IT outsourcing is worth nearly £50bn to the UK economy. This may be something of a surprise, since many predicted that the growth of cloud computing would lead to IT outsourcing’s demise. But IT outsourcing lives on, albeit in a different form.
So exactly how has IT outsourcing changed? And what choices do companies seeking IT outsourcing solutions have?
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FashTech, the London-based startup that creates events around the intersection of fashion and technology, is hosting its inaugural London Summit this April.
The event, which will be spread over three days (13th-15th), aims to further the dialogue between fashion and technology – a dialogue that has already brought us many exciting developments and which is, and will continue, to have a very real impact on the world of fashion.
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The modern consumer is an impatient creature. Whether it is information, food, entertainment, news and media, or fashion, we have come to expect instant gratification. But what are the implications of our preference for speed? And is fast always better than slow?
In a 2011 experiment published by Science Magazine, college students were shown to remember less information when they knew that they could access it later on a computer. Neuroimaging of frequent internet users shows twice as much activity in short term memory as sporadic internet users. And, as reported by the Telegraph, humans now have shorter attention spans than goldfish, thanks to smartphones.
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