Enterprises across the globe are facing a reckoning in this new digital age. Crossing the threshold into this new decade and new era doesn't have to be painful, however. Included in this January roundup of resources are industry expert guides and insights to help effectively usher in new technologies and ideas.

PHARMA

Hybrid AA Applications Could Be the Future of Pharmaceutical Innovation

Christopher McKenna, Global Head of Professional Services and Consulting at Clarivate Analytics, offers his insight on the core topics of AI adoption and R&D productivity.

McKenna reviews current adoption levels, discusses the factors behind a successful AI project, and explains why hybrid techniques could offer new insights.

How to Move from One Dimensional Data Management to an Efficient Lab Landscape

Drug development productivity continues to fall, yet the pressure is rising on teams to find new insights at a faster pace. This is a difficult task when the data needed to drive discovery is siloed and one dimensional.

In this interview, April Pisek and Unjulie Bhanot, Solution Owner (Biologics Development) from IDBS all share the challenges impacting drug development and discovery, how to map out the laboratory landscape and what to consider when transitioning to an automated system.

The Technologies Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Needs to Deliver New Product Types

In recent years, there has been a paradigm shift in the biopharmaceutical manufacturing space away from blockbuster treatments toward personalized therapies for smaller patient groups.

These complex, highly targeted treatments, such as biologics and cell and gene therapy, can be lucrative but present a number of challenges in the manufacturing process.

Discussed in this article:

• Early applications of artificial intelligence
• Growing interest in augmented reality technology
• Greater adoption of disruptive technology in manufacturing

7 Must-Have Tools to Boost the Performance of Pharmaceutical Digital Marketing

Healthcare and pharma are predicted to spend a whopping $4.23 billion annually on digital advertising as soon as 2020. And yet, due to the whirlwind speed of innovation in the digital marketing space, marketers are struggling to keep up with the overwhelming number of technology options available.

There are a host of powerful tools you can incorporate into your tech stack to boost productivity, leverage data and meet customer expectations — but where do you start?

Outlined in this article are key tips such as:

• Giving your existing tech stack a health check
• Which intelligent tools and vendors to consider
• Leaving Room for flexibility and triple-check compliance

AUTO

WEBINAR: Common Industry Challenges

As the world becomes increasingly driven by embedded systems, achieving safe, secure, and reliable software has never been more important.

After viewing the webinar, you should be able to know how to efficiently and effectively address software development challenges by applying the best practices that have been shared. And, you should better understand why a static code analyzer – like Helix QAC – is essential to producing high-quality software that is safe, secure, and reliable.

At a glance, here is what is covered in the Perforce webinar:

• Tech mega-trends
• What happens when things go wrong?
• Common themes and industry standards

CASE Vehicles and the Bumps in the Road

The start of a new year – and a new decade – is the perfect time to take stock of what’s been a success, and what’s been… well less so.

In the case of the automotive industry, the time for reflection seems particularly pertinent, given that the new decade appears to coincide with the need for a reality check on exactly how the future of the connected, autonomous, shared and electric car really looks.

Included in this article:

• Are connected cars safe cars?
• Autonomy gets a cold shower
• Is anyone caring about sharing?
• Electric dreams still alive

CES 2020 – Automakers and Suppliers Bring Big Innovations

From the original VCR and CD player to the Connected TV and driverless car tech, the Consumer Electronics Show – or CES as it’s now ubiquitously referred to – has hosted the debuts of products that influence countless lives the world over.

This article contains an alphabetized look at some of the concepts and tech innovations that could influence the automotive industry in the years to come including:

• Audi Intelligence Experience brings in-car empathy
• BMW i Interaction EASE concept
• Bosch Virtual Visor
• Byton M-Byte
• FCA Airflow Vision Concept
• Fisker Ocean SUV
• Futurus Head-up and Holographic displays
• Honda Augmented Driving concept
• Hyundai Personal Air Vehicle concept
• Lamborghini debuts in-car Amazon Alexa
• Mercedes Vision AVTR
• Nissan Ariya concept
• Rinspeed Metrosnap
• Sony Vision-S concept
• Toyota Woven City

CYBERSECURITY

WEBINAR: Decreasing Cyber Risk Through Compliance in the Enterprise

Are you aware of new and evolving risks and if they apply to your organization? This on-demand webinar discusses how compliance professionals can build sustainable programs that flex to accommodate the new and evolving risk landscape.

