The AI reality check: Ambition is rising but adoption isn’t
AI ambition is rising fast, but operational adoption remains limited. Organisations must bridge the gap between strategy, skills, data foundations and scalable execution.
Thought Leadership
Rethinking the tech stack: Why mastery, not more tools, is the real competitive edge
Many organisations invest heavily in technology yet fail to unlock its value. True competitive advantage comes from mastering fewer, purpose-built tools and embedding them deeply across teams.
Resilient networks are a strategic imperative for global businesses to scale in India
Resilient, high-speed connectivity is essential for global companies scaling in India, enabling digital operations, rapid expansion, innovation, and secure mission-critical performance across the country’s diverse and evolving markets.
AI agents are the lifeline UK retail needs for strategic growth
AI agents are reshaping UK retail, driving smarter decisions, optimised operations and stronger customer experiences. Retailers that act now and invest in robust data foundations will secure strategic advantage.
Why addressing Shadow IT is a struggle in the SaaS era
Shadow IT is rising fast in the SaaS era. With easy access to cloud tools, employees unintentionally create risks that IT leaders must address through visibility, culture, and control.
Beyond disaster recovery: Building the resilience framework enterprises now require
Modern enterprises face disruptions that traditional disaster recovery can no longer address. This article explores why resilience must evolve into a proactive, business-aligned capability for continuity.
The domino effect: How network redundancy became a legal requirement for NIS2
Network outages expose how fragile digital operations have become. NIS2 turns resilience into a legal requirement, making redundancy, continuity planning, and multi-layered protection essential for modern businesses.
Gartner: Cloud at a Crossroads – Why strategic missteps are costing organisations millions
Cloud strategies are hitting a maturity wall, leaving organisations with rising costs and unclear value. Leaders must shift from activity to intentional, outcome-driven cloud decision-making.
One RFP, one global network, one shot to get it right
A well-structured global telecoms RFP helps enterprises modernise communication, centralise control, and select partners with proven expertise to deliver scalable, cloud-based telephony across all regions.
Practice what you preach: Why software development teams must shift from creator to customer
Development teams gain deeper insight and deliver higher-quality features when they actively use their own software, validating value continuously and uncovering issues before customers ever encounter them.
From ambition to action: The true state of AI in the UK
UK organisations are eager to embrace AI, yet many face obstacles in readiness, skills, regulation, and implementation. Real progress demands clarity, capability, strong foundations, and long-term commitment.
LLMs need better judgement, not just bigger context windows
Large language models are growing in size but not necessarily in intelligence. True progress depends on improving their judgement and context awareness, not just expanding memory.
AI-first doesn’t mean people-last: How AI will redefine, not replace human work
AI is transforming work by redefining human roles, not replacing them. Gartner explores how collaboration between people and intelligent systems creates smarter, more human-centred enterprises.
Identity wallets and the great Atlantic divide: Why the US risks falling behind
Stuart Sharp of One Identity explores how Europe’s eIDAS 2.0 digital identity wallets are redefining trust, access, and governance—while the US risks falling behind.
The great funnel collapse: When AI becomes the audience
Anders Soenderby Jessen of Hello Monday/DEPT explores how AI is no longer just creating content but becoming the audience, forcing brands to rethink visibility, access, and influence.
Real AI ROI comes from strategic transformation, not individual productivity
Dave McCann of IBM Consulting explains why genuine AI ROI depends on strategic transformation, not one-off productivity gains. Learn how orchestration, governance, and agentic AI drive long-term value.
The AI revolution in SAP: Turning ERP and CX into strategic advantage
Chris White, SVP at Techwave, explores how AI in SAP transforms ERP and customer experience into strategic advantage, empowering people, improving decisions, and enhancing organisational resilience.
Data and AI: The secret to building resilient global supply chains for brands
Fiona Reid, Director of International Business at Pattern, explores how data and AI empower brands to build resilient, compliant, and agile global supply chains amid rising complexity.
