by Mark Raskino | January 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
When I walked into my local branch of Argos recently, I found a whole row of new self-service kiosks. There are regularly queues for the two self-service checkouts at the Tesco’s a couple of doors down. There are reports of a self service test at KFC in Wales and stories of Kiosk trial success at [...]
Category: Economy Innovation Management Recession Tags: Automation, Jobs, Self-Service
by Mark Raskino | September 18, 2008 | Comments Off
Wednesday 18th September 2008, was by many accounts one of the worst days the UK financial system has ever seen. Britain’s biggest mortgage-providing bank had to be hastily acquired by another to prevent its collapse and this came just two days after the London arm of a major US investment bank actually did go to [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Economy Recession Tags: banking IT, credit crunch, Recession
