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		<title>IT to drive UK recovery?</title>
		<link>http://www.itica.com/blog/?p=258</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 15:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a very interesting economics lecture given by Doug McWilliams the Chief Executive of the CEBR, who had some very interesting views on the role IT will play in the recovery of the UK economy.
Doug McWilliams&#8217; view is that Consumer and Government spending is going to remain weak in the medium term.  Consumers are finding credit harder to come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green shoots of recovery?</title>
		<link>http://www.itica.com/blog/?p=197</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent survey by Gartner, Inc indicates that many business leaders are now planning for growth rather than looking to reduce costs.
In the survey, 42% of business leaders answered that they were concentrating on growing revenue rather than cutting costs, with 29% viewing growth as their key goal.
This indicates to me that confidence is returning in some areas of business, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware Outsourcers Bearing Gifts</title>
		<link>http://www.itica.com/blog/?p=250</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neville Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intelligent IT Sourcing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outsourcing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the various election campaigns splutter into life, and politicians of all colours try and explain how they will deal with the deficit, there is a sizeable groundswell of opinion forming that wholesale outsourcing of public services might just be the “silver bullet”. 
My interest in this topic stems from my day-job helping organisations source IT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has the time come for IPv6?</title>
		<link>http://www.itica.com/blog/?p=230</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Squires</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technical Consultancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IPv6]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For years, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) has been looming, basically waiting for adoption.  It’s tested, proven, and in some places in production (e.g. US Department of Defense).  The biggest benefits being its larger address space, built in security, Quality of Service, and more efficient data transmission.
We are now approaching the time where decisions need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Implications of BSkyB v EDS ruling?</title>
		<link>http://www.itica.com/blog/?p=215</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contract Terms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outsourcing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ruling in the most significant IT Contract Law case of recent times has just been made and very interesting reading it is too!
I believe that the case will have far reaching implications for the selling of IT services and will lead to significant changes in the market place.
BSkyB issued an RFP for a new CRM system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take care with online contracts</title>
		<link>http://www.itica.com/blog/?p=176</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contract Terms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Contracts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the rise of &#8220;Cloud&#8221; computing, there will inevitable be an increase in IT service contracts that are entered into online with very little and sometime no negotiation or contact between the customer and the supplier.
So what are the things to look out for when signing up to an on-line contract?
Online contracts are no different from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 &#8211; The year of the Cloud?</title>
		<link>http://www.itica.com/blog/?p=171</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial Services]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will 2010 be the year when &#8220;the cloud&#8221; finally delivers on the promise?
What in fact is cloud computing and is it really &#8220;the next big thing&#8221;?  If you ask any number of IT professionals you are likely to get a variety of different answers!
I believe &#8220;cloud&#8221; computing is not new, but is a convenient marketing tag for the delivery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Windows 7 convince us to upgrade?</title>
		<link>http://www.itica.com/blog/?p=159</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Squires</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technical Consultancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desktop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The next generation of Windows arrived with us last month and looking at the decision to stay put or upgrade to 7; I think whether or not you went to Vista, that 7 is a good place to be. Start planning and get all you apps tested and remediated, then roll it out. It&#8217;s going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are RFPs a waste of money?</title>
		<link>http://www.itica.com/blog/?p=153</link>
		<comments>http://www.itica.com/blog/?p=153#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cut Costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Downturn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outsourcing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The recession has increased interest in many different ways of saving money, but is one of the traditional ways of achieving savings, in itself, a waste of money?
Typically, when a customer wants to renew an IT service, they would run a process where a number of potential suppliers compete for the business through a formal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Continuity in a Recession?</title>
		<link>http://www.itica.com/blog/?p=140</link>
		<comments>http://www.itica.com/blog/?p=140#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Downturn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why should businesses invest time and money into Business Continuity when we are in a recession?  Most organisations are still looking for ways to reduce costs and Business Continuity can often be seen as a cost with no benefit.
The answer of course is risk management and the recession has highlighted some areas where businesses may [...]]]></description>
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