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Influencing adoption of IT systems BCS Event London 3rd July

Speakers: Dr Craig Shepherd, Nottingham University Business School & Dr Micky Kerr, Independent Consultant -’Factors influencing the adoption of IT systems: An interdisciplinary perspective’ Dr Natasha Papazafeiropoulou, Brunel University – ‘Taking the vendors’ perspective in IT adoption and diffusion’ Dr Giuliana Battisti, Nottingham University Business School – ‘The diffusion of IT related innovations: the economics [...]

The dynamics of organizational adoption

Do we really know how our organizations adopt new methods, new technologies and new thinking?
I have been working on the dynamics of organizational adoption for several years and I have devised an insightful perspective of the challenge. Some of these insights will be presented at an event in London. (details)
Every organization is a complex adaptive [...]

Paywall: way to go or publisher’s pipedream?

The apparently slow demise of print publications and the downward trend of online advertising revenue is making more publishers and content providers think seriously about introducing so-called ‘paywalls’ – where original content and information is available only to paying readers.
I have been watching this for some time now and wonder if this really is the [...]

Is your precious data running wild?

Chief Executives should ask their CIOs a very important question: do you honestly know where our data is tonight?
Right now there are masses of very valuable and highly sensitive corporate data being carried around on lightweight USB memory sticks, much of it stored without any official sanction or knowledge.
The USB sticks may be small but it [...]

Taboo Zoo

Why should so many business risks be kept off the record, because they are taboo subjects? We need to make sure that we are not acting as unofficial keepers of the taboo zoo.
Every organization has corporate taboos, difficult conversations that are avoided – either until a crisis finally flushes the subject out into the open, or [...]

Beware the perils of success

Genuine runaway successes may be few and far between in the world of business change. But when they do happen they can sometimes cause far more damage than outright failure so beware the perils of success!
What are the dangers of success? This is a vital question that goes unasked too often by those planning projects and [...]

If there isn’t an R in the month, check your project plans

How often are we surprised when a task, or entire project, slips unexpectedly because key staff have outrageously (sic) taken a holiday at a critical point in the schedule?
And, of course, the pattern of holiday absences is compounded by the number and variety of roles involved, which can make project management a nightmare from May through to [...]

Juggling with fire

I wrote last week about the hidden risks of downsizing and Ade McCormack has just blogged about the likely impact of enforced budget constraints on CIOs and how the strain that this puts the IT function under is likely to lead to the ‘ball being dropped’.
I agree wholeheartedly with Ade that dropping the ball is a very likely outcome [...]

Mashups – tasty recipé or difficult to swallow?

The proliferation of “mashups” (software services created by combining disparate components into a new configuration) shows that they are becoming increasingly popular and have already entered the Enterprise domains. Some of these are not only useful but also fairly quick to develop and deploy. But there is no such thing as a free lunch. The facility of [...]

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