Category Archives: Workforce/Workplace Computing

The consumerisation of IT: it’s a trickle, not a tide, but you still need to be ready

If media headlines and vendor claims are to be believed, organisations today are faced with[...]

Flash and HTML5, or Flash vs HTML5?

If anybody attending the Adobe MAX conference had any doubts about Adobe’s commitment to Flash,[...]

The Consumerisation of IT (Slides)

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – VMUG Meeting, Leeds, October 2011 Presenter(s) –[...]

The Consumerisation of IT

With so many people excited about ‘bring your own device’ and easily accessible cloud services,[...]

Use of social media by analysts and analyst relations professionals

I recently had the pleasure of attending an event run by the Institute of Industry[...]

User Virtualization

The primary driver of today’s IT leaders is to enable better business management and execution,[...]

The Business Information Illusion

By Dale Vile KEY POINTS The pace of business today dictates devolved management and decision-making[...]

User productivity: Achievable goal, or mission impossible?

The role – and limits – of technology as an enabler of productivity gains ‘Productivity’,[...]

Rumours of the PC’s death are greatly exaggerated

By Martha Bennett If recent headlines are anything to go by, the days of the[...]

End User Productivity Revisited

Despite the plethora of ‘productivity solutions’ available from IT suppliers, why is it that real[...]

Windows 7 roll out: learning from the experts

So what’s involved in a large scale migration of Windows 7? Well, as this webcast[...]

The Co-operative on virtualisation & Windows 7

Windows 7 migration is not just about upgrading the operating system. In this webcast we[...]

Apples and Oranges – Are people really comparing like with like on the question of Mac versus Windows?

A couple of weeks ago, I had occasion to spend some time on a 4-5[...]

Does Office 365 keep its promises?

Running your email and office applications in the cloud is not a new idea; Google[...]

Business adoption of mobile devices

By Dale Vile Some of the most rapid and exciting developments in technology are taking[...]

Mobile Computing Checkpoint

By Dale Vile & Andrew Buss KEY FINDINGS Tales of the laptop PC’s death are[...]

Consumerism and productivity Part 1: Do users really know what technology is best for business?

Let me put my cards on the table. I do not, repeat not, subscribe to[...]

Consumerism and productivity Part 2: How to deal with employees’ devices in the workplace

In the first part of this discussion, I covered the hard reality of consumerisation and[...]

Information is a right, not a privilege

By Dale Vile Organisations today rely on effective management of business performance at all levels.[...]

The other enterprise desktop

There are few topics in the IT industry that are more divisive than the option[...]

A road warrior’s experience with the iPad

Tales from 10 months of trial and error I have now been an iPad user[...]

Visualisation into action

Do you have lots of data but find it difficult to work out what it[...]

Trust and security in the cloud

By Andrew Buss & Dale Vile KEY FINDINGS Many companies could do much better when[...]

Mind mapping for IT pros

Let’s clear up a couple of things to start with. The term mind mapping doesn’t[...]