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Technology is shifting the lines in so many aspects of our lives. Things that were previously too costly or complex to even consider are now easily accessible to both consumers and businesses. Attitudes and behaviours are changing, creativity is being unleashed, and the status quo is increasingly being challenged. Responding to these dynamics is now an imperative for every business.

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Canon comes out of the closet on information management

When I received an invitation to attend another Canon industry analyst event, I was in[...]

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Breaking Free From Vendor Lock-in with Managed Services

As organisations become more intertwined with their key IT vendors, they may find themselves in[...]

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The IT Sustainability Paradox

IT leaders today often find themselves grappling with a perplexing situation. On one hand, they[...]

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Why laptops and other edge devices are being AI-enabled

Why do we need dedicated AI engines in laptops, and especially in the ultrathin laptops[...]

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Custom chatbots and model gardens: putting Private AI to work

Part 2: More to think about It’s essential to decide where to run your Private[...]

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Understanding the rise and role of Private AI

Part 1: AI hype vs fear and doubt The leakage of proprietary IP and other[...]

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Can steel fences halt the march of cyber?

Cyber: for some, it’s a prefix that conjures up images of Dr Who’s silvery cyborg[...]

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A straightforward look at SAP master data automation

If you’re knee-deep in the world of SAP and data management, you almost certainly know[...]

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A CX perspective on the Contact Centre

Automation, AI and the transition to a new era

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Want to become a data-driven organisation? Start thinking differently about change management

Need a strong data strategy? Look for a CDO who’s a change manager and data[...]

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The key to future IT success is a switch to managing services, not systems

For most of the history of commercial IT, system design has focused on meeting the[...]

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IT Financial Management Revisited

Time for a smarter and more joined-up approach

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Dealing with the growing problem of edge and IoT sprawl

Amidst all the hype regarding the massive growth potential for IoT

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The global information access opportunity

Making a business case for investment in modern file data management

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The IT Transformation Imperative

Driving meaningful change to make tangible difference

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Don’t let your smart software suffer from poor platform choices

Mismatched AI and analytics can be massively inefficient

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Does application modernisation mean what you think it means?

Most people in IT probably think they know what application modernisation is

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Digital identity and opening up the smartwallet

When an 80 year-old relative asks you how she can use her phone to both[...]

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Manufacturers in a world of constant change

Why ERP modernization could yield the ESG and Industry 4.0 synergies that you need

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Has the cloud caught up with the mainframe?

Yes, you read that right

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Like a teenager, Kubernetes looks almost grown-up, yet still a bit awkward and confused

Platform: that’s the key word that sprung to mind after attending Kubecon

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HP Inc’s Poly opportunity: look beyond devices and software to a real collaboration strategy

Could its takeover of workspace collaboration specialist Poly

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‘Traditional’ is not a dirty word

Sometimes ‘new’ and ‘disruptive’ really doesn’t make sense

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The Post-Pandemic CIO

Views on leadership, communication and engagement

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Hybrid working isn’t turning out as expected

Last year, as companies recognised both the value of face-to-face interaction

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Modernizing the digital workplace

Accelerating your desktop delivery in the post-pandemic era

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Citrix and Microsoft: who’s really leading the transformation agenda?

Citrix loves Microsoft and Microsoft loves Citrix

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CIOs plans for 2022

Priorities and interests

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Having trouble overcoming the S/4HANA confidence gap?

As John Lennon and Yoko Ono didn't quite sing

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Has Windows 11 strengthened the case for Chromebooks?

Analyst Opinion: I was left with two overriding thoughts

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Forget the ‘free’ software, the real value of open-source is the collaboration

Analyst Opinion: It’s a cliché, but why are we still reinventing wheels?

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Which is worse: noise, or the sound of silence?

Analyst Opinion: If you’re one of the many people who find offices too noisy

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Customer and employee experience

Time to join the dots

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Google Calendar auto-adds shared meeting notes

Analyst Opinion: If, like me, you often find yourself hunting for notes

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Where vendors too often go wrong: SMBs need enterprise-grade IT too

For far too long now, many vendors seem to have assumed that the IT requirements[...]

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Is IT investment handled better now than a decade ago?

Throwback Thursday: People like to think that the way IT works with business has changed

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From virtual desktops to Chromebooks and the work-anywhere web

Throwback Thursday: If there’s one thing our report from eight years ago reminds us

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Should Telcos become more like Amazon?

