Sergey Nivens – inventory.adobe.com
On this week’s episode of the Pc Weekly Downtime Add podcast, Brian McKenna, Caroline Donnelly and Clare McDonald discuss a number of the week’s largest tales in tech, together with the most recent effort to digitally remodel the NHS, Sky’s contribution to getting extra girls working in IT, and an Oracle-backed research into the financial implications of under-investing in IT.
Caroline kicks off the dialogue with a recap of the work the federal government is doing to digitally remodel the Nationwide Well being Service (NHS) via the upcoming launch of NHSX, and its current spending evaluate.
The evaluate was geared in direction of serving to form the priorities and goals of the unit, whose overarching remit is to steer on digital technique inside the NHS, whereas making it simpler for sufferers to entry digital programs and applied sciences.
On the identical time, NHSX’s lately appointed CEO, Richard Gould, has stated that in the case of delivering on digital, it isn’t essentially all the way down to the NHS to do all of the heavy lifting, so opening up its programs to 3rd events (via open APIs) can even be a precedence.
Clare then shares the outcomes of Sky’s current contribution to serving to bolster the variety of girls working in tech via its £125,000 spend money on 5 enterprise initiatives led by feminine founders.
In addition to a share of the cash, every winner will profit from mentorship alternatives, in recognition of the constructive affect their concepts might have on society at giant.
Regardless of some preliminary good-natured scepticism from Caroline about Sky’s motivations, Clare stated the endeavour is geared in direction of not solely growing the variety of girls working in tech, however making certain their concepts get extra consideration from buyers, too.
Brian digs into a number of the information and figures in a current Oracle-sponsored CBI report that warned enterprises “face extinction” if they do not use IT higher, earlier than occurring to elucidate why companies ought to be extra like magpies and fewer like ostriches in the case of going through down the chance of digital disruption.
The Oracle report additionally makes the case for organisations drawing on their legacy to tell their IT transformation by making higher use of their information.
Brian says this can be a theme that’s flippantly touched upon in a current evaluation piece by Pc Weekly safety editor Warwick Ashford, which talks about how higher entry to information analytics applied sciences are serving to to drive up the sophistication of enterprise IT safety programs.
