FT business books: July edition

Gordon B. Johnson 2 days ago

‘Backstage Leadership: The Invisible Operate of Hugely Productive Leaders’, by Charles Galunic

The late organisational theorist James March, who took place to train Charles Galunic at Stanford, used to say that leadership was a fragile combination of “poetry and plumbing”.

Galunic’s ebook does not neglect the poetry. He writes perfectly about the obligation of leaders to set persuasive visions for their teams and market them although in the glare of the public highlight. But his emphasis is on the prosaic plumbing and electrics. The “creating, preserving and integrating” of elementary processes these kinds of as creating talent, crafting lifestyle, handling

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Atos to acquire Managed Detection and Response Leader Paladion

Gordon B. Johnson 2 days ago

Paris, June 24, 2020,

Atos, a world-wide chief in electronic transformation, currently announces an agreement to purchase Paladion, a US-dependent world-wide provider of Managed Protection Expert services, to fortify its world-wide cybersecurity solutions. This acquisition will bring Managed Detection & Response (MDR) abilities to the Atos portfolio and make the following generation of Atos’ Prescriptive Protection Operations Heart providing.

Paladion is a world-wide chief in cloud-indigenous Managed Detection and Response, providing to four hundred+ clientele in twelve nations around the world. Its AI-pushed technology has continually been regarded by marketplace analysts for enabling really helpful threat anticipation, detection

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Atos to acquire ALIA Consulting to reinforce its leadership position for Energy & Utilities in Europe

Gordon B. Johnson 3 days ago

Paris, June 24, 2020

Atos, a world wide chief in electronic transformation, announces that it has signed an settlement to purchase AliA Consulting in France to enhance its Electrical power & Utilities company as a result of its subsidiary Worldgrid. The combination of the two companies will produce a major service provider for strength and utility companies offering condition-of-the-artwork abilities in billing and CRM implementations and alternatives. It will fortify Atos’ world wide industry strategy for the strength and utilities current market and position Atos as the #1 SAP and S/four HANA transformation service provider for Utilities in Europe.

Alia

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Ghent University engages Atos to build third Tier1 VSC supercomputer supporting research in Flanders

Gordon B. Johnson 3 days ago

Paris, France Ghent, Belgium – 24 June 2020

Atos, a international leader in digital transformation, announces that it has signed a six-12 months contract for a benefit of in excess of ten Million Euro with Ghent University (UGent) to produce the future Tier1 supercomputer for the Flemish Supercomputer Heart VSC. This supercomputer will enable scientists from academic investigate institutions, federal government and marketplace to velocity up time-consuming calculations and resolve complicated computational issues: from modeling climate and local climate change to supporting the enhancement of renewable electrical power and accelerating the research for new drugs. Most drastically, supercomputers have not

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Joliot-Curie: the most powerful supercomputer dedicated to research in France

Gordon B. Johnson 3 days ago

Paris, June 29, 2020

Atos, a world chief in digital transformation, and GENCI, the French national significant-overall performance computing organization, and the CEA, reveal that Joliot-Curie supercomputer with its 22 petaflop/s peak computing energy is the most highly effective supercomputer in France committed to educational and industrial open up investigation, and the 3rd most highly effective investigation computer system in Europe, in accordance to the TOP500 rating posted on 22 June 2020. This supercomputer is derived from the co-style function carried out by the CEA with Atos for much more than 20 yrs*, and which made it achievable to define

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