My First 8 Months at Arrk Group By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 3 mins read In my interview for Arrk, I was asked what I wanted to get out of this job. If I remember rightly my response was something like: “I’d like to learn all about the computer systems that are increasingly pervading every…
Google taking positive action on web security By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 6 mins read For over twenty years it’s been possible to protect interaction with websites using encryption. The majority services we interact with daily such as online banking, major online retailers and social media giants such as Facebook, Google, Twitter etc use this…
Using Psychological Safety to Build Great Teams By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read A new-starter, a young graduate just out of university, is sat in a meeting attended by some senior managers who are discussing an important business initiative. The graduate notices a glaring error in the financial statement on the screen that…
The Rise of Voice Search By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Voice search is on its way towards disrupting the search engine industry and how we discover content online. It’s posing challenges for search engine marketers as the nature of search changes from text-based to voice. What is voice search? Voice search uses…
EU GDPR | What impact will it have on your business? By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Ever heard of European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR)? It may be quite the mouthful, but it’s one that will soon be rolling off the tongue – because you have less than two years…
Fintech | The trends and their impact By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read There is a new term that has entered the vocabulary of not just information technology specialists but also those within the financial services industry, in the form of “fintech”. Referring to the plateau of technology emerging in the financial sector…
Staying ahead of the mobile app maturity curve By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 7 mins read Cast your mind back to the summer of 2009. Facebook was still in short trousers and the first iOS developers had only been cursing Objective-C for a year. The mobile apps race was already up to speed and although…
Cyber-crime – How to protect your organisation By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read Today’s criminals are, on the surface, quite a lazy bunch – after all, now they commit their crimes without even leaving their own homes. Sadly however, for anyone who has fallen victim to cyber-crime you’ll be well-aware of just how…
The Tester and the Project Discovery Workshop By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read Project discovery workshops, most reading this article will be familiar with the term and what generally takes place during them and therefore why they are so critically important to the success (or failure) of a software development project. The way…
What is a customer-centric organisation? By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Most if not all companies believe themselves to be customer-centric, but there is often a disparity between the self-perception and the reality. It is easy to hang pithy slogans on the office walls – delivering on these values is a much greater…
