Users take the driving seat
The time is now ripe for a determined drive to disenfranchise the IT industry from its conviction that its role is to drive change, and enfranchise the wider user community to creatively take the wheel
View ArticleA bridge too far for vendors keen on cloud
Building a contemporary technology vendor that delivers with a parallel competitive elegance to the engineering marvels across the globe, requires both that mark of genius and those underlying...
View ArticleRadically Re-Working Our Business Landscapes
We need to pull back from the work of the PR and marketing folk.
View ArticleHP pays a big price for failure to focus
This August?s announcement of HP?s $8bn write-off against the $14bn paid to acquire EDS in 2008 is shattering news.
View ArticleIt is at the user-end where the rubber hits the road
Vendors should cut back on investment in aggressive marketing, and invest instead in listener/learners who can capture the richness of customer experience with the vendor?s product or service, and put...
View ArticleEuropean Commission strategy to address cloud concerns
SMEs are adopting cloud solutions with great success, but large-scale delivery is being held up by concerns over standards and security. The EC is picking up the mantle
View ArticleBangladesh is promising big things from a growing small software industry
Bangladesh should stop comparing its ICT industry with that of its bigger neighbour. Its outsourced offerings are on a much smaller scale but are no less innovative for it
View ArticleSoftware testing's stars of tomorrow
Europe's annual meeting of software testers, EuroSTAR, revealed a raft of startup companies riding the wave of change in an industry undergoing great transformation
View ArticleUnlocking the cloud
The marketing message for January's Cloud Expo Europe 2013 at Olympia was 'Unlock the Cloud'. I spent my first day at the Expo chairing the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) Knowledge Network Theatre, and...
View ArticleClouds of vapour
According to Wikipedia, a polemic is a contentious argument that is intended to establish the truth of a specific belief and the falsity of the contrary belief. I am sufficiently concerned about...
View ArticleFour better, four worse? Challenges ahead for HP
I have written previously about HP?s $6 billion write-down of its $14 billion acquisition of EDS. My argument was the need for business focus on commoditised infrastructual services in the cloud, in a...
View ArticleUsers drive change
A new report from business and technology community Nimbus Ninety confirms that it is users, not vendors, who are devising ways to make the most of technology
View ArticleSourcing a new agenda
One pleasure this June was to chair the judges for the EuroCloud UK Annual Awards. EuroCloud is a computing community of SaaS and cloud vendors and industry experts, and is part of a pan-European network.
View ArticleInnovation in the new sourcing
I recently wrote about one of my industry heroines, Emma Taylor of Nimbus Ninety [Sourcing a new agenda]. I have now to admit to having been smitten by another, Carrie Bishop of FutureGov .
View ArticleFundamental conflicts of interest
My August column (blog!) was my 60th – five years of hopefully helpful commentary and an occasional insight? The year 2013 also marks the 20th anniversary of my arrival in the IT industry when ICI (who...
View ArticleEuropean Cloud Strategy - Realistic objectives, practical delivery?
To Berlin, to attend the inaugural meeting of Cloud for Europe. A well attended affair at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS). Cloud for Europe is an initative of the...
View ArticleThe cloud is born free but everywhere it is in chains
The cloud is, and has been from its start, a global construct. The dilemma for us conviction free traders is that, where governments get involved, they move to restrict the globality of the cloud.
View ArticleWhat Parkinson could have taught the BBC
An open letter of advice to boards and female board members who need to avoid the mistakes made at the BBC.
View ArticleThe CIO's real transformation agenda
One key objective of proactive market-making will be to break free from the dominance of the Systems Integrators, and encourage opportunity for the new generation of Services Integrators.
View ArticleThere is a soft side to the Cloud!
Fulfilling the role of a mentor can be very satisfying. I now look back over 40 years of business experience accumulated since I was…
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