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How Much! In Defence of Microsoft

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Posted in SME, Microsoft on January 31, 2008 at 10:12 am

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One of the most annoying questions asked of IT professionals apart from the ubiquitous “How long will it take?” must be, “How much?”  In truth, we are irritated by these two words because they are more a statement than question.  What is implied is “where is the value in that?” Read more

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Meetings, Rigor Mortis, and Management Consultants

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Posted in IT Success, business goals, Business processes, Collaboration on January 21, 2008 at 9:57 am

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Businesses do meetings.  They do lots of meetings!  There is nothing more uninspiring than going into a meeting knowing from the outset that little progress is likely to be made in getting past a business obstacle.  Hours can go by and the sum total achievement might be an in-depth knowledge of the constituent minerals of a bottle of Evian. Read more

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The Online Challenge for IT Directors

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Posted in ecommerce, supply chain, IT Success, IT strategy, business goals, Business processes on January 13, 2008 at 8:04 pm

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Where were you during the Winter Sales? In the street, online, or just at home - not bothered? With five consecutive interest rate rises, confidence undermined by turbulence in financial markets and the collapse of Northern Rock, retailers have warned for some time that things might become unstuck in the retail sales market this Xmas. Read more

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Do Kids Really Learn at School?

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Posted in IT Success, Government policy, Microsoft on January 6, 2008 at 8:52 pm

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Do schools actually teach our kids anything?  I don’t mean do they teach facts and figures and dates and numbers and poems… what I mean is, do schools ever teach our children how to think?  Do they open the possibility for creative thought, lateral thinking, allowing for the production of new and exciting ideas to explore?

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What Are Your New Year IT Resolutions?

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Posted in Staff retention, IT Success, business goals, Uncategorized on January 2, 2008 at 12:32 pm

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New Years Eve, and a friend asked me “what’s going to be the next big thing in the coming year”?  (Perhaps you can tell what type of parties I go to!) I was just about to launch into my “here’s where I start sounding knowledgeable as I’m in the business and must have a thing or two to say about the subject“, when a nagging voice inside my head asked me “why’s he so interested in this right now “?  Read more

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