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Author interview - Yves Doz, 'Managing global innovation'
11 March 2013
We are constantly being told that the 21st century is the age of global innovation. But what does that mean? We talk to an author whose new book explains all.
11 March 2013
CEO and founder of Geomagic, Ping Fu discusses her extraordinary journey from the concentration camps of China's Cultural Revolution to becoming one of America's most influential women in reality capture technology.
11 February 2013
With China offering lucrative incentives to engineering graduates, what can the United States of America do to keep the world's top talent focused on Silicon Valley?
11 February 2013
Can piracy really have played a major role in defining business models that bring technology to the people? Nick Smith talks to an author whose new book claims that Jack Sparrow could teach us a thing or two about competitive strategy.
Interview: Sandi Rhys Jones, Engineering UK
22 January 2013
Sandi Rhys Jones is the vice chair of the Governing Body of the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering, Construction and Technology. She has strong views on why there’s more to the gender debate than merely the ‘pipeline’ issue. It all starts, she says, with careers advice.
Punk and a new hierarchy in management
21 January 2013
How we lead teams in our organisations is undergoing a shift that reflects changes in society. Nick Smith talks to an author whose new book explains the 'death of deference'.
Building Information Modelling - DNA for buildings
21 January 2013
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is the software-based method of mapping every aspect of a built structure's equivalent to DNA, from initial design and construction to refurbishments and eventual destruction.
Ethical hacking: bad in a good way
17 December 2012
More and more organisations are being targeted in cyber-attacks, and they must get to know their enemy if they are to protect vital networks. Meet the professional, ethical hacker.
Looking forward - 2013 predictions
17 December 2012
E&T staff and contributors take a punt at predicting what's in and what's out across the seven engineering sectors in 2013.
Michael J Silverstein - Going for gold in China and India
17 December 2012
One of the biggest challenges facing the technology business is how to compete in China and India. Nick Smith talks to the co-author of a new book that addresses the subject.
Big Data analytics: putting the puzzle together
17 December 2012
If you want to keep your big-data jigsaw in order, the experts advise integrating your applications. But when it comes to seeing the big picture it's all about value-driven analytics.
JLR proud to be British... and Indian, and Chinese
13 December 2012
Jaguar Land Rover ironically raises it British-icon status as it moves into China, while Germany’s troubled ThyssenKrupp sacks half its board.
Engineers' loss of confidence in government demands action
28 November 2012
There is a growing sense of unease throughout UK engineering. A look at our Confidence Index points heavily towards a lack of confidence in the Government's ability to support the industry. In an atmosphere of doubt and discontent there is a fear among engineers that local investment could dry up.
Mike Lynch and Autonomy: HP's hostage to fortune?
22 November 2012
Earlier this week Hewlett-Packard (HP) levelled an accusation of improper accounting at Autonomy, the UK software company it bought last year. HP has discovered “serious accounting improprieties” and “a wilful effort by Autonomy to mislead shareholders”, it says, after a whistle-blower came forward.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes on the coldest show on earth
19 November 2012
Sir Ranulph Fiennes talks to E&T about his next expedition, which, with its groundbreaking climate-change research programme, is set to become the most important study of Antartica ever undertaken.
Health and safety reforms - a long way to go
19 November 2012
Loose talk from politicians about regulatory burdens does nothing to help create effective health and safety regulation.
19 November 2012
Business execution often comes with the language of military engagement. We are on the 'front line'. But there is more to the analogy than just words.
Network diversity limits what EE can learn from the 4G story so far
02 November 2012
As the first operator to put a 4G mobile network based on the Long Term Evolution (LTE) protocol into action in the UK, EE will have to look abroad to take lessons from other deployments.
Book interview - how to expand your company
22 October 2012
One of the most difficult challenges in business is successfully expanding your company. After all, there's more to growing an organisation than simply adding bits on to it.
Interview - The chairman who climbed Everest
22 October 2012
Chairman of adhesives company Global Resins, David Hempleman-Adams is also a world record-breaking mountaineer, aviator and polar explorer. Sometimes these lives come together in a bizarre way.
How do you unleash the potential of engineers in SMEs?
25 September 2012
Research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has examined how you can achieve competitive advantage through people in SMEs, taking an engineering company as one of the central case studies.
11 September 2012
Why are so few young people choosing careers in engineering? My belief is that the answer lies in engagement.
