Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation
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By Martin Atherton In the very real world of business IT, the concepts, topics and[...]
Building high availability into IT
What does ‘high availability’ actually mean in the context of IT today? We’ve written elsewhere[...]
Mobile users and personal devices
Business today is a very different beast to that of just five years ago, and[...]
Managing the distributed workforce
While the principles of managing a distributed workforce may not have changed much, user expectations[...]
Organisational change and IT
It is great to theorise about all the good things IT can bring. Indeed, a[...]
The IT management dashboard
Our research in the IT management domain has helped us establish a few basic truths.[...]
The user view of IT delivery
It would be odd to hear from an IT pro who didn’t have ‘demanding users’,[...]
Architecting for IT service delivery
A few years back I was involved in a project that turned out far more[...]
Supporting the teleworkers: Redux
The issue of providing IT support to home-based users always attracts a lot of responses[...]
Should all hard drives be encrypted?
Given the origins of computing in the coding and decoding of messages, it’s fair to[...]
What does YOUR IT crystal ball say?
Here’s a question for you. Is change really afoot in the way your organisation ‘does’[...]
Change management in x86 server estates
Changes to the IT environment are the source of some of the biggest headaches for[...]
Is IT service delivery really changing?
The new world we’ve been hearing about for years is slowly drifting into focus. Globally[...]
Business Communications in Context
by Josie Sephton and Dale Vile The proliferation of communications channels has set expectations around[...]
Are CIOs ready to use cloud computing?
By Tony Lock Seldom in the history of IT have CIOs faced a marketing barrage[...]
What personality is your IT department?
Over the years I’ve spent quite a lot of time thinking about the idea of[...]
Dedication to regulation
By Martin Atherton Regulation is a fact of life and business. The signs are that[...]
Virtualisation and Security
As x86 / x64 server virtualisation moves into everyday operations, what impact does it have[...]
IT trends: Don’t get distracted by the spaniel
For better or for worse, we are the owners of a mad Welsh Springer spaniel[...]
Infrastructure Consolidation
By Tony Lock Research results obtained by Freeform Dynamics towards the end of 2009 show[...]
Can IT Financing and Management Models Survive IT Change?
By Tony Lock In a nutshell: The models used for businesses to create IT budgets[...]
How do you manage service levels in a virtualised environment?
In previous research projects we’ve examined the impact of service level monitoring and management, and[...]
Social wariness is wise for business
A colleague pulled me up with a start the other day when I was talking[...]
Mid-market management software
By Jon Collins, Tony Lock and Dale Vile IT management tools are finally, after many[...]