Despite all the journals, reports and seminars which have been produced on the subject, it remains extremely difficult for companies to justify their sometimes vast IT budgets. It's not exactly a quantitative science.
If we consider for a moment the modus operandi of a kidnapper, it is one of extracting the maximum ransom from the victim's next of kin, based on the perceived worth of the victim's family. A corporate ransom would be based not on the complexity of...
It's commonly claimed that the Internet age empowers individuals and small firms, creating opportunities for all and improving the distribution of wealth. For the small number of entrepreneurs who have managed to make a quick buck out of the dot...
If you have been tracking the size of your IT budget for the last decade, you will have seen it increase year after year. First, the data warehouse boom, followed by client/server, then Y2K and finally the race to the Internet.
Ebusiness exposes small, local suppliers to a global auction which inevitably will place them at a severe disadvantage to Third World unregulated manufacturers. In the UK, we can see the global market at work, losing thousands of jobs in our home...
This can be summed up as the Lord of the Rings proposition - one number, one address book, one voicemail, one bill - converging on the user, not the technology. While the whales are struggling to deliver a unified and ubiquitous proposition, there...
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