When McKinsey wrote about the war for talent, many organisations interpreted this as something akin to the war for stationery supplies, given that humans were merely technology placeholders / cogs in the factory machine. In my experience, many organisations are maintaining this industrial era mind-set in what is now the digital age. And they are […]
As robotics becomes more mainstream, reference to Asimov’s three laws of robotics increases. It’s quite impressive that a fiction writer should define a set of laws that will ultimately underpin business and society. But what if we had a simple set of rules that leaders could give to their staff such that, over time, there […]
Most organisations have embraced digital technologies to the extent that some aspects of the business are now reliant on IT. Some organisations in recognition of emerging trends have put the mobile ‘app’ at the centre of their business strategy. But most of these organisations are still running industrial business models, using new technologies to do […]
Nature has bestowed on you a gift. Collaboration technologies are much talked about and often used. But moving the discussion beyond email and Skype has been the challenge. But thanks to Mother Nature's efforts to obliterate everybody's international travel plans, the need for collaboration technologies has never been more acute. World leaders attending a state […]
Are you aware that your staff are using Skype and other free collaboration tools to communicate across and beyond the organisation? Perhaps you are and accept that this is a reality of business today and actually makes good economic sense. Well picture this? A customer has complained about the behaviour of a member of staff. […]
Like many technology terms, virtualisation is one that is likely to keep you out of the boardroom. However if you can present it as a business concept then you are more likely to get the CEO's attention. So instead of virtualisation been described as way to eg. reduce the TCO of the IT function, it […]
The market downturn appears to have set the IT industry back in its journey to being strategically relevant to users. Today the role of CIO seems limited to operational ‘run the business’ type support. In other words the CIO is the 21st century IT manager. Of course cost pressure is on and it would take […]