DIGITAL MAGAZINE | IT FOR 2027
NEXUS
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Build a smarter, safer, growth-ready business in 2027
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LAUNCHING 19TH NOVEMBER 2026
What is NEXUS?
NEXUS is a practical IT strategy magazine for SME leaders who want technology to support growth, productivity, cyber resilience and better ways of working.
It combines practical guidance with assessments, frameworks, planning exercises and leadership questions covering Microsoft 365, AI, automation, cyber security, business continuity, data, technology adoption and investment planning.
Register to get the complete edition and work through your technology strategy from foundations through to a practical 2027 plan.
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Choose what matters to your business
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Don't need the whole magazine? Start with the challenge you want to solve.
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Build stronger technology foundations
Find everyday IT friction that could make growth harder.
Assess devices, systems, connectivity, Microsoft 365, information structure, access and adoption.
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Create useful capacity with AI and automation
Move beyond AI hype and find practical opportunities to give your people time back.
Explore AI use cases, automation opportunities and common terminology, with tools for deciding when work should be simplified, automated, AI-assisted or remain human-led.
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Cyber security and resilience
Understand the risks that matter before they become business problems.
Explore identity and access, AI-enabled threats, supplier risk and incident response, with practical exercises for testing how prepared the business really is.
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Business continuity and recovery
Don't ask whether you have backups. Ask whether the business can actually recover.
Understand recovery priorities, downtime, RTO and RPO, dependencies and recovery evidence, then put your plans through a realistic interruption exercise.
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Data and AI readiness
Get the foundations right before giving AI more access to business information.
Explore information quality, ownership, permissions, governance and human oversight, with tools for assessing data risk and creating a responsible approach to AI use.
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Automation that actually improves work
Start with the process, not the software.
Identify repeated admin, delays, handovers and re-entry before deciding what should be removed, simplified or automated.
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Technology adoption and change
Go-live makes technology available. Adoption makes it useful.
Understand why good technology still gets poor adoption, test whether your business is ready for change and build the skills and behaviours necessary to turn investment into everyday value.
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Technology strategy and investment
Make technology spending compete for investment on business value, not product features.
Explore technology debt, investment priorities, strategic alignment and the cost of delay, then turn an initiative into a board-ready investment case.
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Build your 2027 technology plan
Turn everything you've learnt into action.
Bring risks, opportunities and evidence together into a four-horizon roadmap, 90-day priority plan and one-page technology strategy.
Download available on magazine launch on 19th November.
Pre-register for your free copy of NEXUS
Pre-register to get the complete edition and work through your technology strategy from foundations through to a practical 2027 plan.
Manchester Office
MediaCity Office
Find advice for your industry
Don't need the whole magazine? Start with the challenge you want to solve.
Manufacturing
Discover what happens when downtime stops production here.
Professional services
Find out what happens when information is your product here.
Health and social care
Find out what happens when technology supports care and resilience truly matters here.
Property and construction
Find out what happens when productivity gets lost between the office and site here.
Wholesale, distribution and logistics
Find out what happens when one dependency stops the flow here.