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​Well done to the Cornwallis Elt team running the Standard Chartered Great City Race last night (Tuesday 20th July) and raising money for Futuremakers, a global initiative to tackle inequality and promote greater economic inclusion for young people in our communities. The race was back this year as a live race round the streets of the City of London having taken place last y...

​Last week Cornwallis Elt hosted another virtual forum for CTO's of mid-sized Sell-Side firms on the subject of the ever changing role of IT organised by our own Henry Hickley and James Kidd. This is being impacted not just by the obvious onset of cloud providers but by the rise of “citizen developers” in the business as well increasing emphasis on data, and on operational r...

​This week we ran another of our virtual forums, this time it was a discussion group for senior managers in IT within the Lloyd’s Insurance Market. Jeff Crawford at Beazley led us through a very open discussion on the outlook for the Lloyds Blueprint initiative, it’s impact on data, and on each firm’s strategic developments. We also touched on current thinking regarding retu...

The last week has seen Cornwallis host two forums for 'Heads of Change / Heads of Business Change' within the Buy-Side.The discussion has been wide ranging from how to shift focus to strategic change, what is the half-life of a process flow model, to the wider functions of a business change team.Thanks to Nick Watts (at Federated Hermes) and to Iain Edwards for leading the d...