Despite the fact that technology use has almost become an extension of the human condition, there is one area where we stubbornly stick to the old… read more...

The opportunity for New Zealand businesses to sell in a global market is immense, but it’s a little more complicated than sorting out how to ship products overseas. Mike Sullivan candidly shares his insights… read more...

Gartner’s Ian Bertram looks at the evidence on business intelligence and asks whether it’s worth the investment… read more...

Keith Jessop laments the lost opportunities that he sees from 20,000 feet when manufacturers do not leverage their system capabilities to do better business. read more...

Letting the mind wander can often throw up better results than a direct answer to an initial question. This associative thinking style can also be applied to software queries as the experts from QlikView explain… read more...

Dylan Persaud asks if the future of BYOD will be compromised by the rising threat of malware-laden apps read more...

The technology to drive your business must be chosen by business heads, not by techies. By Philip Morgan, Director, Verde Group… read more...

Encryption that is very hard to crack by the NSA (the US spy agency) has existed for years. But it’s not easy to use so hardly anyone does. We trade convenience for security says Gerry McGovern… read more...

When IBM asked Australian companies about their cloud computing progress it was surprised to learn many remained at the researching or planning stage… read more...

Gartner analyst Praveen Sengar says you need to judge sales tools by their impact on sales success, not the cost of sale… read more...

Cloud computing is one of the most popular yet continually misunderstood terms in the modern technology world. Cloud expert Craig Deveson sets out to dispel some of the enduring myths… read more...

Jane Smallfield offers a few words of wisdom on not slacking when it comes to your briefs… read more...

IT security and project stuff-ups are certainly nothing new in our field. But things seem to be getting worse and sadly, most of these issues are preventable… read more...

On its own, search technology will not help us find the right things quickly. We need human expertise and human management… read more...

Approximately half of all significant ICT projects fail in terms of delivering what the business expected. Marg Roberts considers what needs to be done to improve the success rate… read more...

In many organisations management practice is about 20 years behind the web. Gerry McGovern discusses what this really means… read more...

Every business is looking at how to make better use of the data it has and to make sense out of all the small details. As 2013 gets well underway, Gartner analyst Daniel Yuen outlines a number of BI trends that organisations will need to consider over the next four years… read more...

Owen McCall talks cars, computers and reliability… read more...

Retail BYOD shifts the focus of the retail assistant from expertise to enablement, but will the customer journey suffer? Aldas Palubinskas discusses this up and coming trend… read more...

With around half of all IT projects fail to deliver on expectations it’s safe to say that there’s something seriously wrong with the way IT projects are being both planned and executed. iStart cornered Simpl founder and CEO Bennett Medary to find out just what’s behind such a dire statistic… read more...