Big Data – key roles?

IT Professionals may play important Big Data roles (capture, storage, manipulation and transmission) but Systems Professionals will provide key insights and help formulate Information from the data.

Even the Cloud won't solve Government IT issues

Chris Chant is to be applauded for setting out some of the issues in Government IT and for seeking improvements through better systems integration skills.

However there is a whole herd of elephants sitting in the middle of the room, including: the political policy/ service fulfilment lag; fanatically policed organisational boundaries; privacy/ security/ legacy data issues; national and supra-national procurement READ MORE

improving the integrity of IT investment proposals

TCO = TRUE cost of ownership

feed the ostrich by .bala on flickr

Why do operating budgets become heavily backloaded towards the past, rather than towards future opportunity? Because too many organizations prefer to base business cases for a proposed system on corporate accounting policies, instead of forecasting the true cost of ownership, thereby creating an increasing legacy of sunk costs for years to come.

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Lessons from unmaking urban mistakes

This is a guest post from John Tovla which draws some very interesting connections between Systems behaviour and the oldest form of human-created complex systems: Cities. (update: article now includes video of John presenting session) READ MORE

Systems Blindness is damaging and expensive

a cure for corporate dyslexia?

S is for 335 by AndYaDontStop on flickr

There are none so blind as those who will not see. But there are also those who simply cannot see the wood for the trees, which is why so many organizations unknowingly suffer from a severe form of corporate dyslexia: Systems Blindness.

How can we diagnose, treat and cure this damaging and expensive syndrome that cripples effectiveness and long-term READ MORE