Archive for IT Strategy
Recessionary IT
Despite the recession, there is plenty of evidence world wide that IT skills are still in short supply. In these recessionary times, some shortsighted organisations are letting extremely skilled and hard to replace IT staff go without I suspect an assessment of whether they will need them in the near future. For a company in trouble [...]
Australia reviews ICT in Government
How should government spend on ICT? I’ve been following the work that has been going on in Australia on ICT in government for a few months now. The Australian Government asked Sir Peter Gershon, UK Treasury’s former Chief Executive to conduct an independent review of the Australian Government’s management of information and communication technology [...]
World Recognised Intranet
Maxsys has been acknowledged for the part that it played in the Ministry of Transport intranet which has been named as one of the top ten intranets in the world for 2008. The development company concerned was Provoke Systems, and Murray Wills of Maxsys worked for the Ministry in several roles throughout the development lifecycle [...]
Hot Trends for 2009
Jeff Vance from CIO Update makes his predictions for 2009, and reviews how he did in 2008. http://www.cioupdate.com/trends/article.php/3795736/5-Hot-Trends-for-2009.htm I am already seeing substantial hightened interest in Virtualisation, and it’s only January! Virtualisation offers some substantial benefits operationally, cost wise and disaster recovery wise, and a number of vendors now have ”rungs on the board”. If you have [...]
Tips for Strategic IT Planning
I came across this very good article online recently, which lists the Top Five Tips for CIO Strategic Planning, according to SearchCIO.com. Visit http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid182_gci1335550,00.html?track=NL+981&ad=678196&Offer=CIunsct123spns&asrc=EM&USC=&5183025=&uid=7869767%2523 to find out more. The accompanying articles make very interesting reading for CIO’s, IT Managers and CEO’s, and once again they highlight the need for Governance of [...]
