Steve Treagust

Steve is Vice President of Product Planning. He brings considerable and diverse experience to the role. Having joined IFS in 2015, he’s been working in the focus industries since 2000. At Babcock International, he was Transformation Programme Manager and previously Financial Controller, and he also spent some time as Lead Finance & Project Controller at Alstom Power. Earlier roles in finance, project management and IT in fields including aerospace and energy also lend weight to the skillset and experience he puts into daily play at IFS. 

| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Digital Transformation, Strategy
Blockchain & cryptocurrencies: a tale of two halves in digital assets
Bubble

Blockchain and cryptocurrencies represent two halves of a maturing digital asset class.   While Blockchain projects continue to grow in volume,…

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Brexit – an opportunity for scenario planning

Brexit, the UK’s EU exit, has sparked debate from many perspectives. With more questions being asked than solutions offered, Brexit…

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Lease accounting changes and the $3Tn of missing assets
Money

With IFRS16 and ASC842 coming into force on 1st January 2019 lease accounting is set to change. Here I discuss…

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Talent spotting? It’s talent management that drives business excellence.
evolution

Talent management is more than just training and appraisals. To support business excellence your talent management systems and processes must…

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Delivering corporate performance management
communication

Corporate performance management can help your business deliver its strategy and drive required results.  Discover what it is and how…

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Don’t be a dinosaur – how dynamic strategic delivery leads to business agility
Agility

Strategic delivery in modern business requires a balance between control and flexibility, risk and opportunity, and good timing.  Don’t go…

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Leap above the competition using business excellence
Leap above the rest

Business excellence is about achieving more with less by doing the right thing, the right way at the right time….

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
GDPR compliance: the 5-step model
GDPR compliance: the 5-step model

Jenny is the CIO of a multinational company who had been tasked with ensuring compliance for when the General Data…

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Blockchain, robotic automation and holistic reporting set to transform businesses in 2018 and beyond
2018 financial industry trends

The financial area is heavily impacted by new technology at the moment. Balancing trust, swift transactions and increased transparency is…

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Cryptocurrency – time for a rocket launch or a giant bubble burst?
Cryptocurrency – time for a rocket launch or a giant bubble burst?

Since the publication of Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System in 2008, cryptocurrency led by Bitcoin, has…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Agility, Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Digital Transformation, Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure, Mobility, Strategy
Set IoT free, automate your business
Set IoT free, automate your business

Part three of a three-part blog series on enhancing the Internet of Things (IoT): Part one introduced the standard IoT…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Agility, Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Strategy
Set IoT free, shift your processes up a gear
Benefits of IoT

Part two of a three-part blog series on boosting the Internet of Things (IoT): Part one introduced the standard IoT…

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