Author Archives: Dale Vile

Enabling Rapid and Effective IT Recovery

IT vendors have traditionally targeted the lucrative large enterprise market with their data protection and[...]

Challenging the big change agenda

Marketing people and management consultants love the words ‘transformation’ and ‘innovation’. As you listen to[...]

A View from Above the Clouds

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – IAP Symposium, 14th October 2011 Presenter(s) –[...]

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[...]

Defining the Business Change Agenda

Transformation and innovation are often worthy objectives for change initiatives, but business people tell us[...]

The Business Information Illusion

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

The SME security challenge

Over the years, research findings have consistently demonstrated widespread exposure to risk when it comes[...]

Are you slaving away on the wrong projects?

Get your priorities straight One of the hardest decisions that the IT department faces was[...]

The impact of Cloud on IT

By Andrew Buss and Dale Vile KEY POINTS Cloud is complementary to existing IT infrastructure[...]

Complexity killed the IT quality of service …

“Ring, ring…” “IT support. How can I help you?” “The system’s really slow. It’s taking[...]

Service management: we are all judged on service delivery

All IT departments are judged on the basis of service delivery, whether they work that[...]

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[...]

Business adoption of mobile devices

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

Agile Development – The reality behind the philosophy

Business people often complain that IT projects take too long and deliver results that fall[...]

Cloud Computing Checkpoint

By Dale Vile KEY POINTS Views of cloud computing are wide, varied and often contradictory[...]

Is the backward, protectionist IT channel holding back cloud progress?

I have been conducting a lot of interviews recently with vendors, resellers and SIs about[...]

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.[...]

A road warrior’s experience with the iPad

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

Is IT really broken?

A quick sanity check I have just been reading a blog post from a vendor[...]