It is all too easy when faced with bad news about economies in recession to get depressed. Doom and gloom spreads like an oil slick, so it is no wonder that many advocate a positive attitude. This is fine, but has to go beyond the resurrection of the 30s war slogan "Keep calm and carry on" that has become a recent popular addition to T-shirts, mugs and the like. Times may be tough, but business and commerce will still need to go on, and those companies that survive and thrive tend to have a positive attitude that tries to exploit all assets at their disposal, and that includes technology. ...
22/04/2009 | Positive thinking, not wishful thinking.pdf | VIEW
Working with technology outside the office brings many challenges. Use of laptops has grown from limited user communities to widespread desktop replacement and broad deployment. The complexity of managing these devices outside the walls of the office is something IT departments have learned to address. Remote connection has extended from fixed location dial-in to wireless on the move, and smart handheld devices such as PDAs have become networked, converging with mobile phones. This larger and more diverse community of mobile users and their devices increases the demands on the IT function which has to secure the device, data and connection to the network, keeping control of corporate assets, while at the same time supporting mobile user productivity. ...
01/06/2005 | Mobile devices and users.pdf | VIEW
I've spent the last couple of days with Windows 7 - and it has been a bit of "The best of times, the worst of times". Windows 7 became available for IT professionals subscribing to Technet for IT pros on Thursday 6th August, and (for a change), it looked like Microsoft had sized its servers enough so that people could download the Windows images without everything grinding to a halt ...
13/08/2009 | Hands on with Windows 7.pdf | VIEW
The UK public sector is in the midst of a period of transformation and improving citizen engagement will be key to the success of this change. The effectiveness of public services relies on reliable, accurate and clear citizen communication. The public sector produces millions of personalised citizen communications each year in the form of, for example, benefits statements, council tax bills and vehicle tax reminders as well as ad-hoc correspondence. Use of legacy outdated and disparate systems makes it almost impossible for central and local government to deliver consistent and accurate communication across printed and electronic channels and to cost-effectively deliver accessible or multilingual communications to meet the diversity of today's UK citizens. ...
29/06/2010 | Quocirca Effective Public Sector Communications Final.pdf | VIEW
