There are way too many three-letter acronyms (TLAs) in the world of IT but that's not to say they can be ignored. This week Quocirca senior analyst Clive Longbottom guides us through the maze that is getting business processes right.
We need to sweat our existing technical assets, while creating an evolutionary base which responds to our business needs, rather than having to modify our business to meet the prescriptive manner of our monolithic “solutions”.
For businesses this could provide much-needed accurate information on assets, saving time and cost and enabling more rapid and relevant decision making. Perhaps, as in the case of a major oil production company, it can even ensure that anticipated...
This is the point at which the attributes of specific individual business assets becomes interesting. In IBM's sensor and actuator cross-functional group, which incorporates RFID, solutions are defined on problem areas that a customer organisation...
But this doesn't mean there will be no need for techies, as Ray points out: "If we are going to asset-based implementation somebody will have to build those assets so we will need programmers. Until recently, growth for most Indian services...
The analyst said a company needs a solid foundation of IT assets, people, and supporting processes and controls that enable executives to manage the right risks in the right order; a risk governance structure and process that integrates IT risk...