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Outcome Led Business Change – IT only achieves its claimed impact when organisations focus on business outcomes not project output.
National Security and Resilience: Interoperability – The current National Security and Resilience (NSR) situation is complex in that it covers resilience both in response to terrorist action and civil disaster or contingency.
Opening the Door to Open Source Benefits – It is now widely accepted in our industry that open source software (OSS) has a central role to play in reducing the cost and boosting the flexibility of mainstream IT. Echoing the broad and growing support from business, all the major political parties now believe that OSS needs to be on the agenda for public sector IT deployments as well.
The Net Kids Are Coming: Tapping the Power of "Generation Y" – The tech-savvy, socially-networked members of Generation Y are the future of our businesses, and they're pointing us in a new direction. But if companies are to to tap their power, they must accept fundamental changes to corporate IT and the wider business culture. The article argues CIOs are best placed to ensure firms can open up sufficiently without losing control.
Turning Cloud Services into a Business Reality – Cloud computing technologies have reached a tipping point for adoption. Concerns over security and availability - common with 'public' cloud services - do not apply to the 'private' cloud models developed by experienced enterprise suppliers. Such infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings can effectively give businesses computing power 'on tap', and promise rapid ROI from proven, repeatable approaches.
Setting the Pace in the Mobile Banking Race – With the mobile web poised to become the channel for ecommerce, mainstream retail banks must now act now to ensure they don't get left behind. With the transition to m-banking, they won't just be competing with each other: high-tech start-ups and mobile network providers have already proved they can disintermediate banks in markets such as South Africa and Japan.
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