Shammah Banerjee

Shammah is the Senior Editor at Nimbus Ninety. She tracks down the most exciting stories in business and tech, produces the content and gets to chat with the biggest innovators of the moment at Chief Disruptor LIVE.

Recent Posts

In Conversation with ViaVan's CEO

on 28-Nov-2019 12:29:29 By | Shammah Banerjee | 0 Comments | Thought Leadership
As the Middle East’s start-up capital, Tel Aviv churns out business after business. Whilst tourists love the hustle and bustle of the city, for the everyday commuter, the network of minivans (called sheruts) mean multiple transfers and untimely travel. During a typical lengthy commute, Via co-founders, Oren Shoval and Daniel Ramot, began to wonder how useful a flexible, on demand bus experience, enabled by technology, would be. Enter Via.
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Acquisition Suspicion: The Race to Reinstate Tech Democracy

on 27-Nov-2019 16:18:49 By | Shammah Banerjee | 0 Comments | Thought Leadership
Economic “bigness” has gone too far. Economists and political commentators have frameworks to tackle it, but allowing tech giants to grow and absorb small competitors has squashed tech democracy.
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Chief Disruptor LIVE October 2019

on 22-Oct-2019 17:13:43 By | Shammah Banerjee | 0 Comments | Event reports
"Businesses fail when they go straight to the tactics,” Gavin Esler, former host of Newsnight and renowned BBC journalist, told me a few weeks ago. I asked what they should start with instead. “Objectives,” he replied. “Objectives, then strategy and only then can they look at the tactics."
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The Insight-Rich Organisation

on 18-Oct-2019 16:29:48 By | Shammah Banerjee | 0 Comments | Event reports
Many businesses today feel data-drowned, spending 80% of their time and resources cleaning and preparing data but yet not getting the insights they need. Data preparation is seen as the biggest bottleneck to driving analytical outcomes, but it’s also the biggest opportunity to unlock new value and accelerate performance.
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Cloud Goals: Mastering Multi-Cloud

on 25-Sep-2019 17:54:55 By | Shammah Banerjee | 0 Comments | Event reports
Digital ambitions are dependent on cloud to bring intuitive experiences and data-rich services to life, depending on your multi-cloud strategy and ongoing management. With businesses today needing to deliver better customer experiences than ever to compete in the market, it’s vital to understand the journey from current experimentation to industrial-strength innovation. Driving purposeful innovation at scale has three key ingredients: knowing when to move initiatives out of the lab and into mission-critical business processes; integrating AI into the cloud; and de-risking the transformation process.
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Accelerate your Journey to AI: the Path from Cloud to Data to AI

on 13-Sep-2019 13:58:36 By | Shammah Banerjee | 0 Comments | Event reports
Tech commentators have been repeating the mantra “data is the new oil” for years. But with new challenges arising across industries, it’s becoming clear that this aphorism doesn’t give the full story. 45% of business leaders in 2019 considered generating and using insight from data effectively as their biggest challenge for the year.1 Data is no longer the new oil; knowing how to use the data is. Data itself is useless without the insight it gives an organisation.
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Mobilising a Generation

on 05-Sep-2019 14:04:38 By | Shammah Banerjee | 0 Comments | Case Studies & Interviews
IN CONVERSATION WITH MANJULA LEE, FOUNDER AND CEO OF WORLD WIDE GENERATION The June issue of TIME magazine flopped through my letterbox with sombre urgency earlier this year. On the cover Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General, gazes at the camera, sad and preoccupied, as he stands thigh-deep in muddy water. Below him float the words, “Our Sinking Planet”.
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The Customer Happiness Index Dinner

on 21-Jun-2019 16:51:24 By | Shammah Banerjee | 0 Comments | Event reports
Keeping customers happy is crucial to any business. Happy customers rate you highly online, they tweet about their experience and most importantly, they come back. However, in a world driven by clickthrough-counts and loosely correlated stats, gauging how happy your customers are and utilising that soft data is much harder than it seems. Nimbus Ninety members gathered in the Covent Garden Hotel to discuss not only how to achieve the perfect happiness rating, but also how to measure it.
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Data Enlightenment Evening

on 23-May-2019 17:34:37 By | Shammah Banerjee | 0 Comments |
Over the last decade, we’ve seen data become the fuel for organisations globally. It’s spawned business models that could not have existed before, and with that, has forced data to become a market commodity - creating a global information supermarket. While businesses use it to drive their customer interaction, and - crucially - their sales, harnessing this power has several hurdles to jump. In order to address these, Nimbus Ninety members gathered in the Gherkin and discussed data enlightenment and artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of sales.
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Moving to the Multi-Cloud Breakfast

on 09-May-2019 18:00:28 By | Shammah Banerjee | 0 Comments |
Cloud technology has been around for over a decade. In this time, it has allowed new business models to exist that weren’t previously able to, bringing in a whole host of disruptive influences into all sectors. However, despite its maturity in application, only 20% of cloud migration is achieved in businesses - and this is the most basic 20%. The other 80% remains locked to the ground with hindrances from legacy technology and the mindset that comes with it. At a breakfast in partnership with IBM and Skytap, a group of cloud experts and executives discussed the challenges in cloud migration and application, as well as solutions to these common pain points.
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