21 August 2012
'Big data' is a buzz-term that is resonating big-time with IT solutions providers and end-user organisations. But are 'big data' applications really so different from the business intelligence and analytics tools that have been around for decades?
Management success with a mountaineering twist
20 August 2012
Research shows that 80 per cent of leaders and managers are engaged in a battle 'not to lose'. We talk to an author whose new book discusses the 20 per cent who actively seek to win.
CCTV at the 2012 Olympics: the great zoom boom
17 July 2012
The London Olympics authorities have rerouted existing CCTV services in a bid to boost security at the Games, but not everyone is happy about it.
16 July 2012
With 140,000 extra travellers expected to be passing through its gates during the Olympics, Heathrow Airport turns to technology to give its increasingly overburdened infrastructure a sporting chance.
London data centres will feel the effects of the 2012 Games
19 June 2012
How significant will the impact of the London 2012 Games be on the capital's data-centre operators?
17 June 2012
Switching onto social media as a commercial tool is critical to your marketing strategy. Nick Smith talks to author Guy Clapperton, whose new book tells you how to turn social media into business.
21 May 2012
The high street is facing a slump in sales, but can digital technologies reinvent the retail shopping experience?
Have you heard the one about...?
26 March 2012
Christine Evans-Pughe looks at a group of computer programmers and researchers who are trying to turn gigabytes into giggles.
The dangers of hoax security breaches
26 March 2012
A fake hack attack can be as damaging as a real one and they're becoming increasingly common.
Interview: Peter Adams, Highways Agency
20 February 2012
The Highways Agency's new major projects director Peter Adams believes that efficiency is the key to delivering new roads on budget.
Would you swear an engineering oath?
20 February 2012
As developments in technology push questions of ethical considerations further and further into uncharted territory, could engineers benefit from swearing a formal oath?
Using workplace analytics to improve your company
20 February 2012
Workplace analytics can help you to calculate who does what and where in your organisation. But can the application of science to business make a difference to the quality of your company?
20 February 2012
We debrief a team that specialises in improving the sometimes uneasy working relationship between social scientists and engineers.
IP-centric building design: rethinking the office
20 February 2012
The smartest office buildings of the near-future will be built around IP-enabled network infrastructures, rather than vice-versa.
Sony Vita now has even more to live for
14 February 2012
Last month Sony Computer Entertainment’s (SCE) CTO, Dr Masaaki Tsuruta, speaking exclusively to E&T magazine, offered a enticing glimpse of the company’s roadmap for fixed console computing; the interview generated global interest among Playstation futures pundits; but in fact did not tell the full story
Social media in commercial strategies
23 January 2012
We all know that success in business these days is ever more dependent on exploiting the power of social media technologies. But how do you actually do it?
EU Data legislation amendments
23 January 2012
Proposed amendments to the EU data privacy laws propose to swap-out carrots for sticks in a redoubled effort to get European organisations to do a better job to protect everyones' data.
Interview - Terry Morgan, Crossrail
23 January 2012
The current president of the Chartered Management Institute, Terry Morgan, is also chairman of Europe's largest infrastructure project.
12 December 2011
Marking the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the world's most notorious totalitarian state, E&T considers some of the former USSR's less sinister technological creations.
Comment - Supporting apprenticeships
12 December 2011
A new approach to apprenticeships is required in a world where almost half of places go to over-25s, says Tess Lanning.
Author Interview: Andrea Kates
12 December 2011
As corporate belts tighten and creativity feels the squeeze, perhaps the toughest question for companies to answer is 'what's next?'
Delivering on the green promise
13 September 2011
Talking green and actually being green are two entirely different strategies.
Interview - Maggie Berry talks women
12 September 2011
More female technologists in the workplace would close the skills gap and boost UK plc's economic leadership, says Women In Technology MD Maggie Berry.
Book Interview - Daniel Diermeier
12 September 2011
New research shows that corporate reputation has never been more important as a health indicator for your organisation. Author Daniel Diermeier explains why.
Comment - Innovation and your future
12 September 2011
The most successful companies of the next decade will be the ones who got a handle on the right approach to innovation. Richard Eagar has identified the hotspots to watch.
15 August 2011
Best known as the driving force behind the car that flew from London to Timbuktu, Neil Laughton rose through the ranks to entrepreneurship the hard way.
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