Building a Senior Management Team is as easy as ABC, so long as that doesn’t stand for Antony, Brutus and Cassius!
You can usually judge a good director by the strength and quality of their direct reports, especially once the director has been in post for more than twelve months. By then the “Number One” should [...]
Information is the power domain of people
We seem to have Freedom of Information Laws and a Freedom from Information culture.
Information is created by people attributing meaning to data, within context and perspective; thus root data can easily spawn an infinite variety of information, due to the divergence and complexity of the people and attributed meanings employed in the information creation process.
Nevertheless, [...]
Who is the weakest link?
BT Global Services are a major provider of outsourced IT services for thousands of businesses in the UK; customers doubtless reassured by their perception of BT as a big player.
But is that customer confidence so well placed for the future? Who will be the weakest link now that BT are outsourcing much of their “routine” services and [...]
The communications regulator (OFCOM) has introduced a new voluntary code of practice for broadband service providers, asking them to declare realistic (actual) speed performance for their customer connections. About time too, some of the major broadband providers have ignored serious customer disappointment for far too long.
Huge discrepancies between advertised and achieved broadband speeds are a disgrace, cheating customers by charging [...]
IT takes two to tangle – NHS and Fujitsu contract termination
It’s no surprise that the contract has broken down. I have seen so many similar situations, where the client expects the contractor to be “more flexible” (i.e. taking more risk) without recognising the need for mirroring the expected flexibility themselves (i.e. rewarding the increased risk of the contractor). The client can’t have it both ways.
Common sense [...]
The typical IT department is a tremendous vantage point from which to observe the big beasts of the corporate savannahs, constantly locked in ritual combat with each other.
But, of course, we are not simply innocent bystanders on a safari. We are the people that usually have to try and find common cause between frequently conflicting [...]
One of the all-time great rock albums, and a favourite of mine, is “Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd. This classic recording is still going strong and a quick glance at the album track-list will undoubtedly resonate strongly with many of us in the IT business.
I am sure that we can all relate [...]
We are all supposed to be good little Europeans these days so why do we consistently break one of
the few EU regulations most likely to be of direct benefit to us?
I am talking about the European Working Time Directive, which in my view is not only an extremely well-intentioned piece of Euro-legislation but also very well-ignored by almost [...]
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