An integration and automation perspective

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Software-Accelerated S/4HANA Migration

Striking the right balance and maximizing ROI

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Are Your Crucial Database Workloads Ready for the Public Cloud?

How to Choose the Right Cloud Data Option for Your Business

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Evaluating the potential of hyper-converged storage

What to consider when planning for modern IT and the hybrid cloud era

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The allure of the log-in-anywhere desktop

How can organisations simplify desktop management if we all still want our own devices?

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So many ways to pay for IT

Which best suits your needs?

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The SMB solution selection challenge

It's all too easy for smaller businesses to get caught out

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The business change agenda

Throwback Thursday: Research carried out in 2011

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How to boost supplier commitment without spending more money

Time to tune into those non-revenue goals

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Private cloud in contexts old and new

Throwback Thursday: What a difference a decade can make

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Mobile moments and the past left far behind

Throwback Thursday We have looked at many reports from years ago that show that, whilst[...]

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Has the data centre of the future already arrived?

Throwback Thursday: Predicting the future back in 2012

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Accelerating your journey to data maturity with S/4HANA Infographic

  Contributors: Dale Vile and Laura Rose

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Is work-from-home really digital transformation?

Bryan Betts discusses whether IT changes as a result of the pandemic can be classed[...]

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Self-Service IT Delivery

From opportunity to strategic imperative?

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Planning your journey to modern apps and Hybrid IT

Platform choices remain important

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Remote working in a pandemic

Silver linings and lessons for the future

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The data-driven business – Infographic

The maturity perspective

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The Hybrid IT imperative Infographic

Building a foundation for digital transformation

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Hyper-converged has come of age Infographic

Modern infrastructure options are now integral to service delivery

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The road to becoming a data-driven business

How ready is your organization for insight-enabled digital transformation?

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The Agile Intelligent Enterprise: Making the Business Case for SAP S/4HANA

Clever Planning for a Successful Migration

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S/4HANA Revisited

Has the time now come for SAP’s next-generation application environment to go mainstream?

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A new perspective on the modern workplace

Forward-looking lessons from real-life pandemic experiences

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Safe and Effective Remote Working

Addressing immediate pandemic-related needs while laying foundations for the future

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Hyper-converged has come of age

Modern infrastructure options are now integral to service delivery

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The Hybrid IT Platform Imperative

Building a solid systems foundation for digital transformation

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Making server decisions for hybrid IT

If you think hybrid IT renders your server knowledge obsolete, think again

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How hybrid IT changes your data journey

Hybrid IT drives a shift in storage thinking from capacity to service

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Can integrated systems help build hybrid IT?

Things to know when planning your hybrid future

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Turning the tables on cloud service providers

Experienced customers are now calling the shots

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2019 – The war between the business and IT is fake news

Some writers love a battle – or at least, the idea of one. So they[...]

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HCI and Hybrid Cloud

Will HCI be part of the answer or part of the problem?

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Advantage: Rack Workstation

Where remote access to a rackable workstation makes sense

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Reboot your future

Shaping a new multi-cloud solution

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Refresh your thinking

You've got a platform problem

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Taking vSphere into the future

Which route – Converged, Hyper-converged or DIY?

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The Application Complexity Monster

Do you really want to keep feeding it?

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The life sciences collaboration gap

Keeping up with evolving needs calls for a more joined up approach

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Accelerating business transformation with desktop virtualization – Transportation Sector

If you work in the transportation sector, your focus is likely to be that of[...]

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Accelerating business transformation with desktop virtualization – Government Sector

Organizations across every sector are differentiating their products and services by focusing on their customers,[...]

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The stuff they don’t tell you about workplace transformation

Tips and tricks for getting past those ‘people problems’

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Accelerating business transformation with desktop virtualization – Education Sector

If you work in education, particularly higher education, you’re probably focused on a range of[...]

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Digital Transformation Practicalities

Lessons from Leonardo

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Accelerating business transformation with desktop virtualization – Insurance Sector

As an insurer, regulatory upheaval and political change are likely to be towards the top[...]

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Healthcare sector revisits desktop virtualization

There’s no definitive “right way” to provide healthcare, but if you work within this sector,[...]

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Manufacturers take a fresh look at desktop virtualization

Digital transformation initiatives come in many shapes and sizes, and if you’re a manufacturer, these[...]

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Accelerating business transformation with desktop virtualization – Retail Sector

It’s in the interests of every sector to become more agile, more adaptable and more[...]