Attendees will learn:

• Are there common needs and requirements amongst clusters of industries, such as regulatory and compliance frameworks?
• What can industry sectors that are not heavily regulated today be doing from a security perspective to prepare for a more regulated future?
• Are there specific compliance-related roles in organizations that security leaders need to better align with?
• How can security leaders promote compliance as a business advantage or differentiator rather than a technical or regulatory requirement?
• What tools are available to change the enterprise behaviour of compliance as an event to compliance as an on-going process?

The Value of Separating Compliance and Enterprise Cyber Security Goals

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a mandate from the European Union (EU), went into effect May 25, 2018. The regulation is comprehensive insofar as protecting data and information security practices at the enterprise level. Somewhat similar opt-out legislation, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), went into effect January 1, 2020.

Those who are not compliant with these laws run the risk of receiving steep fines. To provide some background on the GDPR regulation, Cyber Security Hub created a market report offering end-user “best practices” and stack GDPR up against other international measures on compliance. Further, it provides insight on separating compliance measures and technical, security-driven events in the enterprise.

This article discusses:

• How cooperation is key to data privacy transformation
• Compliance versus security
• Separating security and compliance goals

WHITEPAPER: Cyber Insecurity: Managing Threats from Within

Data breaches are a rapidly growing problem for businesses worldwide. People-centric threats can jeopardize enterprises even more than technical vulnerabilities.

To explore the frequency and severity of people-centric data breaches, the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed more than 300 corporate executives, including CIOs, CISOs and other IT executives, finance and line-of-business leaders on how they are managing the frequency and severity of people-centric threats.

Read this whitepaper to learn:

• How cyber security professionals are confronting and addressing data breaches
• How to overcome the obstacles to implementing best practices 
• The way forward from people-centric threats

Security Leaders Express Positive Market Sentiment for Enterprise Cyber Security

Cyber Security Hub fielded an email survey to identify enterprise cyber security behavior from the second half of the year and make predictions for the first half of year 2020.

They summarized the enterprise market sentiment about cyber security, took a look at cyber dollar allocations for the New Year, and tested a few ways that organizations are winning the war about diversity and identifying the next generation of security leaders.

Included in this article:

• Market sentiment for enterprise cyber security
• The cyber spend allocation for 2020
• Multiple ways to win the war on security skills and talent
• How does your cyber maturity compare?

Cyber Security Incident Response Planning (CSIRP): Minimizing Business Impact and Being Prepared

Security practitioners live in a world of hacker sophistication – including automated reconnaissance and payload efforts. These same professionals are often charged with defending the network with the same or comparable resources as years past.

This article discusses:

• A technical CSIRP touch
• IR challenges and best practices

FINTECH

True Digitalisation of the B2B Payments Space is Only Just Hitting its Stride – What Can We Expect This Year?

In the past few years, as fintechs have increasingly come into play on the global stage, not only have they shaken up the way in which traditional business is done – but they also shone a light on the need for significant innovation in the payments space.

As payment digitalisation continues to take place, how can providers ensure that they adopt technological advancements in 2020 to address some of the industry’s most challenging pain points and create unique angles to stay ahead of the curve?

This article touches on:

• How to plant seeds for success
• Other key trends 2020 will bring

Legal Statement Provides Guidance on Status of Cyptoassets and Smart Contracts

As has been widely reported, the Government's UK Jurisdiction Taskforce has published its legal statement on cryptoassets and smart contracts, which aims to provide market confidence, legal certainty and predictability by giving guidance on the legal status of these asset classes.

This article looks at the key findings of the report and what they mean for dealings and disputes involving cryptoassets and smart contracts including:

• A background to the legal statement
• Scope and status of the legal statement
• Cryptoassets
• Smart Contracts
• Impact of the statement

Fintech for Sustainability: Turning Awareness into Action

Sustainability is a broad term, and there is little standardised criteria to assess performance. Additionally, rating the sustainability of a loan associated to a supply chain requires collecting enormous amounts of data at a granular level. This is where technology can shine.

In recent years, many solutions have emerged to improve the traceability of products throughout their supply chains: track-and-trace software to collect product data from QR or barcodes scanned at different stages of the production process; sensors added to factories and warehouses to monitor and adjust conservation conditions; and increasingly, tools to measure water and power usage, greenhouse gas emissions and waste disposal practices.

This article discusses:

• Fintechs as the keystone of sustainability-driven financing
• Why and how collaboration is picking up
• In Asia, Singapore leads the way
• GTR Ventures and our role in sustainable fintech

DEFENCE

Cybersecurity Innovation – Transforming the Enterprise

Impressive technology innovation in cybersecurity is significantly improving network and information protection. It is essential in an increasingly complex threat environment characterized as an unending cat-and-mouse game with malicious actors.

