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TECHNOLOGY > Business Applications > OPINIONS
13/02/2008
How to become green heroes
David Tebbutt recommends telecommuting, IP networks and virtualisation as powerful ways to save the business money
25/01/2008
Benchmarks to be legal building blocks
Performance ratings are a likely foundation for legislators in their fight against climate change
25/01/2008
The importance of life-cycle management
Acquiring the right applications is one thing, but CIOs need to focus just as much on life-cycle management
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
Leading transformation through dynamics
It’s dynamics – not strategy – that can really change how people work for the better. And CIOs are the key people to lead the transformation, says Gartner’s Andrew Rowsell-Jones
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
21/09/2007
Q&A: Web 2.0: Should CIOs be excited or scared of social computing?
Is there something new going on with Web 2.0? Have we been here before? Web 2.0 frenzy is producing startups like rabbits; it’s persuaded the VCs to open their wallets again. But Web 2.0 is nothing like Web 1.0. Is it?
12/05/2007
Out of office reply
Time management used to be so straightforward – do the things that are important first, before they become urgent and that was about it. Some people – usually swots who had their homework done early – were very good at it, with ruthlessly managed ‘in’, ‘out’ and ‘action’ boxes. A few were diabolical at it, forever pulling ‘all nighters’ to try to catch up and the vast majority were basically okay and muddled through – unless there was a crisis that couldn’t be solved in the pub.
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
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.
17/11/2006
Tipping point ahead
If it’s October, it must be time for Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual user gig and my, how its grown.
11/09/2006
Food with a lot of thought
Gerhard Eygelaar, director of IT for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) of food services company Compass Group sees his role as bringing IT governance to the heart of the organisation.
11/09/2006
