The phenomenon of digital disruption and its transformative impact on the competitive landscape and established brands has gripped the media in the past few years.

How do you picture the ideal connected world?

"We’ve long believed that over time companies tend to get comfortable doing the same thing, just making incremental changes. But in the technology industry, where revolutionary ideas drive the next big growth areas, you need to be a bit uncomfortable to stay relevant." -Larry Page, CEO/Co-Founder of Alphabet Inc

It’s no secret that the “Internet of Things” (IoT) is the favoured subject of discussion for the digital world at the moment – even the mainstream has jumped on the bandwagon, with talk of the “smart” digital revolution bringing us the home, car, and city of the future to the imminent present.

On Tuesday 7th July, many of our community members from Financial Services organisations came together for the inaugural Industry-Sector Think Tank. Four round tables of C-level executives from the UK’s leading FTSE and SME companies discussed the challenges and the solutions of where digital sits in their given sector.

On May 12th, 2015, Nimbus Ninety hosted our first-ever Pitch@IGNITE session. After 5 promising start-ups pitched their ideas, the judges unanimously voted for Skignz to be the ultimate winner.

"Financial Services operators must harness a range of digital technologies now or risk losing their customers to a new wave of competitors." -Caroline Boyd, Director of Strategy and Research for Nimbus Ninety The impact of digital on the Financial Services sector has been severe. Whilst consumer behaviours and expectations have evolved rapidly, the sector has had difficulties to adapt due to key challenges, including:

From the results of Part 1 of our Digital Benchmarking Survey, Nimbus Ninety has just released our latest Digital Trends Report for May 2015.

Congratulations to the winner of our first Pitch@IGNITE session - Skignz!

Unpredictability and volatility have traditionally come in cycles, and have been associated with fear, risk and financial losses. Business ecosystems were designed and constructed to control and regulate this uncertainty.