However, as technology becomes more ubiquitous and easy to manipulate even for non-experts, cybersecurity risks to our information will continue to grow. This is happening at an accelerated rate that can feel overwhelming to cyber defenders.  To be effective, cybersecurity innovation and its accompanying defensive strategy must address the four key pillars of technology, people, process, and policy.

In this article:

• The cyber threat as a capability leveler
• An evolving cybersecurity paradigm
• Designing a comprehensive organisational cybersecurity strategy
• Baking in cybersecurity from product design to delivery
• Techonolgical cybersecurity enablers
• Cybersecurity process and policy
• Fostering a cybersecurity culture

A Cultural Sea Change: Reflections on Surface Warships & Naval Power in the Digital Era

The naval community is going through something of a cultural sea change, which is largely driven by the perceived strategic complexities shaping today's maritime environment, the shift towards Great Power competition and, as described by the event chairman Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent (Ret), “digitization, innovation and new technologies”. .

For the naval community as a whole, this means a whole-of-force cultural shift underpinned by innovative practice, creative thinking and digitally-enhanced processes.

Topics in this article:

• Innovation as the strategic enabler
• Be creative, go quicker

WHITEPAPER: SR Innovation in the Drone Age

In this paper, innovation of a different brand will be on display, highlighting the genius thoughts, decisions, and events that made it possible for the U.S. and NATO to modernize and integrate ISR within and across global defence strategy, plans and operations.

This whitepaper outlines:

• The top three developments of the last thirty years in terms of ISR modernization, including policy changes enacted by General Scaparotti, data sharing and new acquisition models
• Predictions and recommendations for the next three big innovations in the 2020s and beyond
• The challenges associated with the popular definition of “innovation” to mean more than the sum of investment in new tools and widgets

Defence People Management in the Digital Age

When contemporary commanders focus on operations, they are clearly and rightly focused on the mix of hard and soft power, on information, economic and diplomatic levers as well as their own, aiming for success over a time base set in years, and potentially generations, in order to create the conditions necessary to realise strategic objectives.

This is good, joined up thinking. However, we need that same long-term vision when we look at how our people are attracted to the armed forces in the digital age, how we should exploit their strengths to train and how we can attract them to stay, including an analysis of what might make family and friends venerate an armed forces career in today’s society. 

This article discusses:

• The Military People Model
• People as Capability
• People Transformation and Big Data

REPORT: State of Aerospace and Defense Software Development Survey Results

Perforce teamed up with Defence iQ to survey more than 300 software development professionals within the aerospace and defense industry to uncover their biggest concerns.

The State of Aerospace and Defense Software Development Survey Results report reveals what modern trends are driving development and how developers effectively management their projects.

This report also exposes what is causing the most stress to aerospace and defense software developers, and provides insights on what software development teams can do to innovate faster.

Download this report to read about the results of the State of Aerospace and Defense Survey and learn:

• How impactful cloud-based technologies are on design.
• Why compliance continues to be central to development.
• How teams manage their work.

E-BOOK: Transformation in Defence: A Strategic Approach to Innovation

The ability for the Defence sector to innovate, adapt and transform in the Digital Age will increasingly differentiate between those who lead, with those who simply follow. Adopting an innovative approach within Defence is therefore imperative, not only to realise the benefits of opportunities, and to prepare for new and emerging challenges and threats, but also to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the products and services it delivers.

This free e-book, Transformation in Defence – A Strategic  Approach To Innovation, is required reading from which all in defence will emerge with a greater understanding of how the adoption of innovative frameworks will prove invaluable for the future success of the defence enterprise.

Innovation at Scale: The UK MOD’s Procurement Challenge

We stand at a moment in time which is seen by many observers of history, strategy and warfare as a moment defined by great uncertainty. More than ever, we are uncertain about what lies next. The causation is well recognised and understood; but the consequences for the extant world order of the internet, globalisation, climate change, mass migration and urbanisation are deeply complex and hard to fathom.

Against this backdrop, modern military forces are having to rapidly determine new requirements and justify lines of development against discontinuous threats that are uncertain, bespoke and constantly evolving.

Into this mix is also thrown technology, which most commentators agree is changing faster and more dramatically than in any previous era. New military technologies offer the potential to see further, understand more clearly, analyse more deeply, move faster and act more quickly – delivering either kinetic, or non-kinetic effects.

Discussed in this article:

• Technological Evolution and the Character of Warfare
• Invention versus Innovation
• Scale and Information Advantage