Freeform Dynamics

Free Unified Communications?

Ran into a company recently which has done a rather nice ‘unified communications’ suite and[...]

It wasn’t about the mouse

Yesterday, the 40th anniversary of the mouse was celebrated. I don't recall there being similar[...]

Information at your fingertips: really

Large organisations sport clever and expensive information management systems. They enable staff to lay their[...]

Social applications can get everyone’s brain working

Imaginatik is a company that helps very large organisations save lots of money by plundering[...]

What if the lights go out?

We humans have a talent for getting other people and other things to do stuff[...]

Resiliency in the Real World

by Tony Lock A recent report by Freeform Dynamics shows that IT systems fail. What‟s[...]

Collaborative technology is all about people

by David Tebbutt As the term suggests, collaboration is about people first and foremost. If[...]

Sidestep formal structures for effective change management

Many companies like to think they understand all about business processes and change management. They[...]

Mobile Marketing Imperatives

by Josie Sephton and Dale Vile The mobile service provider market is increasingly characterised by[...]

Collaboration: the old way. Why not?

Just lately I’ve been wondering a lot about stimulating innovation inside companies. It was sparked[...]

Infrastructure Optimisation Workshop

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Free to cheap sales opportunity?

If you sell weapons, pornography, drugs, products sourced from illegal logging, products derived from endangered[...]

Mind mapping comes in from the cold

This is going to be a tricky post because I have strong, and possibly irrational,[...]

Piggy-backing on social software

While our attention has been diverted by the razzle dazzle of the social software startups,[...]

Agile Development – Is it Right For You?

by Jon Collins and Dale Vile The software community has always been a communicative one,[...]

A netbook in your life?

When travelling, I rely on my BlackBerry for keeping in touch, or my laptop computer[...]

Collaboration – get it together – ’Enterprise 2.0’: Not as easy as it sounds

Getting your people collaborating more effectively is a laudable goal. If you listen to IT[...]

Content blunderbuss hits everything but the target

We humans have been sending signals out into space in the hope that, one day,[...]

Be the star of the show

Ever since Stewart Brand declared that “information wants to be free” in 1984, he has[...]

Collaboration: hidden or open?

Sometimes it’s good to see what’s going on inside other companies. It might make you[...]

Distributed software development is hard – But is there hope?

Poll results The Reg reader poll run earlier this week as part of our agile[...]

The Impact of IT Security Attitudes

by Jon Collins Much has been written about the existence of various threats, internal and[...]

Adobe Connect: digital meeting rooms

Had a demonstration session from Adobe the other day. It was making its Connect Pro[...]

Data Centres, Carbon and Clouds

by David Tebbutt The purpose of this paper is to set the data centre and[...]