Percentage of women appointed to tech boards stays stagnant for 20 years

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ISSUE DATE: 1 November 2018 TOP STORIES Percentage of women appointed to tech boards stays stagnant for 20 years The percentage of women on the boards of technology firms has not changed for the last 20 years, with the gap between men and women on boards growing. READ MORE → Triumph Motorcycles kick-starts changes with high-tech HR The Leicestershire-based motorcycle company is deploying IT systems to give customers and its own staff a ‘premium brand experience’. READ MORE → IoT R&D projects missed out on £10m of government funding A series of delays and disruption caused chiefly by changes in project ownership meant the government’s IoT UK Research and Innovation Programme failed to use a quarter of its allocated budget between 2015 and 2018. READ MORE → ADVERTISEMENT

IN DEPTH AWS urges enterprises to embrace their heritage when facing down disruption from startups At this year's AWS Transformation Day, the cloud giant's enterprise strategist, Miriam McLemore, talked about why enterprises should be looking to embrace their heritage and legacy when moving to the cloud.  READ MORE → Hyperoptic full-fibre network hits public housing milestone More than 150,000 publicly owned homes have now been connected to Hyperoptic’s ultrafast fibre broadband network. READ MORE → GDPR driving data protection maturity The EU data protection laws are helping to drive data protection maturity internationally, but five months after enforcement many companies are still playing catch-up, says consultant. READ MORE → Only 10% of firms have started upskilling employees as automation comes in As automation begins to change the way people work, only a small percentage of firms have begun full-scale projects to give their existing staff new skills. READ MORE →

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