The PC's future has never been brighter - because tablets are PCs too
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Or to put the precipitous decline of the PC industry more aptly, it appears as though the bottom is finally falling out.
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What I learned using only Google products
The 10 shocking things I discovered after three weeks of using only Google products - the Chromebook Pixel laptop, the Nexus 10 tablet and the Nexus 4 smartphone.
Larry Page: Deconstructing the sadness
Unlike some other tech CEOs, Google's Larry Page isn't someone who came into the tech industry as a marketer looking for money. He's a technology enthusiast at heart, and it still shows.
Nick Carr's 'IT Doesn't Matter' still matters
Nick Carr's article 'IT Doesn't Matter' was published in in Harvard Business Review in May 2003 and ignited an industry firestorm. Ten years later, he talks about his inspiration for the article, the backlash, and the article's unexpected longevity.
Give project stars the red carpet treatment
When Sir Ralph Norris speaks out on a key reason why business projects with major technology components fail, you simply have to listen.
Digital opportunities and threats
CIOs face a future torn between current operations and digital opportunities. Hunting for digital innovation and harvesting that value across the enterprise describes a deeper role for technology in the enterprise and a step outside the comfort zone for many.
How Entrepreneurial IT Leaders Can Impact Revenue
Entrpreneurial IT leaders can offer unique insight, capability, experience and corporate leadership to the business. They are innovation-oriented and in an economy with uncertainty, they can find new methods for starting and sustaining revenue growth.
Technology planners: Think beyond BYOD
Standing still is not a practical option. Today, the question is no longer if BYOD should be implemented but how it should be implemented, and what part it should play in the strategic vision of the enterprise.
Security is still a mystery and other hard truths about cloud computing
This isn't to say there's no truth to what the cloud companies proclaim, but there are plenty of tricky details that aren't immediately obvious.
Big data success? It's all in the analysis
Today's successful executives focus like a laser on knowing more about their customers, partners, employees and environment than their competitors. That's the way you win the corporate game.
Strategy shakeup ahead
Organisations are revisiting strategies as they try to survive - and grow - in a stalled economy. Previous concepts of ownership are abandoned as new alliances are being forged - across sectors, and even with competitors.
CIO, CTO or both?
'The 'chief operating officer of IT' is the emerging dominant usage of the term CTO. It is a powerful model, freeing up the CIO to be more outward-facing, shaping demand and driving digital business strategy.'
You have a new CEO. Now what?
When a new CEO arrives part way through your CIO tenure, expect - and prepare for - three potential changes.
Sister act: A tale of two influencers
The ability to influence is a learnable skill - with a little will and work.
Dare to be agile
ICT departments have acted in response to the way executives have framed their requests for ICT solutions over many years. Perhaps if the requests are framed differently we might start getting different results?
Know when to walk away...and when to run
Symantec reorganisation offers prime lesson on knowing when to leave.
How do you manage your social networks?
It seems there are no hard and fast rules for who you 'friend' or connect with, it's all down to your own strategy for career building, connecting with friends and family, and for gathering intelligence about the world.
The secret of Apple's design success: the humane interface
For decades, some very smart people have spent a lot of time and invested a lot of energy into making people understand technology. It turns out that the real secret to making computers usable is to make them disappear.
It's lonely in the middle - but it doesn't have to be
For the middle class of companies, information protection is especially hard.
Slow motion train wrecks
Failed IT investments not only squander dollars, they also represent a significant opportunity lost. Avoiding such project 'train wrecks' requires a new approach.
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