On episode 14 of the Tech3Pod we have the pleasure of speaking with Matthew Skelton, the co-author of Team Topologies and Head of Consulting at Conflux. A specialist in Continuous Delivery, operability and organisation dynamics for software in manufacturing, ecommerce, and online services, including cloud, IoT, and embedded software.
On this podcast moment, we look at Matthew's views on Scaled Agile SAFe and what it means for organisations. Its very important as agilist and organisation we can pick up any framework we think might work but sometimes we don't take the time to really understand what will be good for the team as a whole. Matthew does a great job in explaining what he thinks of SAFe and offers an alternative bases on his experience.
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In a world where every business is striving to be customer-focused, what does it mean to truly put the customer first?
We invited Craig Goold and Rebecca Allsop from Skipton Building Society to the Tech3 Podcast to discuss how Skipton Building Society put their people first, the merit of a quantitative and qualitative approach to data and what steps are being taken to leave Skipton Building Society in a better place for customers and employees who come next.
Not only did Craig and Becky share some incredibly inspirational use cases, they demonstrated the value of empathy and gave us a glimpse into the start of their omni-channel customer journey.
A big thank you to them both, and to Skipton Building Society for sharing their stories and experiences with us.
More about the speakers:
Craig Goold, is the Head of CX and Change Demand and has been part of Skipton Building Society for more than 11 years, helping them to align Customer Experience and Investment in creating new capabilities that make a difference for our customers and colleagues. Craig is also Chairman of Skipton Business Finance - Helping SME’s in the UK realise their potential through Invoice Discounting and Debt Factoring; supporting over £1bn invoices per year across 750+ clients.
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-goold-863a335/
Rebecca Allsop is the Head of Customer Strategy and planning with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Similar to Craig, Rebecca has enjoyed a long run at Skipton Building Society with over 9 years under her belt. Skilled in Data Analytics, Customer Experience & Research, Marketing Technology, Database Management, Marketing Automation, Marketing Planning and Team Leadership, she has a breadth of experience that many can only dream of and it’s a pleasure to have both Rebecca and Craig with us today.
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-allsop-b27a4a4/
Skipton Building Society – https://www.skipton.co.uk/
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Tech4Pets is a not-for-profit company that works with charities to improve animal welfare using technology solutions and big data. The Data Science team here at GlobalLogic* saw an immense opportunity to get hands-on with an interesting dataset, whilst helping a heart-warming cause. On this episode, we talk with Sami Alsindi, Principal Technical Consultant (Data Science) at GlobalLogic and Roger Zorlu, Data Science Consultant at GlobalLogic about how this project came about, why they thought it was a good idea, the type of information they gathered while undertaking this project and how Tech4Pets is helping the pet community fight crimes through data analysis and Machine Learning.
This is a great episode you don't want to miss.
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Blog Post: Paws for Thought
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Roger Zorlu | LinkedIn
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*GlobalLogic completed its acquisition of ECS in April 2022 so references to ECS are made during the episode
Hello wonderful Tech Cubers we are here with another episode of the Tech³Podcast. This is episode 3 of the Skills shortage series we are doing. On episode 1 we spoken to Mark Capaldi looking at the shortage from an organisational stand point. On episode 2 we spoke to Martyn Scott where we looked at the shortage from a talent and people perspective and on episode 3 we stay with the people theme and speak to Ashley Strachan, a Senior HR and Immigration Advisor at ECS. Ely and Ben discuss with Ashley about the effects on employee experience if talent is not developed and grown. Has she experienced any additional pressure to offer additional training opportunities for employees and her thoughts if she is seeing a skills shortage in the industry.
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Eloisa Tovee | LinkedIn
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Hello and welcome to another episode of the Tech³Podcast. As we discussed on our last episode we are doing a three part series where we dive into the skills shortage from different aspects. On the last episode we spoke to Mark Capaldi, Head of Design and Engineering where we look at the skill shortage from a company stance. On this episode we speak to Martyn Scott, Head of Talent and Development at ECS and we delve into the more people aspect on the skills shortage paying particular the type of requests he receives for current employees when it comes to talent and development. The challenges organisations face in keeping up with the digital skills demand and what ways can someone enter the industry either as a graduate or someone looking for a second career.
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This is a 3 part series looking at the skills shortage in the UK which has been highlighted by big organisations such as Amazon who have recently put out a mass of free online learning for cloud tools. With this in mind, we wanted to see if this is true from the people on the ground. We first spoke to Mark Capaldi head of design and engineering at ECS a Global Logic Company. We shed some light on whats actually going on including his thoughts on how companies can attract and retain talent with in the industry. How companies can develop in house training if they don't have any to keep their staff up to speed on the latest trends and what steps managers and individuals can take to solve the problem of the skills shortage.
