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Elia Corkery

·1 min read
News

Introducing the ‘new’ New Icon

Thursday, 15 January 2026 - Today, we’re excited to introduce the ‘new’ New Icon, which marks a significant next step in our evolution. 

By combining New Icon’s design-thinking and agile delivery expertise with Linebreak UK’s enterprise digital transformation capabilities and deep-tech ecosystem, we’re creating a new kind of digital transformation partner. 

New Icon is built to help ambitious organisations innovate smarter and faster in a real-time world.

What is the ‘new’ New Icon? 

Whether clients need end-to-end transformation or a single app, we can deliver the full lifecycle from strategy and vision through to design, build and deployment for enterprise-grade

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Mark Probert

·5 min read
Software

Why Waterfall Procurement Needs To Get More Agile

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Over the years, we’ve been through many procurement processes — and one thing has stood out time and again. This is something that we think could change, and if it did, it’d allow for a more successful procurement process for all organisations involved. 

The thing is this: most software procurement processes are waterfall in nature. Whereas most software companies today work with an agile methodology (and for good reason). 

Why does procurement use a waterfall approach?

Before we get into this, it is important to mention that we understand why organisations feel the need to take a waterfall

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