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The Weekly Round-Up: 22.08.08
Round-Up Let's get a bit of perspective. There's a row brewing in Whitehall and just for a change it has nothing to do with government policy on immigration or the loss of yet more personal data. Instead, some MPs are getting hot under the collar over web... [22 Aug 2008]
The Naked CIO: Best backgrounds for CIOs?
Comment What is critical from a technical perspective is a fundamental understanding of project management and IT operations. But some backgrounds are definitely better than others, says the Naked CIO. CIOs come from all sorts of disciplines and backgrounds. [18 Aug 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Analysts fail on open source
Comment Users, on the other hand, have a deep understanding of their own problems but cannot always put it into a wider perspective. Yet how can that happen when open source is so woefully neglected by analysts, asks Martin Brampton. [18 Aug 2008]
The Naked CIO: Why boards get IT spend so wrong
Comment His perspective was, if the existing lamps give off light then why spend money on new fixtures? Sound infrastructure projects often fail to win board backing because of flaky ROI demands. But come up with a hare-brained scheme and boards fall over... [11 Aug 2008]
10 things we'd change on the 3G iPhone
Comment So a better text client is on our wish list - "designed by a European instead of a backward US perspective", in the words of silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane. There's plenty that's great about the new iPhone, says Natasha Lomas. [14 Jul 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment In the UK, poverty is predominantly an urban issue - so looked at from that perspective the Ofcom state-of-the-broadband-nation report suggests high speed internet access might actually be exacerbating the digital divide - as relatively well-off... [23 May 2008]
The Naked CIO: Madness in the method
Comment While it is good from a quality and completeness perspective, having two developers develop the same code is very difficult to justify from a resource perspective at any time, let alone with today's labour conditions. [19 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs
Comment The headline should read '200 Brits need to get some perspective'. This week, readers get worked up over rude mobile users - should they be slapped with an ASBO? Also, dirty NHS keyboards get an airing, benefit cheats hunted out with lie detectors... [15 May 2008]
The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group
Comment I've refocused the team around having a strategic perspective. Whether at work or play Claire Hamon, CIO of construction company Rok Group, isn't one to shy away from or shirk a challenge. On route to the top of her profession she has successfully... [13 May 2008]
The Naked CIO: Is open source dead?
Comment From an organisational perspective, in its level of customisation and lack of true industry standards, this is cowboy technology. I know I'm leaving myself open to criticism from open source loving technologists but as a CIO you need to look at... [06 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time to take the politicians out of technology?
Comment Recently I had a chance to hear the perspective of some senior government technology chiefs on this. It seems that pretty much ever since the invention of the wheel and the abacus, governments have found it hard to get to grips with new technology. [30 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty
Comment Offshoring shouldn't be looked at from a company perspective. Gone are the days when loyalty to your employer counted for something. What most readers found provocative in my column on recruitment problems was the idea that employees lacked loyalty... [31 Mar 2008]
The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe
Comment IT has a unique perspective that comes from seeing the whole business and how technology can integrate practices and business departments. He is already under-resourced, so what should he do? Over my morning coffee I review the latest satisfaction... [03 Mar 2008]
Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation
Comment Today the basic package is 8Mbps broadband and we're now talking about 16 to 20Mbps broadband so I think from a speed perspective we're there. The changing use of the internet from a consumer perspective - from emails and surfing to rich content. [21 Feb 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?
Comment But in these days of credit crunch, investors are looking askance at innovation, preferring a more mundane perspective. Despite the rhetoric, most large firms are simply poor at innovating. Microsoft is no exception and its bid for Yahoo! [20 Feb 2008]
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