mechanism in comment and analysis
Is short-termism holding back public sector outsourcing?
Comment Instead, suppliers use constant change requests and other variations to extract extra revenues from the contract without the scrutiny of a procurement process or comparative pricing mechanism. But that apparently healthy... [20 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Quality by design
Comment Today I can report that the same mechanism is still alive and well. We all know it when we see it and we can get irritated when it's absent. Good design is one of those abstract things that are hard to define. [09 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Service level disagreements
Comment We must try and find another mechanism for internal and external service delivery. Service level agreements are great at perpetuating mediocrity and blocking excellence. And that's exactly why some fresh thinking is... [07 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Games skills gap, student outsourcing, ID card fears
Comment This sort of thing went on when I was a student all those years ago - it was just more localised as it was 'pre-internet' and so there wasn't the mechanism for matching tasks with foreign suppliers. Also attracting... [27 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.05.08
Round-Up The vehicle's safety mechanism was particularly good and was demonstrated by the fact that I drove straight at the noble Earl, Lord Attlee, with his consent, and failed to do him any damage at all - unfortunately! [23 May 2008]
Why IT must escape the belt-tightening
Comment You don't avoid doing something to improve the business just because the mechanism to achieving it is technology-oriented. As the economy wobbles, the bean-counters instinctively reach for the IT budget. [18 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays
Comment What fascinates me is that all this new equipment, including the trunk mechanism of my car, seems to involve a two- to four-second delay. Written while flying from London to Greece on BA632 and dispatched from a free... [16 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Mobile users break free
Comment Like thousands of others, I have enjoyed the phone I want, operating on the network I choose, year after year, model after model, by virtue of this free software mechanism. Written on the Ipswich to London train and... [05 Feb 2008]
Losing control in the SaaS lane
Comment Indeed, some analysts claim that SaaS will become the dominant mechanism for delivering applications over the next few years. Smaller firms tend to shy away from hosted applications because of worries about the risk to... [16 Jan 2008]
New Year's deliberations
Comment An appropriate feedback mechanism asks questions of central intelligence and in return is given guidance. Just because it's January 2008 doesn't mean businesses have to be weighing up hot new technologies. [03 Jan 2008]
Q&A: Bruce Schneier, CTO of BT Counterpane
Comment The basic mechanism we have is that when a company loses your data, they don't actually care. That's the way that it works but this mechanism only works if the media laughs. So biometrics is an... [23 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Moving office
Comment Well it got me from an unusual direction and by an unexpected mechanism, as grief always does. Dispatched to silicon.com via free wi-fi from the unreal atrium of a world only possible, it seems, in Florida [11 Jul 2007]
Data centre in a box
Comment A slide mechanism or dolly allows racks to be pulled out into a central service aisle for maintenance with the overhead cabling still attached, providing both front and back access while the unit is still running. [18 Jun 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Close encounters of the mobile kind
Comment Over the years I have learnt so much about companies, markets, government and individuals by this same mechanism. Written on BA2192 flying Dallas Fort Worth to London Gatwick Airport and dispatched to silicon.com via my... [27 Feb 2007]
How to resolve outsourcing feuds
Comment Communication: The starting point is to use a mechanism that requires the parties to talk to each other. You're wedded to an outsourcing agreement - but now things aren't going to plan. What to do? Addleshaw Goddard's... [12 Feb 2007]
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