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Posts Category: Strategic Planning

Intelligent Building Management only works if you understand Occupancy Management!

  Intelligent Building Management only works if you understand Occupancy Management! Intelligent building management is becoming more and more popular from Hive and Amazon Echo in the home to Niagara and Enocean in the office; the intelligent management of lighting, cooling, heating, lifts and just about every other aspect...

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IT is dead long live Technology

IT is dead long live Technology Well actually no its not and it probably won’t be for some to come, however, we are moving very slowly towards the death of IT (Information Technology) as we currently know it. I was having a conversation with a colleague recently and I...

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What everyone wants to know about hiring a CIO / CTO.

What everyone wants to know about hiring a Chief Information Officer (CIO) / Chief Technical Officer (CTO). This article will try to answer some of the questions that you have, so that you can make informed decisions that help you reduce your costs, increase your productivity and most importantly...

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‘IT’ is coming towards you at the speed of light, are you ready?

‘IT’ is coming towards you at the speed of light, are you ready? Information Technology ‘IT’ is permeating every aspect of our lives but are we ready and more importantly do we know what we want and need from technology? For many years ‘IT’ and other services have almost...

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Strategic IT Management is not IT operations

  Why IT Strategic Management is Vital and an entirely different skill set from IT operations. Information Technology (IT), proliferates almost everything we do. There is almost no industry, job or household that does not have to engage with IT at some point in the day. Yet it is...

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Internet or Automation of things?

I don’t know about you but the thought of putting everything on the Internet just fills me with horror. Maybe it’s because of my age or the stories that you regularly see in the news but I am still not convinced the Internet is a safe place to be....

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Why you should consider moving to a hosted data centre

It is becoming increasingly apparent that information is one of the most valuable commodities in the world today, so you would be forgiven for believing that the best place for your data centre is on-site, in-house. I felt exactly the same way, and in the past, I was even...

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What is the real cost of moving people?

Whilst working for a large financial broker we moved every person in the building at least once every year and paying for the churn took almost half of my yearly budget. I appreciate that this was an extreme case but change does have a cost and understanding this and...

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Writing an IT strategy

The question I have often been asked is why bother writing an IT strategy as the industry moves too fast, it is difficult to plan beyond three years and the document is normally out of date before it is printed off for proof reading. I normally start by asking...

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Understanding the strategically aligned organisation

A lot of IT/IS (Information Technology / Information Systems) professionals such as myself understand that it is no good just being technically skilful; you need to be able to understand and translate business requirements into IT/IS deliverables. The smarter of these people took MBA’s to help underpin that understanding....

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