Prestige or pay?

Would you work for less money simply for the prestige of belonging to a company? I am not talking about accepting a lower salary for a worthy cause, or for pursuing a personal vocation; I understand that financial reward is not always a primary driver when choosing employment.

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But is it right for an employer to READ MORE

CIO = Cheap Infrastructure Officer?

Do businesses really regard their CIO as the Cheap Infrastructure Officer?

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Well that was the thrust of an extremely interesting observation made by Ilhan Aksoycan, who commented on one of my earlier articles about the future role of the CIO.

I am sure that many will dispute the attribution of cheap infrastructure as READ MORE

The CIO is dead, long live the CIO

Hard times call for hard thinking, supplemented by effective action. Achieving and sustaining our future relevance in the currently turbulent economic context will need a radical new approach to the way we deliver value to our enterprise stakeholders.

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A good first step would be to scrap the role of Chief Information Officer and create a genuinely READ MORE

Business agility, it's all in the mind

Agility is one of the great buzzwords of the day so I paused for thought when I saw this tweet from @flowchainsensei (aka Bob Marshall) “What is *Business Agility*? It’s ability to respond to changes in your business environment: markets, competitors, regulators, tech, etc.”

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Well that doesn’t sound like agility to me. Bob’s definition reads more READ MORE

IT will die - eventually

We have been stuck in a redundant IT paradigm for quite a while now and we are long overdue for a shift forward. I have been writing about this for a couple of years now and the message is starting to get traction.

Martin Schofield and Colin Beveridge discuss the future of IT

Martin Schofield (Retail Operations Director, Harvey READ MORE

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