Mark Raskino

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Prepare for another wave of self-service job automation

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 [...]

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Financial clouds over London

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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