complex environment in comment and analysis
Devil’s Advocate: Profligacy and destruction and IT
Comment Awareness of the environment is widespread. We finish up, for example, with a complex food distribution network, operated by the major supermarkets, that results is most of our purchases travelling hundreds of miles before they reach our tables. [14 Sep 2004]
Meta Group Quarterly: What CIOs need to succeed
Comment The onus is on executive management and boards of directors to interpret SOX mandates - with the help of auditors and other third-party risk professionals - and then promote and document a controls environment that meets the spirit, if not the... [02 Aug 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: We must simplify SOA
Comment In short, utility computing is the practice of moving from a relatively inflexible, silo-based, application-focused environment dependent on specific hardware/software configurations, to a flexible, scalable environment based around functional... [23 Jul 2004]
Brunel University's Business Class: A programme management primer
Comment Competition, for example, is a natural feature of a multi-project environment and manifests itself in terms of rivalry to achieve high priority status and/or strong competition to secure the resources available. [04 Jun 2004]
Meta Group Quarterly: CIOs - coming out of a slump
Comment The ultimate goal is to run IT as a business that can effectively respond to the new economic, security and people-centric realities of today's working environment. Funnelling the expectations and the usual enthusiasm of youth is in itself a... [05 Apr 2004]
Analysis: SMEs - an answer to public sector IT failings?
Comment One of the most high-profile and well-regarded public sector IT bosses, Yard praises steps taken by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) in the last couple of years and reckons recent procurement processes in the National Health Service and... [02 Mar 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Frog kissing, relationship banking and the decline of TVs and papers
Comment The Sun Java Desktop System gives the laptop family a portable enterprise desktop solution with a client environment based on open source components and industry standards. The heart is the Linux operating system and Gnome desktop environment. [01 Feb 2004]
Through the fog... The digital home
Comment The greatest complexity, of course, arises when considering the different mindsets users have, not only when we use different devices, bound by the limitations of the user interface and form factor, but also depending on the environment we are in. [07 Nov 2003]
Brunel University's Business Class: How to put people first
Comment The alternative learning environment is more likely to create a team of workers who have an allegiance to their company and their team, and who develop and share skills as they move from project to project. [22 Oct 2003]
Q&A: Vint Cerf on VoIP
Comment The businesses will change because it's a more rich application environment. So that's a far more restrictive environment than we had with dial-up. The capacity to carry voice over the internet is less than it is for the circuit-switched environment. [12 Sep 2003]
Email snooping: Avoiding a Big Brother culture
Comment Here, Hannah Reed, Employment Rights Policy Officer for the Trades Union Congress (TUC), explains why employees need to be protected - and what employers should be doing to foster an environment of mutual trust, not suspicion. [01 Apr 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Conference turnaround
Comment In this experimental environment the response of the audience has been almost unanimous and little time has been wasted. The availability of the materials online also affords all of the audience the further advantage of being able to annotate and... [26 Mar 2003]
The Ovum View: IBM-Rational - a threat to the industry?
Comment While Rational's flagship modelling environment, Rose, is a standalone product that runs in its own integrated development environment (IDE), the company's next generation modelling tool XDE is based on IBM's Eclipse open tools integration framework. [20 Dec 2002]
Meta Group's 12 Days of Christmas
Comment This is due partly to world events but also the whole complexity of the IT environment, the broadening of information access and rapidly tightening cycle times. The CIO needs to ensure line of business managers in this new connected environment... [18 Dec 2002]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Cochrane's Law
Comment Over the years I have noticed this general condition (or 'law') to be true of administrations in general or indeed almost any group employed in a highly interactive environment. So in an office environment we quickly see an increasing percentage of... [21 Nov 2002]
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