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50 years on and we still re-invent the wheel every week

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, READ MORE

Us and Them

One of the all-time great rock albums, and a favourite of mine, is “Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd. This classic recording is still going strong and a quick glance at the album track-list will undoubtedly resonate strongly with many of us in the IT business.

I am sure that we can all relate well to concepts READ MORE

Time please! The long hours culture is burning us out.

We are all supposed to be good little Europeans these days so why do we consistently break one of the few EU regulations most likely to be of direct benefit to us?

I am talking about the European Working Time Directive, which in my view is not only an extremely well-intentioned piece of Euro-legislation but also very well-ignored by almost everyone READ MORE