Bread or Circuses?

If we can’t afford both, Which will you choose: bread or circuses? My question is founded on the principle that some rulers of Ancient Rome operated a policy known in Latin as panem et circenses.

This referred to their management strategy of pacifying the potentially unruly masses through a dole (distribution) of bread (panem) to all residents of Rome READ MORE

Perfect Pitch

Want more business investment for your IT budget? Here are six quick tips to increase your chances of bringing in more business funding for the IT department.

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a cautionary tale about over-expectation and over-selling

Emperors and Sorcerers

skinner - sorcerer by blakewest on flickr

If IT had delivered every benefit promised over the past twenty years, our businesses would be so cash-rich by now that it would be positively embarrassing to read the Balance Sheets. But they are not. So can business Emperors still be seduced by technology Sorcerers?

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Operational Utopia - Does your IT culture work with your business? - webcast

blue circuits from Finextra.com

It can be hard to find the road to operational nirvana – an IT infrastructure that allows faster time to market for new applications, more efficient divisions of labour for IT specialists and, of course, across the board cost savings.

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"Business agility is in the mind of the individual [or organization] and comprises an absolute…"

““Business agility is in the mind of the individual [or organization] and comprises an absolute willingness to constantly monitor and refine one’s position, in a timely and appropriate manner – not just the ability to respond quickly.”” – C… READ MORE

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