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13/02/2008

How to become green heroes

David Tebbutt recommends telecommuting, IP networks and virtualisation as powerful ways to save the business money

13/02/2008

FAST solutions to lost causes

Nick Patience examines how Microsoft’s acquisition of FAST could help CIOs get to grips with the useful storage of elusive information

01/01/2008

How technology can drive business performance

IT may never matter to some businesses, but to others it’s the lifeblood of a thriving organisation. How we move forward is the real question

01/11/2007

Creating an IT strategy that makes a difference

In the second of a series of articles by senior Gartner analysts, Dave Aron explores creating an IT strategy that makes a difference

01/11/2007

The benefits of free software

CIOs have steered well clear of free tools up until now but there’s no reason why they can’t be used for specific projects

10/07/2007

Lofty data ambitions

Don’t you hate those minimalist house interiors where everything is white, spotless and obsessively tidy? Where do they put the junk mail, their dirty shoes and wet umbrellas?

09/07/2007

Summer sales madness

Hats off to SUN Microsystems, which celebrated 25 years in business in 2007 with an online cut-price sale, offering up to 65 per cent off. Offers were limited and it wasn’t a strategic shift in Sun’s approach to the market but it was, at least, something outside the norm.

05/07/2007

Tipping point ahead

If it’s October, it must be time for Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual user gig and my, how its grown. A few years ago there was goofing around on a Segway in the ballroom of a San Franciso hotel; this year you had over 5,000 people milling around in the neo-brutalist hell that is the city’s Moscone convention centre. In the event, there was much to commend the announcements that were made.

29/06/2007

People, people, people

People are right back on the agenda. In recent MIS UK research you told us that recruiting and managing people was now your top concern for the year ahead, up from third place last year and replacing managing budgets. Staff with the right skills are now in greater demand than ever and consequently the IT recruitment market is very buoyant, with growing movement both at the top and bottom levels. The lack of IT project management and business skills is becoming a bigger issue as outsourcing begins to have an impact on training and experience at home.

28/03/2007

Happy talking

There are three main causes of workplace unhappiness. The trick is not to ignore them

22/03/2007

Going through the motions

Companies have embraced the name of service management rather than the spirit of it

18/03/2007

NHS unworkable

One of the NPfIT’s prime contractors has broken silence about the ill-fated project’s progress and future

15/03/2007

Conventional wisdom

Conferences need to be dragged into the modern age and made fun

22/12/2006

Being grown-up about it

Giving out diktats is not the best way of getting what you want from staff. Try a more mature approach.

19/12/2006

Email confidential

The bottom of emails promise dire consequences for those rash enough to break their confidentiality.

11/12/2006

Relinquishing power

Mobile phones have overtaken cars as the most tedious TV ads.

08/12/2006

Tightrope walking

IT managers agonise about how to erect ever stronger barriers to their company’s information resources.

28/11/2006

Accenture bet on Salesforce.com

Systems integrator turns is attention towards SaaS.

22/11/2006

IT offensive

Granger attacks doctors as being a barrier to the National IT Programme.

21/11/2006

Shot out of the blue

You need to be prepared for the eventuality that your company may aim to fire you.

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