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…
25 October 2011
Brinley Platts
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…
25 October 2011
Brinley Platts
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…
25 October 2011
Brinley Platts
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…
25 October 2011
Brinley Platts
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…
25 October 2011
Brinley Platts
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…
25 October 2011
Brinley Platts