The poor CIO, the role is perhaps around ten years old, at one time was discussed as a role that ought to lead to being seen as a board level executive and now? The discussion on what the role the CIO has to play, and even sometimes does the CIO have...
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What’s Acceptable Risk in the MashUp World?
I had an experience many of us encounter last week – the hard drive on my laptop failed. Now, as a CTO who understands how IT works, of course I had all my data backed up and in any event I am completely immersed in leveraging the Web model and so...
Read moreEyes of the Crowd
What exactly can be achieved through the unbridled power of crowdsourcing? A nice place to find out is the article on this concept on Wikipedia, which - by the way - itself is created through a mild form of crowdsourcing (these are the moments that...
Read moreCommoditising the IT industry through case studies
‘Publishing ‘case studies’ do the IT industry no favours’ was the provocative reply when I suggested providing a case study to a prospective client. My immediate reaction was one of wondering whether I had heard his reply correctly as, with...
Read moreUbiquitous IT can mean Margin and Revenue growth
There is a UK radio programme that describes itself as ‘the antidote to panel shows’, those weary radio programmes where a panel of experts debate the answers to complex questions and whose answers seldom, if ever, really provide a new light on...
Read more77 Million Innovations
I have to confess I am old enough to vividly remember how Roxy Music made its entry into the pop music scene. It must have been early in the seventies, the steam machine had just been invented and most homes were still lighted by candles. Ceramics...
Read moreMashUps rapidly are becoming a commodity!
Remarkable isn’t it? We are now approaching a time when a new technology has become a commodity, and I will define what I mean by that term, even before a fair selection of the IT profession have even heard of it, let alone used it! The gap between...
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