We are in the business of building businesses - digitized / digital businesses per se, but not necessarily in the way that you might perceive, and certainly not as a fully stand-alone and independent activity. We construct business vehicles and vessels - which still need to be properly manned and skippered. Constructing the system is only the starting point, it needs to be correctly deployed for success. Just as you can buy the most technically proficient vessel to race in the America’s ...

When it comes to committing to new technologies, there are usually some very obvious key criteria that need to be met. In weighing up the pedigree and suitability of a solution - the track record is all-important. And in track record we mean the degree by which such a solution is able to ongoingly meet objectives and obligations and adapt to different and evolving conditions.

There has to be a mutually cooperative relationship between Clients and Affino in much the same way that on-...

Formula 1 cars are the wonder of the automotive engineering world. Precision-tuned every season and constantly adapted to meet new rules and regulations. Utilising thousands of components working together in perfect harmony under some of the most extreme conditions encountered beyond the surface of the Sun. The engine needs to withstand the most incredible fluctuations, heat and pressure, while maintaining perfect operating conditions over an extended period of duress.

The very best ...

Uncertain times lie ahead as the whole global marketplace enters into a period of significant change. We have no way of knowing what will happen longer term, but in the short run - supply prices will rise and inflation will creep up - as is already happening. The £ exchange rate is still down significantly, and we’ve seen several of our supply bills increase - like the Amazon hosting, as many of these technical services and components are priced and traded in dollars. We’ve so...

Running a multidisciplinary digital business is usually hard work, and can be considerably complex for anyone trying to maintain a dynamic digital presence. In fact most companies do themselves few favours either by having an overly convoluted solutions and systems setups - often utilising 20 or more disparate technologies to provide the full-service solution stack. Not only is this approach more vulnerable to security issues, as most data is hacked in transition, but several such solutions ...

You may have heard some of these before, some are more vital than others no doubt, at least a couple here are business-critical, yet all can and likely will contribute to your business being more successful this year - either by elevating its market presence, or introducing efficiencies and economies of scale with greater flexibility and speed of change / reaction, as well as increased productivity.

Responsive Design

If you haven’t done it already, now’s the time. Your ...

We are all in the throes of a major paradigm shift at the moment where more and more business processes and activities are moving into the digital domain. For our company Affino - digital is everything, and we make the core solution that everything operates on and through.

It’s not so much a case of getting in a whole load of new people, it is also very much about training and re-training existing human resources. But even more than that, it is about attitude, adaptability and ...

B2B Media Strategies will take place on 8 - 10th December at the Park Plaza, Riverbank, London. It brings together an international audience of 200 CEOs and senior executives from B2B media, STM, events and data service businesses.

Affino is sponsoring a feature Case Study, which will focus on Affino’s most recent responsive-design deployments, their challenges, changing business models and evolving revenue streams. The Affino Case Study is on at 10:20 - 10:40 on 9th December.

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Affino gets asked a lot to recommend and advise on Digital Business Personnel. Even though for most businesses the digital side is growing in significance - both in terms of business impact and revenue generation - very few companies have a dedicated digital department or division. Most companies re-utilise existing staff to a large degree, but only very loosely write new responsibilities into existing job descriptions. The digital realm is often designated as ’additional duties’, ...