Falling Short: The Promise of A Hybrid Cloud
As marketers and enterprise leaders continue to battle over the superiority of public and private cloud computing, perhaps it is time to recognise that both fall short of the ultimate cloud promise – the hybrid cloud. The hybrid cloud could make a data centre essentially boundless, allowing IT teams to optimise apps at unprecedented levels ...
Enterprise Content Management: Become a Value Creator
When discussing business solutions, you could often be forgiven for thinking you’ve just walked into a spelling bee. BPO. OSS. CRM. Sorry, could you put that in a sentence please? -Of course, it’s unavoidable in today’s tech-heavy world of enterprise solutions; without them, we’d spend our days in a binary mantra of repetition, hopelessly spinning ...
Shadow IT: It’s Here. Deal With It.
Another week, another cloud. But not just any cloud. This week’s cloud is serving the “dirty little secret” Jill Dyche referred to in her incredibly insightful article for the Harvard Business Review a few weeks back. And what is that dirty little secret? Shadow IT. From Skype to Gmail, USB sticks to Google Docs – ...
Consumerisation: How To Makeover Entrenched IT
It’s 2012 and the world of the touchscreen is well and truly upon us.We’re already talking about the second screen experience; augmented reality is starting to make waves – and lest we forget that the iPhone 5 has just reared its slightly larger head. Bolt on the continuing global rollout of 4G networks and add ...
Navigating The Cloud With Joachim Horn: Why Simplicity Rules
Ah, the cloud. The latest ascendent to the throne of business terminology with more buzz than a beehive. Indeed, its seemingly endless sea of definitions has left more than a few CIOs in the corporate sphere questioning their cloudy decisions. Ahem. But as solutions continue to reduce time to market and cost – as well ...
Innovation Unleashed: Engage Your Environment
Innovation. Innovation. Innovation. If I had a penny for every time I heard that word then…well… then I’d probably stop taking the pennies. But that’s beside the point. We’ve become accustomed to talking about innovation at every turn; ‘true’ innovation, where a new idea or concept reigns supreme and slaps you in the face on ...
David Fairhurst Wins Most Influential Practitioner
He may not have done it conventionally, but David Fairhurst, Chief People Officer of McDonald’s Restaurants Northern Europe, has been voted HR magazine’s most influential practitioner for the third year running. “This person has done a lot of work in putting out there an evidence base for the power of good HR practice, which has ...
A Snapshot of Canon
If there was a company that is an essential part of any office environment, then it would be Canon. Developing not just cameras, but photocopiers, printers and computers, Canon has over the past 40 years made itself more than a manufacturer of cameras, but a leader in the business solutions market. The company’s origins can ...
Securing Success With the Online Retail Sector
A new report released this week revealed that more than 15,000 people have become victims of fraud in the first six months of 2010. The report, which focuses on UK consumers, was compiled by Action Fraud – the national fraud reporting centre – and reveals that the amount of money people had been tricked out ...
Skype Talks Strategy
eBay reported that their turnover is up by nine percent to $2.2bn on April 2010, a move that in part has been bolstered by last November’s departure from communications software company Skype. But, like its retail counterpart, Skype isn’t sitting on its technology laurels either, and this week also sees Skype’s Chief Strategy Officer Christopher S. ...