Trillion Dollar Bonfire ‘live in London’

Westminster Business School, London 10th June 2009. Limited places available. Event organised by the Sociotechnical group of the British Computer Society.

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Colin Beveridge will set out a credible, compelling vision for a new, post-IT, paradigm that is within the embrace of all stakeholders. This is thought-leadership at the leading edge and your opportunity to challenge the views put forward.

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How can IT add persistent value?

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Here is a fundamental question that each of us should ask ourselves every day: how can I add persistent value to a successful organisation?

Let’s admit it, we all know that the IT job sector is shrinking faster than you can say: “Return on Investment.”

Very few companies are recruiting technology staff at the moment and it Continue reading article »

reverse pass the parcel

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These days it is so easy to quickly e-mail a difficult task to somebody else, either to share the problem or to shed it completely, rather than dealing with it ourselves.

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The writing on the wall

People will tell you that if you are too close to a problem, you should just step back and take a look from a different angle.

Sometimes though that is not enough; for some problems objective distance is impossible for stakeholders so you really need someone else to look at your situation and tell you their perspective.

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Mashups – tasty recipé or difficult to swallow?

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 »

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