Boardroom Technology time bomb

Boardroom Technology time bomb

Board member time bomb for those not focused at Technology We should actually be concerned about things boards are ‘NOT’ discussing There have been many articles written about placing IT technology agendas on the boardroom table and also many recent blogs about the...
How PMs succeed in procurement

How PMs succeed in procurement

How project managers can succeed with procurement management Check out these tips on how to successfully use procurement management in your projects. Also, two experts share their experiences on what simplifies the procurement process for their businesses Procurement...
IT role in Corporate Acquisitions

IT role in Corporate Acquisitions

IT role in Acquire, or Not-to-Acquire The changing landscape of the IT Technology arena within corporate Merger or Carve-out To acquire, or Not-to-acquire – The question most CEOs ask their CFO is:- Will the transaction drive financial rewards and what are the risks,...
Hiring the old guy

Hiring the old guy

Do you or don’t you, hire ‘the old guy’! Perhaps I am just getting a bit older, but the IT industry seems to be more of a game for younger people these days. Although, to be fair, Police Officers are looking younger all the time too. “As time goes by attending...
Breaking bad news to stakeholders

Breaking bad news to stakeholders

8 steps to breaking bad news to difficult project stakeholders There is no easy way to deliver bad news to anyone, especially difficult project stakeholders. Cushion the blow with clear open transparent PM communication. Bad news is inevitable at some point during a...
Website Hacking on the increase

Website Hacking on the increase

Here are the top 6 ways websites get hacked, according to Google Google recently noted that it had seen a 32% rise in hacked website over 2016. Here are the most common tactics it found. In 2016, the number of hacked websites rose by 32%, according to a blog from...
Dual paths of the CIO Role

Dual paths of the CIO Role

Why do we spend so much time scrutinising the role of the CIO? Much of the reason is probably as a result of the pace of technology change With every major computing paradigm that comes along driven by vendor marketing departments, CEOs tend to worry when their...
Customer Service Effort

Customer Service Effort

Great Customer Service Requires Very Little Effort Why the Financial Service Industry Needs to Simplify Every Customer Interaction In the early 1990’s I remember reading the following story in the IT press: McConnell got so fed up with not being able to talk to a...