Too many IT people bemoan the fact that IT is struggling to be taken seriously as a strategic dimension in their organisation. Well, tough luck guys. IT isn’t “strategic.” Never was, never will be. If King Canute was around today, he’d be first in line to demonstrate the folly of trying to make IT strategic.
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Photo credit: gregbender.com Tech-savvy kids are using 21st Century excuses for failing to hand in homework assignments, according to Joanna Sugden writing in The Times My favourite from the list of inventive excuses? “The PC exploded when our dog went to the toilet on it.” This article led me to wonder if workers regularly try to blame technology for failing to Continue reading article » The landscape of information service development is changing quickly, as more and more services are created from hitherto unlikely combinations (aka mashups). But where do you go to find candidate components? More importantly how can you you keep up with the flood of new offerings? I have recently discovered this website which looks very useful resource for pick ‘n mix enterprise Continue reading article » The proliferation of “mashups” (software services created by combining disparate components into a new configuration) shows that they are becoming increasingly popular and have already entered the Enterprise domains. Some of these are not only useful but also fairly quick to develop and deploy. But there is no such thing as a free lunch. The facility of mashup development and deployment must Continue reading article » Delivery to Time, Cost and Quality are three standard measures for projects and programmes. It looks like they are all at risk for the world’s largest civil IT programme. The ambitious National Programme for IT (NPfIT) underway in the UK’s National Health Service is running years behind the original schedule and the budget has been regularly inflated, with each passing year. Continue reading article » |
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