There continues to be much coverage in the press about the impact IT is having on the environment through increasing power consumption. As well as berating IT departments for the poor running of data centres and deploying devices inefficiently in the field there has also been more positive talk about the valuable role IT can play in reducing carbon emissions elsewhere, especially in transportation. This is a pressing issue anyway with the fuel price crisis. ...
28/06/2008 | Cisco eats its own dog foot - and it tastes OK.pdf | VIEW
Businesses rely on widely distributed networks of workers, be they at HQ, in branch offices, mobile in the field or working at some other external location. Whilst the office continues to be seen as the primary place of work, more and more staff are spending at least part of their working week somewhere else. Certain employees have always needed to be on the move; today they are better connected but the availability of connectivity means that other jobs that were previously confined to offices can now also be done from afar, which also means they can be more easily outsourced to third parties. This report looks at the degree to which the 21st century workforce is distributed and the issues organisations have with enabling this. ...
11/03/2008 | Quocirca - The Distributed Business Index - March 2008.pdf | VIEW
Businesses across Europe are becoming increasingly reliant on web-enabled applications that are accessed over the public internet. One of the key drivers for this is to open up communications with external organisations that are fundamental to core business processes. Doing this provides a competitive advantage but as more and more businesses web-enable their key business applications to achieve the same goals, ever better performance and availability across the internet needs to be achieved by the early movers to maintain their lead while satisfying the growing expectations of business users. ...
31/10/2007 | Quocirca_Oct_2007_-_Web_enabled_apps_and_the_internet.pdf | VIEW
Business process management (BPM) has been around for years. Although organizations have bought BPM software, many feel that the benefits have not been recognized as expected. The biggest issue is that the tools are predicated on the capability of the organization using them to be able to adequately define its own processes. ...
06/06/2008 | BPM, I'd prefer BTE, Thanks.pdf | VIEW
Social networking, in whatever form it finally decides to adopt, is here to stay. Whether you believe in the blog as a means for an individual to publish their undiluted thoughts on a subject or see the blog morphing to becoming something that is more formally reviewed and published, the idea has stuck with us. The idea of a Wiki has also stuck with us - not as another attempt to top Wikipedia, but as a means of bringing together thoughts from a disparate group of people in a meaningful way. Instant messaging has been around for a while now and is the preferred means of communication for many younger workers in companies. VoIP has taken up a noticeable degree of many organisations' data bandwidth, both at the LAN and WAN levels. Then, we have the external networking sites - the likes of LinkedIn and Plaxo, being replaced in the individual's favorites by FaceBook and MySpace, which in turn address new entrants on a daily basis. ...
03/04/2008 | Social Democracy With a Guiding Hand.pdf | VIEW
Calendaring and scheduling - hardly a topic to get the blood racing, but, nevertheless, a cause of stress for many - if not most - people. ...
31/03/2008 | Taking the Time Wasting out of Scheduling.pdf | VIEW
According to some, the use of open source software in global education is the key to many problems because it removes the issue of cost. ...
08/02/2008 | To Lead, not to Teach.pdf | VIEW
The indications are that 2008 is going to be a tough year for many on the financial front. ...
08/01/2008 | Prioritise to beat the Recession.pdf | VIEW
Businesses survive or die based on decisions made on information available to them, and yet the majority of organizations have little control over the growing mountains of information that they create on a daily basis. On top of the formal data being created by database-centric applications, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications, more and more of an organization's intellectual property is being created as ad hoc information held in documents created by individuals in Microsoft Office or other mainstream desktop applications. ...
06/12/2007 | The Four Ps of ILM.pdf | VIEW
Imagine that you are in a room with another person. You have the choice to ignore them, and likewise they could ignore you. Let's assume that you both decide that you will interact with each other. You enter into a discussion, and you find that you have certain things in common, and you both learn something new from the interaction. The more people that there are in the room, the better the chance of such serendipitous interactions happening-and herein lies the great promise of social networking. By providing an environment where everyone can be available, interactions can be made with people who you would never have been able to contact before, and their depth and breadth of knowledge can be added to the areas where you need such skills. ...
27/11/2007 | All alone in a Social World.pdf | VIEW
