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June 10, 2026

How to choose an on-demand tech skills provider

To choose an on-demand tech skills provider, assess them against eight criteria: proven track record, depth and breadth of vetted skills, compliance and governance, modern tooling and data, a repeatable delivery methodology, blended nearshore and offshore capability, transparent pricing, and a credible vision for where the market is heading. The right partner operates as a strategic extension of your team, not a transactional supplier.

Matthew Banks

Scaleup technology team collaborating in a modern office, illustrating on-demand tech skills supporting fast, governed growth

Article

June 9, 2026

7 ways scaleups accelerate growth with on-demand tech skills

Scaleups accelerate growth with on-demand tech skills by treating skills rather than roles as the unit of value, deploying pre-vetted specialists in days instead of months, embedding governance early, and flexing teams to match market timing. This protects delivery momentum and capital efficiency while avoiding the cost drag of permanent headcount added too soon.

Matthew Banks

Article

May 7, 2026

From roles to skills: a new workforce mindset

In the previous article, we explored how access to the right skills at the right time enables organisations to deliver and scale growth. The next step is understanding how to make that possible in practice. This requires a shift in mindset. From roles to skills.

Matthew Banks

Article

May 6, 2026

Access to the right skills at the right time

In the first part of our growth series, we explored how reducing time to market accelerates revenue and creates competitive advantage. We now move into the next section, Enhance Capability, focused on how organisations strengthen their ability to deliver and scale that drives profitable growth.

Matthew Banks

Article

April 28, 2026

Moving from idea to delivery at speed

Most organisations do not struggle with ideas. They struggle with turning those ideas into reality, quickly enough to matter.

Matthew Banks

Article

April 22, 2026

Don’t leave money on the bench

For many services businesses, and for technology companies with a services element, growth is not limited by demand. There is usually no shortage of opportunity, pipeline or customer interest. The real challenge is converting that demand into delivery at the right pace.

Matthew Banks

Article

April 20, 2026

Accelerating time to market with the right skills

Speed to market has always mattered. What has changed is how directly it now impacts profitability.

Matthew Banks

Article

March 27, 2026

Growth Series: How organisations use on-demand skills to drive growth

AI is everywhere and firmly the topic of the moment. If you read the headlines, it can feel like a story dominated by disruption and uncertainty, with businesses making layoffs as they try to respond to what AI might mean for them. Adoption, however, is accelerating quickly. Recent studies suggest that over 70% of organisations are already using or actively exploring AI in some form, with investment continuing to rise. The direction of travel is clear. But the reaction to that change varies.

Matthew Banks

Article

March 18, 2026

The technology workforce is changing: Initial insights from the Brightbox on-demand tech skills survey

Across industries, organisations are facing a growing challenge: accessing the right technology skills at the right time. Skills required for AI-exposed jobs are changing 66% faster than for other roles, according to PwC’s AI Jobs Barometer, highlighting how rapidly organisations must adapt their workforce capabilities.

Matthew Banks

Article

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

Whitepaper

June 24, 2026

State of On-Demand Tech Skills 2026 Research Report

The world's first independent benchmark on how organisations actually access, deploy and scale tech capability, and why the gap between the leaders and everyone else is widening fast.

Whitepaper

March 30, 2026

The Economic Benefits of On-demand Tech Skills for Companies in the AI Age

This paper explores the economic case for on demand tech skills and the new Liquid Workforce Operating Model. It introduces the concept of the Workforce Value Chasm, the measurable gap between the business value an organisation could capture from emerging opportunities and the value it actually realises because it cannot access the right skills fast enough.

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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July 15, 2026

Brightbox Achieves EcoVadis Gold Certification

Brightbox has been awarded Gold certification by EcoVadis, placing us among the top-rated companies worldwide for sustainability performance. It's a milestone we're proud of and says as much about how we operate as it does about the standards we meet.

Stuart Houghton

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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

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