As always please like share and subscribe to our podcast. It really does help in more ways than you know.
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Ben Shonubi
Andy Tebb
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
It’s Friday Tech Round Up time! In episode 108, we explore the UK government’s new ties with Japan, UK energy tech startups struggling to scale – quoting Luke Smith at Forward Partners, #IWD brings a closer look at equality in the tech industry – UK Tech News, Crunchbase explains why FinTech funding is faltering and safer, more powerful batteries for electric cars.
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
We’re back with another Friday Tech Round Up In episode 107, AWS releases a new carbon footprint tool, huge investments into smart greenhouses, Telefonica Tech’s move to become an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, Toyota experiences a cyber attack and a breakthrough for dry-climate regions. Also, we have a brand-new Tech³ Podcast episode out, where Flavilla Fongang, Founder of TLA Black Women in Tech, joins us to speak about the barriers black women in tech face today, and also the motives of writing The Voices in the Shadow book. And we remind you to save the date for our panel discussion on Tuesday 8th March at 12noon, discussing how we can begin to close the 7% gap in leadership roles and the importance of allyships in achieving change.
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
On Episode 21 of the Tech³Podcast we sit down and speak to Ash Winter and Rob Meaney about everything software testability, their start in the industry, their thoughts around how to get started in testing plus much more. This is an amazing conversation and we would like to thank Rob and Ash for taking the time to go through all of their amazing thoughts with us.
Please be sure to like, share and subscribe to the podcast and tell your friends, to tell and friend. We appreciate the love.
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Ben Shonubi
Andy Tebb
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Flavilla Fongang is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of 3 Colours Rule — an award winning creative branding and marketing agency. Notable in her industry, Flavilla won the 'She's Mercedes' businesswomen award, placed within the top two most influential tech women in the UK in 2021 and is the chosen brand ambassador for the BBC.
Determined to create a movement that would benefit generations to come, Flavilla founded TLA — Black Women in Tech, hosts a podcast 'Tech Brains Talk' and worked alongside 51 black women to curate 'Voices in the shadow' — a inspirational look into the journeys these women have been on, and the legacies they will leave behind.
We are so grateful to Flavilla for taking the time to record this episode. Not only do we gain a better understanding of the motives for this book, plans for volume two and the movement Flavilla has been so instrumental in creating, we discuss some of the barriers black women in tech face today and the importance of roles models.
Have a listen and let us know your thoughts.
Listen to the Tech Brains Talk Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1QAZRf6DRuR4Ftrqayn1Xh
Buy the Voices in the Shadow book: https://theblackwomenintech.com/the-voices-in-the-shadow-campaign/
Join the TLA — Black Women in Tech community: https://theblackwomenintech.com/
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Ben Shonubi
Andy Tebb
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Welcome back to the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up! If you’ve not joined us before, your hosts – Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee – use the next 45mins to discuss tech news that made the headlines over the month of February. We cover the development of offshore wind projects in India, holographic calls and Minecraft libraries. All before ending on two feel good stories.
If you’re interested in attending the International Women’s Day Panel Discussion on March 8th, 12pm, set a reminder for the live stream here – https://youtu.be/PkCR2NqZ_ko
Below are all the news piece for this month’s Friday Tech Round Ups – available to watch on the ECS YouTube channel.
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Are you ready for another Friday Tech Round Up?
In episode 106, the energy sector suffers the most cyber-attacks, Wired reveals how Big Tech wants in of the success of digital banks like Monzo and Revolut, RWE and Tata Power announce a collaboration, major FinTechs like Starling and Monzo come together to encourage an overhaul of regulation and The Guardian discusses the five ways AI is saving wildlife. Also, we remind you to save the date for our panel discussion on Tuesday 8th March at 12noon, discussing making change happen in the 21st-century business landscape. Five incredibly talented women will be diving into topics like how we can begin to close the 7% gap in leadership roles and the importance of allyships in achieving change.
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
What can you expect in this week’s Friday Tech Round Up? In episode 105, New Relic puts the last pieces of their project in place, Vodafone adopts new tech to ramp up their 5G offerings – Oracle, TechCrunch explores what fintech investors are looking for in 2022, solar power that can convert carbon dioxide into fuel and National Grid ESO & Octopus Energy launch a winter flexibility trial. Also, we remind you to reserve your seats for our free Data Science Immersion Day on the 15th and 16th March!
