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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Building a Senior Management Team is as easy as ABC, so long as that doesn’t stand for Antony, Brutus and Cassius! You can usually judge a good director by the strength and quality of their direct reports, especially once the director has been in post for more than twelve months. By then the “Number One” should have shaped the Continue reading article » We seem to have Freedom of Information Laws and a Freedom from Information culture. Information is created by people attributing meaning to data, within context and perspective; thus root data can easily spawn an infinite variety of information, due to the divergence and complexity of the people and attributed meanings employed in the information creation process. Nevertheless, despite the Continue reading article » The Sunday Times reports today (27th July) that HMRC is to write off £2.8 billion as a consequence of problems with a computer system. So that’s another 5.5 billion dollars thrown on the Trillion Dollar Bonfire, without so much as a blink of an eye. According to the newspaper, the latest HMRC accounts apparently show a further planned write-off Continue reading article » BT Global Services are a major provider of outsourced IT services for thousands of businesses in the UK; customers doubtless reassured by their perception of BT as a big player. But is that customer confidence so well placed for the future? Who will be the weakest link now that BT are outsourcing much of their “routine” services and extending the service delivery Continue reading article » |
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