Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation
How can IT shake off the negativity? Get feedback from the business
Usually when we think of IT performance, we focus on the physical. We ask questions[...]
Collaboration, complexity and compliance
The trouble with some terms we use in IT is that they take on a[...]
The significance of Salesforce.com’s ’Chatter’
Salesforce.com to me is a bit like the boy who cried ‘Wolf!”. Every press release[...]
Thinking Beyond the Clouds
By Jon Collins and Dale Vile A number of trends are having an impact on[...]
Sugaring the pill
Apple, as a computer company, has been focused on the consumer market. It has paid[...]
Are your project timescales shrinking?
When did the two-year project lifecycle die? In my head, I put it at just[...]
Videoconferencing: coming to a company near you?
This article is hosted on an external website. Please click here to view it in[...]
The Business of Interoperability
By Dale Vile and Jon Collins ‘Interoperability’ is a widely used word in IT industry[...]
BI 2010 – the state of play
By Jon Collins Information continues to grow, and yet the challenges we face in managing[...]
Let’s hear it for service centricity
An elderly lady attended a public lecture given by an astrophysicist on how the Earth[...]
iPad: First impressions of a sceptic
Anyone who has followed my jottings over the years will know that I am an[...]
Bring your own PC
The rise of ‘consumer’ expectations in the workforce is driving some organisations to think up[...]
Unified communications in context?
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could wipe the slate clean and install a brand[...]
Getting on top of change management
One of the first articles I ever had to write as an analyst was about[...]
Putting ’I’ back in ’CIO’
Nice sound bite, but does the spirit make sense? On a few occasions recently I[...]
Making sense of the new business of IT
You may be heartily sick of hearing that ‘change is the only constant’, ‘everything’s getting[...]
Videoconferencing: coming to a company near you?
It is probably fair to say that the likelihood of videoconferencing becoming mainstream in the[...]
Delivering on data governance – Making sure IT’s glass is half full
Data governance can be dismissed as ‘applied common sense’, or balked at as an impossible[...]
The software licensing minefield
Software vendors make their money from licensing software for individual and corporate use. From the[...]
Evolution of Hosted Server Computing
by Dale Vile There has been much talk and activity in the industry recently around[...]
Cloud Confusion
By Tony Lock In this article we revisit some research conducted in 2008, covering perceptions[...]
Driving value from IT
Audience – IT decision makers Occasion – CA Mainframe Madness May 2010 Presenter(s) – Jon[...]
Focus on business challenges, not technology innovations
The IT industry really does bring out the best and worst traits of human nature.[...]
Ensuring availability in a changing world
Roughly speaking, availability management is what your business does to ensure IT services stay up[...]