Cost of Government IT is a smoke-screen

Problems? Get help

Media flurry about Government IT is simply an unhelpful smokescreen, the focus on high unit costs and poor procurement disguises fundamental issues: policy and lack of effective systems strategy. Continue reading article »

Hitting the G+ spot

life on the wire by wildxplorer on flickr

I’ve not used Google+ yet but from what I have seen so far, it looks like an ideal approach for anyone (like me) interested in a properly joined-up-world of integrated Systems. Unlike some, though, I’m not even thinking about Google+ in relationship to FaceBook because FB is not a serious Systems platform. Continue reading article »

Perfect Pitch

Want more business investment for your IT budget? Here are six quick tips to increase your chances of bringing in more business funding for the IT department.

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Online gang culture

Penguins

Every day someone asks me to join their new online gang. They don’t call them gangs, of course. The buzz word is network. For sure some of the invitations have genuine merit. But most of them are just about gangs, set up to serve the leader’s agenda, rather than real networks of mutual interest.

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Public Sector IT Enemy Number One: Policy

public enemy by annie ok on flickr

We all know that scope creep, lack of resources and change are the three greatest enemies of cost-effective IT development projects. In the commercial sector we move heaven and earth to avoid these risks – and yet they seem to be endemic to the management culture within public sector computing.

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