All the hype surrounding Cloud computing, coupled with the mandatory cautionary tales around security and control, or the lack thereof, makes it is easy to overlook a small but significant component of the cloud proposition i.e.: Who owns what...
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The 'no-training' myth in Social Media
'Why should we need training for our new collaboration platform, nobody had training for Facebook and everybody is using it'. It might be a recognizable phrase if you introduce social media solutions in organisations. However the peculair thing is...
Read moreMind the user experience gap
According to Race Online 2012 there are “9 million adults in the UK who have never used the Internet“ that’s a fifth of the adult population. Back in the good old pre-Dot-com-crash days we, as web designers, used to make fun of how little...
Read moreImproving social media monitoring…
As Social Media Monitoring travels through the technology hype cycle it’s clear that many early adopters are experiencing disappointing results. Having heard the stories of start-up businesses like Threadless or GiffGaff harnessing social insight...
Read moreMobile DQ – the Next Evolution of Mobile BI?
I recently attended a Webinar on SAP’s geographic data services (such as geocoding and proximity matching). In listening to the material being presented, I began to consider a much broader picture of data quality in the current market place. ...
Read moreWhy do IT Projects fail? - a testers point of view.
We all know a project that has been ended before it actually went live or went way over budget. Why is this? So many professionals, so much knowledge and still there are a lot of major projects that don't seem to be on time, within budget and/or in...
Read moreThe “Bob Ross-effect”
Probably when growing up your mom or dad or any other elder told you to think before you act. Nothing wrong with this advice, it’s so true. When making a presentation you should have a story before you even open up your slide design tool, in most...
Read moreResponsibility and responsible disclosure
Earlier this month a story went round that the GCHQ (responsible for Britain’s SIGINT activities) wants to monitor Britain’s most vital private networks for unusual network traffic. Prime Minister David Cameron invited a number of large companies...
Read moreMDM strategy is a business challenge
About 5 years ago I made a statement that there was no such thing as IT strategy. What I meant was that there should be no such thing as a strategy purely for IT but instead it should be about how you solve business challenges and address the...
Read moreChain Testing the next level
This is a guest post by Hans Lumadjeng. Hans is an expert on chain testing in the Netherlands where the emphasis of his approach lies in the mitigating of business risks.In past decades our clients were confronted with the ‘spin-off’ of System...
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