The future of advertising is transparent, on-chain, and fraud-free
Ben Putley, CEO at Alkimi, explores how on-chain advertising and AI are creating a transparent, fraud-free ecosystem that rewards publishers, boosts ROI, and transforms digital marketing.
Model Context Protocols: what they are and how you can use them
Adam Lieberman, Chief AI Officer at Finastra, explains how Model Context Protocols (MCPs) connect AI systems and applications securely, unlocking innovation, automation, and new business possibilities.
Reflecting on DORA: Moving from compliance to resilience
Justin Kuruvilla, Chief Cyber Security Strategist at Risk Ledger, explores how DORA’s true potential lies beyond compliance—building resilience through collaboration, visibility, and systemic risk understanding.
Talking more, doing less: The modern meeting dilemma
Nathan Xu, CEO and Co-Founder of Plaud.ai, explores how meeting inefficiency drains productivity — and how AI automation can transform discussions into clear, actionable outcomes.
The CDO’s unfiltered playbook: 5 lessons for AI at scale
Danijel Stankovic shares five essential lessons for scaling AI successfully, from workforce augmentation and data governance to C-Suite ownership and building a fail-fast, learning culture.
Translating threat intelligence into effective cybersecurity
Threat intelligence is only valuable when actionable. Kerri Shafer-Page of Arctic Wolf explains how automation, visibility, and external expertise turn data into effective cybersecurity defence.
How data sovereignty can future-proof businesses for evolving AI regulation
Data sovereignty is becoming vital for AI compliance. Roger Lee of Appian explains how private AI helps organisations maintain control, transparency, and trust amid evolving global regulation.
Automating the Future of Business
Bain & Company’s Ted Shelton on helping businesses plan for 2030 and the crucial role of automation.
Running The Networks Of The Future
How Ericsson is helping telecoms providers meet the world’s extraordinary demand for connectivity.
NODE Podcast: Episode 18
This month, Ben and Rom are joined by Daniel Brigham to reflect on the Microsoft Exchange hack, and to ask whether anything can be done to prevent similar cyber breaches. The panel also discusses our Bain & Company case study, while Ben interviews FacilityLive CEO Gianpiero Lotito.
Making transformation real
GHD has a long history of excellence in the professional services arena, serving multiple infrastructure markets with its engineering expertise. Now the company is doubling down on advanced technology, as Steven Karan and Bob Armacost explain.
Dynamic networking
Ciena’s EMEA CTO Jürgen Hatheier chats COVID-19, modern connectivity and his vision for “adaptive” networks
Following human traffickers’ money trail
A new technology is simulating human trafficking behaviour to help financial institutions test and improve their monitoring systems
Thought Leadership
AI and the war for talent: the end of the game or a new era of skills?
Generative AI is reshaping developer roles, shifting the focus from technical execution to hybrid human-machine expertise and redefining how organisations identify, grow and value tech talent.
Rethinking the tech stack: Why mastery, not more tools, is the real competitive edge
Many organisations invest heavily in technology yet fail to unlock its value. True competitive advantage comes from mastering fewer, purpose-built tools and embedding them deeply across teams.
Resilient networks are a strategic imperative for global businesses to scale in India
Resilient, high-speed connectivity is essential for global companies scaling in India, enabling digital operations, rapid expansion, innovation, and secure mission-critical performance across the country’s diverse and evolving markets.
AI agents are the lifeline UK retail needs for strategic growth
AI agents are reshaping UK retail, driving smarter decisions, optimised operations and stronger customer experiences. Retailers that act now and invest in robust data foundations will secure strategic advantage.
Why addressing Shadow IT is a struggle in the SaaS era
Shadow IT is rising fast in the SaaS era. With easy access to cloud tools, employees unintentionally create risks that IT leaders must address through visibility, culture, and control.
Beyond disaster recovery: Building the resilience framework enterprises now require
Modern enterprises face disruptions that traditional disaster recovery can no longer address. This article explores why resilience must evolve into a proactive, business-aligned capability for continuity.
