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The Brampton Factor: Is there really a skills crisis?
Comment As a result, it seems that criminal groups are picking up practices that were once the province of large companies and sponsoring students for advanced IT studies, with a particular emphasis on security. [09 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom
Comment Between 10 and 20 years ago designers and architects made assumptions about the use of office space and people's working practices. Written during an intensely boring conference session and dispatched via a free wi-fi node outside Liverpool St... [16 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment A business's dependence on its network is linked to how distributed its working practices have become. Demand on corporate networks for distributed services these days goes well beyond the usual IT tasks. [24 Apr 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white
Comment Through training and education a managed print service provider needs to address the technical and cultural impact of shifting to new printing practices. A think-big-start-small approach can quickly demonstrate how assessing and optimising the... [22 Apr 2008]
SAS UK boss talks SaaS, innovation and his first 90 days in the job...
Comment And alongside the industry practices, we're also working on bringing to the fore some of the things that we're really, really good at that we want to become more of a headline in what we do. Ian Manocha took over as managing director of SAS in the... [02 Apr 2008]
ID tech tightens up compliance
Comment But, as reliance on technology continues to grow, the number of passwords that users have assigned to them has mushroomed, leading not only to insecure password management practices but also causing many headaches for helpdesks that must reset... [18 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]
Get mobile addicts out of the BlackBerry jam
Comment Of course the user would argue these practices make them more responsive, with decisions being made in real-time and customers or other external parties more involved in the process. So it become even more vital to understand how technology use... [21 Feb 2008]
Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks
Comment With $76bn in revenues and 250 sites worldwide, Proctor & Gamble (P&G) is the epitome of traditional corporate practices. Experts are forecasting an important role in the enterprise for new media data applications. [19 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Mobile users break free
Comment Didn't every instance of restrictive practices - coupled with attempts to constrain customers - in the past always end in tears? Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched via a free wi-fi service in London. [05 Feb 2008]
The Naked CIO: Time to wage war on home users
Comment Certain home working practices have been in place for a long time - long before I arrived. Our embattled hero - newly appointed CIO at a largish firm - discovers there's a big difference between home workers and home users… [04 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Surfing at home, 'Big Brother' IT and batteries on planes…
Comment A good starting point would be a healthy debate about privacy in a technology-enabled world - leading to some rather tough constraints on what employers and government may do - rolling back the frontiers of some current (often carefully concealed... [10 Jan 2008]
Data encryption brought into focus by HMRC
Comment The Information Commissioner's Office expects that an organisation's security policy and practices should reflect the technology that is available. The issue of data encryption has been brought into sharp focus recently with the HMRC data loss fiasco. [21 Dec 2007]
Time to rethink performance management
Comment One can gain a view of how well companies are doing today by mapping IT practices and capabilities onto business managers' perceptions of how their information needs are being met. Most businesses pride themselves on knowing how they are performing. [04 Dec 2007]
HMRC's missing discs: Just a warning shot
Comment Shoddy practices are widespread, extending throughout the private sector as well as the public sector. The outcry over the missing 25 million child benefit records rumbles on. But the HMRC's wayward discs were a mere dry run, argues Stewart Room. [27 Nov 2007]
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