Category Archives: Information Technology
Teleworking requires good information sharing
Teleworking has been in the press recently after Yahoo! CEO, Marissa Mayer, banned the practice arguing that innovation and productivity require Yahoo! Employees to be present in the office. Many HR managers have seized on the reluctance of Yahoo! and … Continue reading
Is there a silver bullet in a volatile world?
There is little doubt that the business environment is changing faster than at any other time in history. The recent book from Peter Evans-Greenwood, The New Instability, argues that shift in the economy is a response to technology introduced over … Continue reading
A prediction for the mobile era
Since the dawn of the personal computer, the hardware industry has relied on a cycle of obsolesce of just a few years. Working with their partners in the software community, they created a symbiotic relationship where each operating system and … Continue reading
Can enterprise solutions be built from individual projects?
Imagine an electronics company planning a new tablet or phone and building the business case based on pre-committed orders. Similarly, imagine a utility trying to get residents to sign-up to their electricity plan ahead of the advertising campaign. It just … Continue reading
Digital disruption – short fuse, big bang?
Over the last few months I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with a range of my Deloitte colleagues on a report into the “digital disruption” of business. The result brings together the impacts of digital technologies, with the explosion of … Continue reading
Cloud computing should be about new business models
Everyone is talking about cloud computing, but most of the debate misses the point. Cloud computing isn’t really about computers at all, it is about business services which are delivered in new ways. Much of the time it is about … Continue reading
The evolution of information standards
Anyone who has ever tried to negotiate a standard for data storage or communication will confirm that it is difficult to get agreement and even harder to gain adoption. Decades of debate over both analogue and digital communications standards for … Continue reading
Bringing together digital, cloud and big data
History is replete with examples where ideas are launched with great fanfare and yet fail while subsequent iterations of very similar ideas are hugely successful. The difference between a failed good idea and a success is often only a matter … Continue reading
Technology gardening
There is little that is guaranteed to soothe the stressed mind as much as a well-structured garden. It brings together order and nature in a magic combination. From a distance, the garden follows a clear plan that has probably been … Continue reading
