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IT above the law in jargon

UK small and medium-sized businesses are losing competitive advantage afforded by new technologies because they don’t understand routine technical jargon according to research from AT Communications Group (ATC). The survey…

Campaigning your way onto the board

Here’s a conundrum: I have never met a CIO on the board of any company who believes he is there because he is the functional head of IT. But I’ve…

Being the business

In many large organisations IT planning and delivery timescales have become longer than the remainder of the business can live with. This has created tensions that entire generations of tools…

Be a leader, not a wage slave

Leaders lead people. There’s no getting away from it; that is what leaders do. If they are not doing that they are not doing the job. This can sometimes come…

Do you measure up?

A few years ago I was flown out to the USA for a beauty parade on benchmarking leadership to the gathered IT elite of a global pharmaceuticals company. It was…

Viewing change as a leadership opportunity

Original article by Brinley Platts for Computer Yearbook 2003 We are not yet three years into the 21st Century and the world is looking more uncertain, more hostile and more…