Xerox is on a mission: to reinvent itself as a leading business process and document management company, disrupting the legacy perception of a brand which is synonymous with photocopiers. Xerox is banking on its its multi-million dollar global "Ready for Real Business" campaign to change perceptions and showcase its broader services and technology offerings. ...
04/10/2010 | A new era for Xerox Oct 2010.pdf | VIEW
In less than a couple of decades, the mobile phone has moved from a clunky accessory for city types and then for certain self employed groups to a ubiquitous communications tool. ...
04/10/2010 | QUO Enterprise smartphones.pdf | VIEW
Technology innovation is often hard to demonstrate to those in senior decision making roles in most organisations, and generally for very straightforward reasons. Many vendors pitch their products or services as being full of benefits, but often these are simply features dressed up with a few marketing buzzwords ending in ‘ability’. ...
27/09/2010 | QUO innovation.pdf | VIEW
Do we need a time management system for the digital age? When you’re been brought up with some IT industry certainties, such as Moore’s Law of transistor doubling or Metcalfe’s Law of network value, it can be daunting to realise that these laws can have other unintended, but significant, consequences. ...
20/09/2010 | QUO network metcalf.pdf | VIEW
Those hoping to use technology speak to baffle the business when trying to gain funding for projects are now losing out as the business digs in with a "yes, but what does it do for me?" riposte. Arguments now have to be in the business' own language - using a Total Value Proposition approach. ...
17/09/2010 | 360it - project.pdf | VIEW
Over the years, it seems that IT suffers from Groundhog Day syndrome - the same things keep happening, as if no-one is capable of learning from past mistakes. By looking at the past, can teh future be predicted - or will we just keep making the same mistakes? ...
17/09/2010 | 360it - future.pdf | VIEW
How CIOs can help the business find a way out of the recession. Even in these straitened economic times, IT innovation is still possible - especially if you start to use on-demand services. ...
11/09/2010 | SA - silicon for web.pdf | VIEW
Many organisations are still trying to come to terms with how (or even if) social media can help them in their day-to-day business. Well documented issues, such as postings from disaffected employees, campaigns backfiring or information leakage tend to make senior management wary – but overall, the potential business value and financial benefits of social media must be considered alongside controllable risks ...
06/08/2010 | cw - social networking.pdf | VIEW
Cloud computing has been hailed as the cure for all IT ills. Fortunately, a measure of reality is now returning to people's view of the technology and the business value it can provide. ...
05/08/2010 | silicon - 6 cloud.pdf | VIEW
Organisations today no longer have the luxury to be able to reach decisions the way they did in the “good old days” (well, maybe 5 years ago). Hierarchical decision making is too slow, too dependent on the knowledge and capabilities of immediate reports in the employment chain and is too prone to errors. The explosion of communication and collaboration tools (see figure 1) has provided many new means of communicating and collaborating – but has also introduced many issues that organisations are struggling with. ...
19/07/2010 | cw - connected enterprise.pdf | VIEW
