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Newsflash! New Look to SimonStapleton.com!

Let’s face it, my site looked crap until yesterday. Dull, boring, and grey! Well after some great feedback from Paul Piotrowski’s blog InspiredMoneyMaker.com (you can see the review of my blog here ) I made the changes I’d been thinking about for ages and JFDI’d them. So I’ve now got a new theme and a […]

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White Paper or Sh1te Paper?

How many of the ‘White Papers’ (technical white papers) do you read are quality, informative items, and how many are just marketing crap? In my early career, I found White Papers to be an effective, informative and free way of learning about technology. I used to read a lot of them. Back then (I’m talking

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Why Business Sponsorship and a Center of Excellence is Key to BPM Success

BPM isn’t a fad nor a bolt-on to business. BPM is a model for business and it is growing. BPM is about continuous improvement and scale through technology. BPM must be recognized at the highest level in an organizational to truly deliver on the promises sold by vendors. Here’s why:Continuous improvement is the primary business

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What’s this Software as a Service (SaaS) all about? A layman’s view and implications for Technical Professionals

Many of you might know about Software as a Service (SaaS). It is a growing industry within IT, and based around (what might be to some) a simple concept. That is, software isn’t owned, but rented; not installed, but accessed; it’s not paid for upfront, but pay-as-you-go. You could liken it to watching TV rather

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You Must Industrialize IT to Secure your Organization’s Future

Can you afford to continue wasting time and resources by re-inventing the wheel and firefighting? This is the question many IT leaders are asking themselves in light of a downturn in financial markets and pressure to get more from less.Recent keynote addresses by companies like IBM and Forrester say that IT must move away from

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Prepare for the Future of IT Organization, or Be Left Behind

I’ve just come from the Forrester IT Forum in Lisbon, Portugal, and discovered a number of insights that crystallized some thoughts I’d been having for a while. One of these insights that resonated especially was the future of IT Leadership and the potential fork in the road of the IT career path.During the last few

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