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The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story

Comment Certainly creative concepts get watered down not because of their inherent potential but because of the users who sap the energy, drive and enthusiasm of those who sponsor the operational change. Moronic end users are putting paid to any hope of...

Tags: company culture, innovation, change management, cio

[18 Feb 2008]

Where's the real web 2.0?

Comment One can't help wondering whether most of the concepts web 2.0 is used to describe aren't really more web 1.1. Web 2.0 is a description that's slapped onto just about everything these days. Rob Bamforth hunts for technological approaches that might...

Tags: user generated content, content, web 2.0

[18 Oct 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Don't mess with mobile users

Comment But its sales figures, the unseemly scramble by every other mobile device producer to copy the concepts, and the amount of ballyhoo and criticism it has generated clearly show it is on the right track.

Tags: mobile, iphone

[07 Sep 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.05.07

Round-Up Following some explanation, according to Reuters, Openshaw admitted: "I haven't quite grasped the concepts. "You're the one for me, fatty," sang Morrissey all the way back in 1992, yet not everybody is quite so welcoming of the bigger-boned members...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[18 May 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The power of analogy - or not

Comment For almost all of my professional life I have been trying to communicate complex concepts to individuals and audiences not versed in science, mathematics, technology and engineering. Written on BA217 flying London to Washington and dispatched to...

[09 May 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.02.07

Round-Up Folksonomies, social networking, blogs and Ajax are concepts and technologies held beloved by the new wave of internet developers, designers and marketers. Web 2.0 is very much the phrase du jour in trendy new media circles right now and corduroy...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[09 Feb 2007]

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer

Comment Ballmer: Bill's capacity to absorb, to connect concepts and to contribute is unparalleled. Bill Gates says he is a man with no regrets. After 30 years of leading Microsoft's software strategy, Gates said on Thursday there is little he would do...

Tags: steve ballmer, microsoft, ballmer, bill gates

[16 Jun 2006]

Analysis: Intel's big push for convergence

Comment But it has been hard for Intel to transfer its expertise from computing to communications, according to Forward Concepts analyst Will Strauss. Chip giant Intel has long been hoping to make its computer processing expertise pay off in the...

Tags: intel

[07 Jun 2006]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: RFID - what can it do for the business?

Comment Yet smartcard concepts are now embedded into daily life, from mobile phone SIMs to car remotes, without compelling the user to think 'I'm using a smartcard'. It's easy to imagine the many ways RFID could be used but it's harder to determine whether...

Tags: rfid

[16 Mar 2006]

Devil's Advocate: Open source for government

Comment Were this not so, government would be making more use of the concepts developed by the open source movement. Despite the UK government's reluctance to embrace open source, Martin Brampton points out the many ways they're suited to each other - the...

Tags: government, open source

[21 Feb 2006]

Opinion: What good has technology done?

Comment In theory, the introduction of electronic government and business process re-engineering concepts should have led to a more streamlined public sector, calling on equally slim public/private partnerships to deliver cost-effective and competitive...

Tags: public sector it

[20 Feb 2006]

Opinion: E-government for all

Comment We know this, intuitively at least, from our own experience in the UK and can observe that where government is at its fattest and most Byzantine, e-delivery projects are most likely to fail because being large and being 'joined-up' are mutually...

Tags: e-government

[19 Dec 2005]

Devil's Advocate: Conflicting messages

Comment Yet the two concepts are awkward bedfellows. There is a bifurcation taking place within companies clamouring over conflicting ideas of best practice. The trend towards outsourcing on the one hand, the requirement to align IT with the business on...

Tags: outsourcing, offshoring, outsourcing

[22 Nov 2005]

Mark Foulsham

Q&A Converting concepts to reality and making a difference to the top or bottom lines. Employer and official job title: esure; head of IT. What do most people call you? Busy. Who do you report to? The chief executive.

Tags: mark foulsham, q&a, esure

[05 Sep 2005]

Open source: Where the LAMP stacks burn brightest

Comment What businesses need to do is start out and test their business concepts in a way that gets them to market fast, with a proof of concept," Lohr says. The LAMP stack is gaining acceptance with businesses but does it have what it takes to overtake...

Tags: lamp, open source, mysql, linux

[29 Jun 2005]

Simon Norbury

Q&A Greatest strength: Translating technology concepts into simple terms. Name: Simon Norbury. Employer and official job title: City of Westminster - CSi Project Director and Head of ICT. What do most people call you?

[28 Jun 2005]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Telecoms regulation explained

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Telecoms regulation explained

Comment Both of these concepts - reducing retail regulation and improving wholesale services from BT to its competitors - have a bit of a chequered history. The telecoms regulatory 'machine' is a vast one; UK regulator Ofcom's budget alone exceeds £100m...

Tags: telecoms regulation, ofcom, voip

[16 Jun 2005]

Devil's Advocate: Microsoft's foolish patent policy

Devil's Advocate: Microsoft's foolish patent policy

Comment The concepts were always sound, and they were all invented before Microsoft even existed. If large companies are to be granted patents on ideas that have been commonplace for years and are based on fundamental concepts well understood for decades...

Tags: xml, software patent

[07 Jun 2005]

PMO: What is it and do you need one?

Comment Like all attractive business concepts, programme management is a great idea in theory but moving from theory to practice is hard work. Setting up an office to manage programmes across the business from the top down could be a smart idea.

Tags: pmo, programme management office

[23 Mar 2005]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Can education be saved?

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Can education be saved?

Comment It is no longer detached from the harsh realities of the commercial world but tightly linked, with concepts high on the agenda including the education marketplace, customer demand, the needs of industry and demands of the nation.

Tags: education, training, skills, it

[10 Mar 2005]

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