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Laying the foundations for Enterprise AI

An architectural approach to deep learning platforms

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Enabling Industry 4.0 Infographic

IIoT needs an intelligent edge

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Accelerating business transformation with desktop virtualization – Banking Sector

Digital transformation programs are probably a priority for your company, as banks and financial institutions[...]

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Connecting the industrial edge

Look for the common patterns

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Fast-track creation of the modern digital workspace

What once seemed impossible is now perfectly doable

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Fast Track to Enterprise Cloud

Integrated platforms as a route to digital readiness

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Industrial Digital Transformation

On the cutting edge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Desktop virtualization as an accelerator of digital transformation

Fast-track creation of a modern digital workspace

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How Agile and DevOps enable digital readiness and transformation

In today’s world, software is everywhere – and it is spreading fast. Once it was[...]

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The politics and practicalities of IT procurement

Is cloud becoming a strategic disrupter?

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Building a data-savvy digital infrastructure

Fujitsu’s MetaArc and NetApp’s Data Fabric in context

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Digital Workplace Transformation

The business context for Windows 10 in financial services There is a digital divide at[...]

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Digital Disrupters do it to Themselves

The word ’digital’ seems to have overtaken ’cloud’ as the hottest word in the IT[...]

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The dangers of digital smokescreens

A recent global study (1,442 senior respondents) revealed that those reporting particularly good returns from[...]

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User-Centric Mobile Security

Not so long ago, many were speculating that ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) would define[...]

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Virgin Media Business and its SMB proposition

Over the years, I have grown increasingly sceptical about the ability of most Telcos to[...]

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Social media and why businesses need to embrace it

As a teenager just entering the world of business I had to go through a[...]

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Voice recognition in healthcare

By Dale Vile I first discovered dictation software back in 2001 when I ended up[...]

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Social Business and unknown unknowns

By Charles Brett At an Analyst Briefing in London in late September IBM described what[...]

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Freedom without Anarchy

Empowering employees through the delegation of authority and trust can enhance innovation and productivity. But[...]

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Why you need an interactive archive

Many organisations today only archive data when there is some external legislative driver forcing their[...]

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Social collaboration: From a faith-based to business-led approach

I have long been a sceptic of the ‘install it and they will figure out[...]

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Working smarter, not harder

What options are there to help people work together more effectively? The emergence of new[...]

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Your office in the cloud – dream or nightmare?

Considerations for SaaS-based email and office productivity tools Why go to all the trouble of[...]

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Is Big Data just Big Hype?

If the deluge of headlines and vendor marketing materials is anything to go by, ‘big[...]

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SaaS based Email and Office Productivity

Over the course of many months there has been considerable coverage of ‘Cloud’ based office[...]

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SaaS based Email and Office Productivity Tools

If you have an old email server in need of an upgrade or have calls[...]

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Enterprise social media revisited

Over the last three or four years, many have been advocating the use of social[...]

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Building tech for the flexible worker

Remote workers need support and training. The IT department needs to secure their devices and[...]

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The Consumerisation of IT

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

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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[...]

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End User Productivity Revisited

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

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Does Office 365 keep its promises?

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

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Lithium helped the penny to drop

A more tangible take on social CRM While I go about my business as an[...]

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Collaboration, complexity and compliance

The trouble with some terms we use in IT is that they take on a[...]

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The significance of Salesforce.com’s ’Chatter’

Salesforce.com to me is a bit like the boy who cried ‘Wolf!”. Every press release[...]

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Videoconferencing: coming to a company near you?

This article is hosted on an external website. Please click here to view it in[...]

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Videoconferencing: coming to a company near you?

It is probably fair to say that the likelihood of videoconferencing becoming mainstream in the[...]

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Business Communications in Context

by Josie Sephton and Dale Vile The proliferation of communications channels has set expectations around[...]

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Social wariness is wise for business

A colleague pulled me up with a start the other day when I was talking[...]

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Does business social networking really need IT?

Are you wrestling with the idea of bringing social networking (choose your own preferred term)[...]

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Social computing – start small, think big

By David Tebbutt Don’t be afraid of social networking collaboration tools in the office. Your[...]

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The business value of social software

by David Tebbutt At Lotus/IBM’s Lotusphere the words ’business value’ were repeatedly uttered by keynote[...]

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Enterprise 2.0 and the issue of workforce composition

Following on from my previous post on the importance of social media enthusiasts breaking out[...]

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Mobility and Connectivity

by Jon Collins and Dale Vile During the middle part of 2007, Freeform Dynamics ran[...]

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