Parliament investigates effective governance of IT

Public Administration Committee

Good governance: the effective use of IT

Tuesday 8 March 2011

Committee Room 6 Meeting started at 10.33am ended at 12.33pm

Witnesses Professor Helen Margetts, Oxford Internet Institute, Dr Ian Brown, Oxford Internet Institute, and Dr Edgar Whitley, London School of Economics Professor Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, and Sir Ian Magee, Institute for Government.

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IT will die - eventually

We have been stuck in a redundant IT paradigm for quite a while now and we are long overdue for a shift forward. I have been writing about this for a couple of years now and the message is starting to get traction.

Martin Schofield and Colin Beveridge discuss the future of IT

Martin Schofield (Retail Operations Director, Harvey Continue reading article »

Web 2.0 – Killer App?

Enterprises are falling over themselves to become “2.0.” At least one company (Compuware 2.o)  has changed its business name to incorporate the magic numbers. Mashups, wikis, p2p networks, blogs and tagging are proliferating exponentially. But none of these is the real killer app for Web 2.0.

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Not that hard

IT is redundant so what’s Next? (Executive Briefings)

Colin Beveridge will set out a compelling vision of the future in a series of new executive briefings.

Why is the IT-centric paradigm redundant? What is the next paradigm? How big is the gap between the current and future paradigms? What are the benefits of the shift? How can we invoke the shift?  What are our next steps? Continue reading article »

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