Seven Ways to Look Busier and Keep the Axe from Falling On Your Head

Many of us are nervous about the future - are there job cuts around the corner? Well here are seven ways to appear busier! Don’t be at the top of the list of people in for the chop.

Roll your sleeves up. And I mean this literally. Sleeves rolled up sends a message that ‘I am busy working’. [...]

Ten REAL Reasons Why IT Projects Fail

Why do IT Projects fail? Project Managers reel out a million reasons and excuses. But in my years of working in projects, whatever the size or budget, there are 10 reasons why failed projects end up that way.
1. Too Many Parallel Activities into One Completion Date
Project deadlines are not like train stations. Activities of a project [...]

How To Build Your Vision for BPM

BPM, or Business Process Management, is a growing sector of Business Technology. Forrester Research forecast growth over the next five years to be between 17.5% and 35.5% (why do they have to use fractions in these figures? We get the picture - Lots!) So if it ain’t happened to you yet, then there is a [...]

Review: Google’s Chrome To Disrupt the Browser Market, But Will It Disrupt the Enterprise Desktop?

In Google’s usual style, there was a bit of a fanfare yesterday (September 2 2008) for the launch of their new ‘killer’ browser, Chrome. Google’s brand and penetration will make it an overnight success and I am confident that it will displace Internet Explorer (further) and Firefox (less so) in the consumer PC market. But [...]

Web Outages - What is Your Story?

Last week I wrote an article about the really embarrassing issue of not knowing when your website is down - particularly before your boss does. Does this still happen to you?
Have you got a story along these lines? And how did you solve it?
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Money Isn’t Everything, According to IT Professionals (who responded)

I’ve just read an excellent article, written by Ann All, on the IT Business Edge website that discusses the working environment that IT professionals prefer to work in.
What I like about it is Ann’s honest view about the conclusion that IT people like to work in a positive, challenging environment. I’m pleased that IT people see [...]

Know When Your Website is Down Before Your Boss Does!

One of the most embarrassing events to happen to me is when my boss has asked me why our company website is down. I didn’t know it was down - and it was. Yellow Pages down the pants-time.
One easy way I found to get to know first is to use a website monitoring tool. I’ve [...]

Is Virtualization a Buyer’s Market? Why it is a Real Opportunity for IT

The last six weeks have been an interesting time in the world of virtualization. In late June Microsoft released their final version of Hyper-V, their new virtualization platform built into Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V has been widely anticipated, as Microsoft’s absence from the enterprise virtual market has left VMWare and some smaller players free to [...]

Can You Afford the Cloud?

Cloud Computing, where the architecture of your technology estate is based upon the integration of third-party technologies and services, is gaining momentum in the industry.
It’s a natural extension of outsourcing where an organization uses technology within it’s own physical boundary (i.e. its data-center) but the technology is owned and operated by the vendor. The [...]

Beware of the Danger of Blocking on the Web

I found an interesting article on mashable.com where the blocking of content is discussed. With the rise of cloud computing and increasing number of teleworkers, IT leaders might be putting their business at risk if they are not in control of their ISPs, who may act on their own discretion to block connectivity.
The link: http://mashable.com/2008/07/11/take-back-the-internet/
IT [...]