‘Seeing is believing,’ so they say. But what if you cannot see, hear or walk for that matter? Does that diminish your value in society? No. Then why are we as businesses failing to respond to the requirements of the differently abled?

Do you harbour notions about making it big someday? Like rising up the rungs of the career ladder? Most of us do at some point in our lives. So, wouldn’t it be helpful if we had a north star to guide us through this journey?

Ever heard about how, ‘One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.’ Exactly what Mastekeers strive to do through our charity hackathons.

Do you feel like you have all bases covered to make the organisational impact with your transformation programme? That it will be an easy tick in the box at the end of the project. You've got it all wrong then.

It’s no surprise then that over 80% of companies fail to some extent when delivering digital transformation.^[1]  In this blog post, I've captured insights on digital transformation risks from Prahlad Koti, the Managing Director of our UK business. These recommendations are relevant whether you are embarking on a new transformation programme, and equally, if you need help with an existing or failing project.

Will the dust ever settle on the data deceit of the century? Aka the violation of user data by Cambridge Analytica and lack of vigilance on the part of Facebook, which compromised the personal information of 50 million Facebook users. Only time will tell.

Imagine, you purchased an all-expenses paid holiday of a lifetime to the Caribbean, as a surprise gift for your mother on her 60^th birthday. Sadly, it never ever reached her even though your trusted holiday provider dispatched the gift way ahead of time.

It’s a daunting task isn’t it? But, that’s what compliance can feel like at the start. GDPR compliance is definitely a business cost. Yet, you'd be missing a trick or two if you view it as only that. In fact, you'd miss five.

The season of good cheer will soon be upon us. And would you believe it, test automation can play Santa in helping you make the most of the festive spirit, not just for your customers, but also for your business.

MastApp, our self-service mobile app for employees recently won the CIO 100 Mobile Maven Award 2015. The award identifies enterprises that blaze new trails in leveraging mobility and the mobility ecosystem for business benefit.

Mastek Executive Forum with FW De Klerk

Most of us may never be tasked with the mammoth responsibility that Nobel Prize winner and former South African President FW De Klerk had to take on whilst working alongside Nelson Mandela to end apartheid in South Africa. What we can do is learn from those experiences and apply them to overcome our day-to-day business challenges. This is exactly what a selection of guests at Mastek’s Executive Forum did at The Ritz in London yesterday.