Britain's canals offer CIOs & vendors a cloud lesson
Strategic thinking with fuzzy boundaries are required of CIOs and their board level peers as Cloud computing sets to disrupt your business the way Richard Trevithick's first locomotive did to the once...
View ArticleSecurity alone won't assure boards of cloud computing
Assurance is what gives a Board confidence to act. That confidence is worth a lot of money, both tactically and strategically.
View ArticleIT vendors must change to survive
Interestingly, according to research reported in the FT some four years ago, the leopard can change its spots.
View ArticleThe CIO, the Board and the challenge of the cloud
Cloud is a business agenda, not a technological agenda.
View ArticleParanoid Optimism - Educating the Board about the Cloud
Richard Sykes argues that in the spirit of 'paranoid optimism' and in the face of disruption, boards need to be educated to master the cloud.
View ArticleThe real innovation in the cloud
Cloud Industry Forum UK Cloud Awards show there is much plenty of innovation happening in the maturing cloud services market.
View ArticleThe Flat White Economy - Disrupting the IT vendor oligopoly
There is a fast developing thrust of young and highly determined tech ventures whose 'offers' spread across the breadth of the requirements of the contemporary enterprise – and they are here in the UK,...
View ArticleBritain and Europe - The Digital Single Market?
Ensure that you are well informed on the issues around the EU Commission's drive for a Digital Single Market. It could be very important for the future competitiveness of your business, writes Richard...
View ArticleCIO as Chief Productivity Officer?
The contemporary Chief Information Officer is strongly positioned to understand the factors that both hinder and drive the productivity challenge in their enterprise, writes former CIO Richard Sykes.
View ArticleThe cloud is driving innovation galore!
Two events in late June / early July allowed me to focus on the diversity of innovation that the Cloud is now enabling. The Cloud World Forum at Kensington Olympia. The Awards Ceremony for the 2015...
View ArticleTime to rethink your business anew
Richard Sykes uses the summer lull to reconsider the shape of business models, as should you.
View ArticleA Cloud Masterclass
The best approach a business can take in scoping the challenge & the opportunity of the cloud is to work its in-house resources
View ArticleThe contemporary CIO is already the CEO?
An enterprise that is well advanced in its journey ‘into the cloud’ and into the world of the mobile smart ‘phone, will be building its operations on well-selected platform(s) (hybrid most likely) that...
View ArticleThe new HP Enterprise – ecosytem broker?
The more that an enteprise builds its operations around services sourced from the cloud, the more that it will come to exploit a diversity of ICT capabilities provided by a diversity of suppliers – an...
View ArticleParanoid Optimism - Educating the Board about the Cloud
Richard Sykes argues that in the spirit of 'paranoid optimism' and in the face of disruption, boards need to be educated to master the cloud.
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