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Where Should That Workload Actually Run?
For the best part of a decade, “put it in the cloud” was close to a universal answer. It was rarely wrong, often cheaper than the alternative in the short term, and it let a lot of infrastructure decisions get made quickly without much debate. That era of easy defaults appears to be ending, and…
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The AI Tools Already Inside Your Business
Somewhere in your organisation, right now, someone is using an AI tool you’ve never heard of, on an account you didn’t set up, to do a piece of their job faster. I don’t say that to alarm anyone. I say it because in nearly every client environment I’ve worked in over the past couple of…
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Your best people are already looking
80% of technology leaders expect to retain their top people this year. 44% of technology workers say they’re planning to leave. Both numbers come from the same study, Nash Squared’s 2025 Digital Leadership Report, surveying over 2,000 technology leaders across 62 countries, nearly a quarter of them in the UK. Both can’t be true at…
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The Growth and Skills Levy is live. Is your training budget still working?
The Apprenticeship Levy, as most technology leaders understood it, no longer exists. Since the 1st of April this year, it’s the Growth and Skills Levy, following the Autumn Budget 2025 and the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. Oversight has also moved, from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education to a new body called…
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The business case for fixing tech’s gender gap
441,000. That’s how many women worked as IT specialists in the UK in 2024, according to BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT’s 2025 analysis of ONS labour market data. It’s a big number until you look at the share. 22% of all UK IT specialists. Up by exactly one percentage point on the year before,…
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