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Say hello to Dell Technologies
After doing the biggest deal ever done in tech, the combined ‘Dell EMC’ looks to the future… read more...
The fun and games of sales gamification
Making a game of your sales effort is not something to be toyed with… read more...
Microsoft’s giant step forward for enterprise SaaS
Big reveal for ‘as-a-service’ applications with built-in intelligence… read more...
Having a crack at the ‘ERP for IT’ challenge
Of all the major business disciplines, only IT lacks comprehensive management and automation software… read more...
Postmodern ERP: Still not sunshine and roses
Beyond the hype and marketing schpiel, turns out enterprise software is still bloody difficult… read more...
It’s blown the budget, but has enterprise IT failed?
The bigger the organisation – and the more public the results – the greater the risk of budget blowout and ‘failure’… read more...
How to navigate the disruption economy
Incumbents needn’t be victims of disruption if they recognise the crucial thresholds and act in time, write Chris Bradley and Clayton O’Toole (McKinsey & Company)… read more...
How NASA landed a ton on Mars
The out-of-this-world power of collaboration… read more...
Estonia brings digital lessons down under
Estonia may seem distant, but it provides lessons in what government digital leadership really looks like… read more...
When executives go bad: avoiding a Weldon
Ending up with the wrong hire can be a painful exercise all round… read more...
Head in the cloud
It’s perhaps the ultimate integration: connect your brain directly to the cloud… read more...
Where did you buy your software?
The proliferation of software and apps has created its own need for farmers’ markets in cyber space, and they are hot property right now… read more...
Is a smart city really a thing?
The hyping of the IoT by vendors and analysts may be moving to a new phase as city planners compete to be the cleverest… read more...
Dealing to the donkey work: How automated integration drives innovation
Integration, recognised as a powerful concept which allows IT to better serve business, is traditionally difficult and expensive… read more...
Gartner’s mid-market ERP Magic Quadrant: Which vendors shine?
With the release of its Magic Quadrant for Single-Instance ERP for Product-Centric Midmarket Companies, Gartner has pointed out those vendors which are delivering the goods… read more...
Customer experience: Apple excepted, mass personalisation is the new frontier
Companies focusing on developing ‘one to one’ relationships are winning an emerging battle of customer experience – but how come Apple pays so little attention to it?… read more...
Powered by cloud, CFOs are the new innovators
Finance, as essential a function as it is to any business, isn’t generally known as a hotbed of innovation. However, according to Oracle, perceptions and reality are changing where finance is concerned, and it is perhaps not hard to see why… read more...
Generation rent
Everything as a service and nary ownership of it… read more...
Big data after the hype
Big data is perhaps another of those IT industry things that makes you go ‘oh, really, show me the money’. But while a little hype fatigue can be expected, the use cases are steadily appearing… read more...
Why (and how) your company has to become a talent magnet
In advice which Lotharios everywhere have made a part of their DNA, Greg Savage says talent acquisition is the art of seduction… read more...
