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On episode 14 of the Tech3Pod we have the pleasure of speaking with Matthew Skelton, the co-author of Team Topologies and Head of Consulting at Conflux. A specialist in Continuous Delivery, operability and organisation dynamics for software in manufacturing, ecommerce, and online services, including cloud, IoT, and embedded software.

On this podcast moment, we look at Matthew's views on Scaled Agile SAFe and what it means for organisations. Its very important as agilist and organisation we can pick up any framework we think might work but sometimes we don't take the time to really understand what will be good for the team as a whole. Matthew does a great job in explaining what he thinks of SAFe and offers an alternative bases on his experience.

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Matthew Skelton


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In a world where every business is striving to be customer-focused, what does it mean to truly put the customer first?

We invited Craig Goold and Rebecca Allsop from Skipton Building Society to the Tech3 Podcast to discuss how Skipton Building Society put their people first, the merit of a quantitative and qualitative approach to data and what steps are being taken to leave Skipton Building Society in a better place for customers and employees who come next.

Not only did Craig and Becky share some incredibly inspirational use cases, they demonstrated the value of empathy and gave us a glimpse into the start of their omni-channel customer journey.

A big thank you to them both, and to Skipton Building Society for sharing their stories and experiences with us.

More about the speakers:

Craig Goold, is the Head of CX and Change Demand and has been part of Skipton Building Society for more than 11 years, helping them to align Customer Experience and Investment in creating new capabilities that make a difference for our customers and colleagues. Craig is also Chairman of Skipton Business Finance - Helping SME’s in the UK realise their potential through Invoice Discounting and Debt Factoring; supporting  over £1bn invoices per year across 750+ clients.

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-goold-863a335/

Rebecca Allsop is the Head of Customer Strategy and planning with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Similar to Craig, Rebecca has enjoyed a long run at Skipton Building Society with over 9 years under her belt. Skilled in Data Analytics, Customer Experience & Research, Marketing Technology, Database Management, Marketing Automation, Marketing Planning and Team Leadership, she has a breadth of experience that many can only dream of and it’s a pleasure to have both Rebecca and Craig with us today.

LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-allsop-b27a4a4/

Skipton Building Society – https://www.skipton.co.uk/

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Tech4Pets is a not-for-profit company that works with charities to improve animal welfare using technology solutions and big data. The Data Science team here at GlobalLogic* saw an immense opportunity to get hands-on with an interesting dataset, whilst helping a heart-warming cause. On this episode, we talk with Sami Alsindi, Principal Technical Consultant (Data Science) at GlobalLogic and Roger Zorlu, Data Science Consultant at GlobalLogic about how this project came about, why they thought it was a good idea, the type of information they gathered while undertaking this project and how Tech4Pets is helping the pet community fight crimes through data analysis and Machine Learning.

This is a great episode you don't want to miss.

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Blog Post: Paws for Thought

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*GlobalLogic completed its acquisition of ECS in April 2022 so references to ECS are made during the episode

Hello wonderful Tech Cubers we are here with another episode of the Tech³Podcast. This is episode 3 of the Skills shortage series we are doing. On episode 1 we spoken to Mark Capaldi looking at the shortage from an organisational stand point. On episode 2 we spoke to Martyn Scott where we looked at the shortage from a talent and people perspective and on episode 3 we stay with the people theme and speak to Ashley Strachan, a Senior HR and Immigration Advisor at ECS. Ely and Ben discuss with Ashley about the effects on employee experience if talent is not developed and grown. Has she experienced any additional pressure to offer additional training opportunities for employees and her thoughts if she is seeing a skills shortage in the industry.

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About ECS

ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.

Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Tech³Podcast. As we discussed on our last episode we are doing a three part series where we dive into the skills shortage from different aspects. On the last episode we spoke to Mark Capaldi, Head of Design and Engineering where we look at the skill shortage from a company stance. On this episode we speak to Martyn Scott, Head of Talent and Development at ECS and we delve into the more people aspect on the skills shortage paying particular the type of requests he receives for current employees when it comes to talent and development. The challenges organisations face in keeping up with the digital skills demand and what ways can someone enter the industry either as a graduate or someone looking for a second career.

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This is a 3 part series looking at the skills shortage in the UK which has been highlighted by big organisations such as Amazon who have recently put out a mass of free online learning for cloud tools. With this in mind, we wanted to see if this is true from the people on the ground. We first spoke to Mark Capaldi head of design and engineering at ECS a Global Logic Company. We shed some light on whats actually going on including his thoughts on how companies can attract and retain talent with in the industry. How companies can develop in house training if they don't have any to keep their staff up to speed on the latest trends and what steps managers and individuals can take to solve the problem of the skills shortage.

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About ECS

ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.

Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.