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March 9, 2026

What you need to know: your future tech skills

Hiring has always been hard, costly, and risky. Get it wrong and you lose time, money, and momentum. AI isn’t making that easier, it’s speeding up the pace of change. But that acceleration comes with a clear opportunity: organisations can now redirect investment away from repetitive execution and into the skills that unlock outsized value - faster delivery, better decisions, stronger governance, and greater stakeholder impact.

Matthew Banks

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Article

March 5, 2026

Why resourcing is now a strategic asset

For many years, resourcing was treated as an operational function. It was about filling roles, managing recruitment processes and ensuring teams had the people they needed to deliver projects. Today, that view is outdated. In a world defined by rapid technological change, economic uncertainty and the accelerating impact of AI (and we’ve seen the headlines!), resourcing has become a strategic asset.

Matthew Banks

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Article

March 2, 2026

The UK must prepare for an on demand economy

The pace of technological change is no longer incremental. It is systemic.

Matthew Banks

Article

January 23, 2026

Why hiring is too slow for modern delivery cycles

Hiring can’t keep up with modern delivery cycles. While delivery windows shrink to weeks, hiring still takes months, creating execution risk and lost momentum. Leading CTOs are bypassing this bottleneck by using on-demand tech skills to deploy specialists in days, protect delivery flow, and hire permanently only once demand is proven.

Matthew Banks

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Article

January 21, 2026

Rethinking the Bench: The New Economics of System Integrators

Rising costs, volatile demand and rapid skill change are putting the traditional consultancy bench under pressure. Leading system integrators are shifting to on-demand tech skills models that improve flexibility, protect margins and turn the bench into a liquid, orchestrated capability.

Matthew Banks

Article

January 21, 2026

Why we launched the State of On-Demand Tech Delivery Skills Survey

As technology change accelerates and skills shift faster than organisations can hire, on-demand tech delivery is becoming essential infrastructure. This article introduces Brightbox’s 2026 benchmark survey, designed to bring data and clarity to how modern organisations are resourcing delivery today.

Matthew Banks

Whitepaper

January 29, 2026

Why successful companies embrace the liquid workforce

A structured guide to implementing the Liquid Workforce Operating Model.

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News

February 23, 2026

The Liquid Workforce has arrived – officially

Organisations today are being asked to move faster than at any point in history. Markets literally shift overnight. AI eliminates job roles in months. Transformation cycles that once spanned years are now measured in quarters. Yet, many organisations are still structured around workforce models built for stability and predictability. That model no longer works. In fact, it’s inhibiting business success.

Stuart Houghton

News

January 27, 2026

Brightbox launches new webinar series on scaling technology-led businesses

Brightbox has launched a new webinar series focused on how technology-led organisations can scale effectively during periods of change and uncertainty.

Stuart Houghton

Research

January 6, 2026

The World’s First State of On Demand Tech Skills Survey

Brightbox is conducting The World’s First State of On Demand Tech Skills Survey to help business and technology leaders assess and benchmark how they use on demand tech skills to deliver value, including why they use them, how they engage them, and the outcomes they are achieving.

Matthew Banks