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...

Been assigned onto yet another IT project, but not entirely sure what the project is, why you’ve been put on it and what it all means? Scott Groombridge has some advice… read more...

The sheer volume of information that is continuously being created poses some interesting questions, questions that are only just starting to be addressed… read more...

Running a successful IT project is a lot like raising a child. So why do project managers so often abandoned them at birth? read more...

I’ve been on a mission for a while now to dive into Windows 8 and to try and come up with a definite opinion on what I think about the OS; admittedly I’ve been having a very difficult time… read more...

Enterprise Resource Planning solutions are an often maligned but necessary glue in many enterprises. The size and complexity of most products has meant they have been slower to respond to the socially connected, user friendly application revolution. But 2012 will be a watershed year for vendors and users alike says industry analyst Louis Columbus… read more...

For successful companies, says Brett Roberts, it’s all about preparing for the battle. But while you can’t succeed without adequate preparation, planning can quickly veer into ‘useless’ territory, especially when those ‘best laid plans’ equate to little more than opportunities lost… read more...