Back in 2008 when we started writing a blog for GOX there were 2 articles about on how to effectively manage teams remotely. http://goxglobal.com/managing_teams/ . Those articles were written in the context of an organisation outsourcing IT to a third party based remotely. What we have experienced in the last 6 months takes remote working …
As of April 24th 2020 the Corona Virus has spread around the world to over 200 countries with 2.7 million confirmed cases and tragically 191.000 have died. The world population is 7.8 billion and it grows with 83 million annually. So during the Corona Virus outbreak since Dec 2019 the world population grew by 33.2 …
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Many techno visionaries have proposed that a Universal Basic Income is essential to address the fact that Automation and Artificial Intelligence will likely replace most of the mainstream jobs in the future. Elon Musk is a vocal proponent of this as is Mark Zuckerberg, the latter seeing “universal basic income as a way to inspire …
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At GOX we recently completed an IT/Cloud assessment at a leading higher education institution. One of the main challenges was all the old legacy systems and the debilitating high costs required just to keep the lights on leaving limited funds for innovation . The department had over 120 IT employees supporting 20K end users, 1K …
GOX recently worked with 2 large authorities to help them develop IT requirements to comply with the Tech 2 Services framework and provisioning of networks, telephony and cloud computing from Network Services 2 and G cloud frameworks. The authorities needed help with developing and improving the IT Future Sourcing programme. Furthermore, they were looking for …
A global facilities management company wanted to explore if it was possible to reduce costs for a fully integrated HR system and payroll. They had been on a tier 1 system for 15 years and realised that the licensing costs were becoming crippling. GOX use a proven methodology for system & vendor selection that has …
Japan is the most overworked workforce in the world and yet they have one of the lowest productivities. 30% of organisations in Japan expect their workers to clock up an additional 80 hours per month of overtime, so let’s just think about that for a second. So you are already required to work statutory 40 …
As quoted on IT proportal “Cybersecurity continues to be the number one “external concern” for CEOs, regardless of their industry. That’s because the number of cyberattacks is increasing every year –with hackers attempting to break into a computer “every 39 seconds on average.” The annual costs of these attacks is expected to reach an incredible …
IT project management has its challenges around methodology, what processes and framework to follow and how to mobilise the people and stakeholders to get the job done. Imagine for a second if someone came to you and said. I would like you to organise 153.000 people, 6,330 ships, 10,440 air-planes to perfectly align everyone within …
I like to sometimes look back at old news stories to check for predictions and see how far off or close did the journalist or researcher get their prediction. According to BBC back in 2011 (8 years ago) Cyber Crime cost Britain £27 billion. Here is an extract from article “Cyber crime costs the UK …