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RSS harder bramptonDevil's Advocate: It's simple innit?
Comment Finding a simple solution to a complex problem is never going to be quick or easy, says Martin Brampton. Yet creating simple solutions is harder work than creating complex solutions. There are some... [10 Jan 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Conflicting messages
Comment Martin Brampton stands at the crossroads and tries to make sense of this contradiction. Inevitably, it is much harder to build that kind of rapport between an external operation that runs a help desk at... [22 Nov 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Outsourcing lessons
Comment Martin Brampton shares his views on the latest outsourcing trends and how companies should approach such partnerships to ensure they are a success. Being a leader is always harder. Outsourcing has come a... [13 Sep 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Your PC will never be safe
Comment Martin Brampton discusses this great conundrum of the security industry. With the car harder to steal without a key, the emphasis has moved to removing the contents, or simply taking the keys from the... [05 Jul 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Who controls companies?
Comment As industry competition heats up, Martin Brampton looks at whether power to drive change within organisations now lies primarily with high-level executives. Apparently based on the beliefs of senior executives, the EIU... [05 Apr 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Programme management
Comment Martin Brampton wonders just that. While it seems to make sense to align projects with business objectives, it is harder to see how this can fit with the further claim that projects thereby conform to... [30 Mar 2005]
Devil's Advocate: BT strikes out with 21CN
Comment BT's plans for an all-IP communications network are bold but also riddled with challenges and uncertainties, says Martin Brampton. But it is harder to manage and it has taken some time for problems at... [01 Mar 2005]
Devil's Advocate: What the big guns don't get about SMEs
Comment Martin Brampton has a few ideas. What is harder is to figure out is what is going on in the smaller enterprise. Why do the big IT vendors appear to be having little success with smaller organisations? [01 Feb 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Beyond the myths about Asia and IT
Comment Asia is neither going to take over the Western IT world nor is it the promised land for Western companies looking to expand their horizons, says Martin Brampton. Spotting them from a considerable distance is much... [11 Jan 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Life without a mobile phone
Comment There's nothing like a mobile phone meltdown, says Martin Brampton, to discover how integral it is to daily life - and how hard it is to get repaired. But I find that other features are harder to live... [16 Nov 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Blame it on the users
Comment Everyone always says IT workers need to better understand business - but, asks Martin Brampton, could the real problem be business people who don't understand IT? The problems being tackled nowadays are... [09 Nov 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Call that automation?
Comment Whether it's moving pension funds, switching ISPs or any one of hundreds of other tasks, Martin Brampton sees barriers put up by IT as much as torn down. And it seems to me that these seemingly simple administrative... [13 Jul 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Why CRM has disappointed
Comment Buying tech is easy - it's getting people to use it that's the hard part, says Martin Brampton. Bringing about real change, though, involves changing behaviour and that is far harder to achieve. In other... [25 May 2004]
Leader: Microsoft to buy Google? Joking aside…
Leader In today’s Devil’s Advocate column, Martin Brampton makes the point that owning Google isn’t just about owning the best and most commercially promising search engine. The latter option would leave the big bankers unhappy... [03 Nov 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Ethernet power
Comment Adding power distribution to Ethernet networks promises lots of improvements, says Martin Brampton. Martin Brampton is a director and founder of Black Sheep Research (www.black-sheep-research.co.uk ), an... [04 Aug 2003]
