IT Strategy/Transformation Archives

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[...]

The joy of software licensing on the desktop

One of the joys of working as a manager of desktop and laptop systems is[...]

Service management best practice. Is your future really in a book?

Whenever IT best practice for service management gets a mention, we tend to think of[...]

It’s the data that drives us. An alternative view of software rationalisation and retirement.

In business, the phrase ‘change is constant’ may be a tad overused but it is[...]

Using systems management tools in IT security

Every IT professional recognises the importance of securing the IT systems that are now at[...]

But is that really cloud? Check out this survey

Some have accused me of being a cloud computing sceptic, and it’s true that I[...]

But is that really cloud computing?

By Dale Vile The term ‘cloud computing’ is in routine use within the IT industry.[...]

IT governance: Making the case without cutting your throat

‘IT governance’ sounds like a grandiose idea, but what is it? In simplest terms, it’s[...]

What’s in store for availability management?

Roughly speaking, availability management is what your organisation does to ensure IT services stay up[...]