New Government IT Strategy - fundamentally flawed?

Shotgun Wedding strategy for Government IT

jayne by lamont_cranston on flickr

According to Tony Collins, the UK Government CIO Council will be asked, by the Cabinet Office, to approve an interim ICT strategy that looks fundamentally flawed before the ink is dry: a shotgun wedding strategy.

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the impact of technology on working practice

three years on the helter skelter

cleethorpes helter skelter by cubwolf on flickr

Progress on the web has been running at break-neck speed for so long that we have become accustomed to the helter-skelter pace of development and we rarely get the time to look back and reflect on our journey, from where we were to where we are.

Nevertheless, I was recently asked by Brinley Platts to answer an interesting question: How Continue reading article »

Personal Continuity Planning

CxOs get caught in the crossfire

when I'm young by Matthew Fang on flickr

I was very pleased to contribute my views to this article in Computing magazine, by Gareth Morgan. My advice, intended for CIOs but equally relevant to other CxOs, focuses on keeping out of the crossfire, during a management shake-out.

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perils of online anonymity and accountability

Jekyll and Hyde had it easy

strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Profound Whatever on flickr

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde had it easy – they only had each other to worry about. I have so many alter egos now that I need a database to keep track of them all.

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a cautionary tale about over-expectation and over-selling

Emperors and Sorcerers

skinner - sorcerer by blakewest on flickr

If IT had delivered every benefit promised over the past twenty years, our businesses would be so cash-rich by now that it would be positively embarrassing to read the Balance Sheets. But they are not. So can business Emperors still be seduced by technology Sorcerers?

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