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National security through technology: Worth the wait?

Written by: Gordon Morrison on 3 February, 2012

The long awaited and much anticipated technology, equipment and support for UK defence and security white paper was finally published on 01 February 2012. Intellect is pleased to see it, especially as our members had put forth significant time in participating in the consultation process. The paper, interestingly titled ‘National security through technology’, covers a lot of ground in 65 pages. It is  intended to be a high level guide to how HM Government (HMG) will procure national security capabilities until the next strategic defence and security review (SDSR) in 2015.  Below are our views of how some items in the paper will affect the defence and security ICT industries. 

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Web economy set to double by 2016, according to the BCG

Written by: Matthew Wrelton on 31 January, 2012

That is the verdict from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in a newly released report.  Central to this rapid growth of the web economy will be the shift towards ubiquitous and mobile web access, the massive increase of internet users in emerging G20 nations (from 238 million in 2005 to 1.39 billion in 2015) and an explosion of global IP traffic and data (30 exabytes per year in 2005 to 966 exabytes in 2015). Read the rest of this entry »

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2012 – The bright side: Technology remains key to the future of retail banking

Written by: Sam Hartwell on 19 January, 2012

The current economic, regulatory and commercial climate can lead to conflicting messages when trying to grasp the challenges and opportunities facing the retail banking technology industry throughout 2012.

Economic growth continues to elude many fragile economies throughout Europe and the West. This, alongside an international context of increased scrutiny and regulation as a result of failings exposed by the banking crisis, provides a difficult context for the world’s financial services industry. The UK is no exception. With dwindling growth figures and the looming regulatory upheaval of a retail banking ring fence, UK banks will certainly feel pressure upon their balance sheets in 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

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The recipe for profitability and high margins

Written by: Marco Pisano on 18 January, 2012

 
The idea that UK electronics companies are fighting for higher margins is no longer representing the entire truth (this might still be the case in other areas of UK manufacturing – usually not associated with advanced technology).

Manufacturing of consumer electronics  and mass production in general has moved elsewhere, but industry has adjusted and is adapting to a new world where complex electronics and flexible added-value services have become the norm. With low volumes come high margins if technology and quality of services justify the premium price. It’s no chance that Germany is the world’s second biggest exporter of goods after China. Excellence, complexity, flexibility and creativity make products and processes harder to reverse engineer or copy, hence give early adopters enough room to innovate further through R&D investments and keep ahead of the curve. Germany is known for the quality of its engineering base but the UK is known for its world-class services (second only to the US).

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Productivity or growth – which comes first?

Written by: Matthew Wrelton on 17 January, 2012

David Smith, the Economics editor of the Sunday Times, wrote a typically insightful piece on Sunday in which he explored two of the most fundamental questions for the UK economy over the next few years:

  1. Will UK productivity growth – i.e. output per worker – resume its earlier upward trend?
  2. Is the damage to the economy from the crisis and recession as bad and as permanent as feared?

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