Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation
The Time has come for “Chargeback”
Ever since the industrial revolution there have been periods when businesses have prospered simply on[...]
Managing IT and business risk in the times of eroding enterprise boundaries
Managing risk in business has always been more of an art form than a science.[...]
Systems monitoring: what’s possible, and what really happens
IT increasingly plays a pivotal role in business processes. The importance of systems to the[...]
Improving Systems Agility
By Dale Vile One of the most common complaints heard from business people about the[...]
Life after cloud computing
By Dale Vile Have you ever wondered what we will be left with once the[...]
Managing a virtual desktop environment
In a previous article in this series we highlighted growing interest in deploying virtual desktop[...]
Desktop virtualisation: why, how, and how much?
As anyone who has started down the path will confirm, desktop virtualisation is not a[...]
How can IT shake off the negativity? Get feedback from the business
Usually when we think of IT performance, we focus on the physical. We ask questions[...]
Collaboration, complexity and compliance
The trouble with some terms we use in IT is that they take on a[...]
The significance of Salesforce.com’s ’Chatter’
Salesforce.com to me is a bit like the boy who cried ‘Wolf!”. Every press release[...]
Thinking Beyond the Clouds
By Jon Collins and Dale Vile A number of trends are having an impact on[...]
Sugaring the pill
Apple, as a computer company, has been focused on the consumer market. It has paid[...]
Are your project timescales shrinking?
When did the two-year project lifecycle die? In my head, I put it at just[...]
Videoconferencing: coming to a company near you?
This article is hosted on an external website. Please click here to view it in[...]
The Business of Interoperability
By Dale Vile and Jon Collins ‘Interoperability’ is a widely used word in IT industry[...]
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[...]