Andy Hayler
Biography
Following a successful career at oil giants Esso and Shell, Hayler set up Kalido, a innovator in data warehousing and business intelligence (BI). In 2001 the company was one of the fastest growing in the BI sector. He went on to become a consultant, advising companies on strategy. As a blogger Hayler has won awards for his blog Andy on Enterprise Software.
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Different States of mind
US software companies have a big home market but also outscore their European counterparts in marketing and dynamism
Cloud computing brings CIOs back full circle
The mainframe’s revenge
What lurks beneath...
Bad data held in hastily written and openly distributed spreadsheets should scare the life out of C-suite executives
Architecture by PowerPoint
Too many CIOs prefer an idealised slideshow view of their estates to confronting the real complexity
Software is a buyer’s market
Set up a competition to get the best deal from hungry vendors
Verify the skills of IT consultants
It is perhaps no coincidence that the word ‘consultant' starts with the three letters ‘con'.
Picking Winners
Smaller firms innovate more because they simply have less filters and blocks
Flirting with relationships
Software vendors spend a surprisingly small amount of time keeping customers happy compared to luring new ones
My life and risky times
Modelling for risk management fails to account for the unpredictable, and investments might be better spent elsewhere
How low will we go?
Looking around about him to read the runes, Andy Hayler says the effects of the credit squeeze could get a lot worse before they get better
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