Fighting the Trillion Dollar Bonfire

effective information systems for the 21st Century by Colin Beveridge

The Effective Enterprise Framework™ - joined-up management for a joined-up world

Posted on | September 25, 2008 | No Comments

The Effective Enterprise Framework™ is a powerful new business approach designed to improve the effectiveness of every organisation. That’s right, every organisation – regardless of geography, size, scale or line of business. The Effective Enterprise Framework™ is an approach that can be employed for any business model: whether “for-profit” or “not-for-profit.”

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Video of the week: make a mess with BumpTop!

Posted on | October 4, 2008 | No Comments

Anand Agarawala demonstrates his BumpTop messy desk metaphor in this short but amusing video:

IBM’s “Information on demand” - old-fashioned smoke and mirrors?

Posted on | October 2, 2008 | No Comments

Judith Hurwitz’s recent blog about IBM’s new “Information on Demand” initiative interested me greatly because the “information agenda” is something that has taken a lot of my time over the past few years.

I would just like to throw a couple of important points into the mix:

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Book Review: Microsoft 2.0 by Mary Jo Foley

Posted on | September 30, 2008 | No Comments

My review of Mary Jo Foley’s new book: Microsoft 2.0 - How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era is published today by Computer Weekly.

a baker’s dozen for the bonfire?

Posted on | September 29, 2008 | No Comments

Computer Weekly’s Tony Collins has highlighted 13 expensive Government IT project failures in the past ten years and asked the question “why can’t the Government get IT right?”

I have a straightforward answer to Tony’s question: “Why can’t the Government get IT right?”

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