The domino effect: How network redundancy became a legal requirement for NIS2
Network outages expose how fragile digital operations have become. NIS2 turns resilience into a legal requirement, making redundancy, continuity planning, and multi-layered protection essential for modern businesses.
Gartner: Cloud at a Crossroads – Why strategic missteps are costing organisations millions
Cloud strategies are hitting a maturity wall, leaving organisations with rising costs and unclear value. Leaders must shift from activity to intentional, outcome-driven cloud decision-making.
One RFP, one global network, one shot to get it right
A well-structured global telecoms RFP helps enterprises modernise communication, centralise control, and select partners with proven expertise to deliver scalable, cloud-based telephony across all regions.
Practice what you preach: Why software development teams must shift from creator to customer
Development teams gain deeper insight and deliver higher-quality features when they actively use their own software, validating value continuously and uncovering issues before customers ever encounter them.
From ambition to action: The true state of AI in the UK
UK organisations are eager to embrace AI, yet many face obstacles in readiness, skills, regulation, and implementation. Real progress demands clarity, capability, strong foundations, and long-term commitment.
LLMs need better judgement, not just bigger context windows
Large language models are growing in size but not necessarily in intelligence. True progress depends on improving their judgement and context awareness, not just expanding memory.
AI-first doesn’t mean people-last: How AI will redefine, not replace human work
AI is transforming work by redefining human roles, not replacing them. Gartner explores how collaboration between people and intelligent systems creates smarter, more human-centred enterprises.
Identity wallets and the great Atlantic divide: Why the US risks falling behind
Stuart Sharp of One Identity explores how Europe’s eIDAS 2.0 digital identity wallets are redefining trust, access, and governance—while the US risks falling behind.
The great funnel collapse: When AI becomes the audience
Anders Soenderby Jessen of Hello Monday/DEPT explores how AI is no longer just creating content but becoming the audience, forcing brands to rethink visibility, access, and influence.
Real AI ROI comes from strategic transformation, not individual productivity
Dave McCann of IBM Consulting explains why genuine AI ROI depends on strategic transformation, not one-off productivity gains. Learn how orchestration, governance, and agentic AI drive long-term value.
The AI revolution in SAP: Turning ERP and CX into strategic advantage
Chris White, SVP at Techwave, explores how AI in SAP transforms ERP and customer experience into strategic advantage, empowering people, improving decisions, and enhancing organisational resilience.
Data and AI: The secret to building resilient global supply chains for brands
Fiona Reid, Director of International Business at Pattern, explores how data and AI empower brands to build resilient, compliant, and agile global supply chains amid rising complexity.
The future of advertising is transparent, on-chain, and fraud-free
Ben Putley, CEO at Alkimi, explores how on-chain advertising and AI are creating a transparent, fraud-free ecosystem that rewards publishers, boosts ROI, and transforms digital marketing.
Model Context Protocols: what they are and how you can use them
Adam Lieberman, Chief AI Officer at Finastra, explains how Model Context Protocols (MCPs) connect AI systems and applications securely, unlocking innovation, automation, and new business possibilities.
Reflecting on DORA: Moving from compliance to resilience
Justin Kuruvilla, Chief Cyber Security Strategist at Risk Ledger, explores how DORA’s true potential lies beyond compliance—building resilience through collaboration, visibility, and systemic risk understanding.
Talking more, doing less: The modern meeting dilemma
Nathan Xu, CEO and Co-Founder of Plaud.ai, explores how meeting inefficiency drains productivity — and how AI automation can transform discussions into clear, actionable outcomes.
The CDO’s unfiltered playbook: 5 lessons for AI at scale
Danijel Stankovic shares five essential lessons for scaling AI successfully, from workforce augmentation and data governance to C-Suite ownership and building a fail-fast, learning culture.
Translating threat intelligence into effective cybersecurity
Threat intelligence is only valuable when actionable. Kerri Shafer-Page of Arctic Wolf explains how automation, visibility, and external expertise turn data into effective cybersecurity defence.