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The Naked CIO: Process not bureaucracy

Comment I remember once talking to some university students about innovation. Managers tend to recoil from any discussion about process because they equate it with bureaucracy. They're wrong, says the Naked CIO.

Tags: project management, process

[12 May 2008]

The Naked CIO: Is open source dead?

Comment Is the true cost - including the labour to support it, annual subscription fees and the technical gaps in support, integration and innovation - lower then other alternatives? But at least as a niche technology, businesses can take it seriously...

Tags: applications, open source

[06 May 2008]

Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum

Comment I'm not sure whether the games consoles that followed will lead to the same flowing of innovation or fond remembrances in 20 or 30 years' time. Here at silicon.com we recently, rather unexpectedly, unleashed a tidal wave of tech nostalgia by asking...

Tags: sinclair, commodore, spectrum

[22 Apr 2008]

Naked CIO: The true cost of IT

Comment But I have always been a proponent of grass-roots innovation as is evident in my objections to offshoring and outsourcing. It's all very well trying to put price tags on everything the IT department does.

Tags: value, cost allocation, projects, departments

[21 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: Crunch time for large projects

Comment The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story Project failures suck all the attention away from IT's real contributions. So knowing when to delay or cancel a project is just as important as giving it the green light, says the Naked CIO.

Tags: testing, measuring value, failure, projects

[14 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food

Comment The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story Written at London's Heathrow airport after a confused journey through the newly opened Terminal 5. Copy dispatched via a free wi-fi hotel service in Athens. If I could be God for a day there are many...

Tags: pilots, design, testing, t5

[14 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08

Round-Up HP UK's managing director Stephen Gill has claimed that many large organisations are currently devoting around 70 to 75 per cent of their IT budget to managing their existing infrastructure, leaving little room for the innovation that can bring...

Tags: windows, yahoo, gordon brown, microsoft

[11 Apr 2008]

How will your deal weather a downturn?

Comment The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story What will happen to outsourcing if budgets are trimmed and belts tightened? A careful look at key aspects of existing contracts would not go amiss, suggests lawyer Margaret Harvey.

Tags: contracts, downturn, suppliers, outsourcing

[10 Apr 2008]

Centralised or decentralised IT?

Comment The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story Pool software developers and save money, or disperse them to business units and improve efficiency? That's the stark choice CIOs have struggled with for years.

Tags: centralisation, software, development

[09 Apr 2008]

People are mugs over identity theft

Comment The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story Identity theft is rife. Perhaps it's time individuals took a leaf out of business's book and adopted a personal information policy that will make life harder for criminals, says Simon Moores.

Tags: social networks, fraud, identity theft, security

[08 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: Boardroom stereotypes

Comment The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story Preconceptions about job functions are carried like a ball and chain even into the boardroom. So however much you know about the business you'll find it hard to shake off the techie label, says the Naked CIO.

Tags: careers, boardroom, stereotypes, board

[07 Apr 2008]

The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML

Comment The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story Cooler heads have wisely prevailed, argues Dale Vile of Freeform Dynamics. News this week that Microsoft's OOXML document format has been adopted as an ISO standard has sparked outcry and frustration in...

Tags: xml, office, microsoft, standards

[04 Apr 2008]

SAS UK boss talks SaaS, innovation and his first 90 days in the job...

Comment Ninety days into the job, Manocha spoke to silicon.com about the changes he's made at SAS UK, how consolidation of the software industry could threaten innovation, and how his experiences in the military have helped him in his new job.

Tags: saas, consolidation, uk, sas

[02 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty

Comment The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story We even have incentive schemes for innovation and creative ideas. Grassroots innovation, venture capital and new ideas stemming from the creative minds of young talent is the key to the success of UK...

Tags: recruitment, loyalty, skills, offshoring

[31 Mar 2008]

What governance can really mean to business

Comment The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story New research suggests there are signs it is finally taking centre stage in many progressive businesses, says Martin Atherton. Governance is a term you'll have heard bandied about a lot, usually with 'risk...

Tags: risk, data management, compliance, governance

[28 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation

Comment The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story When I was a child there was no television. Radio was strictly LW, MW and SW. My oldest children can remember black-and-white TV but there were no colour services, nor were videos, PCs, mobile phones or...

Tags: television, revenue, radio, broadcast

[26 Mar 2008]

The Naked CIO: Animal farm

Comment The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story That's fine in principle, says the Naked CIO. But this must happen without ignorance, hierarchy and petty rivalries. It amazes me how Orwellian our jobs are.

Tags: development, software, evaluation, projects

[25 Mar 2008]

Editor's Blog: Time for 'listed' computers?

Comment The tech world is so often about chasing the newest innovation - but we forget our history at our peril. It's some old news that has me fascinated this week. Really old news. Ancient even.silicon.com has been to visit Bletchley Park, home of the...

Tags: colossus, soe, bletchley, history

[20 Mar 2008]

You won't get promoted looking like that

Comment The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story Technology specialists are unlikely to be promoted into the senior hierarchy based solely on their technical skills. That's usually because their personal brands leave much to be desired, says image expert...

Tags: image, skills, careers, personal brand

[20 Mar 2008]

ID tech tightens up compliance

Comment The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story Organisations are using identity management systems to cut the risk of data security breaches. That's a step in the right direction, says Fran Howarth - but they still need a number of other measures.

Tags: identity management, data protection, compliance, printers

[18 Mar 2008]

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