Mark Fry

Business Development Director at Atos UK

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Bio Expert at helping market leading financial services organisations drive value and change from technological innovation, with a focus on business technology that powers progress, achieved measurable business outcomes and helps organisations to create their future Career History A thirty year career spanning - Systems Integration; BPO outsourcing; Direct Marketing; Financial Services Distribution Strategy; Business Development and Sales

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TERMINATOR 30 Billion: Rise of the Internet of Things

21 Jul 2015

In the month that the latest film in the blockbuster Terminator sci-fi series was released, I’m afraid I just couldn’t resist using the above title for this article. It was triggered by my participation at an event set up by TechUK: http://www.techuk.org/about which went by the catchy title of ‘Securing the IoT: Overcoming the risks associated wit...

Driverless Cars: watch motor insurance run for cover

15 Jun 2015

To quote the 3 March Wall Street Journal: ‘The Driverless Car, Officially, is a Risk’. Car insurers are starting to include driverless cars as Risk Factors in their annual reports. Why? Because they will reshape customer demand, the way policies are priced, and the incidence and severity of accidents. All of a sudden, the driver is not the pivot ...

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The rise of digital and how the banks have responded

The legacy system heritage within most big Financial Services businesses is simply an environmental factor - they are there, they dominate the culture & thinking because they are so business critical. Often they are now becoming twilight or even zombie technology, and are expensive to maintain and precarious to upgrade or adapt. However, they are still in many (most) instances a massive factor in the decision-making and cultural thinking within the senior level with these organisations. It is a very brave CIO who attempts transformation on his creaking & aged Mainframe! It is why a move to Cloud is such a revolutionary leap forward - it unshackles the whole organisation from its IT legacy in a really empowering way, it changes the culture of the whole organisation and allows innovation to thrive at both grass-roots and in the boardroom.

16 Jun 2015 Reply Read article