. But the CMA’s plans to rightly encourage more competition will raise this to over 800 energy tariffs. Read the complete article. 

Publication: Mycustomer. Published on 10th June 2016. Clients: Luminous P.R and Flipper Community.

How Spreading a Little Bit of Employee Happiness Can Improve Your Bottom Line

Happiness can improve your bottom line.

Happiness is considered somewhat of a fluffy term, and ask your board of directors if they care about how happy your employees are they will probably say yes, but may not know why it matters so much. Focused predominately on business growth and fixated on the traditional Profit & Loss (P&L) view of company performance, too many organisations are still missing the opportunity that lies in maximising their ‘2nd P&L’, their ‘people and leaders’. By taking a one dimensional view of what drives company growth, organisations miss key opportunities to increase the performance of their number one asset – their people. Read the complete article. 

Publication: Incentive and Motivation. Written by Tony Latter, CEO and Co-Founder of The Happiness Index. Clients: Luminous P.R and The Happiness Index.

How can start-ups disrupt existing markets for the benefit of customers?

Marketers are taught that the customer is king. However, companies seemingly forget this principle by putting their own needs first. Graham Jarvis MA, ACIM explores how start-ups can shake-up the market for the good of its customers. Find out how to disrupt existing markets here. 

Publication: Exchange, published by the Chartered Institute of Marketing on 7th June 2016. Clients: Luminous P.R and Flipper Community

WANdisco Does Cloudy Dance

WANdisco, whose technology replicates data, has joined forces with Bridgeworks to speed replicated data on its way to the cloud. Find out more...

Publication: The Register, written by Chris Mellor and published on 31st May 2016. Clients: Luminous P.R and Bridgeworks.

Smart tech: Making Employees Safer and More Productive

Mobile apps and wearable technologies such as Apple Watch motivate employees, encouraging them to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing.

Employee health and wellbeing is firmly on the agenda of many organisations today. A healthy employee is a happy and potentially a highly productive member of staff who’s less likely to either seek employment elsewhere, go off sick or be absent for other reasons.

According to research from the University of Salford: “More than 130 million days are lost to sickness absence every year in the UK, and working age ill health has an annual cost to the economy of more than £100bn.” So health and wellbeing isn’t an issue companies of all kinds can take lightly.

Find out more, read the complete articles here. 

Publication: Director of Finance, written by Graham Jarvis and published on 31st May 2016.

WANdisco Partners With Bridgeworks

WANdisco has formed a partnership with WAN acceleration vendor Bridgeworks, recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor in Enterprise Networking for 2016. Read the complete article here. 

Publication: Digitalisation World.Published on 24th May 2016. Clients: Luminous P.R. and Bridgeworks.

WANdisco Announces Partnership with Bridgeworks For Faster Cloud Migration

WANdisco Fusion now available with Bridgeworks PORTrockIT for Best-of-Breed Cloud Migration and Hybrid Cloud Deployments. Find out more...

Clients: Luminous P.R. and Bridgeworks. Published on 24th May 2016. 

The Big Data Harvest

Graham Jarvis answers the question: "What Would It Be Worth To Your Business To Get Your Data 10 Times as Fast?" Learn about what he discovered.

Publication: Cloud Computing World. Published on 19th May 2016. Clients: Luminous P.R and Bridgeworks.