Alt Text: a close-up of a Ryzen computer chip in a motherboard.  Photo by Christian Wiediger on Unsplash. This week’s top articles include thinking about digital carbon footprints, how AI can be used to support work-life balance, and an introduction to the idea of quantum advantage. As ever, {n}.bora can provide advice on the topics raised, so please get in touch if you have any questions.    Business: This blog post from Accenture looks at how businesses need to update how they think about e-commerce when engaging with new markets:   https://www.accenture.com/us-en/blogs/song-insights-blog/wheres-the-last-pocket-of-new-growth Technology: This article from the Next Web explores the idea of a digital carbon footprint and how to start taking this into consideration:   https://thenextweb.com/news/its-time-to-tackle-our-growing-digital-carbon-footprint Advice: Looking at the current international context and regulations, this Entrepreneur article looks at wha...

  Alt Text: a person wearing a VR headset; a screen behind them shows they are interacting virtually with an industrial space.  Photo by XR Expo on Unsplash. This week’s articles include topics such as drawing the right conclusions from business data, advice on cybersecurity compliance programs, and using AI and augmented reality to help industrial workers. If you want advice or support on any of the topics raised, please get in contact with {n}.bora and we will be more than happy to help you.   Business:  This blog post from Deloitte looks at how businesses shouldn’t draw face value conclusions from their data, but should instead examine it in context to reach the correct conclusions:   https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/insights/focus/technology-and-the-future-of-work/using-workforce-data-for-organizational-problem-solving.html Technology: This TechCrunch article reports that major technology companies including AWS, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle have partnered to m...

  Alt Text: a laptop displaying an antivirus warning on a table, with a houseplant in the background. Photo by Ed  Hardie on Unsplash. This week’s articles include enforcing the UK’s new Online Safety Act, an introduction to agile project planning, and the Bletchley Declaration on AI. As always, we can provide advice on the topics raised, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Business:  This Boston Consulting Group blog post explores the idea of change aversion and how this needs to be overcome in order to successfully implement business transformations: https://www.bcg.com/publications/2023/how-change-aversion-can-derail-transformation Technology: Ofcom has released guidance on how it will enforce the UK’s new Online Safety Act, making sure that websites and technology platforms with UK users follow specific new rules:   https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-online-safety-regulation-ofcom Advice: This IBM article provides a good overview of different types of malwa...

  Alt text: an office building with many windows at night.  Photo by Mike Kononov on Unsplash. This week’s articles include the benefits conducting business transformations during times of uncertainty, how over automation has damaged the internet, and robots responding to open-ended language requests. {n}.bora is able to help your organisation with any of the topics raised (apart from robotics), so feel free to get in touch with us. Business: Discussing business transformations during times of uncertainty, this interview from Boston Consulting Group provides some valuable insights into change management (namely, that these can prepare your teams for crises and that, during transformations, the ‘pyramid is flipped’ in that management needs to respond to the needs of teams rather than the other way around): https://www.bcg.com/publications/2023/transformation-challenges-in-uncertain-times Technology: Providing an example of why ‘technology for technology’s sake’ can be harmful, ...