I was privileged to be invited to participate in the Dutch Exploratory Workshop on Testing recently in Driebergen, Holland. The conference was held over the weekend of 20 – 21 April 2013 and was a great opportunity to meet my professional peers from, mainly, Holland and Belgium.
A report released earlier this year shows that a lot of public sector workers are unaware of the open data sets available to them, and the benefits of using these sets. Open data (information that is free and accessible to anyone) is not only beneficial to public sector bodies such as the NHS, but can also be useful to organisations in many other sectors, such as retail, e-commerce and marketing.
According to a study from OC&C Strategy Consultants and Google, UK retailers will grow their overseas online sales by more than seven times to hit £28bn in 2020, up from £4bn in 2012. Make sure you get the most out of this surge by following our top tips for international online sales.
The European Commission have proposed changes to EU data protection law that would give individuals more rights over how their data is used by businesses. Whilst it’s extremely important to protect individuals’ data, if these reforms are enacted as they stand at the moment, these changes could be bad news for businesses as well as consumers who value targeted marketing.
The new UPU Postal Operations Council (POC) is currently meeting at the UPU headquarters in Bern, Switzerland. One of the main aims on the agenda was to approve amendments to the letter-post and parcel international regulations.
We’ve always been conscious about our corporate social responsibility, which is core to our company’s ethical values. Not only do we all recycle as much as possible, many of our employees use public transport or cycle into work everyday, reducing our carbon footprint.
Some of our employees have been cycling in for many years, but others have recently decided to take up the challenge as well. With 5 of us cycling to work, the Allies team clocks up a total of 56 miles a day, or over 11,000 miles a year! This means on average, each person burns 5233 calories a week and saves around 399kg of CO2 – not bad! Calculate what you would achieve here.
Big Data, Data Mining, and Predictive Analytics; buzzwords indicating the same thing: your business sits on a wealth of unexploited data that could drive management decisions.
I recently attended a Rapid Software Testing training course, led by James Bach, one of the current thought leaders in agile software testing. The highlights of the course included ways to structure my approach to testing, and discovering new insights into the psychology behind testing.
Online shoppers have high demands for when and where they receive their purchases. Retailers and couriers need to make sure they meet certain standards so they don’t get left behind the competition.
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Last July the Royal Mail began an initiative in the East of England to map the precise co-ordinates of homes and businesses in the area.
Royal Mail declared last week, however, that they will not be rolling this out to the rest of the UK.
