2010 a Great Foundation Year!
This is a very personal post and it comes from being reflective as we all are at this time of year (December). It is important to take time to look at what you have achieved and tick it off against that list of plans that you had at the beginning of the year. How many [...]
Belt Tightening or Growth? IT’s Opportunity to Contribute!
Having recently moved house and office I came across an article I had meant to read months ago, which somehow ended up packed in a box for discovery this week. In particular what caught my attention was an article called “Return to Growth“. In it Chris Murphy makes the point that “belt tightening isn’t over, [...]
Building a Enterprise Perception for the Technology Specialty
There is one certainty throughout the whole of our business life and that is the constant need for transformation. Business change is necessary in all places, that is certain, indeed we have to change in order to remain competitive. This statement is accurate through both good times and bad. This existing decline which we have [...]
Google Wave: How Important Is this Collaboration Tool to Business?
Since my earlier article I have been tinkering and following much about Google’s new flagship collaboration product, including following some interesting public waves. This is a lengthy review of what Wave is all about and how I envision it being being used in the corporate environment. This article is written in Wave to allow anyone with a Google Wave account to collaborate, and add their own experiences.
“End of Year Rush” Business Planning Alleviates the Need.
About a year ago in an article on IT Toolbox I asked whether the “End of Year Rush” was really necessary. I concluded that “Change the business culture – from one of ad-hoc, last-minute requests to proper planning of the work is essential”. One year on and this question continues to have relevance with some [...]
Analysis: Continuing to Involve our Collaborators
It has always been clear that the process of defining application requirements has always been a collaborative process, not simply involving IT people, but a whole raft of people across the business. So for such a collaborative process why do we tend to document the results in a private way? What I mean here is [...]
Strategies for Leading Business Change & The Social Media Impact
According to Chris Potts “the CIO role… is destined to become either an executive leader of business change or absorbed into another role” and “the need for corporate leadership in change has never been greater and is unlikely to recede”. I wholy agree with Chris here. In looking at this statement it is to me [...]
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