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Time for another Friday Tech Round Up! This week, we look into a sevenfold increase in fintech investment, a €43 billion euro chip supply investment, TechCrunch questions whether journalistic news media missing a huge opportunity, Cloud ME technology – Alibaba Cloud and the Financial Times discusses revolutions in the energy grid. We also shoutout out our free Data Science Immersion Day on the 15th and 16th March, and End Youth Homelessness’ latest fundraiser – Gaming for Good.
Have a watch and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments!
#TechNews #FridayThoughts #FridayFeatures #FinTech #Cloud #DigitalEcoSystem #Hiring
For all links mentioned in the FTRU, visit our Friday Tech Round Up blog
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Time for another Friday Tech Round Up! Today we discuss HSBC investing in green tech, a Minecraft library making censored journalism accessible worldwide, Nationwide Building Society embracing API tech, BP and HyCC committing to greener projects and AmazeVR forging the future of immersive concerts. We shoutout out the launch of e-Comply – a tech solution which helps companies review and automatically redact personable identifiable information when a consumer has a data subject access request.
Thank you to Tilly Kenyon FinTech Magazine, Cian Maher The Verge, Karl Flinders Computer Weekly, Power Technology and Kate Park TechCrunch for their pieces this week, and to Louise Fenn for delivering the goods.
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Welcome back to the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up – your monthly deep dive into off all the tech news covered in January’s Friday Tech Round Ups (episodes 99-102 specifically)
Rather than running through all the news week by week – you can do that in a much more efficient way by watching the FTRU on YouTube– Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee look at the trends that popped up over the month of January, drawing parallels between stories and exploring the knock-on effects of particular bits of news. From the benefits of big tech, to collusion and games of chicken, this is your one stop shop for January’s tech headlines.
Oh, and Bruce Willis makes an debut appearance on the podcast too!
Links that came up in the episode:
Generation UK AWS re/Start Webinar – February 9th - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/addressing-the-digital-skills-gap-in-scotland-tickets-244385422377
Gaming for Good charity event - https://gaming-for-good-2022.justgiving-sites.com/?utm_content=195731610
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
It’s Friday Tech Round Up time!
Today we discuss Starling Bank’s plan for mortgage lending – which would them ahead of rivals Monzo Bank and Revolut, Meta has unveiled their new supercomputer, Intel Corporation and Samsung Electronics are to invest in new chip-making plants, a bug endangering Linux distributions worldwide and the UK is to launch its first Government Cyber Security Strategy. We shoutout out End Youth Homelessness and their latest fundraiser, Gaming for Good – which will see our ECS gaming community battle it out head-to-head and do something they love for a great cause. Also, make sure to check out our monthly round-up of the news with Eloisa Tovee and Andrew Tebb on our Tech³Podcast. Have a watch and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments!
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
On this episode of the Tech3Podcast Ben and Andy sit down and chat with thought lord Simon Wardley. In this conversation we dive deep into his history of being the CEO of Fotango and what that taught him, his thoughts and ideas around mapping plus much, much.
As always if you liked this episode please let us know by sharing your thoughts on LinkedIn or twitter where you can find both Andy and Ben.
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Ben Shonubi
Andy Tebb
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Today we dive into a game of corporate chicken between Amazon and Visa, an Oracle article revealing the need for smart cities, a no-code and low-code update from TechCrunch, a report by Rolling Stone revealing the UK Government’s plan to tarnish end-to-end encryption’s reputation and a record-breaking Telsa vehicle. Also, we shoutout our latest inaugural ‘Cloud Cost Optimisation’ blog and our ‘how to stand up a contact centre in 15 minutes' blog,
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Celebrating 100 episodes of the Friday Tech Round Up! 🥳 Today we dive into an AI-powered transcription platform called DeepScribe trying to unburden doctors from tedious data entry, Cloud giants are to face greater scrutiny from UK financial regulators, Meta losses an attempt to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit demanding it sells WhatsApp and Instagram, an open-source developer corrupts a pair of open-source libraries and the World Economic Forum warns that cyber security failure is one of the biggest risks facing countries and businesses.
Also, we shoutout Fraser Brown for his latest blog on homomorphic encryption and our podcast with guest, Niall McDonagh, and hosts, Ben Shonubi and Andrew Tebb, where they discuss different types of adversity working in technology, as well as Niall’s extraordinary journey navigating different reactions to his sexuality at various points of his career.
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.