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The growing plethora of social networking sites is being fuelled by a powerful combination of free access, functionality, fashion and fickleness.{readmore} When each new service comes online it doesn’t seem to take too long for last month’s “latest big thing” to look jaded and less exciting to those who eagerly signed up for yet another free social network subscription. I’ll bet that many people Continue reading article » The communications regulator (OFCOM) has introduced a new voluntary code of practice for broadband service providers, asking them to declare realistic (actual) speed performance for their customer connections. About time too, some of the major broadband providers have ignored serious customer disappointment for far too long. Huge discrepancies between advertised and achieved broadband speeds are a disgrace, cheating customers by charging way over the Continue reading article » The Trillion Dollar Bonfire is smouldering in air-conditioned helicopter hangars in Wiltshire. The National Audit Office has lambasted the procurement of eight Chinook helicopters, delivered in 2001 but still not fit for their intended role. The procurement has been described as “a gold-standard cock-up” and the original budget is estimated to almost double, costing the UK Ministry of Defence nearer £500K. 
We regularly hear “there is no such thing as an IT project, only business initiatives.” But we don’t need to look far to find business initiatives being managed as IT projects. Continue reading article » Even after fifty years of Information Technology, ours is still a relatively immature business function that continues to create more and more management opportunities; without exploiting the perceived wisdom and body of best practice, a heritage generally available to other more mature professions. As a result, we are all prone to make mistakes and business decisions that we later regret, Continue reading article » |
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