February, 2013 | TroubleShooter

A context sensitive future for promiscuous, context-aware devices?

Mobile computing is one of the fastest moving areas of technology innovation and many of us have context-aware devices that can automatically connect to and engage with local infrastructure.

From a service provider perspective, we can choose either to accommodate, or to decline connectivity and availability for promiscuous connections from mobile devices. Generally this is done through a combination READ MORE

Big Data: help or hindrance?

It’s difficult to avoid references to Big Data at the moment and in some cases the reporting borders on levels of ignorance unseen since the launch of Windows95.

Suddenly, every man and his dog seems to ‘need’ Big Data.

So is the Big Data frenzy a help or a hindrance to a hard-pressed IT function busy with a READ MORE

The view from the armchair

I am always wary of ‘armchair experts’ on CIO success, if they have no direct experience of sitting in the hot seat. Being the number one is a full-contact occupation and not that easy for spectators to understand… Tweet

System performance

Performance of a system also needs to be purposeful. So do we have a shared understanding of purpose? Or is it as Stafford Beer claimed: “the purpose of a system is what it does” Tweet

“Vision drives strategy, strategy delivers vision.”

– colin beveridge READ MORE